Why Obi Is Backing ADC Candidate For By-election – POMR

The Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR) has said the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, is supporting the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate in this Saturday’s Anambra State Assembly by-election on official and compassionate grounds.

The POMR spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, who disclosed this yesterday, said the clarification became necessary following the mix-up in the public space over Obi’s choice ahead of the Labour Party.
Umar explained, “Firstly, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not been able to sort out Labour Party issues in this election. As of this statement’s issuing, LP has no candidate in Saturday’s bye election slated nationwide.

“Secondly, the ADC candidate is the wife of the late Labour Party state Assembly member Hon. Justice Azuka, who died in the hands of kidnappers in February this year.

“The leadership of both ADC and LP, as well as the Labour Party Senator and House of Representatives member Tony Nwoye and Idu Emeka, respectively, and the House of Assembly Members in Onitsha South, on compassionate grounds, deemed it fit that the capable wife should go ahead to complete the tenure of her husband.

“Where issues of candidates are not in dispute, Obi always supports Labour Party flag bearers, as in the November gubernatorial poll, where our Principal’s candidate is indisputably Chief George Moghalu of the Labour Party.

“By this clarification, it lays to rest the confusion in the public’s minds, as the situation has not changed Obi’s leadership of the Labour Party and his membership of the Coalition. So, we would like to underscore that Obi’s mission for a new Nigeria is on course and possible.