2023 Presidency: See What Peter Obi Said Will Happen If PDP Zones Ticket To South
The former vice-presidential aspirant and former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has said that he will join the 2023 presidential race if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zones ticket to the Southern part of the country.
The former governor added that no one would be prevented from expressing interest to contest for any position at the forthcoming elections.
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Peter Obi made this known in a statement made available to newsmen by his media aide, Val Obienyem.
The former governor who boasted that he has all it takes to reposition the affairs of the country said that he would be patient for PDP to make decisions on zoning before declaring his intention.
Recall that Peter Obi, in 2019 was former vice president Atiku Abubakar’s running mate under the platform of the people’s democratic party, but was defeated by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is at the frontier of the 2023 presidential race after suffering several defeats at primaries in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the past years before he returned to PDP.
Earlier, Africa Investigative Magazine reported that the former spokesman to the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has endorsed Atiku Abubakar, saying that he has the qualities of changing the nation’s ugly condition for the better.
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The statement said, “All the elections that I followed in the past, the party that I belong to today, the PDP made a pronunciation and took a stand. At least in 2019 when I was involved, where I can say Atiku graciously chose me as his running mate which I remain eternally grateful to him for, the party decided that the candidate should come from the North and that was what the party decided.
“And I believe that the party owes it a duty to say what their stand is. If their stand today is south, be rest assured I am aspiring, if they say north, I can’t do otherwise or they chose the option that everybody is free, then, of course, you will be hearing from me.
“What we are looking for in this country today are people of integrity, people of conscience, less greedy people. Educational qualification is not a measure of integrity; it doesn’t guarantee that somebody is less greedy or that people have a conscience.
“I have seen people here acquire what they don’t need. I saw it while I was serving, to fight corruption here, you need somebody who has integrity, who is not greedy, who has a conscience if you have that, fighting corruption is easy, because, if you who is in charge is not stealing, you will reduce stealing by 50 to 70 percent.
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“And it is critical that you have somebody who is like that. It is not when people are acquiring lands, houses, everything they don’t need; they want to live a lifestyle that is far beyond the economy of Nigeria, far beyond their earnings, that is why the place is collapsing. That is why we have an insecurity that is why we have poverty. We need to manage the costs efficiently and these are the critical areas as you people know as you look for people who will govern the country in the future.”
