LP faults Kwankwaso over Chatham House comment

The Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council has slammed the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, for criticizing the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in Chatham House, London, on Wednesday.Information Guide Nigeria

Speaking at the “Nigeria’s 2023 Election: Service Delivery and Policy Alternatives,” Kwankwaso claimed that the Labour Party was all about hype, describing the LP as a party built on “ethnic and religious sentiments.”JAMB Result

In response to the remarks, Yunusa Tanko, spokesman for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, said the former Kano state governor missed the point, failing to recognize Obi’s quality.

Speaking exclusively to The PUNCH, Tanko said, “That is a wrong perception. These things can also be said of Kwankwaso and his party. If it is about ethnicity, Kwankwaso is also from a particular ethnic group. If it is about religion, he practices a particular faith too. Where Kwankwaso falls short is that neither he nor his party has the contents that our party and presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, have. We have content and most Nigerians know this.

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“Our candidate was the only one who came out to say, ‘don’t vote for me because I come from a particular ethnic group and don’t vote for me because I practice a particular religion, but vote for me because I have the capacity, character, integrity, and compassion to make this country work.’ These attributes were reechoed by the Emir of Kano who spoke in Hausa language telling everyone that Peter has all it takes to govern this country when we visited Kano to interface with Nigerians over there,” he stated.Jamb Portal

Akin Osuntokun, Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, also spoke, saying that if any Nigerian leader deserves an ethnic label, it would undoubtedly be the NNPP standard bearer.NYSC Portal

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