Peter Obi to Fayose: I don’t need N50bn to win 2023 presidency

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said he does not need N50 billion to win the 2023 presidential election.

Obi said his campaign movement, Obidient’, was powered by human resources rather than fiscal resources.

The former governor of Anambra State made this known in reaction to a statement credited to Isaac Fayose, a brother of a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, who said Obi needs N50 billion to be able to defeat the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu in 2023.

The LP presidential standard-bearer, in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Obi-Datti media office, noted that there were lessons drawn from the recently concluded presidential election in Kenya, where William Ruto floored government-backed Raila Odinga.

“In continuation of the education of Nigerians on the spirit and letter of the Obidient Movement, by the media office, Mr Fayose Jnr and all those in his school of thought, obsessed with structure and money politics need to be reminded that they are living in the past and refusing to face the reality that situation is changing for good.

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“Obi-Datti does not need N50bn or any constructed and procured structure to rescue the country but human beings who indeed are the victims of the previous so-called structures.

“The Obedient Movement is powered by human beings as represented in the Labour Party logo, Father, Mother and Child not money. Human beings are far bigger resources,” the LP presidential candidate said.

Obi added: “Maybe it’s necessary and germane to draw the attention of Mr Fayose to the just concluded presidential election in the East African country, Kenya where a 55-year-old William Ruto of a two-year-old United Democratic Alliance defeated a 77-year-old Raila Odinga’s of 17-year-old Orange Democratic Movement.

“Ruto’s party has nobody in the Senate of 67 members, one member only in the 349 member Assembly but Odinga’s party has 20 members in the 67 member Senate and 76 of 349 Assembly members but these structures could not deliver him above rookie party of Ruto.

“Ruto had human beings and social media structure behind him while Odinga had the support of the ruling party and backing of the President and government of Kenya and their entire structures and money.

“The huge lesson from Kenya freely available for Fayose and all those thinking like him is that age is a factor, money is not, social media is a factor and structure is not.”

Obi added he and his running mate, Datti Bab-Ahmed, are “in a mission to dismantle political structures that have kept the country down over time not to encourage or create one.

“Fayose and all those in this reasoning should do well by joining the Obedient family in this Herculean task of rescuing our land,” he added.

The Star