Obi will succeed Atiku as president, says campaign chairman

The Anambra State Chapter Chairman of Atiku-Obi Presidential
Campaign Council, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, has said that Atiku’s election
as president in the February 16 polls will quicken the chances of
an Igbo to become president of the country.

He said Atiku’s running mate, Peter Obi, would become the
long-sought president of Igbo extraction should Atiku be elected in
the presidential election.

Obaze, a former candidate of the PDP in the Anambra 2017
governorship election, stated this in Awka, Anambra State, on
Monday.

He said, “Cogent reasons exist for Ndigbo to come out en masse
and vote for PDP’s Atiku-Obi;” noting that any vote for Atiku “is
also a vote for Obi, who will be saddled with managing the economic
responsibilities of the country.”

Obaze noted that Igbo “who are predominantly business-minded
people, and Nigerians in general, stand to benefit maximally from
topnotch conceptual and empirical knowledge the Atiku/Obi team
offers.”

Explaining why APC doesn’t merit Igbo votes, Obaze said, “Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo and Babatunde Fashola, both potential 2023
presidential candidates, have said publicly and without any
apologies that President Buhari will hand over to the Southwest in
2023. Their permutation does not feature Ndigbo.”

He therefore tasked the Igbo to vote Atiku “in order to have
Peter Obi in Aso Rock, since his being the vice president will
provide emotional and spiritual exhilaration for the Igbo people
who feel excluded, neglected and marginalised in Nigeria.”