A Coalition of youths in Anambra state have called on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, to drop his ambition to lead Nigeria and join hands with progressives forces in the South-east to negotiate a brighter political future for the Igbo people.

The group called Coalition of Anambra Youth Leaders, said that there are fears that Obi’s insistence on contesting the presidency will rub-off negatively on Ndigbo and brighten the chances of the All progressives Congress (APC) to retain power at the center.

Noting that the APC experiment has been disastrous for the country, the youth coalition said all efforts must be geared towards rescuing Nigerian from the party, adding that another four years of APC at the centre may eclipse Nigeria totally.

Addressing journalists at a press conference in Awka, the Anambra state capital, National Leader of the Coalition, Dr. Chinedu Ekwealor, said Ndigbo stand a better chance of returning to power at the center through the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to him, Obi ought to, at this time, reconsider the negative impact of his personal ambition on the future of the Igbo nation and stand down in support of the party which vice presidential candidate he was in 2019.
Ekwealor said that Obi’s Labour Party has no mathematical chance of winning the 2023 presidential election adding however that emotions will not bring in the desired numbers that will satisfy the constitutional requirement to be declared winner of the presidential election in Nigeria.

Though he said that it was human for people to be emotional about Obi’s ambition, the youth leader however stated that “emotions don’t win elections. Superior numbers do”.
Stating that “Obi does not have a mathematical chance of making victory possible”, the youth group said “let us not be emotional about it. No Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with the other major regions that make up Nigeria.”

He argued that “in the early ’60s and late ’70s, Ndigbo understood this point quite frankly and maintained a robust relationship with our northern brothers. Our brother Peter Obi does not have this alliance and knows very well that an irate social media mob does not, and cannot, make him President.”

Warning that Obi’s ambition may work against the Igbo nation in the near future, the youth coalition said: “Obi’s presidential run is sabotage to Ndigbo. What he has only succeeded in doing is increasing APC’s chances of winning the election by depleting the votes of the southeast for PDP. The implication is that the Southeasterners will have to stay out of power for a minimum of another 16 years. This is because after Tinubu (if he wins), power would return to the north for another eight years leaving Ndigbo out for another 16 solid years.

“If Mr. Peter Obi truly loves Ndigbo, he should step down forthwith and strategize with other well-meaning Igbo elites in charting a way forward for the Igbo nation. We repeat, the presidency is not won on the premise of wishful thinking and hullabaloo of an untamed mob, who probably do not even understand the need for a pathway for the Igbo nation”, Dr. Ekwealor added.

Pushing for a new narrative for the Igbo nation, the youth coalition said that “Ohaneze Ndigbo and prominent Igbo leaders, including Obi, must now without any further delay, engage seriously with the frontliners in the forthcoming presidential election, and secure bankable negotiations for Igbo political renaissance and pathway to the presidency of Nigeria”.

Commending the Anambra state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, for his courageous display of statesmanship in speaking the truth to Obi, the group said the governor, in his essay, “stated the facts as if they were not minding whose ox is gored”.

According to the group, Soludo displayed courage and leadership in his treatise as the fate of the Igbo nation is in jeopardy following Obi’s ambition.

The group said: “It takes a lot of courage and political will for any politician from the southeast to make the very firm, bold and factual statements as Governor Soludo did. This timely intervention by the prudent thinker has given leeway to other prominent Igbo leaders, who for the avoidance of the shameful macabre dance by a mob, swallowed their hallowed bank of wisdom and refused to air an opinion on this matter, now to come forward with critical thinking and analysis.”

Calling on the Igbo nation to rise in support of the building of stronger alliances with other sections of the country for political gains, the group said Ndigbo can no longer afford to exclude themselves from Nigeria’s politics by playing the politics of exclusion.

It noted that the Igbo nation ought to now borrow a leaf from the political sagacity of one of their revered son, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who according to the group, built bridges that many Igbo peopl climbed to become national political icons.

“History repeats itself only to those who do not learn from history. Ndi Igbo must now wake up and adopt the political sagacity and gusto of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. The Zikist politics of bridge building gave Ndigbo our best chance in the political history of Nigeria when an Igbo man was President of Nigeria in the ’60s, and another Igbo man as Senate President, the same Zikist politics of alliance gave Ndigbo the Vice Presidential and House of Representatives speakership slots in 1979. That is what Ndigbo have forgone for wishful thinking and mob action which has repeatedly gotten us nowhere”, the group stated.

