According to Katch Ononuju, a leader of the Labour Party (LP), many Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters will back Peter Obi as the party’s presidential candidate in 2023.
He predicts that the Labour Party will win up to 85% of the bloc votes that typically go to the PDP in the 2023 presidential election.
Ononuju, a Special Adviser on Public Affairs to Obi, claimed that when the former governor of Anambra left the PDP, many people followed him to his new organization.
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He also bragged about how Obi has organic supporters who will cast a large number of votes for him in 2023, in contrast to other political parties and candidates who hire crowds.
Anaedoonline.ng reports the LP chieftain made the submissions on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Monday.
In his words, “Up to 85 percent of the PDP historical voting blocs are now following Labour, never mind what the dinosaurs are telling you and their ability to rent crowd. We want to work with the organic people, we want to work with the Nigerian people.
“The Labour Party wasn’t known six months ago in the way it is known today but the minute problem came in the PDP, Mr Peter Obi moved. He wasn’t the only one to move, several people moved and suddenly the youths looked at those who moved and said this is where we are going to and that we are very happy for.”
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When asked whether the Labour Party would ever end up similar to the PDP, Ononoju responded that it wouldn’t since the party would always be focused on Nigerians and what the people desire.
Labour Party won’t contract the disease, according to the party leader.
He said: “The PDP that we are running away from is the PDP that has now become infected with the mindset from the APC.
“The new Labour Party and the yearnings of the youths is premised on an inclusive Nigeria; that one that we have abandoned doesn’t believe in an inclusive enterprise. We now want to move with the youths to a Nigeria where everybody should have a sense of belonging in this enterprise of nation building.”
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