An Awka-based political scientist, Dr. Emmanuel Obiano, has appealed to the national leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, to adopt the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as its candidate for the February 25 presidential election.
Obiano urged the APGA leadership to adopt the former Anambra State governor in order to replicate what the party did in 2015, when it adopted as its candidate, former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was then a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.The statement read in part, “With only a few weeks to the commencement of the 2023 general elections, this is a period for intense political discuss by all and sundry, whether politician or political observer.
“With the privilege of having had real-life experience of Nigeria’s early post-independent period, hardly has any issue of Nigeria’s political-economy unnerved me, except one, at present. Questioning why APGA had not, by now, adopted Obi, who hails from the state as its candidate for the 2023 presidential elections, Obiano said support for Obi should not be obstructed or sabotaged saying history would remember their decision.
“This two-angled question is pregnant with meanings. As I contemplate on the possible ‘why’ and ‘when’, I am unnerved by the possible implications, especially the implication for equity and history. I flinch to imagine it be recorded in history against us that we adopted an Ijaw man from Bayelsa State but failed to adopt our blood and kin from the same Anambra State. It will amount to monumental betrayal, someone already called it ‘desecration’, if this is allowed to happen.
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