2023: ‘South West, South South Governors Are Supporting Peter Obi’

The apex Igbo social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has claimed that governors of the South West and South-South zones are planning to support the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.

According to the spokesman of the organisation, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, the governors of the two regions are already offering the expected corporation to endorse Obi.

In an interview with Leadership in Enugu on Monday, Ogbonnia said the governors are not expected to come out openly to support Obi because of the parties’ affiliation.

Ogbonnia noted that governors of some of the states he visited in the zones came out and received him irrespective of party affiliations

He pointed out that the governors are in line with their earlier appeal to Igbos and Nigerians, in general, to support Obi in his desire to be president of Nigeria

He said: “We earlier advised everybody to support Peter Obi and some of the governors are cooperating with him as some of them even received him when he went for the campaign.”

Ogbonnia maintained that the governors are not averse to the candidate of the former Anambra governor, adding that the governors are already giving Obi what Ohanaeze expected from them.

He insisted that there is no reason why Obi will not win the presidential election, adding that all the indices for victory are in his favour.

The Ohanaeze spokesman noted that Obi’s acceptability to the international community, the youths, and his ideas were among the indices in his favour.