By Nsan Ndoma-Neji, Calabar
Ahead of Saturday’s presidential polls,the governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Cross River State, Mr. Effiong Nyong, has described the presidential candidate of tbe Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi and his running mate, Ahmed Datti, as the only credible ones with the capacity to solve Nigeria’s socio-economic problems.
Nyong made the remarks while answering questions from journalists shortly after the LP ended the grand finale of the one million-man rally for Obi/Datti on Wednesday in Calabar.
Nyong stated that the time has come when people should no longer sit on the fence when it comes to issues of who to govern Nigeria, urging citizens of the country who have love for the revival of of the nation to join hands with Obi/Datti to bail Nigeria out from it’s present predicament.
He said, “Enough of this mess, to allow same people who wreck Nigeria’s economy to return back to power again.
“I think Nigerians are afraid of saying vote Obi/Datti, instead they say vote wisely; the wisdom they are talking about lies in the fact that LP has a more credible presidential candidate.
“The name Peter Obi is today seen as a metaphor for wisdom, but what we are saying is that Nigerians should be bold to say it the way it is, vote Obi.”
On why the leadership of African Democratic Congress ADC decided to collapsed the party’s structure into the LP, Nyong charged Nigerians not to allow same people who he described as the ones that destroyed Nigeria’s economy and unleash poverty and hard times on the people to return back to power.
He added, “The hardship faced by the nation shows that these set of people have lost ideas on how to pilot the nation’s affairs.
“They have exhausted the ideas that they have and they are bringing nothing to bring to the table. And they are the same people asking people to vote them because there is hope.
Nyong stated that the rally is the final push in Cross River to reawaken the spirit of the Obi/Datti movement in the state before the presidential election which is scheduled for February 25.
