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Comrade Ina Okopi-Aqu, National Secretary of the African Action Congress (AAC) has averred that the candidate of the Labour Party for the forthcoming presidential election, Mr Peter Obi is not the alternative Nigeria needs.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Comrade Okopi-Aqu stated this on Saturday at a colloquium organised to assess the 2023 presidential election campaigns.
According to Okopi-Aqu, Mr Obi was not different from the old political stock, coming from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), adding that the AAC presidential candidate, Comrade Omoyele Sowore is a better option.
“The alternative we seek in Nigeria, if it is the PDP or Labour Party, then we do not have an alternative yet. Nigeria needs an alternative that is different from the PDP, the Labour Party and the All Progressives Congress (APC). So, we want Nigerians to look again at what is the alternative,” the AAC National Secretary said.
However, Diran Onifade, Head of Obi-Datti Media Office, who was present at the event held virtually via Zoom, countered the AAC Scribe, stressing that the Labour Party presidential candidate appeals to Nigerians in terms of expectation.
Onifade argued that the Labour Party is a special purpose vehicle for the kind of leadership Nigerians have been yearning for, adding that the ideas of Mr Peter Obi and his record of service resonate with the people of Nigeria.
“Nigerians have constituted themselves as the structure for the Labour Party because the ideas of our presidential candidate and his records of service resonate with Nigerians.
“At the beginning, it didn’t look like that. The 2023 presidential election was looking like another contest between the two big parties. That was the kind of mindset we entered the election with.
“We did not take into consideration the fact that right there among the populace there was something that was building up that politicians were not ready for.
“They knew about the third force. When the process of the election started, the real third force emerged from the streets of Nigeria. That is the wave we are riding on,” Onifade said.