TUNDE OGUNTOLA FROM LEADERSHIP NG
Speaking during a press conference yesterday in Abuja with the theme: “State of Nation and the 2023 General Elections’, president, Democratic Leadership, Ray Onwuelo, said that Nigeria is at a crossroads and needs Nigerians to come out in mass to get their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, and vote for a credible candidate.
He said, “Two of the candidates are likely to get the requisite 25 per cent of the votes cast in 24 or more states and the FCT with the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi securing the widest and largest number of votes in a fair presidential election. I am not unaware that it will be unpleasant to hear this but that is the true situation on the ground across the country with a small margin of error.
“Peter Obi by this implication is the best for Democratic Leadership from all our assessments and he’s totally different from others. I think Peter Obi by this implication is the best for Democratic Leadership from all our assessments and he’s totally different from others.
He described the developmental process of Nigeria as slow, advising Nigerians to take the bull by its horn during the election and ensure the right things are done, adding that with the right leadership, Nigeria was bound for Uhuru.
He said: “The Nigeria Nation is indeed at a crossroads and never before have we had it so colourful. Every Nigerian at home and abroad feels it so bad one way or another.
“But for most of us, it does seem that it is very little we can do to improve things. This is because the path to the much-needed transformation is riddled with immense difficulties with near impossibilities some will say.
“We have been through different developmental processes but have generally been so slow and sometimes retrogressive. At 62 years we have passed the middle ages in any life, including that of any independent nation.”
