‘I’m counting on you to beat APC, PDP’, Peter Obi tells youths, market women

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Wednesday said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not be victorious in the 2023 election because the parties “have expired and lost their political relevance in the country.”

He made this revelation while addressing newsmen shortly after having a meeting with leaders and stakeholders of the Labour Party in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

The Informant247 had reported that Peter Obi has pulled out of the PDP presidential race, dumped the party.

Obi said he left the main opposition party, PDP because the party has not shown interest in returning presidential power to the south.

While making comments through his campaign Director General, Dr. Doyin Okupe, Obi said the PDP was “unrighteous and unjust” for not following due process in its zoning arrangement.

Obi said, he is relying on the country’s workforce, youths, and market women to defeat the ruling party, APC and the main opposition, PDP at the 2023 general elections.

He said, “The PDP was a veritable party that was put together by our elders and leaders. Those who came yesterday and said rotation does not matter undermine the very essence of the existence of the PDP, the moment they took that step, the PDP stepped out of line of fortune, of future, of victory because it has become suddenly unrighteous and unjust.

“There is no unrighteous and unjust pillar that will stand. The PDP was a good platform, but it has expired. The APC was never a good platform, it is of no consequence. The two parties are out, these two parties have expired, they are not relevance to the new things that Nigerians and the youths are looking for.

“Labour party in the scheme of things is still a very small party, but we are not unaware of that before we moved here. But the Labour Party is a sleeping giant. The potential electorate reservoir of Labour Party is more than three times the membership of APC and PDP put together. NLC, TUC, NURTW, market women, professional bodies, students are all part of Labour Party.

“The NLC has a membership of about 5 million, the TUC has a membership of about 8 to 10 million, the number of students registered in the Federal universities is about 2.5 million, those who are not in the Federal universities are about 6.7 million, when you add all that together, you are looking at about 20 reserved voters that have direct affiliation with Labour Party.

“Our strategy will be to reawake the Nigerian workers. Nigeria is going to see something it has not seen before, we will beat APC and PDP pants down.”