The Anambra State Director General of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa campaign organisation, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has made a firm statement about delivering Anambra state for Atiku and Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2023 presidential election.
Okonkwo made the assertion at the inaugural meeting of Anambra State presidential campaign council held in Awka, Anambra state capital, on Tuesday.
“I did not accept to be DG of Atiku/Okowa campaign council in the state because I am a PDP member. I accepted because I know that Atiku has the solution to greatest need of Ndi Igbo which is restructuring. For Atiku, the issue of restructuring is beyond a political statement."
“As soon as the restructuring is activated in Nigeria, we would have been to solve 50 percent of Nigeria's problems. The issue of agitation is because of lack of justice, fairness and equity and the manner we have administered this country over the years,” he said.
According to him, Nigeria needs some one like Atiku who can fix the multiple problems, be deviling the country.
He also avered that they are not supporting Atiku because they desire less as Ndi Igbo, but that they supporting Atiku Abubakar to secure the future of Ndi Igbo in Nigeria.
“Sentiment, emotions and anger can not give us the right political results. Politics requires strategy and calculation and when we are calculating, we must back it up with tolerance and patience he said.
"Today, the Igbo situation is critical and we must not lie down where we have fallen already . The decision we make today out of sentiment and emotion may sound justifiable but what happens after years. The only decision we need today is how to secure our political future politically. It is very clear that no tribes that can win election in Nigeria without alliance with other tribes”
Also speaking at the inaugural meeting, the chairman of Atiku/Okowa campaign organisation in Anambra, Senator Ben Ndi Obi, stressed that Atiku remains the surest path for an Igbo man to be president of Nigeria in the future.