Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Diran Onifade, one of the spokesmen for Peter Obi’s campaign organisation has stressed that Labour Party does not have a structure across the nation but that Nigerians are building a structure for the party.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Onifade disclosed this while speaking at a one-day colloquium on the forthcoming general election in Nigeria on Saturday when he noted that the Labour Party has not given money to electorates for vote-buying.
“In truth, Labour Party does not have the so-called structure across the nation. But you can’t imagine that Nigerians started constituting themselves, building a structure for Labour Party.”
“There is no firepower like other parties have, in terms of so-called structure, media dominance and others. Yet an ordinary Nigerian would come out in aspiration,” Onifade said.
The former NTA News correspondent pointed out the Labour Party is a party that belongs to the people, hence does not thrive by radio jingles and TV advertisements, following the lack of firepower compared to other parties.
“If you check the radio jingles, adverts on TV and newspapers, you don’t even see any coming from us. Labour Party is a party that, it is the people that give us pure water. This is unlike other parties that go out to give people money to vote for them.
“Labour Party followers like the character of members of the party- they are humble people. It looks like that is what Nigerians are building for,” he said.
TNG reports the 2023 Election Colloquium was held via Zoom with the theme: Assessing the Presidential Election Campaigns.
The online event was organized by TNG, Africa’s number one news portal in collaboration with Prime Business Africa (PBA) and C&F Porter Novelli.
It had in attendance representatives of political parties, print/electronic media, PR practitioners, Regulators, Public Opinion pollsters, INEC, APCON, Advertising practitioners and Mass Communication students.