2023: Peter Obi Gains Support Of Fulani Youths

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi on Tuesday gained the support of some Fulani youths ahead of the 2023 election.

The youths while endorsing Obi’s presidential ambition said they are supporting him because of his leadership qualities.

According to the youths, Fulani would no longer vote along ethnic and religious lines.

The Fulani youths from the 19 Northern States and Abuja endorsed Obi during a meeting with Igbo Elders Consultative Forum led by Chukwuemeka Ezeife.

The youths during the meeting presented a document containing their demands to the former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Simon Okeke, who chaired the meeting.

The leader of the delegation, Ibrahim Abdullahi said the decision to support Obi was to reinvent the alliance between the North and South East as witnessed in the First and Second Republics.

Abdullahi said, “The current president is our Kinsman but we have come to realise from experience that you don’t need to have someone from your tribe or faith as president before your lives improve. What we need is somebody that is patriotic, honest, just and fair. In Nigeria, Fulani is no longer after tribal or religious sentiments.

“We are looking for a leader that is capable of taking Nigeria to the promised land. We have realised that these two tribes, Fulani and Igbo hold 99 per cent of the corporate existence of Nigeria. The Igbos have control of over 80 per cent of the commercial activities in the country while the Fulanis control 99 per cent of the livestock we have. Igbos and Fulani coming together to work for the good of Nigeria will be the best.

“You should also know that this is not the first time. The alliance between the two ethnic groups in the First and Second Republics brought prosperity to the country. Though we are still licking the wound of civil war and of course, we have offended ourselves but we are doing this to bring about the much-needed healing.”

Ezeife speaking at the meeting on Tuesday described the former Governor of Anambra State as a true unifier who will banish poverty, insecurity, and all the negatives associated with Nigeria.

Speaking on the comment of Governor Charles Soludo where he discredited Obi’s ambition, Ezeife said everybody cannot support Obi’s presidential bid.

Ezeife said, “If Peter Obi becomes president, in the next two years, our sons and daughters abroad will begin to think of coming back home.

“God has his hand in Obi’s movement. I. Know him very well. Many years after I left as a governor, I saw him at the airport carrying his own luggage. He insisted that public funds must be used for the public good.

“Then, as we are here, if all of us (Igbos) are saying the same thing, it will look somehow. We are happy to hear that some might not be supporting him, but that doesn’t mean anything. I know that 99 per cent of the people are for Obi.”