The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded presidential election, Peter Obi, has boasted that his party is the party to beat in the 11th of November governorship election in Imo State.
Speaking at the flag-off of the campaigns for the party in Owerri, the state capital, on Tuesday, Obi pointed out the LP is known for performance and excellence.
Using Abia State which his party controls as an example of good governance, Obi stated that the people of Abia State now have hope and are witnessing good governance because a ‘first-class brain’ who knows what he is doing is now the governor of the state.
He went on to describe Athan Achonu as the only governorship candidate of the party in Imo State, and Julius Abure, as the only duly recognised and authentic national chairman of the party.
Obi appealed to the people of Imo State to come out en masse and vote Achonu as the next governor of the state on November 11.
He said that the process that produced Achonu as the party’s governorship candidate in the state was credible.
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He said, “Abure is the national chairman of our party. We don’t have another chairman. LP will win Imo State. Athan Achonu is the only candidate of the party and he is the best in Imo State. I am happy nobody has changed the process. I believe in process.
‘LP wants to change Nigeria. We are asking Nigeria for the opportunity. Give us chance in Nigeria, there will be change. In Abia State today, there is hope, that is what is called governance.
‘We want Nigeria to have leaders that will do what they preach. We know what it takes to change Nigeria. That is why we are here. We know what it takes to change Imo.
‘I believe in process. Achonu emerged through the right process. Vote for LP and things will start happening.’
The governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, said that he was the chairman of the panel that conducted the primary election that produced Achonu as the governorship candidate of LP in the state.
Urging the people of the state to vote for Achonu, the governor said that he was not even up to 100 days in office and good things were already happening in the state.
The governor said, ‘Distinguished Senator Athan Achonu is the only governorship candidate of the party. I was the chairman of the panel that conducted the primary election which produced him as the winner of the election. I am here to bear testimony that he is our candidate for the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.
‘We have not even started in Abia but the noise is everywhere. We are less than 100 days in office in Abia. Labour Party is known for governance. Vote for the Labour Party.’
The national chairman of the party, Abure, said he was confident that LP would form the next government in the state.
Abure noted that the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress had failed Nigerians and the people of the state in particular.
He said, ‘We will change the economic narratives of Imo State. Athan Achonu is the only governorship candidate of Labour Party in Imo State.
‘LP is founded on integrity, performance. The PDP and APC have failed. We have tried PDP and APC and they failed. Their results are insecurity, poverty and infrastructural decay. Labour Party has come to change the narratives. Vote Athan Achonu, vote LP come November 11.’
Speaking after the party’s flag was handed over to him, Achonu who is the governorship candidate of the party, promised to fix the state if he won the governorship election.
Achonu said that on assumption of office as the next governor of the state, he would conduct Local Government election, fix the roads and electricity, end insecurity and ensure that the civil servants and pensioners were promptly paid.
He said that he would make history by becoming the first physically challenged person to emerge a governor.
