2023: Obasanjo Doing What Atiku Should’ve Done For South East – Ohanaeze Vice President

Damian Okeke-Ogene, National Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has stated that the Southeast will not back Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.

According to Okeke-Ogene, Atiku lost the support of the Southeast as a result of his role in the PDP’s abandonment of zoning.

He claimed that if Atiku had advocated zoning the presidential ticket to the Southeast, he would have been regarded a hero.

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The Ohanaeze Vice President stated in a statement that Atiku should have enabled the Southeast to rotate power because of the sacrifices the Southeast made for him in the 2019 elections.

Okeke-Ogene said, “If conscience is anything to go by, the two major political parties, couldn’t have field candidates from any other zone other than Southeast. Igbos are being persecuted by Buhari today because they gave Atiku during his last election 95% votes.

“What Obasanjo and others are doing today is what we had expected from Atiku who happens to be our in-law. That’s why it’s not good to vote according to sentiments.

“Atiku would have known that the entire Southeast sacrificed their votes and interest for him and see this election as a payback time. He wouldn’t have engineered and funded the no-zoning campaign because we voted for him based on zoning.

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“Atiku would have been the greatest hero of our times if he had been at the forefront of championing its turn of the Southeast.”

Some political stakeholders argued that the major political parties’ presidential ticket should have been assigned to the Southeast.

They pointed out that all zones had produced presidents except the Southeast, therefore 2023 should be the region’s turn.

Despite these protests, Atiku emerged as the PDP’s presidential candidate.

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