Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi is the man up to the task of bring Nigeria from the brink according to Afenifere.
The leader of the Pan Yoruba group Ayo Adebanjo who was speaking to news reporters on Monday in Lagos, reiterated that Obi was being endorsed by the group for the sake of equity and fairness.
“Besides, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office,” said Adebanjo.
He submitted that equity demands that Mr. Obi who is from the South East be given a chance to rule the country after all other zones has had their turns.
“The current President is a Fulani from the Northwest and by virtue of the zoning arrangement that has governed Nigeria since 1999, power is supposed to return to the south imminently,” said Mr Adebanjo, 94.
“The southwest as I have pointed out has produced a president and currently sits as VP, the South-South has spent a total of six years in the Presidency, but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the South equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.
“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalize and exclude them from the power dynamic.
“Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back him.”
