2023: NLC, TUC Promise Obi 12m Votes

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has promised to mobilise its 12 million strong members to vote for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Obi, whose popularity has been growing among mainly young voters and workers’ unions, according to those watching the country’s politics is in a three horse race with Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar of the All progressives Congress, and Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, respectively.

Ayuba Wabba, NLC president disclosed this on Monday, stressing that the union will ensure the victory of Obi in next year’s presidential election.

The labour leader said at the National Retreat of the party in Abuja that its members will ensure Obi’s victory in 2023.

“The structures of all our affiliates, both TUC and NLC, membership together is 12 million,” he said.

Ayuba said one of the things the union is doing is to unite Nigerians, across all walks of life behind the LP presidential candidate, adding that no country can move forward without unity.

According to him, “One issue that we must take very serious is actually conscientising our members and also Nigerians because Nigeria is so much divided along many primordial interests and many interests that are self-centred that we need to address

“No country in the world can prosper and work in unity if the country is so divided. So one of the responsibilities of Labour Party is to unite Nigerians along a common goal of development and prosperity.

“Let us organise at all levels. Let us send a message at all levels. I assure you that as Britain did it in 1945 when all the structures were actually won by the Labour Party and recently… Australia also did the same.

“It’s not that we don’t have we have structures; human beings are the structures. It is just to activate the structures and put them to use. It’s just like a weapon in military circles. You service them when the need arises.

“So the need has (arisen) for all the structures of the political commission of both TUC and NLC to be activated in all the 774 local governments. Importantly, also the structures of all our affiliates, both TUC and NLC, membership together is 12 million.”