 The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obey, has said that the federal government can meet the demands of the academic staff union of universities with the income it generates from the sale of crude oil in just one month, but the government of the day does not have the political will to solve the problem, albeit from a governor of Annambra State, stated this while speaking at the national retreat of the party in Abuja. Speaking also at the Labour Party event, the national president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Ayubah Waba, said that the union, its affiliates and political commissions across the 774 words in Nigeria, will mobilise its members at the grassroots to achieve victory for Obey in next year's presidential elections.