Abia Governorship: Obi Has No Agreement With Governor Ikpeazu

By Charles Igbo

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has no agreement whatsoever to support Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s handpicked Candidate for the Governorship Election scheduled for March 18, 2023.

In the wake of the trouncing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-east at the Presidential election of 25th February, 2023, reports emerged that in Abia, Obi had an agreement with Governor Ikpeazu to support him at the Presidential Polls while Obi would reciprocate by supporting the PDP Governorship Candidate. If that is true, it means that Obi would abandon the LP Candidate, Alex Otti, in support of Okey Ahiwe of the PDP.

But not true, said Otti, who emphasised that there was no such agreement between  Ikpeazu and Obi. Otti described Obi as a man of honour who would never enter into such an agreement with anybody.

He went on to mock Ikpeazu for his electoral woes, and asked him how he could claim that he delivered Obi in Abia when he was not capable of delivering himself in his Senatorial Zone.

Ikpeazu had aspired to be a Senator, but he failed woefully at the Polls, and took a distant third position  behind the Candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and that of the LP.

Otti who spoke on Arise Television, Friday morning, warned those carrying and spreading such tales to desist from such as Obi was already set to come to Abia to lead his (Otti’s) Governorship rally.

Otti: “I know for a certainty that there was no such agreement, and I know Peter  Obi very well. I have known him for decades, and I know him as a man of honour and he cannot enter into a fraudulent agreement.

“Let’s assume, without conceding that there was such an agreement with Okezie Ikpeazu, the question to ask is: how well did he implement the agreement because for you to deliver somebody, you must deliver  yourself first. And, in that election he (Ikpeazu) failed. He came third in his Senatorial race. Abaribe came first, my Candidate, Chinedu, came second. By the result declared by INEC, Okezie came a distant third.

“So, if he could not deliver himself, how can he claim that he was the one that delivered Peter Obi? Mr Peter Obi was delivered by Labour Party and the Obidients In Abia. Barring all problems that have to do with his litigations, he will be in Abia and he will campaign for us.

“So, there was no such agreement. Let me ask them, Okezie is a member of the G5, what happened to their leader, (Nyesom Wike) in Rivers State, who he supported. My understanding is that the G5 supported the APC Candidate (Bola Tinubu). So, to that extent, he cannot come to reap where he did not sow.”

All through the Presidential Campaign period, Ikpeazu never uttered a word of support or encouragement for Obi.