The Daily Crucible | Monday, September 26, 2022
Spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign council, Senator Dino Melaye, on Monday asserted that hiring a crowd in Nigeria is easy, provided one is willing to bring out money from one's pocket, alluding that the Labour Party (LP) hired a crowd for its latest rally on Saturday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Obi - dients; supporters of the LP and Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, have held several rallies in major cities and state capitals in the last couple of months to drum support for Obi and his party ahead of the February 25, 2023 presidential election.
The rally was also meant to prove a point to some Nigerians holding the opinion that Peter Obi does not have physical structure on ground outside his social media presence.
The latest rally in Abuja on Saturday had supporters including a newly wedded coupled marching from the Unity Fountain to Moshood Abiola National Stadium.
Videos and pictures from the rally also showed a teeming crowd that fanned out across Abuja streets in LP emblems, insignia and placards but reacting to the movement while appearing on Arise News TV on Monday, Melaye dismissed it as a money matter.
“To assemble a crowd is just to bring out money,” he said.
The former Kogi West Senator also claimed he he knew people who attended the LP rally “saying we have to go and collect our own.”
“They are just two sets of people running this election. Atiku and others including the APC, LP, SDP, NNPP all of them are others in this regard,” the former Kogi senator said.
“And I want to tell you that to assemble a crowd is just to bring out money. Mobilisation is very cheap in this country. People are hungry. If you go to Nyanya, Mararaba people were being loaded in buses from Lugbe and every part of the country to stand and say they’re supporting…. Peter Obi was in Osun. He spoke in Osun, and we saw the result of the Labour Party in Osun just 2700 votes while PDP was counting four hundred and something thousand votes…so it’s not about the commercial mobilisation of the people.
“Nigerians are hungry. If you go to Mararaba today to say you need 5000 people with the blow of a whistle, they’ll assemble and collect their N1000 or N2000. It is not the match on the streets that will determine the votes. We’re talking of proper votes and Nigerians know that Atiku is speaking to the issues. We’re not on hype movements. I know a number of people who went for the Abuja rally and are saying we have to go and collect our own.”
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