Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, has praised the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for allowing a motorcycle rider, Donatus Mathew, to be elected as the representative of the Kaura Federal constituency in Southern Kaduna.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the LP candidate was declared the winner after polling 10,466 votes and defeating the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with 9,828 votes.
Reacting to the development, Omokri described the election of Mathew as true democracy.
Omokri stated on his Facebook page that the victory of the LP candidate would increase support for the party in the north.
He stated that he never imagined the LP would be able to accomplish such a feat in 2023 and that if they continued on this path, society would become more egalitarian.
He wrote;
Under Labour Party, an Okada rider, Donatus Mathew, won election to the House of Representatives in Kaduna. This is democracy in its purest form. And for this, I thank Peter Obi and the Labour Party.
Both of them have done much to deepen our democracy. I never envisaged that this could happen in Nigeria in the year 2023. In the future, perhaps I imagined it happening. But not now.
If Labour continues this way, they will make Nigeria a more egalitarian society.
This news will make Labour more acceptable in Kano, the centre of Northern egalitarianism, which is the utopian ideal that the late Aminu Kanu tried to build with the Talakawa through the Northern Elements Progressive Union, and later his Peoples Redemption Party.
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