By Gift Olivia Samuel, The Sight News
Former presidential candidates and 24 former national chairmen of political parties under the Coalition for Good Governance (CGG), have endorsed Labour Party’s Peter Gregory Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed for President and Vice President in the forthcoming 2023 general election.
This is just as they said, that Obi/Datti are the most credible, capable and qualified candidates among the contestants vying for the post of President come 25th of February 2023.
The National Coordinator, CGG Engr. Sir Okey Chikwendu who made this known in a statement on Monday obtained by The Sight News, noted that their stand is in the best interest of Nigerians.
The Coalition which is a body of Professionals in the political terrain, advised Nigerians to reject those who peddle unnecessary blackmail on the candidacy of Mr Peter Obi.
According to Chikwendu, “Mr Peter Obi is a nationalist, and a true Nigerian. He is decent, humble, credible, capable, competent and compassionate in character. Mr Peter Obi as Governor of Anambra State rejected billions of Naira and houses as compensation from the Anambra State Government.
“It is on record that Mr Peter Obi left over 75 billion Naira in the state coffers at the end of his tenure, a record that has been unmatched by any governor in Nigeria.
“We are all aware of contestants whose fraudulent activities, Godfatherism and drug related records are unacceptable for the new Nigerian that we desire. Their shamelessness has led to their desire to still contest and test our gullibility with their illegally acquired wealth which Nigerians must resist.
“As Nigerians and politicians that we are, we will not sit on the fence to watch another subversion of our resources to individuals and their cronies which is the antecedents of some of the contestants now desperate for the Presidency”.
While noting that they are not in the payroll of anyone, but are responsible for what they say, the National Coordinator urged Nigerians to reject thieves and dictators in sheep clothes, as well as drug barons and those who have no respect for diversity and secularism, and vote for Mr Peter Gregory Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed of the Labour Party
“Vote for them so that together our Nation can rise from consistent economic failure to economic surplus and together, a new Nation bound in freedom and surplus is born.
“Let’s take back our country. Let’s vote unanimously for Peter Obi of the Labour Party as President. May the labour of our heroes’ past never be in vain”, he prayed.
He thanked Nigerians of all ethnicities for giving an ear to the Coalition’s patriotic call to vote Mr Peter Gregory Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed as they go to the polls this Saturday, 25th of February 2023.
