Prominent PDP Chieftain Declares Support for Peter Obi, Defects to Labour Party ahead of 2023 Elections

* The lead opposition party, PDP, has lost one of its strong members in Lagos state, Chief Adesunbo
* Onitiri, to the Labour Party Onitiri said he joined the Labour Party to support the presidential ambition of Peter Obi, the party's flagbearer
* The ex-PDP chieftain also added that a lack of internal democracy in his former party made him pitch his tent with Labour Party

Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, has defected to the Labour Party to contest the forthcoming Lagos Central senatorial election.

Onitiri said he dumped the PDP for Labour Party due to a lack of internal democracy and in order to support the presidential ambition of Peter Obi, in line with the call by the Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo.

2023 elections: I left PDP with my supporters, Onitiri says
Onitiri said he left the PDP with his numerous supporters, admirers and friends in Lagos Central Senatorial District to ensure a resounding victory for the Labour Party in the coming general elections in Lagos state, Nigerian Tribune reported.

“Here I am, imploring the entire Lagosians and residents to actively support and vote massively for the Labour Party so as to salvage our ‘wrecked’ country from total destruction and imminent calamity," the LP new chieftain said.

Nigerian youths should reclaim their country, Onitiri says
The former PDP chieftain also charged Nigerian youths to reclaim the country "from the 62 years of criminal misrule of the old politicians.

He noted that the forthcoming general election is crucial and strategic to the country's continued existence.

2023 elections: Onitiri advises Nigerians against selling votes
Onitiri urged Nigerians not to sell their votes but to vote their conscience and vote wisely. “Nigeria is too sick to be trusted with old, nepostic, tribalistic and expired politicians to govern," the Labour Party chieftain said. He added that Nigerians needed a vibrant and visionary leader to fix the nation's problems.

lhordspy:
How is the man prominent? Sir...
So to me i think he is closer to the word inconsequetial than prominent

lhordspy:
How is the man prominent? Sir

Promiment can be define as important or famous.

We have never heard of his name before in the peak of things or notice his significant impact in the political terrain.

So to me i think he is closer to the word inconsequetial than prominent

lhordspy:
How is the man prominent? Sir

Promiment can be define as important or famous.

We have never heard of his name before in the peak of things or notice his significant impact in the political terrain.

So to me i think he is closer to the word inconsequetial than prominent

lhordspy:
How is the man prominent? Sir

Promiment can be define as important or famous.

We have never heard of his name before in the peak of things or notice his significant impact in the political terrain.

So to me i think he is closer to the word inconsequetial than prominent

DesChyko:




Give me your first name let's compare for context.

DadaHammed:


E pain am. At least he is more popular than you.

Chnbanc:
why u dey talk like this nah?
Don't you know that lhordspy is a nobody. His bigotry relevance ends on nairaland.
Offline, he is just a roadside vulcanizer!!

Efuaye:
If you like Tinubu and Atiku, vote for them but if you love yourself and your children vote for Peter Obi.

Corridon:
Buhari might soon decamp to labour party.

DesChyko:


Perhaps we should check it out?

A simple Google search of just his title and first name yields his full names in many places and very very few of them is talking about him quitting PDP. That's prominent if you ask me, being the most popular person bearing that name in the whole of Nigeria.

Give me your first name let's compare for context.