Utomi, Iyere, others launch FUND40MB to Support Peter Obi

Support for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi got another boost on Monday when a non-governmental organization, 40Million Ballots Movement launched a pro-Peter Obi political donor-fundraising campaign tagged FUND40MB.

The FUND40MB, which is a PAC-driven global fundraising initiative anchored by the 40Million Ballots Movement (40MB). FUND40MB was aimed to globally generate and mobilize the sufficient funds needed to finance the grassroots recruitment and mobilization of forty million youth and women voters for the support of Peter Obi, ahead of Nigeria’s forthcoming 2023 presidential election.

While conducting the public unveiling of FUND40MB, Prof Pat Utomi affirmed that the desire to create a new Nigeria which will work for every citizen was the reason himself and other patriotic Nigerians were compelled to create an alternative political platform called the “third force”, whose core mandate is to drift Nigeria away from the old political order by wrestling power from the PDP and APC in 2023.

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Utomi, who is the founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, said the old political order cannot be replaced unless money politics is first eradicated by citizens by directly taking upon themselves the responsibility of financing elections and democratic processes.

Comrade Kennedy Iyere, who is the convener of the 40Million Ballots Movement and the Chief Fundraiser of FUND40MB boldly stated that the 40Million Ballots Movement (40MB) is not like most other Support Groups of Peter Obi.

According to Comrade Iyere, the 40Million Ballots Movement (40MB) was created long before Peter Obi ever thought of contesting for the presidential seat.

“We would like to state at this point that the 40Milliom Ballots Movement was formed long before Peter Obi joined the 2023 Presidential Race, 40Million Ballots Movement was created through the strategic collaborations of key NGOs, CSOs and major Ethnic Nationalities in the country.

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“As it stands today, Peter Obi is the Chief Beneficiary of the pro-Igbo presidential power-shift activism anchored by the 40Million Ballots Movement. Hence the reason he has been adopted as our consensus candidate”.

Dr Tanko Yunusa, in his submission, who is the Chief Spokesperson to Peter Obi and the Obi-Datta Presidential Campaign Organization applauded  Comrade Kennedy Iyere and the 40Million Ballots Movement for launching the FUND40MB Global Fundraising Campaign.

Other Key speakers at the unveiling ceremony of the FUND40MB Fundraising Campaign include Funke Awolowo, first Grand Daughter of the late Sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Barrister Godwin Nwobodo, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Barrister Christian Wogu, a frontline Lawyer and Development Expert and Several Nigerian Professionals across the Diaspora.