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  • Peter Obi supporters threatened to burn down shrine, deal with me – Femi Kuti

    Peter Obi supporters threatened to burn down shrine, deal with me – Femi Kuti

     

    Top Afro beat musician Femi Kuti in a recent Instagram video post has addressed supporters of Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who have been on his case.

    Kuti disclosed that he got tons of threats against his family members and the supporters equally threatened to burn the Afrikan Shrine, simply because he allegedly tagged them as ‘zombies’.

    The musician made it clear that all he did was come out to distance himself from the ‘obedient’ tag and give a clear context of what he meant.

    I’m too angry, I’m too sad and depressed to be ‘obedient’. How can anyone come up with that term? How can you be obedient? Me I can’t be obedient in this country. End SARS, Killings…,” Kuti explained.

    According to him, being obedient simply means being told what to do without putting up any restraints. Kuti added that he equally mentioned the relationship between Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Obi, and how they would have remained close pals if things panned out the way they wanted.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls the legendary afro beat musician had almost immediately cleared the air stating that he was quoted out of context.

  • Obi is a fantastic guy but can’t lead Nigeria now – Dino Melaye

    Obi is a fantastic guy but can’t lead Nigeria now – Dino Melaye

    The spokesman of Atiku campaign Organization,  Senator Dino Melaye has explained that the noise on Social Media will not help Labour Party’s candidate Peter Obi to win next year’s general election.

    Meleaye posited that elections are carried out physically and not online.

    The Kogi born Senator made this known on Friday night when he featured on Politics today on Channels  Television.

    He discredited any momentum on social media about the increased chances of Obi becoming the next president as just mere wishful thinking, full of euphoric beliefs.

    He said, “To start with, there is no wave. What you have is euphoria; a created euphoria,”

    Although, he praised Obi for being a fantastic guy and having the intellectual capacity to resolve the numerous problems the country is dealing with, but admitted that it wasn’t his time yet to become the next president.

    “I have tremendous respect for him and I have said it before, but this is not his time,” he said.

    “He does not have what it takes now to unify the country,” he continued, believing that it will take a miracle to get to Aso Villa as Nigeria’s number one citizen.

    Taking a comprehensive look at the performance of the Labour Party in Osun State, Senator Dino said that social media couldn’t help translate their support for the Labour Party candidate despite Obi’s support.

     

  • BREAKING: Peter Obi attends RCCG Convention for the first time [VIDEO]

    BREAKING: Peter Obi attends RCCG Convention for the first time [VIDEO]

    Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi was present at the 2022 Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) on Friday.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, is attending the RCCG Annual Convention at the Redemption Camp for the very first time in the 70-year history of the church.

    “I will like to welcome to the Redemption Camp for the very first time, Mr Peter Obi. You are welcome to the Redemption Camp, sir,” the announcer said in introduction of the Labour Party presidential candidate at the Redemption Camp.

    The introduction of the 2023 presidential hopeful at the Redemption Camp was greeted with loud cheers from those in the auditorium.

    TNG reports RCCG was founded in 1952 by Pa Josiah Akindayomi (1909–1980) then handed over to Pastor Enoch Adeboye in 1981. RCCG is now in more than 195 nations worldwide.

    The 2022 edition of the RCCG Annual Convention is tagged ‘Perfect Jubilee’ and it also marks the 40th anniversary of the Redemption Camp.

     

    Details later… 

  • 2023: Peter Obi visits Kingsley Moghalu, hints at collaboration

    2023: Peter Obi visits Kingsley Moghalu, hints at collaboration

    Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has hinted at collaborating with Prof Kingsley Moghalu, a presidential aspirant of African Democratic Congress (ADC), who lost the ticket of his party to Mr Dumebi Kachikwu and resigned.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Obi hinted at the collaboration with Prof Moghalu following a visit of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate to the Abuja residence of the former presidential aspirant on Thursday.

    “Yesterday, I spent some valuable time with my brother and friend @Moghalukingsley and his lovely family. During my visit to him, we discussed some issues that are germane to national interest and nation building. His views, as always, were lucid, concrete and constructive.

    “We have collaborated in the past on issues related to governance, and I look forward to our unfettered collaboration in the weeks and months ahead,” Obi wrote on Twitter.

