The Labour Party Governorship candidate in the coming 2023 general elections in Abia, Dr. Alex Otti Tuesday, set up his Campaign Council aimed at wrestling power from PDP in the state, come 2023.
The campaign council has Rt. Hon. Nnanna Ngwu as the chairman and Hon. Okey Kanu as the Secretary.
Addressing faithful during the occasion after harmonization, Dr. Alex Otti said “after going through the process of being nominated at the local government and state levels, we have been able to harmonize ourselves and have prayerfully set up a team to take over the state.
He used the opportunity to unveil his running mate and Deputy Governorship candidate in the person of Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu.
Inaugurating the team, the Umuahia Archdiocese Methodist Church Nigeria Archbishop, Chibuzo Raphael Opoko charged the council to carry all along, stating “I am not a party man, but father to all party men”.
He noted that poverty has no religion or ethnicity, hence “all must rise to work so that poverty will be eradicated. All must rise up to take back Nigeria”.
“MTN is not ours but belongs to South Africa and Nigeria is giving light to other countries who celebrate no light failures, and we don’t have light”, he lamented.
Young Nigerians he said, go to Ukraine to be enlisted fighting, adding he was at the occasion to say, “time has come, no more going back”.
“The young people have taken the decision that we are no longer waiting to see Nigeria decay. We cannot sit down and see poverty take over the country”, Archbishop Opoko said.
Two Catholic Reverend Fathers, David Aguneri and Christian Anokwuru made up the campaign council.
