Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has advised the leadership of the Labour Party against visiting old politicians who destroyed the country.
You Can’t Change Nigeria By Visiting Destroyers Of Nigeria, Femi Falana Tells Peter Obi, Labour Party
Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has advised the leadership of the Labour Party against visiting old politicians who destroyed the country.
Falana disclosed this while speaking at Labour Party's national retreat on Monday.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is backing Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the LP for the Presidency in the 2023 election.
Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed in July visited Obasanjo at his residence for consultation.
The former president in August also met with Obi and Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state in London.
In July, the LP presidential candidate also visited former military dictator, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, in Minna.
Speaking at the conference, Falana told Obi and the party’s leadership to change strategies ahead of the 2023 polls.
The senior lawyer urged them to go into the streets where they can mobilise Nigerians in their numbers.
“Let me challenge the leaders of the Labour Party, I beg you, you aren't going to get power in Nigeria by adopting the methods of the bourgeois. If you want to mobilise the Nigerian people, you must go beyond visiting those who destroyed Nigeria,” Falana said.
"From today, your candidates must go to the offices of all the trade unions in Nigeria, the offices of women's organisations, and youth organisations because the people you are competing with have acquired, albeit illegally, unbelievable sums of money.
"And what do they want to do, they bribe voters because they have weaponised poverty, therefore, you cannot operate on the same terrain."
The senior lawyer added, “The presidents of NLC (Nigeria Labour Congress) and TUC (Trade Union Congress) have said before, that you have the largest structures in Nigeria.
"Please go out from today to revitalise those structures, so that these guys can know that it can never be business as usual in Nigeria again.
"Time is on our side, oh yes! Because Nigerians have lost faith in them, they are now running from pillar to post.
"When they say you have no structure, tell them the people are the structures of power, the people are the centre of power. Power is lying on the streets in Nigeria once again."