Showing posts with label Peter Obi - Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Obi - Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

2023: Why Afenifere Is Supporting Peter Obi

 By Chief Ayo Adebanjo

Before the political parties conducted their primaries, a journalist asked what is my view about the 2023 general election? I answered and said the country should be restructured before the general election, and he followed up by asking if there should be an election, which zone should the presidency come from? And I unhesitatingly said, of course, the South-East.

*Chief Adebanjo

After the primaries and the candidates emerged with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from the South-West, APC; Atiku Abubakar on the platform of PDP; and Peter Obi on the platform of Labour Party and I announced Afenifere’s support for Peter Obi, not a few Yoruba leaders question why I should be supporting Peter Obi a candidate of Igbo extraction against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Yoruba.

I took my time to explain that the presidency is not a contest between the Yorubas and the Igbos, and to a large extent I was able to convince many.