Labour Party Unveils Campaign Team, Says NCC Transcends Ethnic, Religious Bias

THE Labour Party (LP) and Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation has unveiled a 1,234-member National Campaign Council (NCC) for Labour Party, headed by Mohammed Zarewa as Chairman and Clement Ojukwu as Secretary.

  Director General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, retained his position, while Yunusa Tanko was appointed as the chief spokesman of the campaign, just as the party constituted a 27-man Presidential Advisory Council, headed by Prof. Pat Utomi.

  Ojukwu, at a pre-Campaign Press Conference, in Abuja, on Wednesday, October 12, also named the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, as Chairman of the Advisory Council of the NCC, while Oseloka Obaze was named General Manager.

  Ojukwu explained that the party carefully compiled this list to include the six geo-political zones, youths, people living with disabilities and women.

  Members of the NCC include Ayuba Waba, Bashiru Lamidi, Victor Lar, Ireti Kingibe, Farouk Ibrahim, Gbenga Daramola, Mrs. Dud Manuga, Saleh Lawal, Ken Robinson, Sola Ebiseni, Bitrus Boutrou, Olorunfemi Ayo, Godwin Agbasimelo, Moses Oriri, Harrison Adoga, James Apam, Bako Zazing, and Haruna Dabin.

  Also on the list are Joseph Golwa, Bitrus Kaze, Peter Ameh, Yakubu Usman, Danladi Bako, Joel Danladi, Yusuf Jajere, Nenadi Usman, Alex Oti, Victor Umeh, Tony Nwoye, Obinna Uzor, Afam Ogene, Val Ozigbo, Chijioke Edeoga, Barth Nnaji, Chris Anyanwu, Ezenwa Onyewuchi, Nnamdo Obiareri, Iniobong Udo, Augustine Okon, Patrick Okomiso and Yussuf Lasun.

  The rest include Tanko Yunusa, Kenneth Okonkwo, Modele Sarafa-Yusuf, Nnamdi Okosieme, Paul Mumeh, Tunde Odanye, Remi Sonaiya, Chris Asoluka, Ajaegbo, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Chris Eze, Sola Akinyede, Joel Danmusa, Femi Shaka, Femi Okunronmu, Kayode Ajulo, Valentine Obieyem, Emeka Ugwu-Oju and Segun Ojo, among others.

  Earlier, Okupe said the Obidient Movement, which currently drives the party’s presidential campaign, and Obi transcends ethnicity and religious bias.
  Okupe stated: “On May 30, 2022, Peter Obi was entrusted by the membership of our great Labour Party as its Presidential Candidate for the 2023 election , after the PDP had failed in courage to live up to the due process. In the dramatic sequence of these events, our candidate’s entry into this political race has resulted in an explosion of excitement across the vastness of Nigeria, in the Diaspora, and indeed the global community.

  “This has been lovingly and organically expressed in his overwhelming acceptance by the people of Nigeria, through the robust and endearing presentation of his record, personality, vision, policies and promise.

  “There is no doubt that this ascendancy of our presidential ticket, to prime position in the hearts and minds of the Nigerian people, has been fuelled by the patriotic zeal, vibrancy, creativity and shining example, in discipline, character and decency of the Obidient movement.

  “Unknown to many, a significant number of the youths and drivers of this movement are active members and supporters of the other political parties, such as the APC and PDP, who could not ignore the overbearing superiority in leadership quality, personal disposition, national appeal, private and public service record and the clear-cut expression of vision and governance solutions, which Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have come to represent, for all true lovers of progress and national rebirth.”
  He noted that the renewed zeal among Nigerians to change the narrative positively was largely inspired by the catalogue of failed promises and missed opportunities by successive regimes, saying: “The truth is that the errors of the past, have done painful incalculable damage, to the psyche of our people, the economy of our country, the peaceful existence and security of every citizen, and to the quality of our public services and our private lives.”