By Cajetan Mmuta
Labour Party (LP)’s a senatorial candidate for Anambra Central, Senator Victor Umeh, has said that the mass movement and support of Nigerians for the former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the party, Mr. Peter Obi, is giving sleepless nights and serious scare to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and other parties, ahead of the 2023 elections.

This is as he declared that the tenth session of the Senate in the National Assembly would discuss the future of the country, in view of the myriads of challenges bedeviling the socio-political and economic framework of the country.
Speaking during an interactive session with members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NIJ), Anambra State council, Umeh noted that Obi, as a model and hot brand, represents the heart of millions of troubled citizens and, therefore, is determined and courageous to salvage the nation’s ship from crashing to the rocks.

He said the party is working round the clock to get a vice-presidential candidate who would support the views and mission of Obi as the candidate of the party, even as he faulted reports in the media that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had foreclosed the substitution of names of vice-presidential candidates, and that the VP slot must come from the north.

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He also pledged that his going to the Red Chamber of the National Assembly is to continue to be a strong and loud voice for Ndigbo, and to help in finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems.
According to him, “The APC, PDP and other political parties are afraid of Peter Obi because of his resolve to banish poverty and ability to manage resources.”

Umeh, who was the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), disclosed that Obi left the PDP because of the grand plot and sabotage against the Igbo and the entire South-East geopolitical zone in their quest for the presidency of the country.

He added that the brazen act of denying the South-East and Ndigbo to produce the president by the two major parties of the APC and PDP was totally unacceptable and against the principle and letter of zoning arrangement between the north and south.

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“I have been an apostle of restructuring, it’s something I believe in. Remember, I was at the National Conference in 2014, and I was one of the people who spoke very strongly to get Nigeria restructured so that Nigeria can function as a smooth country. The way we are present, we cannot achieve much under the present system.

“People have spoken against the constitution, the constitution was not made by the Nigerian people. This constitution is called Decree Number 24 of 1998, and is not a constituent assembly-made constitution. That’s why we are having problems in Nigeria, people put together what they wished for themselves and handed it over to us in 1999 as the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

“Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) has recently advocated for a new constitution, and many groups have been asking for a new constitution because the constitution we have is very difficult to amend. All amendment exercises have been frustrated. So, people are pushing for that. We believe, and that’s why I said I want to be part of the 10th Senate, because the future of Nigeria will be discussed in that tenth Senate.