IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is in Makurdi, Benue State capital for the party’s rally.
The former Governor of Anambra state announced his arrival on Wednesday via a tweet.
“I just arrived Makurdi for the Benue Rally,” he wrote in a post accompaniedby photos.
The rally was held at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) square in Makurdi, with mammoth crowd present to support their preferred candidate.
Obi kick-started a nationwide campaign last month in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital in the North-Central geopolitical zone.
The ex-PDP man, his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed; National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure; and other members of the party’s 1,234 campaign council members were at the rally.
Director-General of Obi’s campaign council, Doyin Okupe, said the campaign train of the former Anambra State governor will be massive across all the six geopolitical zones of the country.
According to Okupe, Obi and Baba-Ahmed will crisscross the length and breadth of Nigeria from Nasarawa State to meet with their supporters popularly known as ‘Obidients’ in all parts of the country.