Prof. Pat Utomi, the Convener, The Big Tent of the Third Force, says the coalition and the Labour Party (LP) plan to deploy at least 15 agents each to polling booths in the country to help safeguard votes in 2023 general elections.

Utomi, the Chairman, National Consultative Front (NCFront) and a leader in the Labour Party, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos on Election Agenda.

According to him, the coalition has worked and made much sacrifice to get Nigeria to move from state capture by aging oligarchs and to make the nation overcome its numerous security and economic challenges.

“The broad coalition of women, youth, professionals and the intellectuals which has adopted the leadership of the Labour Party and Peter Obi is serving notice that in addition to its agents which will number up to 15 in each polling booth in the country, it will use technology to guard the votes of Nigerians in 2023."

He said the organization would in the next week, unveil the details of Mass Polling Booth education programmes and the retreat for the gubernatorial candidates and ideology workshops for all Third Force candidates.

The convener, who expressed delight that Nigerians’ political awareness had continued to rise, said “People have awoken. They want to take back their country”.

He said that the coalition and LP were planning to counter all electoral manipulations and violence in 2023 that could throw up bad leaders.

“The last frontier before liberation for the people is in checkmating the traditional ways and means by which they thwart the will of the people.

“These include Election fraud or rigging, vote buying, manipulating of electronic voting, equipment and voter intimidation, as well as abuse of emotions around ethnicity, religion and region,” Utomi added.

According to him, the coalition will inaugurate Big Tent Think Tank to harmonise the original manifesto of the Labour Movement with the production focused philosophy of its Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi.

He said this would include the production and value chain-based ideas of a competitive economy, based on the latent comparative advantage of the different parts of Nigeria aimed at sustainable manufacturing espoused for years.

Utomi said contrary to claims about the governance capacity, structure, and manifesto of the Big Tent of the Third Force (which has the Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Obi as arrow head of a collegial leadership initiative), the coalition was ready to provide needed leadership.

According to him, leadership has networks reaching down to every polling booth through the 36 political commissions of both the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress.

Utomi said the structure of the Big Tent had been deepened by the passion with which the people, young and old were motivated to buy into the reform pointed to by Mr Peter Obi.

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

rayvelez:

That’s your own opinion but we won’t mind if you volunteer.

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

Truthisunique2:
It's like they have been reading my criticism

Na this one be part of the structure been talked about

But the truth is labour Party don't have the structure to cough out even 1 agent in every polling unit

rayvelez:

That’s your own opinion but we won’t mind if you volunteer.

PaChukwudi44:

The NLC does not have structure? Besides both the LP presidential and vice presidential candidates are both billionaires in their own rights and must be ready to spend some money

eunisam:
I'm ready to be a volunteer, if you are ready gather here and use the like button.

Pandev:
like seriously?

Truthisunique2:
good to see you are seeing reality

Obi and his VP won't spend, how much can dey even spend

These polling units are controlled by wards that play local family politics, wrapper, salt, rice, etc have been used by the state governor's to entice them for years

Am talking politics in the rural setting, unless it's the north where they would eat your money and the ward leaders of apc would still connive with PDP for overall northern interest

Truthisunique2:
no be online Dem dey go agent

Where you dey when labour was finding agent for Ekiti election and couldn't see

Osun election dey come, you go still see say no agent

alsudan:


That’s Pandev with a DI.CK on his bald head, guess won’t be wrong if I called Pandev a DI.CK HEAD.

PaChukwudi44:

Peter Obi did not contest the Ekiti elections.btw what happened to PDP and it's so-called structures in Ekiti

PaChukwudi44:

Oga that won't be possible in the 2023 elections.

Peter Obi does not even need to spend much.People are already spending their own monies to campaign for him.

Furthermore Peter Obi is worth tens of billions of naira and has the warchest to get agents across the wards.Thankfully the NLC are already doing that.He also does not need to win the NE and NW to win.All he needs is 25%

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

Truthisunique2:
It's like they have been reading my criticism

Na this one be part of the structure been talked about

But the truth is labour Party don't have the structure to cough out even 1 agent in every polling unit

Rural areas in southern Nigeria, the core north these are areas with little obi social media fever

They constitute the major voting areas

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

OfoIgbo:


But the NLC, TUC and the Tent of the Third force have the number to have 12 agents in each polling unit.

This is a real game changer.

Prof. Pat Utomi doesn't make frivolous statements

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

MrPolitics:
There are over 120,000 polling units in Nigeria.
I’m sorry but Labour Party doesn’t have the number to have agents in each polling unit

Truthisunique2:
no be online Dem dey go agent

Where you dey when labour was finding agent for Ekiti election and couldn't see

Osun election dey come, you go still see say no agent

Vistra40:


Oga support your atiku and leave online people na! As amaechi lost primaries, you would rather have the north retain the presidency than for any of the south outside SS