More than 38,000 medical doctors and other health workers have pledged to supports the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the 2023 elections.
They said they would also mobilise 25 million votes for Obi through free nationwide medical outreach programmes at the grassroots level under the aegis of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi.
Also, the National Woman Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Ada Orji Nwanyanwu, has dumped the party, leading other women politicians across the country to join the Obidient Movement.
At the presentation of working tools by three support groups to the Labour Party’s campaign council at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, the convener of Docs and Medics for Peter Obi, Dr Uche Uzoukwu 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 and encourage them to get in touch with 50 people as the attend to patients. With this, we can have 25 million votes.
“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 for Peter Obi with a promise that the exercise will continue once the Labour Party wins.”
Uzoukwu decried the poor state of the nation’s health sector, saying that the former governor of Anambra State governor has what it takes to tackle brain drain.
She reiterated that doctors and the medics would stay behind after the 2023 elections to develop the sector.
Speaking earlier, the National Chairman of Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure, said the country has never experienced democracy since 1999, but will however begin on its course come 2023 when the former Anambra governor is voted in as president.
Abure added that the ruling All Peoples Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party were never owned by the people but by those who funded it, and therefore play the politics of ‘he who blows the piper, dictates the tune of the music.’