The immediate past governor of Anambra state, Mr. Peter Obi, has been called upon by stakeholders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state to return to his former party and contest the 2019 presidential election on its platform.
The stakeholders made this demand at a meeting where Obi was advised that returning to APGA could pay him better than remaining in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, because he cannot make any meaningful political gain in PDP.
A member of APGA Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka informed the former governor that his decision to contest the Anambra central senatorial rerun election under the platform of the PDP would not work in his favour because PDP is not popular enough to win the election.
Ezeonwuka also reasoned that the PDP is not likely to field a candidate in the rerun election, begging Obi to return to APGA and join the race for presidency under the platform of his former party, APGA.
According to him, “It is our earnest wish to see APGA as the rallying political point for the South East geopolitical zone and somebody like Peter Obi can be useful to that effect.
“We want to build on APGA so that we can achieve better interest from the bargains of the power play at the centre, the way South West used the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
“So, why can’t we use APGA in the South East here? This is why we are asking our former governor to drop his senatorial ambition and come back to APGA and let’s build on the party.”
In his remarks, the convener of the meeting, Mr. Tony Uche, who is the senior special adviser to Governor Willie Obiano on Youth Mobilisation dismissed Obi’s senatorial ambition.
He argued that the good performance of APGA government under Obiano has invariably made the candidate of APGA for Anambra Central senatorial rerun election, Chief Victor Umeh, the choice of the people of the senatorial district.
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