The huge support being shown to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi is creating panic in the PDP and the APC camps, 9news Nigeria has learned.

This is as the majority of the youths in the polity, in recent times have drummed support for Obi’s presidential ambition.

Ahead of the 2023 election, supporters and loyalists of Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu are worried over Obi’s rising popularity despite criticism from his contenders.

On Sunday, August 7, the camps of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and that of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are jittery over the rising popularity of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), among the youths.

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the three major political parties, APC, PDP, and LP, are currently strategising to lure youths, who constitute the larger percentage of the voting population into their fold.