A former senator representing the Edo south senatorial district, Matthew Uroghide has revealed one of the things he feels the 2023 labour party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP prior to the elections.
The senator who was speaking during an interview with Punch noted that if there was cooperation in the PDP, the former governor of Anambra state would not have left the PDP, claiming that one of the reasons he went to the labour party was because of the insistence of some governors that one of them must be the vice presidential candidate under the PDP during the election.
Matthew Uroghide who revealed that Peter Obi joining the labour party affected the chances of PDP emerging victorious further claimed that they didn’t want him because they felt that whenever there was a vacant position, it should go to them.
The senator who made such claims further noted that Peter Obi saw that his prospects in the PDP were not bright, and however opted to go for the labour party.
In his words… “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 were insisting that one of them must be the vice-presidential candidate. Meanwhile, in the 2019 presidential election, Obi was the vice-presidential candidate at that time and you can see what the South-East did to him then; they didn’t want him because the governors always feel that when there is any vacant position, it should go to them. I believe when Obi saw that his prospects in the PDP were not bright, he left. So, it was the overbearing tendencies of these governors that made Obi leave”
One will not be wrong to say that Peter Obi played a huge role under the labour party in the last presidential election, despite Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerging victorious.
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