Peter Obi suspends campaign over flood, sympathises with victims, calls on Atiku, Tinubu to do same

Peter Obi/Datti Baba-Ahmed Campaign Organization has been asked to stop all activities indefinitely until a solutions is found on the ongoing flood displacing people and communities in some States in Nigeria.

Peter Obi the Presidential candidate of Labour Party LP make the announcement when he paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom on Wednesday.

Obi’s decision came at a time when flood ravaged states in the country. He advised other presidential candidates, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC and others to come together and sympathize with victims.

His words: “As you can see today, flood is ravaging the entire country. And people are dying. People are being displaced. I personally stopped and told my people no more campaign, until we are able to visit some of the sites, at least sympathize with those going through problems.

“I came to take permission and ask him (Ortom) that I want to visit some of the sites in Benue as I am going to do in one or two other states.

“I am also calling on other presidential candidates to stop campaigning and see what we can do. If we can buy our forms for millions of naira, we should have some little thing to go now that people are suffering and say, at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue”.

At the time of filling this report, Atiku, Tinubu, Kwankwaso and others were yet to react on the Labour Party LP Presidential candidate appeal

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