A former Governor of Enugu State, Okwesilieze Nwodo, has asserted that the tsunami of Labour Party (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is likely to sweep the highest votes in Southeast and across Nigeria in the 2027 election due to the increasing poverty in exponential proportion.
Naijaonpoint reports that Nwodo stated this during an interview with Arise News on Monday.
Nwodo said the people of the Southeast region will vote according to their conscience, despite leaders throwing their support behind the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu.
According to him, the Southeast region cannot be swayed by the thoughts of leaders or by whom they have decided to support in the 2027 election.
He said, “I will not attempt to hold brief for any of our politicians in the south east who wishes to support the president for a re election.
“We in the African Democratic Congress, we want to engage the current president of Nigeria and his party on issues, on their policies, on the efficacy of their execution of their policies and promises to the Nigerian people, and put it side by side with the candidates that we are supporting former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and the solutions he’s putting on the table for Nigerians to make a choice.
“As you can see, the declaration of important politicians in the south east for the APC is not restricted to the south east. It’s all over Nigeria, and many of us in this country are wondering, what is the attraction for our governors, in particular, who are leaving their parties for the APC.
“You will recall that in the immediate past election, in 2023 Peter Obi single handedly blazing the trail like John the Baptist, trying In the wilderness, was able to convince the Nigerian people that he had something that can change the status quo that we’re enjoying under the presidency of Buhari at the time, and many Nigerians believe that at the end of the day, he convinced more Nigerians and scored more votes in that election, but he was not declared the winner, and we have, after the court processes accepted, the results are declared.
“But what I want to emphasize is that in tsoutheastast, we had sitting governors who could not deliver their states and who even contested the election to go to the Senate, and they could not win those elections because of the tsunami of the obedient movement in tsoutheastast at that time, today, that tsunami is more likely to sweep more viciously for the simple fact that our people and people all over Nigeria are living in poverty, poverty that is increasing in experiential proportion.”