Atiku/Obi ticket: What Igbo will do in 2019 – Gov. Ikpeazu

The Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on Wednesday declared that South East will queue behind the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, due to the selection of Peter Obi as the running mate of the party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

He said this while stressing that governors were not against the selection of Obi as Atiku’s running mate.

Ikpeazu stressed that it was wrong to claim that governors of the region were against Obi’s nomination.

He spoke with journalists at the state Governor’s lodge in Aba when Obi paid him a condolence visit over the pipeline explosion in Osisioma Ngwa which has reportedly claimed over hundred lives.

The governor stated that every Igbo man both at home and in the diaspora will queue behind Obi and Atiku.

He said: “You were told a lie. Let me use this opportunity to congratulate our brother and a worthy son of Igbo Land for his nomination. He’s a gift from Ndi-Igbo to this country. His works and pedigree bears eloquent testimony of the Igbo DNA.

“It will be foolhardy for anybody not to queue behind a man like this to continue to serve this country to the best of his ability. What the South East governors said was that we expect our candidate to come back from his trip and have a tete-a-tete with us. And he said he will come to speak with us.

“There were no time leaders of Ndi-Igbo and South East Governors said we are not happy. His choice was apt and you can see the wide spread reception it is getting. If we are banking on the eleven million Igbos in the diaspora to vote it is only Mr. Peter Obi that can get them to do so.”