Student bodies promise 10 million votes for Peter Obi

A coalition of student bodies under the aegis of Students Obi-Datti Network (SON) said it has perfected strategies to deliver 10 million votes for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi in 2023.

The group, drawn from former and current executives of students and youth leadership from campuses as well as various organisations across the nation, vowed to work for Obi’s victory

Speaking during the inauguration of its Southeast zonal and State executives in Awka, National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Kenneth Okeke said Obi’s capacity and competence to transform the country informed their decision to support him.

He said the group took time to understudy manifestos of other candidates as well as their track records and agreed to queue behind that of the Labour Party for realization of yearnings of the citizenry.

According to him: “We have resolved to mobilize and create this movement with the mandate of galvanising 10 million votes only from our structure cut across geopolitical zones, state, local government, ward and polling unit levels.

“We are poised in deepening the conversation of domesticating the deployment and penetration of the network in the tertiary institutions through voter education, booth to booth mobilization, awareness in all the polling units.”

Reflecting on its slogan, “Taking the Good News to Our Campuses”, Okeke lamented nation’s retrogressive trend over the years, insisting that the burden of its transformation should be collective responsibility of all patriotic citizens.

Keynote speaker, Bar Chinedu Idigo identified high cost of governance, underemployment, insecurity, incessant strike actions, among others as pressing issues to be addressed by any incoming administration.

He challenged youths which constitute about 60 percent of the nation’s population to use their votes to enthrone responsive leadership to change the narratives, expressing optimistic that the nation’s process of recovery would be fully actualized if Obi was elected.

Labour Party candidate for Anaocha 2 State Constituency, Comrade Osita Ozalagba enjoined the youths to sustain the struggle for good governance and work for the party’s victory to ensure accelerated economic development.



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