Reject vote buying and selling, Peter Obi urges Ondo voters

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party within the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has referred to as on the folks of Ondo State to shun acts of vote buying and selling in Saturday’s governorship election.

Obi who expressed concern over the state of democracy in Nigeria stated these shopping for votes had been utilizing stolen cash to perpetrate the act and have to be resisted.

The previous Governor of Anambra State acknowledged this whereas talking on the governorship marketing campaign rally of the LP in Akure, Ondo State capital, on Monday.

In response to him, the Nigerian democracy was struggling and it had been turned to transitional politics. He referred to as on everybody to be concerned within the rebuilding strategy of Nigeria.

He stated, “We’re right here for the marketing campaign of the gubernatorial election arising on Saturday. We all know democracy is struggling in Nigeria; we all know they’ve turned democracy into transitional politics, however we nonetheless insist that we proceed to marketing campaign and inform Nigerians that that is time to begin constructing a brand new Nigeria.

“A Nigeria the place a baby of no one is any individual, a Nigeria the place there will likely be equal alternative, a Nigeria the place we put folks out of poverty, a Nigeria the place our kids will likely be at school, the place our hospitals will work.

“We don’t need folks to provide us cash that they’ve stolen from us, and thereafter, they proceed to steal extra. We wish to cease the stealing and begin the rebuilding; we wish to cease the destroying and begin the rebuilding; we wish to transfer this nation from consumption to manufacturing so we are able to create jobs. That’s why we’re right here campaigning.

“Ondo citizens ought to shun vote shopping for and promoting as a result of it’s cash that they’ve stolen that they’re utilizing to purchase them. We should resist them.”

Addressing the occasion supporters, who wore orange color apparel singing and dancing, on the rally, the governorship candidate of the occasion, Mr Sola Ebisen, described LP as the one occasion that may rework the state, calling on the folks to vote for the occasion.

“Labour Party is the preferred political occasion in Ondo State. This can be a occasion that the folks of Ondo State voted for twice and was in energy on this state between 2009 and 2017. Our packages insurance policies and even initiatives are in all places, and you realize it. All over the place you go in Ondo State, all of the initiatives you see are within the color of the costume I’m sporting.

“I’m intentionally sporting the orange color, which is the color of the Labour Party and the color you will notice in each mission. Our presidential candidate is right here to provide assist and to let Nigerians know that the Labour Party is the occasion to vote for”, Ebiseni boasted.