Akin Osuntokun, the new Director-General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, shares his thoughts withwith ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS, on the 2023 elections among other issues
Now that you brought Afenifere into the picture, we understand the group has been polarised. The leaders also hold different positions on which presidential candidate the group should support in 2023…
That’s a redundant issue. I have left the ZLP. It was actually the Constitution that I wrote. Dan Nwanyanwu was the chairman of Labour Party. It was at his insistence that I entered the party because I thought it was Labour Party. That was until I discovered it was the Zenith Labour Party. So, I am not a member of the ZLP anyway. That’s why I said it is a redundant issue. It is of no consequence.
Having covered eight states and the FCT, is there a chance Obi can campaign in the entire 36 states or are you looking at some certain strategic zones with less than two months left to the election? Well, you know we are not moneybags like the two other campaigns but we have enough funds to do what we have to do. So that’s not an issue. We are different from those moneybags who have turned it into a festival of sorts. We are sufficiently ready to do what we want to do. In any case, we are also winning back Nigerians from the culture of money politics or what they call monetisation of politics. And that’s part of it.
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