A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Emmanuel Jonathan has asserted that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi is the only candidate in the race to become Nigeria’s next President that is enjoying genuine goodwill from Nigerians.
Jonathan made this known while speaking with newsmen in Nsukka while reacting to verbal attacks on the LP’s presidential candidate and running mate, Datti Baba-Ahamed by candidates of other political parties and their faithful.
Jonathan pointed out that the Obi/Datti presidential awareness movement across the nation and Nigerians in the diaspora was causing goose pimples in the camp of his enemies.
He said Obi’s agenda of rebuilding the country’s economy had won him wide acceptance, genuine support and goodwill by millions of Nigerians.
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‘Current happenings in the country show that some powers that be and some candidates in the 2023 presidential elections are not finding it easy with the rising popularity and acceptability of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023
‘This is a result of the many attacks on the Obi/Datti presidential awareness movement by candidates of other political parties and their faithful. Despite all these attacks, Peter Obi and his running mate continue to engage Nigerians with possible solutions that will take Nigeria out of its present state of quagmire. This is unlike other candidates whose antecedents are against the tides.
‘Among all the presidential candidates in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi is about the only candidate who is enjoying genuine goodwill from Nigerians who are disposed to donate their hard-earned incomes in support of the actualisation of this project as against other candidates with expectations to have better Nigeria where everyone will enjoy comfort of life like most of the western countries,’ he said.
Meanwhile, a party stalwart in Abia State, Chief Nelson Akwara, has expressed optimism that Obi and Dr. Alex Otti, the party’s governorship elections would win.
The former state House of Assembly aspirant, said the wave of acknowledgements and support garnered by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by Nigerians at home and abroad, especially the youths, was enough encouragement that Obi would be elected as the country’s next president.