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/28/2023-anambra-youth-coalition-asks-obi-to-step-down/

Peter Obi presidential ambition is really giving a lot of people sleepless nights. The corrupt people across Nigeria are very jittery, they are all afraid of losing their corrupt funds looted from the Nigerian treasury.

That's why you will see all these hastily drawn up fake coalitions drawn up everywhere to issue weak and watery statements which they themselves dont even believe.

But at this point, Peter Obi has become the leading name in this election, and the whole country is looking up to him to save this nation from the hands of desperate looters.

Confusion has started setting-in!

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be spending more money to fan Peter Obi’s base.

Peter Obi must not step down, and should know that, if he steps down, his integrity and political career will be forever buried.

He must fight till finish! Retreating at this point will be cowardice and betrayal to the millions of people who have placed their trust in him.

Anambra has NO youth coalition

kingsways:
Anambra has NO youth coalition

Dont mind the liars.

Obi's ambition is seriously harming PDP. It is getting clearer and clearer that Obidients are inadvertently being obedient to APC and the man they so much love to hate.



<><>BAT'23................Jagaban is looking at Obidients like......

False news

We don't know them

PresidObi:
Peter Obi presidential ambition is really giving a lot of people sleepless nights. The corrupt people across Nigeria are very jittery, they are all afraid of losing their corrupt funds looted from the Nigerian treasury.

That's why you will see all these hastily drawn up fake coalitions drawn up everywhere to issue weak and watery statements which they themselves dont even believe.

But at this point, Peter Obi has become the leading name in this election, and the whole country is looking up to him to save this nation from the hands of desperate looters.

You feed on too much carbohydrates and it’s affecting your external and internal sight.

You mentioned people being afraid of the political minion called Peter?

Hello! Wake up and face the reality starting at you.

Some losses are constant in life!

PresidObi:
Peter Obi presidential ambition is really giving a lot of people sleepless nights. The corrupt people across Nigeria are very jittery, they are all afraid of losing their corrupt funds looted from the Nigerian treasury.

That's why you will see all these hastily drawn up fake coalitions drawn up everywhere to issue weak and watery statements which they themselves dont even believe.

But at this point, Peter Obi has become the leading name in this election, and the whole country is looking up to him to save this nation from the hands of desperate looters.

Oga shiftttt go one side.. na people like una no de ever entertain the truth.. how is everything that was stated now not close to verisimilitude? When you’re given a solid advise, you take it and work on it.. Nobi to de proof shirt.. lemme tell you, your PO does NOT scare any one.. especially not the two front runners for this office.

We don talk ham before say before February come, una body go don de calm down and reality will be dawning on you all.

This is family affair: PDP mainstream Vs PDPlite aka Obidense.

The group called Coalition of Anambra Youth Leaders, said that there are fears that Obi’s insistence on contesting the presidency will rub-off negatively on Ndigbo and brighten the chances of the All progressives Congress (APC) to retain power at the center.

It's only political neophytes that doesn't know that the above stated fact is the pure truth.

As a staunch BAT supporter I'll be donating to the LP/Obi campaign fund to make him stronger so he can pull more votes from the PDP.

Fact: in every 10 persons shouting Obidense today, 8 of them were formerly Atikulating before May 2022. Go and verify!

Last last obidents wil realize that they are working for Tinubu indirectly

Obidients are beginning to have a rethink. The failure that awats Obi is becoming glaring even to the naivety of Obidunce who doesn't know right from left in political matter aside abuse, hatred and intimidation.

Las las, Obidients go chop breakfast

He should not resign. His candidature is favouring Mazi Tinubu

Zombidients are in reality working for the Jagaban.

PDP as a whole couldn't defeat APC, now that PDP have splintered to PDP Atiku, PDP Wike and Labor party, you might as well swear in Asiwaju now and save yourself a lot of headache.

beerfraud:
He should not resign. His candidature is favouring Mazi Tinubu

He can never resign!

He dare not try it!

Ttalk:
Obidients are beginning to have a rethink. The failure that awats Obi is becoming glaring even to the naivety of Obidunce who doesn't know right from left in political matter aside abuse, hatred and intimidation.

Las las, Obidients go chop breakfast

If Obi does not win, at least they made some effort which is commendable.

