2023: Peter Obi To Step Down? – Anambra Youth Coalition Make Strong Case

2023: Peter Obi To Step Down? – Anambra Youth Coalition Make Strong Case

A coalition of youths in Anambra state has urged the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, to abandon his ambition to lead Nigeria and join forces with progressive forces in the South-east to negotiate a better political future for the Igbo people.

According to the Coalition of Anambra Youth Leaders, there are concerns that Obi’s insistence on running for president will have a negative impact on Ndigbo and increase the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) retaining power at the center.

Noting that the APC experiment has been disastrous for the country, the youth coalition stated that all efforts must be directed toward rescuing Nigerians from the party, adding that another four years of APC at the helm may completely eclipse Nigeria.

Dr. Chinedu Ekwealor, National Leader of the Coalition, told journalists at a press conference in Awka, the Anambra state capital, that Ndigbo have a better chance of regaining central power through the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Obi, he believes, should reconsider the negative impact of his personal ambition on the future of the Igbo nation and withdraw his support for the party whose vice presidential candidate he was in 2019.

Ekwealor stated that Obi’s Labour Party has no mathematical chance of winning the 2023 presidential election, but that emotions will not bring in the required numbers to be declared the winner of the presidential election in Nigeria.

Though he admitted that people were emotional about Obi’s ambition, the youth leader stated that “emotions don’t win elections.” Superior figures do.”

The youth group stated, “Let us not be emotional about it. Obi does not have a mathematical chance of making victory possible.” No Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with the country’s other major regions.”

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He argued that “in the early 1960s and late 1970s, Ndigbo understood this point quite frankly and maintained a robust relationship with our northern brothers.” Our brother Peter Obi does not have this alliance and is well aware that an enraged social media mob will not and cannot make him President.”

The youth coalition warned that Obi’s ambition could work against the Igbo nation in the near future, saying, “Obi’s presidential run is sabotage to Ndigbo.” He has only succeeded in increasing the APC’s chances of winning the election by depleting PDP votes in the southeast. The implication is that the Southeasterners will be out of power for at least another 16 years. This is because, if Tinubu is elected, power will return to the north for another eight years, leaving Ndigbo out for the next 16 years.

“If Mr. Peter Obi truly loves Ndigbo, he should step down forthwith and strategize with other well-meaning Igbo elites in charting a way forward for the Igbo nation. We repeat, the presidency is not won on the premise of wishful thinking and hullabaloo of an untamed mob, who probably do not even understand the need for a pathway for the Igbo nation”, Dr. Ekwealor added.

The youth coalition stated that “Ohaneze Ndigbo and prominent Igbo leaders, including Obi, must now, without further delay, engage seriously with the frontliners in the forthcoming presidential election, and secure bankable negotiations for Igbo political renaissance and pathway to the presidency of Nigeria.”

The group praised Anambra state governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo for his courageous display of statesmanship in speaking the truth to Obi, saying the governor “stated the facts as if they didn’t care whose ox was gored” in his essay.

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According to the group, Soludo demonstrated courage and leadership in his treatise because the fate of the Igbo nation is jeopardized as a result of Obi’s ambition.

The group said: “It takes a lot of courage and political will for any politician from the southeast to make the very firm, bold and factual statements as Governor Soludo did.  This timely intervention by the prudent thinker has given leeway to other prominent Igbo leaders, who for the avoidance of the shameful macabre dance by a mob, swallowed their hallowed bank of wisdom and refused to air an opinion on this matter, now to come forward with critical thinking and analysis.”

The group urged the Igbo nation to rise in support of stronger alliances with other sections of the country for political gains, saying Ndigbo can no longer afford to exclude themselves from Nigerian politics by engaging in exclusionary politics.

It noted that the Igbo people should now take a leaf out of the political savvy of one of their revered sons, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who, according to the group, built bridges that many Igbo people climbed to become national political icons.

“History repeats itself only to those who do not learn from history. Ndi Igbo must now wake up and adopt the political sagacity and gusto of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. The Zikist politics of bridge building gave Ndigbo our best chance in the political history of Nigeria when an Igbo man was President of Nigeria in the ’60s, and another Igbo man as Senate President, the same Zikist politics of alliance gave Ndigbo the Vice Presidential and House of Representatives speakership slots in 1979. That is what Ndigbo have forgone for wishful thinking and mob action which has repeatedly gotten us nowhere”, the group stated.

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