The Labour Party, LP says it has concluded plans to embark
on a five-million-man march for its presidential candidate in the Federal
Capital Territory, Abuja, on September 24.
The LP Chairman, FCT chapter, Diugwu Chukwuemeka Peter, who
disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, said Obi’s supporters would shut down the
capital territory.
According to him, the Abuja chapter of the party on
Wednesday decided to fix the march on September 24 to enable the 36 States
complete theirs.
He said, “We have fixed September 24 for the march in FCT.
Our own in Abuja is going to be grandfinale. We will do it when other States
have concluded their own. This is because FCT is the mother of all States”.
Despite the insinuation by some political top dogs that the
Obidient movement is only visible on social media, the Peter Obi supporters had
successfully held a million-man march in several States.
Videos of the exercise held in Nasarawa and Calabar and
others, where a large crowd thronged streets drumming support for the Labour
Party candidate, had trended online.
The party and Obi’s supporters are currently targeting a
two-million-man march for the former Anambra State Governor in Kaduna, the home
State of his running mate, Yusuf Ahmed-Baba.
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had in a tweet,
made mockery of the planned march, saying he wished they have up to 200 persons
on the street of Kaduna.
He wrote, “Kaduna? Not Kaduna Twitter? – I hope you get Two
Hundred persons on the streets“.
His tweet had generated backlash from social media users who
lambasted the governor for being concerned about the planned event while
terrorists are causing mayhem in his State.
Reacting to the insinuation that Obi’s supporters are only
on Twitter, Chukwuemeka told DAILY POST that those doubting the movement would
soon be shocked.
“Everyone is going to see that we are not joking. We will
shut Abuja down. This is no longer a social media thing”, he added.
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