Matthew Urhoghide, a former senator representing Edo South senatorial district, has revealed one of the reasons he believes 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi quit the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead to the polls.
The senator stated in an interview with Punch that if there was cooperation in the PDP, the former governor of Anambra state would not have left the party, claiming that one of the reasons he went to the labour party was because some governors insisted that one of them be the PDP’s vice presidential candidate during the election.
Matthew Uroghide, who disclosed that Peter Obi’s joining the Labour Party harmed the PDP’s chances of winning, went on to say that they didn’t want him because they felt that whenever there was a vacant post, it should go to them.
The senator who made such statements further stated that Peter Obi saw that his prospects in the PDP were bleak and chose to join the Labour Party.
“Something must have prompted him to leave the party, and I must tell you that one thing that prompted Obi to leave the party was that the governors insisted on one of them being the vice-presidential candidate.” Meanwhile, in the 2019 presidential election, Obi was the vice-presidential candidate, and you can see what the South-East did to him at the time; they didn’t want him because governors always believe that when there is a vacant post, it should go to them. I believe Obi quit the PDP when he saw his prospects were not promising. So it was these governors’ domineering characteristics that drove Obi out.”
Despite Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the recent presidential election, one cannot deny that Peter Obi played a significant role for the Labour Party.
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