The Labour Party‘s nominee for president, Mr. Peter Obi, has the support of no fewer than 38,000 doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Additionally, they pledged to mobilise 25 million votes in favour of the former Anambra state governor through no-cost nationwide medical outreach programmes for the general public under the banner of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi.
Ada Orji Nwanyanwu, the National Woman Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, left the party at the same time and encouraged other female politicians all over the nation to join the Labour Party.
Dr. Uche Uzoukwu, convener of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi, spoke on Monday at the Labour Party’s headquarters in Abuja during the presentation of working tools by three support groups to the campaign council of the party. He described how the group plans to secure the 25 million votes needed in 2023.
He said: “Docs and medics for Peter Obi is a grouping of nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. Everybody is significant in the game of numbers that is politics. As a result, 27,000 medical personnel and 11,000 doctors joined together to create state-level organisations.
We have moved down to the wards and inaugurated leaders as part of our outreach to local governments. We are moving on to the voting places, where there are 500,000 voters to turn out. We want them to make contact with 50 voters while they are attending to patients. We can get 25 million votes with this.
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“By granting the right to life and to be healthy, the votes can be gathered. We want to provide 25 million votes. There have been and currently are medical outreach programmes. With the assurance that the practise will continue if the Labour Party won, community members are urged to vote for Peter Obi at the outreaches, he stated.
Uzoukwu lamented the situation of the country’s health sector and asserted that Obi had the ability to stop brain drain, emphasising that the medical professionals would stick behind after the 2023 elections to advance the industry.
He noted that the organisation had provided logistics throughout the PVC registration window period for people without voter cards to be registered by INEC officials, noting that this was done in 26 states and 52 different sites where thousands were registered.
Prior to this, Barrister Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, stated that while democracy has not existed in the nation since 1999, it will start to develop in 2023 when the former governor of Anambra is elected president.
He claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Peoples Congress, which are currently in power, are not owned by the people, but rather by those who provide financial support for them, adding that whoever plays the bagpipes determines the song.
Abure also made fun of people who had complained that the party lacked structure, claiming that such narratives had been buried as a result of the party’s growing popularity.
Ada Orji Nwanyanwu, the national woman leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, and other female politicians defected to the LP at the same time as the event.
Nwanyanwu claimed that the reason she was leaving APGA was that “Peter Obi has the solution to the problems facing Nigeria.”
