The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engineer David Umahi, has said that the supporters of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, should know that the 2023 campaigns is still a long march and that their initial wave of momentum and spectacle doesn’t guarantee victory at the polls.
The governor added that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), will soon commence its rallies and mobilisation nationwide.
The governor, who is the South-East Chairman for the APC presidential campaign, said there are still many months for campaigns ahead of the 2023 general elections and there is nothing to worry about the delayed inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).
Umahi spoke on Monday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
With the official commencement of campaigns on September 28, supporters of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have stormed major cities across the country to declare support for the former governor of Anambra State.
Obi’s supporters known as ‘Obidients’ on October 1, 2022, held peaceful rallies across the country just as Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has been seen crisscrossing states in the country to mobilise support ahead of the February 2023 polls.
Responding to Obi’s supporters rallies, Umahi said, “We have many months to elections and we have many months to campaign. The first to start does not translate to the first to finish. So, the APC is a bank and they are coming up with programmes. It will soon happen.”
The APC had released a 422-man Presidential Campaign Council list and scheduled inauguration for September 28 but postponed it indefinitely as some aggrieved members of the ruling party, including the National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, allegedly said Tinubu did not carry the party’s National Working Committee along before the release of the list.