Hurdles Will Be Broken In 2023, Says Abe

Senator Magnus Abe, the Social Democratic Party‘s candidate for governor in Rivers State, has declared that the general election of 2023 will mark a turning point in Nigerian politics.

At the official opening of the SDP constituency office in the state’s Obio/Akpor Local Government Area monitored by BRANDNEWSDAY, Abe made the following statement: “The general election will be a political tsunami in the state, breaking every known barrier.”

“To all of us who are here, I will give one vital message,” the governorship candidate said in a statement released by his spokesman, Parry Benson.

“I have said severally that 2023 elections will be a watershed event in the political history of this country. In Rivers State, 2023 elections will be a political tsunami because it will break every known bounds and barrier.

“Let me say to all of you that our votes, our support in 2023 will enshrine justice, fairness, equity and progress in this land.

“Everybody that wakes up in the morning is looking for progress. Progress is not when the state is rich, progress is when you make money for yourself; that is progress.”

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Abe further said gone were the days when elections were won and lost along political party lines, noting that a lot of things had happened in the country and people had also learnt their lessons.

A lot had transpired in the nation, and people had also learned their lessons, Abe continued, adding that the days when elections were won and lost based on political party lines were long gone.

According to him, “Before, Nigerians used to vote on the basis of political party, so this is our party we must support the party, anybody they bring they vote, but things have happened in this country that people must learn as lessons.

“Before, when we followed a party you knew what you’d get when you supported that party. If you were in the UPN and your state voted the UPN, you knew you would get free education.

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“If you were in the NPN, and your state voted the NPN, you knew you would get housing and agriculture, but since after those parties left, Nigerians continue to vote party, but nobody could see what they were getting.

“Today if you are in Akwa Ibom, you vote the Peoples Democratic Party, what you get depends on what the governor wants. If you are in Oyo, you vote the PDP what you get depends on what the governor wants.

“If you’re in Kano and you vote All Progressives Congress, what you get depends on what the governor wants. If you are in plateau you vote the APC what you get depends on what the governor wants. Nobody checks what the party said or what the party is doing.

Prior to that, Senator Abe and party members received assurances from Chikwem Orlu, the SDP candidate for Obio/Akpor Constituency Two, that the people would support the party heavily in the general election of 2023.

“Your Excellency, the people you are seeing here today are teeming supporters of project the SMA (Senator Magnus Abe).