The Middle Belt Forum (MBF), said, yesterday, that the North Central zone of the country is committed to supporting a president of South East extraction for the purpose of fairness, equity and justice.

This is as former President, Olusegun Obasanjo; Leader of Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo; former Ambassador, Godknows Igali eulogised ex-President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who marked his 70th birthday, yesterday.

President of MBF, Dr. Bitrus Poga, stated, at a colloquium, held as part of the 70th birthday celebration of Nwodo, that “Peter Obi will be the first democratically elected president of Nigeria from South East extraction.”

At the event attended by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Obi, he insisted that the “rest of the country should give peace a chance by voting Obi as the next president.”

Pogu, who commended Nwodo over his role in the emergence of Obi as presidential candidate from the South East, noted that, hopefully, the LP candidate remained the choice of Middle Belt and Afenifere.

He said: “We have said it again and again that in the interest of equity, fairness and justice, the president should come from the South, particularly, the South East.”

“In the middle Belt, we are with Obi for a better Nigeria.

‘When Obi emerges, Nwodo will stand by him as one of the persons who played a major role in presenting him to us.”

Earlier, at a church service held as part of the occasion, Obasanjo said that Nwodo has contributed immensely to the growth and development of his community, Enugu State and the country at large; hence, he deserved to be celebrated.

“We have come here to celebrate and make merry for what God has done for our brother. We pray that God will keep him so he can continue to make meaningful contributions to growth of the country,” Obasanjo said.

Also, the Afenifere Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, extolled the uncommon trait of Nwodo to build bridges and friendships across the country.

Adebanjo said that Nwodo had stood out for peace and equity of all parts and ethnicity of the country, adding he had done that by words and actions.

chatinent:
Human government is a failure already.

franchasng:
It is so unfortunate that some of my dear Yorubas refused to reason logically and do what is just and right.



Osinbajo a Yoruba man will be completing 8 years as VP. Obasanjo a Yoruba man completed 8 years as President in 2007 yet my Yoruba brothers refuse to let justice and equity prevail in Southern Nigeria by throwing their great support behind Peter Obi an over qualified candidate that will help turn things around for all of us, instead they are allowing Bola Tinubu to be polluting their minds with greed for power that ought to go to their Igbo neighbors.



Anyway, if man refuses to do what's just and right, God and nature will help man to uphold justice

bonnyhope:
Obi is the best among them

I urge all reasonable Nigerians

This is another chance to get it right

tamdun:
I laugh in Swahili,hope Kwara,kogi and Niger are not part of the middle belt

BOLATINUBU01:
ontop every insult u people throw at my incredible (yoruba)race,just because we support TINUBU


Una go cry tire

BOLATINUBU01:
no mind them