The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party, has said that its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is the preferred candidate for Christians in Northern Nigeria.
This statement is coming after the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar was endorsed by the Northern Leaders Consultative Forum.
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The spokesperson of the Labour Party PCC, Tanko Yunusa, challenged the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and other members of the Forum to seek the opinion of Christians in the north and they would discover that they preferred Obi.
In his words, “About Dogara and his political party members, they should go and do the public opinion of the Christians in the north, they will be amazed that what they had was an elitist endorsement, and you can never compare the score that was already generated by them with the result that they would get in the general public of the Christendom in the north.
“I make bold to say that the population in the north, especially the Christians and other tribes, have unequivocally made their endorsement, and they will vote for Peter Obi, not the purchased endorsement that the Northern Leaders Consultative Forum has just granted.”
He told the former speaker to visit any of the 19 northern states and see if their endorsed candidate is the choice of the people there.
He said, “there is no basis whatever to reflect on the fact that what they used as a yardstick to score the candidate was grossly statistically and empirically incorrect, and so as far as we are concerned, if they want to test the will of the Nigerian people, they should please go to the streets in Jos, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Adamawa itself or Katsina or Kaduna or in any of the areas in the 19 states of the North or Benue State and make their statistics, and I challenge those particular statistics to see if it will be Atiku Abukakar or Peter Obi.”
