Nasarawa is larger than Israel as a country, and wondered why the state cannot provide its own food as well as support the country in making agricultural produce available in commercial quantity
By Moses Okorie
365Daily – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has promised that his government, if elected in 2023, would revamp agriculture in Nasarawa State through provision of fertilizers, other farming inputs, as well as providing a secured atmosphere for farmers to return to their business.
Obi said this when the Presidential Campaign Council of his party officially flagged-off its campaign on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Lafia, the state capital.
Peter Obi said he has great plans for the people of Nasarawa State and Nigerian in general in making sure there is food sufficiency in the country.
He said Nasarawa is larger than Israel as a country, and wondered why the state cannot provide its own food as well as support the country in making agricultural produce available in commercial quantity.
The Labour Party candidate said he would return the state from consumption to production as soon as he comes to office in 2023.
Recall that Obi suspended his presidential campaign to visit flood victims some states affected by the ravaging flood.
The Director General of the National Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, had earlier stated in a statement, that the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, will begin presidential campaign in Nasarawa State ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Okupe said the resounding presence of supporters of Obi and his running mate, Yusuff Datti, in Nasarawa and other states in the North would send a strong signal concerning the strength of the party across the country.
According to the DG, the Obidient Movement is total and all-embracing and had announced their entry into the political space in June when Obi and Datti emerged as presidential candidates of the LP.
Speaking on the Obidient Movement, he said the movement “is total and all-embracing and had announced their entry into the political space since June when Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad emerged as the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the LP.”
Okupe noted that the rallies held by the Obidient movement across the country since June 2022 showed the resolve of citizens to reclaim their country. He stressed that the party and its campaign council would continue to give the youths a voice in the country.