2019: S’east Leaders aren’t Working against PDP, Says Obi

Peter Obi, the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, says there is no division in the party in
the South-East geo-political zone.

Mr Obi said this on Sunday in Awka, while addressing party
faithful at an interdenominational church service and reception
organised in his honour by the Anambra state chapter of the
party.

He described the rumour that the PDP leaders in the zone were
working against the party’s interest in the upcoming polls as
false.

He said members of the party in the zone remained one family and
were working hard to ensure its victory at the polls.

“Let me tell you all, PDP in the South-East is working as one
family and when the votes are turned in, you will all see it.

“We are working as one family,” the former Anambra state
governor said.

He said PDP’s victory at the polls would further guarantee the
survival of Nigeria and give the youths a better future.

He assured the people that the second Niger Bridge and the
federal roads in the zone would be fixed by PDP within six months
of its assumption of office.

Mr Obi, who was at the event with his wife, Margaret, commended
the people of the state for the warm reception accorded him.

He said that his mission was to assist the party’s presidential
candidate, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, to restore sanity
in the country.

He promised that they would jointly work to re-create a country
“where unemployment will be tackled, jobs created, infrastructure
provided and the economy rebuilt.”

Earlier, the state chairman of PDP, Ndubisi Nwobu, urged
Nigerians to vote out the All Progressives Congress for failing to
deliver on its campaign promises to Nigerians.

Mr Nwobu said, “they promised to make the naira one to a dollar,
reduce the cost of food items and stop the importation of refined
petroleum products, but none of those promises were delivered.”

Highlights of the event included the defection of some
politicians in the state, together with their teeming supporters,
to PDP.

Prominent among the defectors were Godwin Ezeemo, the former
governorship candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, and Yul
Edochie, a Nollywood actor and former governorship candidate of the
Democratic Peoples Congress, DPC, in the state.

Hygers Igwebuike, a former factional governorship candidate of
the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the state, also defected to
PDP.

NAN