Peter Obi Wins Ijaw Land As Apex Group Declares Support
Peter Obi Wins Ijaw Land As Apex Group Declares Support
Run up to the 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, (LP) Obi has recieved huge boost to his aspiration with an endorsement from the apex umbrella body of the Ijaw people, known as Ijaw National Congress, (INC).
This endorsement came Thursday morning during an interactive session with the apex Ijaw socio-cultural group at Ijaw House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,
The ceremony saw the Ijaw people, spread across Sierrea Leone, Gabon with dominate in Bayelsa State, to also have sizeable populations in Delta, Rivers, Ondo States, and around the coast of Nigeria.
They have a population strength of about 4 million, which could be about 2% of the Nigerian population of 200 million plus.
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The Obi-Datti Media spokesman, Diran Onifade said endorsement by the INC is a follow-up to the one done by Southern Ethnic Nationalities comprising, the Yoruba apex group, the Afenifere, Pan Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF) the Umbrella body of the Igbos, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Middle Belt Forum announced in Abuja last week.
The LP Presidential flag bearer during interaction told the Ijaw National Congress that he is seeking the people’s mandate to fill the vacuum created in our polity by successive leadership failure.
He said: “A new Nigeria is possible and it has to be based on justice and equity where the people’s resources should be used to develop their areas,” assuring that he and his Vice, Datti “are determined to create a new Nigeria where the people will live in peace, secured and in harmony.”
Recall that, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had led a delegation of high profild Nigerians which includes first Republic Minister of Information Edwin Clark, and renowned jurist Afe Babalola among others to endorse the LP Presidential candidate who is enjoying the massive support of Nigerian women and youths.
Source: Obi-Datti Media
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