Presidency 2023: Atiku, Obi, Tinubu supporters battle for popularity in U.S., ready to come home to vote

Nigeria’s 62^nd independence anniversary  was converted to a battle for popularity by diaspora supporters of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, in the United States (US) for the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria.

Various support groups of the three candidates,  Atiku Abubakar, Obi and Tinubu were said to have gathered at the Nigeria Independence Day Parade and Carnival in New York to  mobilise support for their respective candidates.

The various support groups participated  in the Nigeria Independence Day Parade and Carnival, as DJs provided them music, while the supporters dance to the candidates’ campaign lyrics and displaying Nigerian flag,

The supporters were said to have subsequently  regrouped at the Dag Hammarksjold Park where they continued singing and dancing to mobilise support of Nigerians in the US for their candidates. Some of the supporters declared that they would come to Nigeria during the elections to vote.

One of the supporters was gathered to have said that many Nigerians in the diaspora would be voting during the 2023 general  elections in Nigeria, stating: “because I will be in Nigeria for the election, I’m that determined. Many of us are going to buy our tickets”.

He added: “one of the things Save for Nigeria Group is doing is to ask Nigerians, ‘instead of going for Christmas, go in January or February and vote.

“We are also asking people to support grassroot movements in Nigeria. Support, them through your finances if you can. Also call your family members that call you for money.

“Ask them, ‘do you have your PVC’? ‘No PVC, no dollars. That’s what we are doing.”