LP cheers Afenifere over support for Obi despite backlash | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

LP cheers Afenifere over support for Obi despite backlash | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⬇️

The announcement of the group’s support for Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election by Chief Ayo Adebanjo had drawn the ire of the Yoruba nation when one of their own, Asiwaju Ahmad Tinubu is also in the race under the All Progressives Congress platform.

He said many Yoruba leaders questioned why he should be supporting Obi, a candidate of Igbo extraction, against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Yoruba, but he took his time to explain that the presidency is not a contest between the Yorubas and the Igbos. When asked what made him to think Obi’s support base is growing, Tanko quipped, “Presidential election is like beauty contest, you have to choose among the presidential candidates. You cannot go to the spectators’ stand to elect a more beautiful girl.

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