Scores of Medical Doctors Mobilise 25m Votes For Peter Obi
BY QUADRI SALIU
Scores of Nigerian medical doctors under the aegis of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi have vowed to mobilise twenty-five million votes for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.
Speaking during the presentation of working tools by three support groups to the Labour Party’s campaign council at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday, the convener of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi, Dr Uche Uzoukwu, explained how the group plans to deliver the 25 million votes in 2023.
He said: “Nurses, doctors, and pharmacists are coming together under the name docs and medics for Peter Obi. Politics is a game of numbers, and everyone is important. Therefore, 11,000 doctors, 27,000 medics have come together and have formed even state groups.
“We are reaching out to the local governments and have moved down to the wards and leaders have been inaugurated.” We are moving down to the polling units and have 500,000 to grow. I encourage them to get in touch with 50 people as they attend to patients. With this, we can have 25 million votes.
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“We want to deliver 25 million votes, by giving right to life and to be well, the votes can be gathered. Medical outreaches have been in place and is still being used. Community members at the outreaches are encouraged to vote Peter Obi with a promise that the exercise will continue once Labour Party wins,” he said.
Decrying the poor state of the nation’s health sector, Uzoukwu said Obi has the capacity to tackle brain drain; stressing that the doctors and medics would stay behind after the 2023 elections to develop the sector.
He said during the window period of PVC registration, the group had paid for logistics for people without voter cards to be registered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), noting that such was done in 26 states and 52 different locations where thousands were registered.
