Anambra State Assembly Bye Election: Why Obi Is Supporting ADC Candidate. – Media Office

The Peter Obi Media Reach, POMR, has give clarified  why the Labour Party leader and the 2023 Standard bearer, Peter Obi, is throwing his weight behind the African Democratic Congress, ADC, candidate in Saturday’s Anambra State Assembly Bye Election.

In a statement, the POMR Spokesperson, Ibrahim Umar, said the clarification became necessary following the mix-up in the public space over Obi’s choice ahead of the Labour Party.

The POMR statement reads in part: “Firstly, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not been able to sort out Labour Party issues in this election.

As at the time of issuing this statement, LP has no candidate in Saturday’s bye election slated all over the country.

“And secondly, the ADC candidate is the wife of the late Labour Party state Assembly member Hon. Justice Azuka, who died in the hands of kidnappers in February this year.

“The leadership of both ADC and LP, as well as the Labour Party Senator and House of Representatives member Tony Nwoye and Afam Ogene, respectively, on compassionate grounds, deemed it fit that the capable wife should go ahead to complete the tenure of her husband.

“Where issues of candidates are not in dispute, Obi always supports Labour Party flag bearers, as in the November gubernatorial poll, where our Principal’s candidate is indisputably Chief George Moghalu of the Labour Party.

“By this clarification, it lays to rest the confusion in the minds of the public, as the situation has not in any way changed Obi’s leadership of the Labour Party and his membership of the Coalition.

“We, therefore, need to underscore the fact that Obi’s mission for a new Nigeria driven by competence, capacity and character is course and Possible.”