Only fooools and educated illiterates doesn't know that obi is the next president of nija,

Even buhari is codedly obidient,

To all urchin's and bat touts, u guy's are only building sky scrapper in the air with ur druggie ancestor

Shokoloko:


If Obi does not win, at least they made some effort which is commendable.

Effort in futility!

That is not effort but foolishness.

When you fail to be constructively feasible and bold to confront reality, their is no greater foolishness that can be better described.

Good bless prof Soludo for telling obi the truth.... Chairman, Na labour in vain u dey o!!!!

ezegold4we:
Only fooools and educated illiterates doesn't know that obi is the next president of nija,

Even buhari is codedly obidient,

To all urchin's and bat touts, u guy's are only building sky scrapper in the air with ur druggie ancestor

Generator fumes has corroded your brains. You cannot even see reality again.

Shokoloko:


If Obi does not win, at least they made some effort which is commendable.

For the sake of Igbo race don't you think such effort would have been rewarding if he had declared under APGA, tomorrow Obi may not be in control of LP and he would lose all his supporters base he has built.

As it stand Obi cannot negotiate presidency for Igbo through LP, and can't form any alliance that would benefit the SE through LP.

Obi took the wrong step. He would have remained in PDP or moved to APGA and begin to build a political future, but he was to motivated by his personal and selfish ambition

Ekwealor said that Obi’s Labour Party has no mathematical chance of winning the 2023 presidential election adding however that emotions will not bring in the desired numbers that will satisfy the constitutional requirement to be declared winner of the presidential election in Nigeria

Reality beckons as BAT victory is imminently predictable. No wonder Atiku is not spending money again

No Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with the other major regions that make up Nigeria

Sure you must have a formidable alliance with any two of the three major tribes that make up Nigeria. Minority tribes are swing location & it's not bankable. I'm one of them so I understand that. We vote according to structural interest.

Obi’s presidential run is sabotage to Ndigbo. What he has only succeeded in doing is increasing APC’s chances of winning the election by depleting the votes of the southeast for PDP

This is a statement of fact.

This is more like Soludo 'History beckons and I cannot keep quiet.

“History repeats itself only to those who do not learn from history"

I stopped reading when it was stated that "Obi presidential bid is a sabotage to Ndigbo"....
What effrontery.., Obi is our one and only candidate, Nobody can do anything about it..

Stating that “Obi does not have a mathematical chance of making victory possible”, the youth group said “let us not be emotional about it. No Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with the other major regions that make up Nigeria.”

He argued that “in the early ’60s and late ’70s, Ndigbo understood this point quite frankly and maintained a robust relationship with our northern brothers. Our brother Peter Obi does not have this alliance and knows very well that an irate social media mob does not, and cannot, make him President.”

Glaring realities that are invisible to the short sighted.

A word is enough for the wise.

The group said: “It takes a lot of courage and political will for any politician from the southeast to make the very firm, bold and factual statements as Governor Soludo did.

This timely intervention by the prudent thinker has given leeway to other prominent Igbo leaders, who for the avoidance of the shameful macabre dance by a mob, swallowed their hallowed bank of wisdom and refused to air an opinion on this matter, now to come forward with critical thinking and analysis.”


Our brother Peter Obi does not have this alliance and knows very well that an irate social media mob does not, and cannot, make him President.”

O pari. Even Anambra state is not sure for Mr Obi. Soludo will not yield one seat of APGA in the national assembly to lp that day both presidential and NA election hold simultaneously.

Ttalk:


For the sake of Igbo race don't you think such effort would have been rewarding if he had declared under APGA, tomorrow Obi may not be in control of LP and he would lose all his supporters base he has built.

As it stand Obi cannot negotiate presidency for Igbo through LP, and can't form any alliance that would benefit the SE through LP.

Obi took the wrong step. He would have remained in PDP or moved to APGA and begin to build a political future, but he was to motivated by his personal and selfish ambition

For how long will Ndigbo keep salving for PDP...? Use your common sense.

No, region has given PDP support more than SE since 1999...., 2023 was the time of PDPshit to pay back, but they didn't..

ImmaculateJOE:
I stopped reading when it was stated that "Obi presidential bid is a sabotage to Ndigbo"...
What effrontery.., Obi is our one and only candidate, Nobody can do anything about it..

