Politics
Obi campaigns in Sokoto and recalls his initial meeting with the sultan
After landing at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport with his running companion, Datti Baba-Ahmed, the former governor made his first stop at the palace.
Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, remembered his first meeting with Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, on Wednesday.
Speaking to the Sultan in his palace in Sokoto State, Obi said that based on their first encounter 40 years prior, he could vouch for the religious leader’s lineage.
The LP candidate claims that the meeting took place when the Sultan was a young military officer stationed in Enugu State and he was a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).
Obi and his running companion Datti Baba-Ahmed arrived at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport together, and their first stop was the palace.
In addition to Julius Abure, national chairman of the Labour Party, party leaders Prof. Pat Utomi, Sen. Nenadi Usman, Aisha Yesufu, and Valentine Ozigbo were with him.
By involving the enormous number of young people without jobs in the North in contemporary mechanised farming on the great amount of arable land, the former governor of Anambra State vowed to end widespread poverty.
He continued by saying that the vast fields may produce more resources for the nation than oil.