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From David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi
Medical Doctors in the South East and Anambra State in particular have risen in their numbers to drum support for the presidential ambition of Mr Peter Obi, a candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for 2023.
The medical practitioners under the auspices of Doctors for Peter Obi Movement took up environmental sanitation of Nnewi streets Saturday which the group said significantly meant to politically and spiritually clean the mess in Nigeria.
Leader of the support group, Dr Henry Eze who doubles as the Anambra State and South East coordinator disclosed that there had been massive mobilization by his members across Anambra and other States in the zone.
“We have been mobilizing support for Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. Nigeria has suffered enough decadence over the years in every sphere of life. We want a change.
“Nigeria has experienced huge destructions of lives and property, naira devaluation with their negative consequences. The country is at the brink of total collapse. So, everybody should be ‘Obidient’ to reclaim our country Nigeria.
“This is the time to act, this is the time to do the right thing to bring good governance to this nation.
“This cleanup exercise going on in Nnewi now and other parts of Anambra State is also going on simultaneously in other parts of the South East all for Peter Obi.
“Obi must be elected president, we are strategizing by every legitimate means to ensure he is elected, ” he vowed.
Dr Eze disclosed that his group had mobilized one million march in different parts of the country, saying that the group never gave “shishi” to anybody for support. We organized this cleanup exercise by our personal effort.
He explained that the group financed the movement by itself because of the interest it had in Peter Obi to become president.
On why Obi is preferred to other candidates, Dr Eze noted that Obi as a Governor of Anambra was the first to commence sub-sovereign wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa.
He said for the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State.
According to him, development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union, among others which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State, adding that Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best States in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.
Dr Eze noted that Obi was recognised as the best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.
“The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted State in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable State in the country.
“The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners, Churches on January 1 2009, and subsequent partnership with the agencies in education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.
“The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by voluntary agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support, ” he articulated.
