Anambra PDP moves to trounce LP, inaugurates campaign council

Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mapped out strategies to undermine strongholds of the presidential candidate of the Labour (LP), Peter Obi, in the state, as it inaugurated the Presidential Campaign Council for the emergence of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, in the 2023 general elections.

Some of the members of the Campaign Council include: Chairman, Ben Obi; the Director General, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, who also doubles as Technical Adviser to Atiku’s bid; Associate Prof. Rose Nwankwo; Mrs. Goody Ogbogu; Ben Nwosu and Charles Odedo, among others.

Obi, who spoke shortly after inaugurating the body, said that all hands must be on deck to ensure that the state delivers Atiku as the next president, dismissing threats posed to Atiku’s presidential ambition by Peter Obi, and that of his counterpart in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Justice Peter Umeadi.

He called on stakeholders to go all out and take the campaign to the wards and polling units to secure victory for PDP, stressing that Atiku-Okowa’s presidential quest is not difficult to market, as he observed Atiku is the Igbo man’s surest bet to power, as well as restructuring of the country.

According to him, the choice of Atiku’s running mate, Okowa, an Igbo man from Delta State, meets the demand of the Ohanaeze to witness the emergence of an Igboman at Aso Rock in 2023, describing Okowa as Igbo man’s next door neighbour.

Making his own contribution, the Director General of the campaign body in the state warned against sentimental or emotional attachment to Obi’s candidature on LP’s ticket, which, he said, will not fly because of absence of strong alliance.

Okonkwo, who is the Chairman of United Nigeria, revealed that Atiku’s quest has tendency for an Igbo man to come closer to the corridors of power where major decisions are taken, maintaining that Atiku has always had burning desire to bond with an Igbo man throughout his political sojourn.

He noted that his decision to identify with the Atiku-Okowa presidency is because he does not see hiccups in a Fulani man succeeding another Fulani as president in 2023, but solutions Atiku’s emergence offers to the country’s teething problems.