2023: 15 Deregistered Political Parties Drum Support For Labour Party’s Peter Obi

NEWSDAILYNIGERIA: The 15 political parties deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission,( INEC) under the aegis of Coalition for Good Governance, have declared support for the presidential ambition of the candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.

The coalition on Friday said only Obi out of the candidates contesting for the 2023 Presidency can stop Nigeria from disintegrating.

In a statement signed by its National Chairman, Okey Chikwendu, and Publicity Secretary, Don Anthony Harmattan, the deregistered parties said it took the decision after carefully studying each presidential candidate to know the most reliable and credible among them.

INEC had in 2020 deregistered 74 political parties on the ground that they failed to meet constitutional requirements that determine the continuous existence of political parties in the country, leaving 18 which passed its test.

“In furtherance to the above, the CGG on July 28 held a meeting in Abuja well attended by the National Party Chairmen and former presidential candidates of deregistered political parties whereby they took a very critical appraisal of all the current presidential contenders for the 2023 presidential elections and their Vice, the house unanimously voted Peter Obi/Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as the most credible among the candidates and as such resolved to support and work with them and their campaign group on the platform of Labour party.

“We, therefore, agreed to rebrand our offices nationwide as Campaign support offices for the project. Our structures all over the 36 States and 774 Local Government Areas are henceforth required to support the Obi ticket.

According to CGG, “Nigerians have had enough of the disunity, eminent disintegration, lingering ASUU strike, terrorist threats, killings, kidnappings, hunger, unemployment, unbearable petrol cost and scarcity, high electricity tariffs, its epileptic situation, rising food cost etc and the continued lack of resolve by the establishment to put an end to these crises.

“We as leaders in main stream politics in Nigeria wish to make clear that only an efficient, effective and credible candidate of renowned character can resolve most of Nigeria’s lingering problems

” and we therefore urge Nigerians to heed to our advice and support our goals of returning Nigeria as the true giant of Africa and the production hub of West Africa,” the parties added.

Source: Newsexpress