Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, has urged his rivals in other parties to put their campaigns on hold and work with him to aid flood victims in all of the federation’s states.
On Wednesday, after meeting with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State at his private residence in Abuja to arrange logistics for a planned tour to flood sites in Benue and other states, Obi made the call while speaking to journalists.
The former governor of Anambra State is competing for the top position in Aso Rock in 2023 against Bola Tinubu of the APC, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, among others.
Due to the fact that thousands of dollars were spent just on nomination forms, Obi stated that he anticipated other presidential contenders to express empathy for the situation of flood victims.
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Over 603 people have been killed by the flooding brought on by recent excessive rainfall, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), which has affected nearly 2.5 million people in Nigeria over the past two months.
In Lagos, Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Edo, Delta, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Benue, Ebonyi, Anambra, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Imo, Abia States, and the Federal Capital Territory, homes and agricultural land have been drowned.
