The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF) has endorsed the candidacy of former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, tagging him as the true unifier.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the leaders of the South East geopolitical zone declared this on Friday, November 4, 2022.
According to the IECF, the Labour Party presidential candidate is the only one who lacks tribal sentiment among his opponents.
The IECF leaders, who also identify as Ime-Obi Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stated that they chose to support the former governor because he is God’s anointed one.
According to WITHIN NIGERIA, the chairman of IECF and former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, stated these in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
According to him, with Obi as Nigeria’s president, other agitations by various groups in the country will come to an end, and no one will be treated as second-class citizens any longer.
Ezeife said;
We, before now, agreed in the Southern and Middle Belt Forum to call all the candidates from the South-East, interview them and adopt one person. But that has been overtaken by events. If you look at the candidates from A to Z, you find out that one from the South-East is everybody’s candidate.
He is the true unifier in Nigeria because he will banish poverty, insecurity, and all the negatives associated with Nigeria. That person is Peter Obi, and he is the person whom all of us will support.
According to him, the South-East elders were the ones who prevailed on Obi to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in May so he could contest the presidential election.
The IECF leader added:
If you look at the records, you’ll find out that the elders in Abuja really worked hard to get him out as a candidate. We forced him to get out of the PDP so that he could be a candidate for president. So the question of even adopting him doesn’t arise as he is our trusted, God’s anointed candidate to remake and recreate Nigeria. He will make everybody happy.
Obi will make Fulani belong to Nigeria and have a say. He will ensure Yoruba don’t want to go and will also make Igbo and all groups stay in Nigeria and have the country restructured to work.
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