Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a former Senate Minority Leader and senator from the Abia South senatorial district, has refuted claims that the Igbo people do not have the same kind of interregional coordination that other groups do to produce the president. Abaribe, who stated on Signature TV, supported Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, in the most recent presidential election to support his claim.
He stated that Igbos didn’t choose Obi because he is Igbo, but rather because they believed he was the greatest candidate to address our country’s economic problems.
He said, “Igbos don’t love themselves but what happened during the last election? Peter Obi took all the votes in Igboland. And everybody who complained went to check and found out that he was correct. Why? Because Igbos saw him as the best person to run our economy at this point that we need a sane, sober, very meticulous and prudent person to run the government.”
When asked: Maybe they voted him because he was an Igbo man?
He said, “No Igbo voted him because he was an Igbo man, they voted him because they saw him as the best person. And I stand to be challenged by anybody. And that is why you could see that his appeal was country wide.”
