A 481-member campaign committee has been established by the Labour Party (LP) in Imo State to plan and direct its campaign for the November 11 governorship election.
The campaign council was launched in the state secretariat in Owerri, the state capital, by Callistus Ihejiagwa, the party’s chairman in Imo.
In every corner of the state, he claimed, the party’s candidates for governor, Senator Athan Achonu, and president, Peter Obi, had become the torchbearers for their respective campaigns.
Ihejiagwa advised the group to refrain from making light of the “fierce urgency” of saving the state.
In every nook and cranny of your communities, you have become the torchbearer for the LP, our candidate, Senator Athan Achonu, and Peter Obi, he declared. For the benefit of Imo, this is a call to duty, service, and selfless sacrifice.
Ihejiagwa pleaded with the council to carry out the duty with pride, humility, and selflessness, “knowing that God has anointed you to liberate Imo,” emphasising that if “we disappoint the people, they will not forgive us.”
He claimed that due to the state’s high level of insecurity, many people were obliged to perform customary celebrations elsewhere out of concern for potential home invasions.
People want a new Imo and Nigeria, the LP chair declared, and he claimed that they can get it.
“They say LP has no big vehicles and has no structure, but those with big cars and structures are the people with the structure of corruption which Peter Obi has come to eradicate. They are the ones who have fed so fat on the common treasury of the state and Nigeria,” added Ihejiagwa.
Ihejiagwa urged party leaders and council members to show commitment, peace, fairness, openness, and unity in order to succeed and win the election.
The upcoming election, according to the director-general of the council, Chime Nzeribe, is an effort to “emancipate Igboland, not only Imo.”
Nzeribe said, “Go back home and work hard. The reason Obi has problem today is that the party’s mobilisation in the booths was not fantastic, and our results were not well-guarded. This is something we must work out to ensure that our results are well-guarded.”
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