ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Damian Okeke-Ogene, the National Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said all the state governors in the South-East may vote for Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP), presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election.
However, he stressed that nobody can decide which presidential candidate the South-East would vote for, although they are clamoring for Obi.
Okeke-Ogene said this is because, Obi, the former Governor of Anambra State is a Nigerian project and not because he’s an Igbo man.
The Ohanaeze National Vice President in a statement, described Obi’s national acceptance as the first of its kind in the country.
He noted that elder statesmen like Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and Nnamdi Azikiwe never enjoyed the kind of national acceptance Obi has.
The statement reads: “South-East Governors are five persons with five votes. The same way the votes of the Governors belong to them.
“They may decide to cast it to Labour Party or elsewhere. Days are gone when one man will say, leave the entire Southeast for me to deliver.
“I perceive the people’s odour and innuendo. They’re not voting for Obi because he’s an Igbo but as a Nigerian project.”