The imminent election in 2023, according to Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for governor in Rivers State, will mark a turning point in Nigerian politics.
According to Abe, the general election will cause a political tsunami in the state. He made the prediction at the official opening of the SDP constituency office in the state’s Obio/Akpor local government area.
He said: “To all of us here, I will deliver one important message. I have said severally that the 2023 elections will be a watershed event in the political history of this country. Rivers state 2023 elections will be a political tsunami because they will break every known bond and barrier.
“Let me say to all of you that our votes, and our support in 2023 will enshrine justice, fairness, equity, and progress in this land. Everybody that wakes up in the morning is looking for progress. Progress is not when the state is rich, progress is when you make money for yourself; that is progress”.
The governorship candidate said gone were the days when elections were won and lost along political party lines, pointing out that many things had happened in the country that made the people learn their lessons.
Abe said: “Before Nigerians used to vote based on a political party, so this is our party we must support the party, anybody they bring they vote, but things have happened in this country that people must learn our lesson.
“Before, when we follow a party, you know what you get when you support that party. If you were in UPN and your state voted UPN, you know you will get free education. If you were in NPN, and your state voted NPN, you know you would get housing and agriculture, but after those parties left, Nigerians continued to vote party, but nobody could see what they were getting.
“Today, if you are in Akwa Ibom, you vote PDP; what you get depends on what the governor wants. If you are in Oyo, you vote PDP what you get depends on what the governor wants. If you’re in Kano and you vote APC, what you get depends on what the governor wants.
“If you are on a plateau you vote APC what you get depends on what the governor wants. Nobody checks what the party said or what the party is doing,” he maintained.
Earlier, Chikwem Orlu, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Obio/Akpor Constituency 2, assured party members and Senator Magnus Ngei Abe of the people’s commitment to voting massively in the 2023 general elections.
“Your Excellency, the people you are seeing today, are teeming project SMA supporters. My business this evening is straightforward; it’s just to tell you that the people you are visiting today have unanimously agreed that no one vote will go to another party other than SDP, on whose platform you will be the governor of Rivers state come 2023.
“Again, we want to reassure you that Obio/Akpor people, and the entire Obio/Akpor constituency 2 that I represent, will vote for you massively on Election Day.
“This office shall be called Obiri SDP Obio/Akpor constituency 2. We will continue to stand with you until our vision is achieved. The horse will take all of us to a brick house in Jesus’ name”.