    Moghalu, who also tweeted on the visit, disclosed that he believes that the candidacy of Peter Obi is a welcome development while recalling past collaborations they had.

    “H.E. @PeterObi paid me a visit yesterday morning at my residence in Abuja. I was very glad to receive him. We discussed the state of the nation and his aspiration to lead our country from 2023. I have always enjoyed a warm fraternal relationship with “Okwute”.

    “We collaborated closely when he was Governor of @AnambraStateGov and I, also an Anambra indigene, was Deputy Governor of @cenbank. I recall his keen interest in education and our close coordination when, as CBN DepGov, I influenced a corporate social responsibility investment of N1 billion by the Bank in building infrastructure for Anambra State University in Igbariam (Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University).

    “I also recall H.E. PO’s ’s invitation to me to deliver the 6th Edition of the Anambra State Distinguished Public Service Lecture in 2011 on the subject of Nigeria’s banking reforms, his conferment on me of the Anambra State Government’s Special Award for Excellence, and our collaboration as colleagues in Nigeria’s Economic Management Team (EMT) under then President @GEJonathan.

    “As someone who has been a leading voice for our youth and a Third Force approach to Nigeria’s democracy, I believe PO’s candidacy is a welcome development,” Moghalu wrote.

    TNG reports after losing the ADC 2023 presidential ticket, Prof Moghalu, who was the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, said he has totally opted out of the 2023 electoral cycle and will no longer run on any other political platform. After losing the ADC presidential primary election, Moghalu resigned from the party.

  • ObiDatti 2023: Prof Okigbo puts confusion in Odibo’s appointment to rest

    ObiDatti 2023: Prof Okigbo puts confusion in Odibo’s appointment to rest

    Professor Emeritus Charles Okigbo has put the confusion in the appointment of Mr Charles Odibo as the leader of the communication team for the Labour Party 2023 campaign team to rest.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof. Pat Utomi, a renowned Economist on Thursday at a special announcement session of the Media Team for the Peter Obi Campaign team held in Lagos announced Mr Odibo as the leader of the communication team.

    However, as a result of the similarity in names, many have mistaken Mr Odibo for Prof Okigbo, who is currently enthusiastically leading a team of political communication researchers in Nigeria and the diaspora to continue their Mixed Methods Research on Nigerian election communications.

    Prof Okigbo in a statement noted that the results of their research on the 2015 and 2019 presidential campaigns are being used to design the forthcoming research for the 2023 campaign.

    Okigbo, meanwhile wished Mr Odibo well in his exciting and challenging task of providing adequate public enlightenment on the merits of the ObiDatti2023 project.

    Announcing the Media Team for the Peter Obi Campaign team held in Lagos, Utomi had disclosed that the team comprises of media veterans who are professionals, passionate and committed to the Nigerian people.

    Utomi also said that the “Big Tent Platform” for Peter Obi campaign team would begin a “Listening Clinic” from Aug. 16. He explained that the Big Tent Platform comprised of several political parties working together to present the candidates that all of Nigeria would embrace.

    Utomi who is also a management expert said that the listening clinic would highlight the fact and the way government of the people and for the people had to begin with the sharing of what the people thought and felt.

    This, he added, was how to solve their problems, noting that it was only the person that wore the shoes that knew where it pinched. The clinic would be handled by a communication team who were professionals, passionate and committed to the people.

    Utomi also disclosed that a ceremony would hold on Friday in Owerri, Imo, where members of the Rescue Nigeria Project (RNP) in all of the South East states would come together to declare for the Labour Party. He said he would be receiving members of the RNP on behalf of the Labour Party.

    “It is a point of convergence for the  RNP, National leaders of Labour Party, Civil Society Movements, streams of social movements and other political parties. They are all coming together so that we can change our country’s politics fundamentally for good,” he said.

  • I was quoted out of context -Femi Kuti reacts to reports of attack on Peter Obi

    I was quoted out of context -Femi Kuti reacts to reports of attack on Peter Obi

    Nigerian Afrobeat sensation, Femi Kuti has reacted to a trending report stating that he referred to supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as ‘zombies’.