They are warning you to build bridges first to avoid shutting yourselves out from the Presidency for the next 16 years (with the attendant agitations, self-inflicted marginalization and other opportunity costs) because of the obvious fact that an Obi win is a mathematical impossibility.

Stating that “Obi does not have a mathematical chance of making victory possible”, the youth group said “let us not be emotional about it. No Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with the other major regions that make up Nigeria.”

This can only be understood and appreciated however, if you take off your emotional lens.

kingsways:
Anambra has NO youth coalition

But if they had supported and donate cash for Obi campaign, you would have been shouting the youth are behind Obi. You guys are really funny. With a divided PDP( ATIKU, KWAKWANSO, OBI, WIKE) , TINUBU will win the election and your cry will continue for another 16 years, because after Tinubu 8 years, it will go back to the North.

QuotaSystem:


They are warning you to build bridges first to avoid shutting yourselves out from the Presidency for the next 16 years (with the attendant agitations, self-inflicted marginalization and other opportunity costs) because of the obvious fact that an Obi win is a mathematical impossibility.



This can only be understood and appreciated however, if you take off your emotional lens.

The statement by the Coalition and that of Soludo are Clever by half and has the hand writing of people paid by the PDP over it.

Here is what is more factual.

This is not just a Tribal contest, there is more of a Religious and Geopolitical Tussle at stake after Buharis very Nepotic administration.

There are four very serious Candidates in this race. Three of them are Muslim, and only one is christian. Nigerian Population is split christain and Muslim 50 50. This is the biggest Factor.

Peter Obi is not just an Igbo man, the man is married to an Ibibio woman, from akwaibom, so the Akwa-Cross people are fighting to get their sister in Aso Rock as well, the Ibibio when combined with Efik and Egegham are one of the largest Minorities in Nigeria after the Fulani People.

Secondly alot of you Tinubu supporters keep saying that No Shinedu, or Emeka, will ever enter aso rock, forgetting there are alot of tribes in the SS, and Middlebelt that bear igboic names but do not consider themselves igbo people, those people are also trying to prove a point to some you who are cancelling their identity as nigerians by protest voting for Obi.

I am a Rivers Man, though some of our people might have their reservations when it comes to certain aspects of igbo people but at this point all of that has been thrown into the wind, Given everything that has happened in this very Nepotic Buhari Regime, We feel more as though we are fighting for the survival of our Identity and Religious beliefs, and the only person on the Ballot who would stand for us is Obi. I bet you that if you Polygraphed any Christain Minority tribe in the SS or Middle Belt, that is an Obidient, this will be one of the core reason at the bottom of their vote...I mean apart from the fact its easy to Like Obi and his simple down to earth quality, the man is quite endearing.

And finally this is an unfair fight between Obi, Atiku and Tinubu, without too much thinking Obi is 10,000 times better it will literally take a mentally unstable or extremely tribalistic person to leave Obi and vote for either of the two. I can bet even some of these very tribalistic people will not go out on election day and vote at all rather than vote for an impending disaster like Tinubu.

Nigerian Democracy is still young, dont be using CNN statistics of 100s of years Of Democrats and Republican Voters in the US to look at Nigeria. How old is APC? a party that has only won a full tenure of Presidency. There is nothing like traditional votes in Nigerian, its only vested interest. We are all new to this.

We are a very tribalistic, religious, poor and Money minded country, I am not saying this is right but that is how we choose candidates in Nigeria, if he is not from our tribe, then someone from our region, if not then religion, if not then someone that will pay us before we vote, or someone whose administration is likely to make us richer, Looking at this four aspects, with respect to the fact that three of the candidates are muslims, two of the top muslims are very corrupt and likely to plunge nigeria into poverty you can clearly see that Obi has no competition,

With less chances of rigging with BVAS, we will be finally getting to know the real numbers of votes casted per region in this election. Hope I have helped to clear that emotional lens you are talking about.

Obi shouldn't listen to anyone.

Now that it appears he may win they are asking him to step down.

I think the best thing Obi should do is to step down for APC and not PDP as insinuated by this group, Atiku isn't trust worthy , and if Atiku wins the unwritten Zoning arrangement has been defeated .
But at this point we can say ,Greedy Atiku, selfish Obi, disgruntled Kwankwanso, revengous Wike are all working for the emergence of Tinubu/Shettima's presidency.