No fewer than 38,000 medical doctors and other health workers have thrown their weight behind the presidential bid of Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 elections in Nigeria.
This was made known by the Convener of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi, Dr. Uche Uzoukwu, on Monday in Abuja.
Uzoukwu. Who spoke at the National Headquarters of the Labour Party, promised that the group will deliver 25 million votes to Obi.
He said this would be achieved through free nationwide medical outreach programmes at the grassroots level under the aegis of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi.
He said: “Nurses, doctors and pharmacists are coming together under the name docs and medics for Peter Obi.
“Politics is a game of numbers and everyone is important.
“Therefore, 11,000 doctors, 27,000 medics have come together and have formed even state groups.
“We are reaching out to the local governments and have moved down to the wards and leaders have been inaugurated.
“We are moving down to the polling units and have 500,000 to grow and encourage them to get in touch with 50 people as the attend to patients.
“With this, we can have 25 million votes.
“We want to deliver 25 million votes.
“By giving right to life and to be well, the votes can be gathered.
“Medical outreaches have been in place and is still being used.
“Community members at the outreaches are encouraged to vote Peter Obi with a promise that the exercise will continue once Labour Party wins.”
Uzoukwu said Obi has the capacity to tackle brain drain, adding that the doctors and the medics would stay behind after the 2023 elections to develop the sector.
He recalled that during the window period of Permanent Voter Card registration, the group had paid for logistics for persons without voter cards to be registered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, noting that such was done in 26 states and 52 different locations where thousands were registered.
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, said the country has never experienced democracy since 1999, but will however begin on its course come 2023 when the former two-term Anambra State Governor is voted in as president.
Abure said the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party were never owned by the people, but by those who funded it, adding that he who blows the piper, dictates the tune of the music.
Abure also lampooned persons saying the party does not have a structure, adding that such narrative has been buried due to the rising popularity of the party.
The event also coincided with the defection of the National Woman Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Ada Orji Nwanyanwu, and other women politicians to the LP.
According to Nwanyanwu, she left APGA because “Peter Obi has the answer to the challenges facing Nigeria”.
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