{"id":99911,"date":"2022-10-03T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99911"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:09:29","slug":"labour-party-rallies-starting-first-doesnt-mean-victory-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/labour-party-rallies-starting-first-doesnt-mean-victory-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party rallies: Starting first doesn\u2019t mean victory \u2013 Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi has said that the Labour Party\u2019s early superb rallies that began on October 1 across the country cannot necessarily guarantee victory for its standard bearer, Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant said his party will soon commence its rallies and mobilisation nationwide.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor, who is the South-East Chairman of the APC presidential campaign, said there are still many months for campaigns before the presidential election and there is no cause for panic about the deferred inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi said this on Monday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said this in his reaction to questions on the massive rallies of Obi\u2019s supporters popularly known as \u2018Obidients.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Umahi said, \u201cWe have many months to elections and we have many months to campaign. The first to start does not translate to the first to finish. So, the APC is a bank and they are coming up with programmes. It will soon happen.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on what he meant by that APC is a bank, the governor clarified that the ruling party is a bank \u201cin terms of mass mobilisation, in terms of acceptability.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">APC had published a 422-man Presidential Campaign Council list and slated inauguration for September 28 but postponed it indefinitely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi has said that the Labour Party\u2019s early superb rallies that began on October 1 across the country cannot necessarily guarantee victory for its standard bearer,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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