A South-East group, Igbo Think Thank, has urged the five aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to adopt the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the 2023 election.
The Chairman of the group’s Board of Trustees, Prof. Madubuike Ezeibe, gave the advice during the fourth edition of the Igbo International Christmas Retreat organized by the Igbo Think Tank and Nzuko Ndigbo, in Umuahia, Abia State.
While giving the advice, he appealed to Nigerians to support South East in its bid to produce the country’s president next year.
The governors, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, have not participated in the PDP preparations for the election since September to push further their demand for the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
Efforts to solve the problem have not achieved the desired results with the election just two months away.
Ezeibe said: “We are Igbo and have to promote our own. Think of age, and mental capability, he is not comparable with others.
“We are insisting that Nigeria should support a president of South-East extraction.
“In 1999, the current political dispensation started with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, then we went to North with former President Musa Yar’Adua, unfortunately, he died and former President Goodluck Jonathan completed his tenure and power went back to North again for them to complete their turn.
“We are saying that the Igbos should be supported to produce a president. I’m advising the G5 governors to adopt Obi because he was formerly of the PDP. If the G5 adopts him and PDP National Assembly members accept to work with him if he wins the election, that means the G5 has won because they will succeed in bringing the presidency to the South while the chairmanship of the party can remain in the North. That’s a clever way of getting what they want.”
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