The presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has suspended his campaigns for the 2023 presidential election.
Obi made the announcement when he paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday.
Obi’s decision is coming on the heels of the flood disaster that had ravaged states across the country.
Also, he advised other presidential candidates, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and others to come together and sympathises with victims.
His words: “As you can see today, flood is ravaging the entire country. And people are dying. People are being displaced”.
“I personally stopped and told my people no more campaign, until we are able to visit some of the sites, at least sympathise with those going through problems”.
“I came to take permission and ask him (Ortom) that I want to visit some of the sites in Benue as I am going to do in one or two other states”.
“I am also calling other presidential candidates to stop campaigning and see what we can do”.
“If we can buy our forms for millions of naira, we should have some little thing to go, now that people are suffering, and at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue.”
On the allegation that he detained Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Obi said he had no power to detain anybody.
His words: “I don’t have the power to detain anybody. Ask all the security agencies if I had for one day asked them to detain anybody.”
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