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Donation portals to be set up for Peter Obi campaign– Pat Utomi
A chieftain of the Labour Party, Pat Utomi, has said Peter Obi’s presidential campaign team will set up donation portals which will be made public by next week.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, Utomi said: “It is those young people who will give from their allowances, what they earn working here; $10 but these portals are not up yet but they will be up next week or so and eventually we are going to be able to access resources from the diaspora.”
Obi, the 61-year-old former Anambra State governor running for President on the platform of the Labour party, has been on a tour abroad for days, meeting diaspora Nigerians.
On Obi’s diaspora consultations, Utomi, a former presidential candidate and the founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership said, “It will be totally unthoughtful if we don’t engage Nigerians in the diaspora because that relief for Nigeria will come from them; it is a clear way of implementing strategy. You underestimate what the diaspora can do.
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“Nigeria is actually on a life support system held up by the diaspora. So, if we get this diaspora – all these people sending money for burial, for basic survival, eating, everything, it’s going to free us from this pressure by making the country work.”
Utomi, who described the ‘Obidient Movement’ as a revolution for the liberation of the black man, said young people will give up their allowances to support Obi’s presidential ambition.
He said, “When the time is right, the diaspora will give money; they have always given money to campaigns. I ran for president before and I got support from the diaspora in 2006 and 2007 and when I ran in 2011.
“When the time is right, we are going to obviously solicit from Nigerians across the board. We are setting up portals where people can give money…But right now, we are on a sensitisation tour about what makes democracy work. Right now, Nigeria’s democracy is not working because of the transaction costs that are involved; the trade-off that has to be made.”
