Obidients, or supporters of the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, are said to have realized the importance of political structure now.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Dele Momodu, a spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, said Obi’s supporters are now realizing the importance of structure as the general election approaches.
Momodu stated during an appearance on the Arise TV Morning Show on Monday that structure is a necessary requirement in the game of politics and is not something out of this world.
He questioned how many governors, House Representatives, and Assembly candidates the Labour Party has on their payroll.
According to him, having a structure cannot be overstated, which is why Obi’s counterparts in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, would say they are banking on their governors and candidate to work for them.
The PDP chieftain questioned how the Obi camp could compete with the PDP, which had been around for a long time and already had structures in place.
Momodu submitted that;
The Obidients are beginning to see the importance of structure. Structure is not something out of this world, it is a needed requirement. How many governors have you got, which is what Tinubu is banking on that ‘my governors will help me’. How many senators or senatorial candidates does Atiku have? How many people for House Representatives, how many for House of Assembly? They haven’t got much of that.
You are also going to need agents nationwide, thousands of them. That will form part of the structures.
If you say ‘we don’t pay ‘shi shi’, you can see how people are moving away in droves in some of these smaller parties because the structures are not there. The structures also include the funding of each of those structures.
We shall see in the next one week what will happen. The polls will not help Obi. If they like, let one million say Obi is going to win.
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