2023: Wike Gets Marching Order On Peter Obi’s Candidacy

By Akinwale Kasali

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has been given a marching order on the Presidential aspiration of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi.

A Rivers State based Group,  Non-indigenes Association, has urged him to back the  LP  candidate to win the presidential election in 2023.

The call by the Group is coming on the heels of a meeting held in London between Wike, his Camp, and Obi, who was accompanied to the meeting by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Wike also held  meetings with the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Felix Ogbegbor, Chairman of the Association, made this call during a media briefing in Port Harcourt.

Ogbegbor said Wike should not make the mistake of supporting Atiku or Tinubu as, according to him, they have nothing to offer the country.

The Group explained that as Governor of Anambra State, Obi performed well and left a clean record, pointing out that he has a better agenda to reposition the country.

Ogbegbor, noted that among the three candidates fielded by the APC, PDP, and LP,  Peter Obi stands out and is most preferred because of his record of performance and integrity, hence their call on Wike to support him.

He said Nigeria currently doesn’t need a leader above 70 years old, saying Tinubu and Atiku cannot lead the nation out of its current economic and security challenges.

“I think Peter Obi is the best person that Wike should support. Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu don’t have anything to offer.

“If Atiku and Tinubu cannot step down, Wike should support Peter Obi. We don’t need an elderly person in that office again. The others are above 70 and we don’t need people now.

“If Wike supports Obi, we will be right behind him,” he said, saying the association comprising non+indigenes across the country has passed a conference vote on Governor Wike.

He said the association would only support and work for candidates backed by Wike, adding that the Governor has demonstrated competence in leadership.

“Governor of Rivers State is a pride of the people. Wike has all it takes to be Nigeria’s president. We are here to support a young man who knows what it takes to please his people.

“Wike for the past seven years we have not seen the kind of development he is driving before. He always attracts good things to Rivers State.

“That is why we have decided to follow him. Whatever he (Wike) says we should do that is what we will do.

“What person he wants to vote we will. Anywhere he goes we will go,” the association’s chairman said.

Incidentally, in Edo State, thousands of OBIdients, as Obi’s supporters are known, during their march a couple of days ago, called on Wike to back Obi.