    The report claimed that Kuti during his performance at the Afrika Shrine on Thursday, said: “How can you be Obidient in this chaos? I am not Obidient. Tell me, at 60, why am I Obidient? You said I should be Obidient, sit down, be peaceful. Are you all okay in this country?”

    But, reacting in a Twitter post on Friday, Femi Kuti said that his words were taken out of context.

    He noted that he does not like the term ‘Obidient’ but if Peter Obi wins and changes Nigeria, then it’s for the best of everyone.

    His tweet read: “You are such liars. Of what benefit is it to the people when you take my words out of context like this?

    “I said I am too angry at my age to be Obedient. Expressing I do not like the ‘term’. But if Peter Obi wins and actually changes the country, better for all of us.”

  • 2023: Femi Kuti slams Peter Obi supporters-You’re all zombies

    2023: Femi Kuti slams Peter Obi supporters-You’re all zombies

    Femi Kuti, son of afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, has described supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate for 2023, Peter Obi, also known as “Obidients,” as zombies.

    Zombie was the title of a studio album released in 1976 by his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, when he derided Nigerian soldiers as a bunch of robotic and senseless individuals.

    “You know what obedience means? Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie,” Mr Kuti said during a performance at the Shrine Thursday night in Lagos, wondering why Mr Obi’s popularity has grown rapidly in recent months.

    “How can you be Obidient in this chaos? I am not Obidient. Tell me, at 60, why am I Obidient? You said I should be Obidient, sit down, be peaceful,” he said. “Are you all okay in this country?”

  • What we intend to do after we win 2023 presidential election – Peter Obi

    What we intend to do after we win 2023 presidential election – Peter Obi

    Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has said after he wins the 2023 elections, he intends to use the instruments of job creation and regenerative investments to drastically reduce the high incidence of insecurity and poverty while moving the economy from the consumptive to the productive mode.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, made this known as the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi held a leadership summit in Abuja, the federal capital territory (FCT) on Thursday.

    The summit had coalition groups working for the presidential bid of the former Anambra Governor in attendance.

    “From where I stand, I dare to proclaim that Nigeria’s Democracy Must Survive! The new alliance that we seek is between Nigerian Youths, the Labour Party, which represent Nigerian workers, and Like Minds.  Collectively, it is an alliance of the #OBIdients!

    “Going forward, we must look for ways to move Nigeria beyond oil. We must end this criminality called ‘oil subsidy’. Nigeria today is vastly polarised and wrecked by divisions that run deep along religious, ethnic and regional lines.

    “There is a staggering level of corruption. Our universities have remained closed for over five months. While our healthcare system remains comatose, power generation and distribution are also at an all-time low.

    “After we win the 2023 elections, we intend to use the instruments of job creation and regenerative investments to drastically reduce the high incidence of insecurity and poverty, while moving the economy from the consumptive to the productive mode.

    “Undoubtedly, the greatest challenge we face beyond bad leadership, is lack of elite consensus. But, let us not forget Dante Alighieri‘s admonition, that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

    “History must serve as a tool in our decision making. The implosion of Nigeria has long been forecasted. Year 2023 could be a tipping point in the annals of our history. But that must not happen, even as the options before the electorate seem stark.

    “Finally, Our structure is everyone seated in this hall today! Yes, we have structure, and we are ready to move mountains to save Nigeria,” Peter Obi stated.

    The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) also promised to return power back to the citizens, saying that in 2023, Nigerians would no longer allow “drivers that don’t know where we are going” to lead the country.

    According to him, nobody knows where the country is heading. Obi said his job in 2023 is to wrest power from those who hold it presently and return it back to the people. He said his administration would provide leadership which he said had been lacking.

    Obi said: “Our job is to take power from those who have it and give it back to you. We have a country called Nigeria but we don’t have Nigerians. What we want to do is to create Nigerians.

    “The only way to create Nigerians is to make people to have hope in Nigeria and the only way they will have faith in Nigeria is that there is hope in Nigerians.

    “The only thing that is lacking in this country is leadership. And that is what we intend to provide. We are not trying to do something else. Leadership is what Datti and I want to provide. We are not looking for anything.

