Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, has been urged to withdraw by a group of young people in Anambra.
The former governor of Anambra should instead team up with progressive forces in the South-east to negotiate a better political future for the Igbo people, according to the Coalition of Anambra Youth Leaders (CAYL).
Dr. Chinedu Ekwealor, the coalition’s national leader, urged Obi to withdraw from the race on Tuesday in Awka, Anambra State.
He claims that there is a real concern that Obi’s bid for the presidency will harm the cause of the Igbo people and aid the All Progressives Congress (APC) in maintaining power in 2023.
“Obi’s bid for presidency is a sabotage to Ndigbo… If Mr. Peter Obi actually cares about Ndigbo, he should resign right away and work with other well-meaning Igbo leaders to plan the future of the Igbo people, he added.
The APC experiment, according to Ekwealor, has been terrible for Nigeria and cannot be allowed to continue into 2023.
He issued a dire warning that four more years of APC control could be fatal for the nation.
Ekwealor added that the Peoples Democratic Party gives Ndigbo a better chance of retaking control of the government at the national level.
He said, “Let us not get passionate about it,” after stating that “Obi does not have a mathematical probability of making victory conceivable.” Without a strong alliance with the country’s other major regions, no Igbo man can become president of Nigeria.
In the early 1960s and the late 1970s, he claimed, “Ndigbo grasped this issue fairly plainly and maintained a healthy relationship with our northern brothers. Peter Obi, our brother, does not share this alliance and is well aware that a furious online mob will not be able to elect him president.
“Obi’s presidential campaign is sabotage to Ndigbo,” Ekwealor declared. He has only been able to increase APC’s chances of winning the election by decreasing PDP support in the southeast. The consequence is that the Southeasterners must remain in opposition for at least a further 16 years. This is so that, if Tinubu wins, power would stay in the north for a another eight years, leaving Ndigbo without it for a total of 16 years.
If Mr. Peter Obi actually cares about Ndigbo, he should resign immediately and work with other well-meaning Igbo leaders to plan the future of the Igbo people. We will say it again: “Wishful thinking and hullabaloo of an unruly mob, who possibly do not even grasp the need for a pathway for the Igbo country, are not the foundations on which the presidency is won.
