The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has suspended his campaign activities for the 2023 elections. Obi disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, October 19, in Abuja, Vanguard reported.
The former Anambra state governor also advised other presidential candidates, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and others to come together and sympathize with the victims.
“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 sympathize 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 say, at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue,” Obi said.
Meanwhile, Governor Ortom has said he would have worked for the success of Obi if he were not a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Benue state governor was quoted as saying: “I’m in PDP and I am working for PDP but I tell you if I were not in PDP, you will see me working for Peter Obi but I am in PDP.”
