2023: Massive crowd storm Obi/Datti Lagos rally
The ongoing rally of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos is experiencing massive crowd as supporters of Mr Peter Obi stormed the major areas of the city sensitising the people, including motorists, passers-by and traders on why they should vote for Obi in the 2023 general elections.
The supporters converged at different locations like Festac Town, Lekki, Surulere, Ikeja and Maryland, singing and dancing to songs of late Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
In Surulere axis, the Obi supporters kick started their rally from the National Stadium in a mammoth crowd wearing the Obi/Datti campaign shirts.
They walked down to Ojuelegba where some commercial bus drivers and conductors joined the rally and then moved to Fadeyi.
The supporters who were majorly youths were sighted chanting ‘ Obi For President’, ‘ We want good governance’, ‘We are tired of bad governance ‘ and so on, as they waved the Nigerian flag and the Labour Party flag.
A member of the organising committee, Promise Adewusi, speaking with journalists said: “The rally is massive and peaceful. The police and soldiers have been so friendly with some joining in the singing. No ugly incident so far; we hope there won’t be any. We’ve gone past Ojuelegba, approaching Fadeyi from the National Stadium to terminate at Maryland.
” It’s been so orderly with agberos, drivers and passengers who have to endure slight inconveniences passing through the crowd hailing, applauding, shouting that they are tired of eating agbado (corn). Our police escorts have had virtually no work to do as the mass movement of the people is so peaceful and orderly.”
Another supporter, Mrs Olaronke Dawodu Kolade, said the support for Obi/Datti candidacy was to entrench good governance., adding that the youths were tired of the old order.
Kolade added : “Youths are tired of misrule and bad governance, poor power supply, unemployment, economic hardship, insecurity. No visible infrastructural development. Youths do not want to spend 10 years for a course of 4 years in our universities anymore. Nothing is working in Nigeria. We believe in the Obi/Datti candidacy.”
