A political pressure group in support of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti AHMED, on Saturday grounded Enugu in a mother of all rally, tagged “Charity Begins at Home.”
The rally which was organised by Chief Evarestus Nnaji, aka, Odengene, a potential governorship candidate of LP in Enugu State for 2023, took off from Okpara Square, Independence Layout, Enugu and caused serious vehicular hold up that lasted for hours before it culminated in an event centre at ShopRite in Abakaliki Road.
Speaking at the occasion, the organiser of a 40 million Ballot Movement for Obi-Ahmed campaign, Comrade Kennedy Iyere, said that it was the turn of South East to produce the next president for Nigeria, saying that Obi’s presidency would bring peace and progress to Nigeria.
Iyere said he had been on the vanguard for Igbo presidency for too long and asked all and sundry to join the bandwagon to ensure that Obi is elected to liberate Nigeria from being a consuming nation to a producing nation.
Speaking specifically about Enugu State governorship, come 2023, Iyere said he has interacted with Chief Nnaji and saw that he had the capacity to be the next governor of Enugu State.
He said that no amount of cabal would stop Nnaji from being the next governor of Enugu State.
“I have interacted with Chief Nnaji and I have discovered that he has the capacity to lead. Cabal cannot stop Evarestus Nnaji from being the next governor,” he said.
The organiser of Charity Begins at Home, Nnaji said that since the outcry is for Ndigbo to produce the next president and a committed man, Obi has come out to contest, he then deemed it fit to campaign for his emergence.
“If the whole Nigeria is saying that it is the turn of the Igbos, we shall not be left behind. We’ll lead Enugu to the mainstream,” he said, saying that the aim of the rally is to raise the awareness about Obi-Datti campaign 2023.
On his gubenatorial ambition, Nnaji said that he was not afraid of losing the race to Enugu Government House. “The moment the cat is let out of the bag, you will see things change in Enugu.”
