2027: Group Says Obi’s Move To ADC ‘New Year Gift To Nigerians’

The Eastern Union, EU, Friday, said Wednesday’s defection of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress, was a “New Year’s gift to many Nigerians”.

EU National President Hon Charles Anike told THE WHISTLER in Enugu that Obi’s defection would pose a huge challenge to the ruling All Progressives on theCongress, APC.

According to him, “The Obi defection is not only a welcome development but a multiplied encouragement to Nigerians. It is a dead blow to the APC. Our energies have been revived and the political atmosphere will surely change.”

Anike claimed that many Nigerians prayed for a formidable party to challenge APC, adding that 2027 elections would not be business as usual.

EU said, “Many wounded Nigerian youths are warming up to shock APC come 2027. The defection of some state governors to APC is nothing but empty political threats and another APC political miscalculation plotted to deceive Nigerians for another round of server glitches.”

He pledged that EU would ensure that “many eligible Nigerians obtain voters’ cards to vote out APC come 2027 elections”.

“The turnout of voters this time around will be doubled, to overwhelm the rigging calculations of the APC. With Obi’s defection on the eve of the New Year, Nigerians’ hope for socio-political and economic freedom has been revived, renewed and restored to face the Tinubu exploitative New Year taxation gift.” EU said.

The national president said Obi took the best decision to quit Labour Party, and not joining the Peoples Democratic Party because both parties had been infested with moles.

In his words, “LP has over the period been infiltrated by the APC viruses who have planted many political moles in it just as they did in the PDP. The unbelievable performance of LP in 2023 through the Obi candidacy has kept the APC restless and sleepless.

“Many Nigerian masses have been waiting seriously for Obi’s move. The people’s hope has been revived and rekindled. EU will commence the mobilization and sensitization of fellow Nigerians on the need to gear up once again and renew their resolve to reclaim back their country from political hijackers who have in the past 12 years grabbed power and enslaved the people.”