2023 Presidency: South-East, Middle Belt Forum Endorses Peter Obi

The presidential bid of Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) received a boost as the South-East and Middle Belt Forum on Wednesday endorsed the former Anambra governor.

South-East, Middle Belt Forum Backs Peter Obi For 2023 Presidency

The group made its position known during a news conference in Abuja.

The Chairman of the Forum Olisa Uzowulu noted that Obi ranks higher than all presidential candidates for next year’s exercise.

“We are going to go out there and fight a change. That is why you get the South-East, the Middle Belt, the South-South, and the South-West to be one body and campaign for Peter Obi. There is no two-way about it,” he said during the conference.

“The Forum has decided on it. We are going to go out and work for him as a group. There is no choice about that.”

“As far as the Forum is concerned, Obi’s support base transcends tribe, religion, and ethnicity as the Chairman said the former governor’s aspiration is people-driven.

“It is the people that are driving Obi, not even the party. They love him, people want a change. They are tired of the situation,” Uzowulu explained.

“There is nothing to sell to people anymore – it is not tribe, or religion but the belief that we have to move ahead. People are going to make a choice this time, nobody is going to hoodwink them again.”

He, therefore, called on members of the Forum and its supporters across the regions to pick up their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) and vote en masse for the Labour Party candidate next year.

Obi is contesting for Aso Rock’s top job alongside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), amongst others.

Recall that Obi was the running mate to Atiku during the 2019 poll under the main opposition PDP which lost to President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.

Meanwhile, Kanyi Daily reported that Nigerian rapper, Shola Idowu, popularly known as Weird MC recently endorsed Obi for the 2023 general election.

Weird MC’s endorsement for Obi comes after popular skit maker, Mr. Macaroni also threw his support for the former Anambra governor.