The group suggested that it would be needless and counterproductive for residents of the South-east to continue their agitation against perceived marginalisation of the region and work against the LP candidate ahead of the general elections.

By Chinagorom Ugwu


The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has endorsed the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the 25 February general elections.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Chiedozie Ogbonnia, on Tuesday, Ohanaeze said, apart from them, other regional socio-political groups also endorsed Mr Obi during their gathering at Wells Carlton Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja on Thursday.

The other groups which endorsed LP candidate during the gathering, according to the statement, included the Middle Belt Forum led by its president, Bitrus Porgu, the Pan Niger Delta Forum led by Edwin Clarke, the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, led by Ayo Adebanjo.

Ohanaeze said the groups separately acknowledged that Mr Obi has the needed capacity and competence to rescue Nigeria from its current woes and urged Nigerians to recognise and seize the rare opportunity which the LP candidate has provided.

“In unison, all acknowledged that Obi is the best thing God has done for Nigeria in this century; a game changer, soldier of morals, democracy archetype, the popular sentiment of Nigerian youths, an abundance philosopher, prudent resource manager, ethnic barrier-breaker and a quintessential audacious Igbo icon,” the group said.

It urged Igbos to remember that “politics is not always the art of the possible, but most times the art of choosing between the reasonable alternatives.”

The group suggested that it would be needless and counterproductive for residents of the South-east to continue their agitation against perceived marginalisation of the region and work against the LP candidate ahead of the general elections.

“Now that Nigerians are moving from a winter of despair to a summer of hope, through our son, Mr Peter Obi, is it sensible that agitations based on marginalisation and other forms of relative deprivations should continue?

“Is it sensible to turn the barrel of the gun inwards? And is it sensible for any noble Igbo son and daughter to embark on self-destruction such as the sit-at-home syndrome, destruction of public utilities, among others,” Ohanaeze stated.


2023: ‘It’s South-east’s turn’

Ohanaeze said although the group does not “wax eloquent on partisan politics,” it maintains the earlier stand that it is the turn of the South-east to produce a Nigerian president in 2023.

“It is to this end, that Ohanaeze insists that going by the political culture of sharing, zoning and rotation of power which have been in existence since the Nigeria came into existence, it is the turn of the South-east to produce a president for Nigeria in 2023,” the group said, insisting that the position is irrevocable.


‘PDP, APC machinations’

There have been calls from South-east leaders that the region should be allowed to produce a president for the first time in 2023.

But the ruling All Progressives Congress and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the two dominant political parties in Nigeria, picked their candidates outside the region during their separate presidential primaries in May.

The two parties subsequently ignored the region in the selection of their vice-presidential candidates.

Ohanaeze criticised what it termed “machinations” by the political parties against the South-east’s chances of producing a president in 2023.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo watched with keen interest, sadness and reproach the bourgeois cash and carry politics, conspiracy, cold intrigues, betrayals, hypocrisy, opportunism and other forms of machinations within the mainstream political parties, against the South-east, even from the least expected,” it said.


‘Obi’s formidable structure’

Mr Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, was among the presidential aspirants in the PDP in 2022.

He left the party a few days to the PDP primary saying there were practices in the party inconsistent with his “persona and beliefs.” He later joined the LP.

Since his emergence as the LP candidate ahead of the 2023 general election and subsequent picking of Yusuf Ahmed-Datti as running mate, there has been growing support for his candidacy mainly in the South-east and South-south regions of the country.

However, his opponents have repeatedly claimed the LP candidate would not win the 25 February poll because of his lack of political structure.

But Ohanaeze dismissed the “lack of structure” comment, saying the growing support for Mr Obi and his running mate, Mr Ahmed-Datti, has developed into the needed political structure for electoral victory.

“Students of political history will readily recall that it is the ideas from gifted men that develop concentrically into ideology, movements, revolutions and finally to a political structure. And today, the Obi-Datti movement has become an enviable irreversible, irrepressible and formidable structure in Nigeria,” Ohanaeze said.

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Nlfpmod

It is expected, let Arewa consultative forum endorse Atiku , you will Peter Obi miscreants insulting and vilifying them, Adebanjo/Afenifere endorse Peter Obi, there was no issue until elder statesman, Pa fasoranti endorse Tinubu, there was crying and bickering everywhere, no one can bully or blackmail Nigerians to support Peter Obi

Northern elders forum, southern and middle belt forum, Afenifere, Niger delta forum and Ohaneze endorsed Obi. Only MC Oluomo , Kunle Poly, Asari and Tony Kabaka and fake bishops endorsed Thiefnubbu. Sane Nigerians should now decide who the cap fit best.

Lol, this must be LP ohaneze..

APC ohaneze has endorse Tinubu and given him title, same as the PDP to Atiku n
. Na after elections we go know the real deal.

Same as Mb leaders, afenifere, Nef., all parties just dey create their own faction.

Obi will drop out of the race latest February 14

Atiku is coming

igbotormentor:
It is expected, let Arewa consultative forum endorse Atiku , you will Peter Obi miscreants insulting and vilifying them, Adebanjo/Afenifere endorse Peter Obi, there was no issue until elder statesman, Pa fasoranti endorse Tinubu, there was crying and bickering everywhere, no one can bully or blackmail Nigerians to support Peter Obi

Imagine who's talking?

All those structureless endorsement for the structureless candidate will definitely ends up in premium tears & advance wailing after the fall.

Malory:
Imagine who's talking?

I didn't ask you to show me your father

igbotormentor:
I didn't ask you to show me your father

You mean your father below

It is settled

igbotormentor:
So you have numerous of your father's pictures, no wonder you become unconsolable and deviant

This one can't stop crying after seeing his father's pictures

We yoruba Christians will never vote Tinubu on Muslim-Muslim ticket because we are not fools. When MURIC terrorists told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christians, they all agree.

Christians are not minorities, slaves, or second class citizens in Nigeria. Mu-Mu ticket is a big insult to we Yoruba Christians and we shall punish Tinubu for that before Satan will also purnish him.

"We cannot appoint Pablo Escobar as president and Osama bin Laden as vice president," -- Senator Dino Melaye.

Malory:
This one can't stop crying after seeing his father's pictures

Your father's pictures of disappointment are unnumbered in your gallery, your mother really ruined him, you are a replica of your mother's numerous downsides.

Islie:

The group suggested that it would be needless and counterproductive for residents of the South-east to continue their agitation against perceived marginalisation of the region and work against the LP candidate ahead of the general elections.



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Nlfpmod

Stale and boring news. They do not have the numbers to deliver the votes so they can keep collecting his money.

igbotormentor:
Your father's pictures of disappointment are unnumbered in your gallery, your mother really ruined him, you are a replica of your mother's numerous downsides.

Your tears de sweet my belle

FreeStuffsNG:

Stale and boring news. They do not have the numbers to deliver the votes so they can keep collecting his money.

Stale.

Malory:
Your tears de sweet my belle

You are mistaking people for your mother

igbotormentor:
You are mistaking people for your mother

You mean am

A good product deserves good patronage. Obi is a good product and am patronising him with my PVC