    “In 2023, we will no longer allow drivers that don’t know where we are going. We will remove that driver. We will not allow him to continue. We will put another driver to continue because what we have now, and what is happening in Nigeria is that you don’t know where you are going, the driver doesn’t know where the vehicle is going, so every road leads us there.

    “But we don’t want to worry. All we say is that 2023 onwards, we will no longer allow that situation. For now, we will manage it to the end.”

    He also pledged to return the country to production, saying: “All we want to do is to move this country from consumption to production”.

    The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure boasted that the party will win the 2023 presidential election. Abure, who is a former trade union leader, said the party was on a mission to rescue Nigeria. He said the country was tilting towards collapse as a result of insecurity and a failing economy.

    Director – General of Obi/Datti Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, warned that Nigerians would suffer if the country continued on the same path. He said the party would mobilise to ensure that everyone at the polling stations voted for the LP.

    Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed called for calm ahead of the election. He cautioned election riggers to “sheath their sword” and allow the voice of the people to prevail.

    Baba-Ahmed said: “We do not take anything from anybody for campaign. We are not looking for money in government. We are looking for how to manage government money by following a serious leader who knows how to create money.

    “I am following a leader who has nothing to achieve again in this life except to see a peaceful and prosperous nation.

    “It pains me when a uniform staff of a federal government of Nigeria, in broad daylight will collect money. Each time I see it, my heart breaks. That similar act is a bad a $20 billion scandal and it happens every day. We are going to end it. We are going to change it”.

  • I’ll be alright if Peter Obi is elected president in 2023 – Akeredolu

    I’ll be alright if Peter Obi is elected president in 2023 – Akeredolu

    Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has insisted the next president of Nigeria must come from the South and will be alright if the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate Peter Obi wins the election.

    Akeredolu stated this on Wednesday night when he made an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

    According to him, he would be “alright” if either Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress, APC) or Peter Obi (Labour Party, LP) wins the 2023 presidential election.

    When questioned about supporting the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC, Akeredolu insisted there were bigger issues to focus on.

    “Religion is not the issue now. We have other issues that should be at the frontburner in this country. The issue of restructuring, rotational presidency, etc.

    “Since 1999, there is an understanding that the presidency will be rotated between the North and South.

    “So if today, we have people who want to deploy manipulation to think they can change it, then we should not accept.

    “If you listened to my lecture, I said if (Peter) Obi is elected as president, for me that will be alright. If Bola Ahmed Tinubu is elected, that will be alright.

    “For me, it must come to the South,” Akeredolu said.

  • 2023: Nigeria’s greatest challenge is lack of elite consensus – Peter Obi

    2023: Nigeria’s greatest challenge is lack of elite consensus – Peter Obi

     

    …says it would be foolhardy for anyone to sugarcoat our current morass

    Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has said Nigeria’s greatest challenge is lack of elite consensus.

    TheNewsGuru com, (TNG) reports Obi disclosed this at the Labour Party – Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO) Summit in Abuja on Thursday.

    Obi said:”Great nations are built through political alliances. Our founding fathers understood and forged alliances in the national interest.

    “But things changed. Our leaders became selfish, myopic ad corrupt. And our people suffered. That narrative and mindset must change.

    “Youth, Governance and A New Nigeria
    The new alliance we seek is between Nigerian Youths, the Labour Party, which represent Nigerian workers, and Like Minds. Collectively, it is an alliance of the OBIdients!

    “Nigeria is at crossroads and it would be foolhardy for anyone to sugarcoat our current morass. Ravaging insecurity, largely inflicted by non-state actors, is fast threatening the sovereignty of Nigeria.

    “Nigeria is today vastly polarized and wracked by deep divisions along religious, ethnic and regional lines. There is a staggering level of corruption. Our universities have remained closed for over five months. While our healthcare system remains comatose, power generation and distribution are also at all-time low.

    “I have consistently maintained that while there is a need for the sustenance of the hard approach to fighting insecurity, there is urgent need to tackle poverty and those social and economic malaise that exacerbate the crises. We cannot have 33% unemployment rate, 18.5 million out of school children and 100 million poor people, in Nigeria and expect to go to sleep with our two eyes closed.

    “The money Nigeria is sharing from oil earning is finished! We now spend more today to service debts than we earn from oil! Nigeria now spends more to pay for subsidy on imported refined products than she earns from crude sales! Going forward, we must look for ways to move Nigeria beyond oil. We must end the criminality that is called oil subsidy.

