Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 presidential election has said that his party will win the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.
Speaking in Owerri, the state capital, on Tuesday at the flag-off of the campaigns for the party in the state, Peter Obi said the LP is known for performance and excellence.
Using Abia State which his party controls as an example of good governance, Peter Obi stated that the people of Abia State now have hope and are witnessing good governance because a “first-class brain” who knows what he is doing is now the governor of the state.
He described Athan Achonu as the only governorship candidate of the party in Imo State, and Julius Abure, as the only duly recognised and authentic national chairman of the party.
Obi urged the people of Imo State to come out en masse and vote Achonu as the next governor of the state on November 11.
He said that the process that produced Achonu as the party’s governorship candidate in the state was credible.
He said, “Abure is the national chairman of our party. We don’t have another chairman. LP will win Imo State. Athan Achonu is the only candidate of the party and he is the best in Imo State. I am happy nobody has changed the process. I believe in process.
“LP wants to change Nigeria. We are asking Nigeria for the opportunity. Give us chance in Nigeria, there will be change. In Abia State today, there is hope, that is what is called governance.
“We want Nigeria to have leaders that will do what they preach. We know what it takes to change Nigeria. That is why we are here. We know what it takes to change Imo.
“I believe in process. Achonu emerged through the right process. Vote for LP and things will start happening.”
In his remark, the candidate said he would focus on job creation and infrastructure if elected as governor of the state on November 11.
He stressed that the election offered the people of Imo an opportunity to remove an “inept and ineffective government” in the state.
Achonu said: “As widely acknowledged, the basic indices for measuring human development have largely been in retrogression in Imo.
“Unfortunately, we have witnessed a descent to anarchy and lawlessness that has turned vast swathes of our homeland into abandoned spaces for criminality so that Imo people no longer visit their villages nor go home for traditional ceremonies, such as burials and weddings.
“These ceremonies now happen outside people’s homelands.
“This is what we have come to change.”