By Munachimso Obienyi
The Labour Party has unveiled 1,234 members of its Presidential Campaign Council, with Assistant Inspector General of Police (retd.), Mohammed Zarewa, as its chairman.
While former spokesperson of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, was named Director-General of the Labour Party campaign organisation, Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko were named secretary and spokesperson of the PCC respectively on Wednesday.
The PCC which was unveiled at a press conference in Abuja, also had different directorates and each headed by a director.
Okupe expressed optimism that the presidential candidate of the LP, Peter Obi, had at least 15 million voters in the bag, while 80 per cent of new voters were supporters.
According to him, about 60 per cent of Nigeria’s 38 million social media users were registered to vote, adding that 50 per cent of the figure are ‘Obidients’
Okupe described the All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party as expired commodities with defective structures.
He said if there was a strict pre-qualification process, both the APC and PDP presidential candidates would have been disqualified from the start of the presidential race.
While describing the process that produced presidential candidates of both the APC and PDP as flawed, Okupe said the youths would decide the immediate future of the country.
Okupe said, “I am not talking about the dubious nature of educational records, nor even allegations of foreign court certified criminal narcotic records , nor any basis of poor health, and not even of falsified or advanced age but I refer to the fundamental parameters of competence and character, where none of these other known candidates, measure up in any way to the sterling qualities of Peter Obi and Dr. Yusuf Datti-Ahmed.
“Similarly, on the considerations of true nationalism, geographical equity and fairness of ticket, none of them come close”.