    “But we must do the first things first. It is only auspicious that the reset button is urgently applied now, and that is why the OBIdient Movement is an idea whose time has come! We must find ways to change the political trajectory in Nigeria in 2023.

    “There is a common link that will tie or separate Nigerian youths, good governance and a New Nigeria. It is the forthcoming 2023 elections. In essence, democracy has always been about periodic and genuine elections. Besides the periodicity, the pertinent qualifiers include certifiable credibility, transparency, and respect for the choice of the voting populace. In 2023, we must ensure that the choice of Nigerians is respected.

    “After we win the 2023 elections, we intend to use the instruments of job creation and regenerative investments to reduce drastically the high incidence of insecurity and poverty, while moving the economy from the consumptive to the productive mode. We seek to build a new the Nigeria where transparency, due process, rule of law, and prudent management of resources will be the norms.

    “As I have always said, our vision and mission is to give full expression to our democracy by moving our country from consumption to production; we shall achieve by giving primacy to implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    “Our national challenges are daunting, but our determination is assuredly unwavering. Sadly, amidst the above overwhelming situations, our current political class keeps punching the air. Indeed, the greatest challenge we face beyond bad leadership, is lack of elite consensus.

    “But let us not forget Dante Alighieri‘s admonition, that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

    “History must serve as a tool in our decision making. The implosion of Nigeria has long been forecasted. Year 2023 could be a tipping point in the annals of our history. But that must not happen, even as the options before the electorate seem stark.

    “I want to assure you that as a people-oriented party and Movement, the people remain the fulcrum of our collective quest to take back Nigeria; the people are our STRUCTURE. I therefore urge you not to yield to the deceptive narrative of lack of Structure in the Movement. You all seated here are the Structures we seek.

    “The current structures of both the PDP and the APC are the stomach infrastructure that has brought us nothing but misery. Their understanding of structure is sharing of Nigeria’s patrimony to vested interests and influence peddlers. That is against what Peter Obi represents; that is against what Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed represents; and it is indeed, against the vision of the Labour Party.

    “On a final note, I urge you to always endeavour to remind the opposition that Nigeria’s democracy must survive because of our structure -that critical mass that has been dehumanized and disenfranchised by the ruling oligarchs; the 100 million poor Nigerians who will come out on election day to fight for their future; the 33% unemployed Nigerians who already know who kept them unemployed; our structure is indeed the parents of 18.5m out-of-school-children in Nigeria, who will strive to ensure that such affliction does not visit them a second time. And finally, our structure is everyone seated in this hall today! Yes, we have Structure. And we are ready to move mountains to save Nigeria.

    See full address below:
    Nigeria’s Democracy Must Survive
    Address by Mr. Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party
    At the Labour Party – Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO) Summit
    At the International Conference Centre, Abuja, FCT
    At 9:00 a.m., 11th August, 2022.

    It gives me great joy to attend this family gathering. This is a gathering of Labour Party Leaders, Stakeholders Candidates and a gathering of members of the Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO). More importantly, this is a gathering of the OBIdients.

    This meeting is long overdue. I’m glad that finally we gathered under one roof to discuss our democracy; This Summit is the Mother of all Summits in the struggle to save Nigeria. From where I stand, I dare to proclaim that Nigeria’s Democracy Must Survive! That is our task. That is our Mission.

    Someone wise once said that “Democracy is hard work. We must therefore work hard on it.” We understand that, and that is why the people gathered here, Nigerian Youths and some of us elders, have vowed to take back Nigeria.

    Let me thank all those gathered here for becoming part of the struggle to rescue or country, and make her a Secure, United and Productive Nigeria. Today, our theme and focus is on Youth, Governance and A New Nigeria.

    I thank the Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO) and the entire OBIdient Family who have been toiling ad sacrificing to ensure the success of our collective project. The Nigerian political space has unprecedentedly been lit up by your selfless works and sacrifices. My assurance to you all is that “you shall not labour in vain”.

    Since I entered the presidential race my mantra has been consistent and in tandem with the Labour Party’s vision, which mainly seeks to ensure economic transformation through job-led growth. Therefore, my decision to join the Labour Party was not by coincidence or happenstance; it was indeed a thought-through decision given the ideological convergence.

