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Igbo can’t wait for another 4yrs to realize promise of hand over – Obaze

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PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The Chairman, Anambra State Chapter of Atiku-Obi Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, weekend said that over 40 million Igbo people cannot afford to wait another 4years to realize the “so called” promise of being handed over to by the APC government.

He said with Obi as the Vice President, it would provide emotional and spiritual exhilaration for the Igbo people who have been feeling neglected, marginalized and excluded in the running of Nigeria.

Obaze called on Ndigbo to come out en masse and vote for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the February 16 polls, saying, “cogent reasons exist for Ndigbo to come out en masse and vote for PDP’s Atiku/Obi.”

He said any vote for Atiku Abubakar was also a vote for Peter Obi, who would be saddled with managing the economic responsibilities of the country.

Obaze, who was the party’s governorship candidate in 2017 governorship election, stated that Igbo who are predominantly business-minded people, as well as Nigerians in general, stand to benefit maximally from topnotch conceptual and empirical knowledge the Atiku/Obi team will offer.

He said, “Atiku has executive democratic and political experience, just like his running mate, Peter Obi, who he described as “a working and resourceful match. With the duo in office, Igbo and Nigerians will rejoice and relish a new political and economic paradigm.”

“Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Babatunde Fashola, both potential 2023 presidential candidates, have said publicly and without any apologies that President Buhari would hand over to the Southwest in 2023. Their permutation does not feature Ndigbo.”

“Beyond deploying his reach and office to chart a new vision and mission for the Igbo and Nigerians, Peter Obi also fits well into the bill of strategic succession planning.”

“Moreover, Atiku is a son-in-law of the Igbo people, by virtue of one of his wives from Onitsha. He is an Igbo son by our customary law of marriage and he has chosen our natural son, Peter Obi, as his running mate — this is a double chance, if not obligatory reason for the Igbo people to vote for PDP.”

The retired Diplomat observed that Atiku as a human being has his shortcomings like every other human or other presidential candidate adding that Nigeria will be far better off with Atiku-Obi than what currently obtains in the system.

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