He said: ''.....He’s a gift from Ndi-Igbo to this country. His works and pedigree bears eloquent testimony of the Igbo DNA''.
Ikpeazu who was answering questions from journalists at the Governor’s lodge located in Aba, the commercial hub of the state when Obi paid a condolence visit to him and the people of Abia State over the pipeline explosion in Osisioma Ngwa which has reportedly claimed over hundred lives, said it was wrong for anyone to claim that the governors of the South East were against Obi’s nomination.
He described Obi as a worthy son of Igbo land and a gift from Ndi-Igbo to Nigeria whom every Igbo man both at home and in the diaspora will queue behind considering his pedigree.
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.”
Also speaking, the chairman of the South East caucus of the National Assembly and senator representing Abia South Senatorial District in the senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe said that Peter Obi’s selection is one that has lifted the spirit of every Igbo person and has no opposition from any angle.
“As the chairman of South East Senate caucus of the National Assembly that the whole National Assembly is behind Peter Obi and at no time was there any problem about his nomination as running mate to our presidential candidate.
“We know that ourselves, the governors forum and everybody in the South East are all in support of him. Because today, Nigeria needs men and women who their yes is their yes and no is no.
“We need people who will not see subsidy and call it under recovery. We need people who will not say that they’ve defeated Boko Haram and they turn around and keep executing Red Cross Workers. Today, what we have is somebody we can all queue behind to rescue Nigeria. Let me say it without equivocation that all Igbo leaders are queuing behind Peter Obi.”
Nice one from Mr Okezie Ikpeazu on this!
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Okezie make Aba clean and work on the roads so that people can also speak good of you. This one no be television and internet pictures, I confirmed that Aba is a mess, I cried the last time I travelled to Aba, people there are suffering and smilling, so afraid to speak their mind. Why the rush to demolish houses when you are not ready to work. Please work so that people can remember you for good.
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ReplyDeleteAnyway, I know it's only Governor Umahi of Ebonyi state that must have uttered such rubbish. He is already tied to the apron strings of Buhari.
Peter Obi is the best option that the Igbo's could produce no matter how you view it.
That man is a political magician...yes, cos what he performed in Anambra state is nothing short of a miracle t
Dear Gov Okezie, please do something at Osisioma junction and Umueze teaching hospital road. We are suffering plssssssss. Two of my sisters are victims of keke napep fall there and seriously �� injured. If you need help, the three schools in that vicinity can assist cos parents are suffering it too. I don't mind parking along Aba Owerri road and trek that road every morning to work but I pity the people in that neighborhood, school kids and parents that need to drop them and go to work. Do something Sir, ka Oke wezuo Abia.
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