    Great nations are built through political alliances. Our founding fathers understood and forged alliances in the national interest. But things changed. Our leaders became selfish, myopic ad corrupt. And our people suffered. That narrative and mindset must change.

    Youth, Governance and A New Nigeria
    The new alliance we seek is between Nigerian Youths, the Labour Party, which represent Nigerian workers, and Like Minds. Collectively, it is an alliance of the OBIdients!

    Nigeria is at crossroads and it would be foolhardy for anyone to sugarcoat our current morass. Ravaging insecurity, largely inflicted by non-state actors, is fast threatening the sovereignty of Nigeria.

    Nigeria is today vastly polarized and wracked by deep divisions along religious, ethnic and regional lines. There is a staggering level of corruption. Our universities have remained closed for over five months. While our healthcare system remains comatose, power generation and distribution are also at all-time low.

    I have consistently maintained that while there is a need for the sustenance of the hard approach to fighting insecurity, there is urgent need to tackle poverty and those social and economic malaise that exacerbate the crises. We cannot have 33% unemployment rate, 18.5 million out of school children and 100 million poor people, in Nigeria and expect to go to sleep with our two eyes closed.
    The money Nigeria is sharing from oil earning is finished! We now spend more today to service debts than we earn from oil! Nigeria now spends more to pay for subsidy on imported refined products than she earns from crude sales! Going forward, we must look for ways to move Nigeria beyond oil. We must end the criminality that is called oil subsidy.

    But we must do the first things first. It is only auspicious that the reset button is urgently applied now, and that is why the OBIdient Movement is an idea whose time has come! We must find ways to change the political trajectory in Nigeria in 2023.

    There is a common link that will tie or separate Nigerian youths, good governance and a New Nigeria. It is the forthcoming 2023 elections. In essence, democracy has always been about periodic and genuine elections. Besides the periodicity, the pertinent qualifiers include certifiable credibility, transparency, and respect for the choice of the voting populace. In 2023, we must ensure that the choice of Nigerians is respected.

    After we win the 2023 elections, we intend to use the instruments of job creation and regenerative investments to reduce drastically the high incidence of insecurity and poverty, while moving the economy from the consumptive to the productive mode. We seek to build a new the Nigeria where transparency, due process, rule of law, and prudent management of resources will be the norms.

    As I have always said, our vision and mission is to give full expression to our democracy by moving our country from consumption to production; we shall achieve by giving primacy to implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    Our national challenges are daunting, but our determination is assuredly unwavering. Sadly, amidst the above overwhelming situations, our current political class keeps punching the air. Indeed, the greatest challenge we face beyond bad leadership, is lack of elite consensus. But let us not forget Dante Alighieri‘s admonition, that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    Conclusion:
    History must serve as a tool in our decision making. The implosion of Nigeria has long been forecasted. Year 2023 could be a tipping point in the annals of our history. But that must not happen, even as the options before the electorate seem stark.

    I want to assure you that as a people-oriented party and Movement, the people remain the fulcrum of our collective quest to take back Nigeria; the people are our STRUCTURE. I therefore urge you not to yield to the deceptive narrative of lack of Structure in the Movement. You all seated here are the Structures we seek.

    The current structures of both the PDP and the APC are the stomach infrastructure that has brought us nothing but misery. Their understanding of structure is sharing of Nigeria’s patrimony to vested interests and influence peddlers. That is against what Peter Obi represents; that is against what Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed represents; and it is indeed, against the vision of the Labour Party.

    On a final note, I urge you to always endeavour to remind the opposition that Nigeria’s democracy must survive because of our structure -that critical mass that has been dehumanized and disenfranchised by the ruling oligarchs; the 100 million poor Nigerians who will come out on election day to fight for their future; the 33% unemployed Nigerians who already know who kept them unemployed; our structure is indeed the parents of 18.5m out-of-school-children in Nigeria, who will strive to ensure that such affliction does not visit them a second time. And finally, our structure is everyone seated in this hall today! Yes, we have Structure. And we are ready to move mountains to save Nigeria.

    Thank you and God bless you.