2023 Politics: Obi supporters hold rallies, APC Unfolds Women Campaign Team

02 Oct 2023 Politics: Obi supporters hold rallies, APC Unfolds Women Campaign Team

Supporters of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Saturday, organised rallies across the country.

The rallies held amid activities to mark Nigeria’s 62nd independence anniversary.

Nigeria gained independence on October 1, 1960.

As early as 7:30am, supporters of Obi gathered at the extension of Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja GRA, Lagos, in preparation for a “four million-person march”.

Despite the rain on Saturday morning, the supporters showed enthusiasm to defy the weather.

Security operatives marched alongside Obi’s supporters.

The LP supporters chanted as they marched around parts of Ikeja, including Opebi, Allen and computer village areas.

A similar rally was held in Lekki axis of Lagos, and supporters of the LP, in their numbers, marched from Marwa bus-stop to Jakande estate.

The rally caused heavy traffic on the Lekki-Epe expressway, and lasted for more than two hours.

They also marched across states like Akwa Ibom, Gombe, Bauchi, Edo, among others.

Meanwhile, the ruling All Progressives Congress on Independence Day announced the composition of women campaign train with First Lady, Aisha Buhari; Senator Oluremi Tinubu and Hajiya Nana, wife of vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, leading the pack.

The campaign list, which contained names of 944 high-profile women and wives of prominent APC politicians, was released in the wee hours of Saturday by the campaign media admin, Rinsola Abiola, who is also the daughter of late Chief MKO Abiola.

In the list tagged ‘Tinubu-Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team,’ Aisha was appointed as Grand Patron, Tinubu, a three-term senator emerged as Chairman; Nana was made Co-Chairman while Lauretta Onochie, Personal Assistant on Social Media to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), also made the campaign train as Deputy National Co-ordinator.

In the category of zonal leaders, Dr Zainab Baugudu, wife of Kebbi State governor will coordinate the NorthWest; wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo–Olu leads South West; First Lady of Borno State, Falmata Zulum will be in charge of the North East.

In a similar vein, Olufolake Abdulrazaq, the first lady of Kwara State, will coordinate efforts in the North-Central and Mrs. Sanwoolu, wife of the Lagos State governor, will superintend over the South-West. While Imo State First Lady, Chioma Ikeaka-Uzodinma will organise South-East campaign; her counterpart in Cross River, Linda Ayade, will oversee activities in the committees South-South.

No fewer than 33 Nollywood and Kannywood actors were enlisted for entertainment.

They included veteran thespians such as the inimitable Joke Silva who chairs the category, Fausat Balogun, Remi Oshodi, Mercy Johnson, Rose Odika, Sola Kosoko, Lanre Hassan (Iya Awero) Hajiya Nas, Lizzy Jay (Omo Ibadan), Princess Kalihat Bello among others.