By Dave Uka
A Chieftain of the Labour Party in Ebonyi State, Dr Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh has affirmed that the LP members and supporters down to the grassroots are ideologically connected in their quest for a New Nigeria.
The Labour Party (LP) Candidate for Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency during the 2023 general elections, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Abakaliki maintained that LP members have neither wavered nor lost faith in their course.
Ezeh, who is an Oxford-trained Entrepreneur expressed his avowed commitment with LP stalwarts to build a united front of the Labour Party faithful in Ebonyi State.
He described LP decampees in Ebonyi as the perennial movers and known leaders of any government in power (AGIP) in the state.
"I do not agree we have lost any of our members, rather, we have gained a lot more converts.
"Let me firmly assure you that LP members down to the grassroots are ideologically connected in their quest for a New Nigeria and have neither wavered nor lost faith in the course.
"Those who moved are the politicians that saw LP as a special purpose vehicle to actualize ambitions. If you look at those moving out of LP in Ebonyi state, you will notice they are perennial movers and some are known leaders of AGIP (any government in power). "
Ezeh, the President of Ebonyi Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture and the CEO, of Immaculate Group of Companies further described what happened in 2023 as a revolution of ideas birthed by the youths of Nigeria, a peoples' movement called the Obi-dients.
"Let’s not forget that what happened in 2023 was a revolution of ideas birthed by the youths of Nigeria. A people’s movement called the Obi-dients.
"These people are young, urbane, middle class, educated, youthful and entrepreneurial but, largely unemployed and frustrated.
"They are ideologically connected to an ideal worldview that many of the political class do not have the competence to understand nor aspire to.
"These young Nigerians have seen comrades die crossing the Atlantic Oceans in search of better opportunities, seen many die in the deserts of Ethiopia.
"They have seen in their travels, the power of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and a future that is Nigeria’s. These are not people ready to jump from party to party.
"They are the real followers of Mr Obi. Like Kenya, the bubble may yet burst if we continue to be tone-deaf to their legitimate demands for the rebirth of a New Nigeria."
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