Former VC endorses LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi

Prof. James Epoke the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar has been appointed a member of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC confirming his endorsement of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate and former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi.

He spoke to journalists in Calabar over the weekend, where he explained that the appalling Socio-Political situation in the country is what gingered him to join the Labour Party as a conduit to reverse the abnormality.

The academician and administrator who was appointed an electoral umpire by INEC during the 2015 general elections said Nigeria cannot continue to wallow in mindless corruption, poor administration, insecurity of lives and properties and consumption economy hence he took time to study the Nigeria situation and found the candidacy of Mr. Peter Obi on the platform of the Labour Party suitable to.

Though he used to be an electoral umpire but decided to come out fully to contribute to national development and lamented that there has been terrible corruption in the country, avowed that with Peter Obi as President, he will tackle the vice headlong, restore and reshape the economic fortunes of the nation and urged Nigerians not to miss this opportunity of righting the wrong for posterity.

By: Archibong Emmanuel
(Snr. Reporter)