The Imo State Labour Party (LP) has inaugurated a 481-member campaign council to plan and lead its efforts for the upcoming November 11 gubernatorial election.
During the ceremony in Owerri, the State Chairman, Mr. Callistus Ihejiagwa, stressed the crucial importance of rescuing the state and urged council members to serve selflessly and diligently as torchbearers for LP, Senator Athan Achonu, and Peter Obi in their respective communities.
He emphasized that failure to deliver would not be forgiven by the people, and he addressed concerns about the party’s resources and corruption, expressing a hunger for positive change in Imo and Nigeria.
“They say LP has no big vehicles and have no structure, but those with big cars and structures are the people with the structure of corruption which Peter Obi has come to eradicate.
“They are the ones who have fed so fat on the common treasury of the state and Nigeria.
“We are hungry for a new Imo and Nigeria.
“A new Imo and Nigeria are possible and attainable,” the state chairman said.
He further called for commitment, peace, fairness, openness and unity among members of the council and officers of the party to achieve success and ensure victory at the poll.
Also speaking, the Director-General of the council, Mr Chime Nzeribe, described the upcoming election as a struggle to “emancipate Igboland, not only Imo.”
Nzeribe appealed to the council to take their polling booths seriously and ensure that every vote for the party’s candidate counts.
“Go back home and work hard.
“The reason Obi has problem today is that the party’s mobilisation in the booths was not fantastic and our results were not well guarded.
“This is something we must work out to ensure that our results are well guarded,” he said.
Earlier, the Chairman of the occasion and former Commissioner for Finance in Imo state, Mr Nicholas Ndudu, said the change which Nigerians desired would only come from LP.
“I want to assure you that regardless of what happened in the country in the past couple of days about the presidential election tribunal judgment, LP is still the party of the future.
“What LP is doing today is to inaugurate the campaign council that will activate our reach to the grassroots and ensure we translate that reach and resources into an opportunity for success.
“The people that have been chosen are truly in a position to lead us to victory,” he said.
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