The Obi-dient Movement, Abia State chapter, has threatened not to support the Governor Alex Otti’s reelection bid in 2027 if he failed to join the 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Otti, who was elected on the LP platform in 2023, had during his recent monthly media chat tagged ‘Otti Speaks to Abia’ in December, said he would not join the former Anambra State governor in his new party, ADC
But, spokesman of the pro-Obi group in Abia State, Chibuzor Obiesili, stated the Obi-dients’ position during a press briefing in Umuahia, the state capital, alongside two lead/National Advisory Committees and eight state collegiate members of the Movement.
”We call on you to join the ADC where our leader, Peter Obi, is and every other well-meaning politician is, for more united block vote which will not be divided,” he said.
He, however, expressed dissatisfaction over “growing wave of distractions and orchestrated attacks” by the opposition led by a former governor of the State, Orji Uzor Kalu, against the Otti-led administration.
”We have not forgotten the sorry state of the state which the past administrations kept it in. They governed the state heartlessly, not to talk of how the treasury was looted without mercy.
”We wish to call on all well-meaning Abians to reject these set of people posing as sycophants to the president, trying to undermine our state for their own personal gains,” the Obi-dients spokesman said.
However, Obiesili complained that in view of their role, the governor “had not lived up to expectation of integrating the Obi-dient faithfuls into his government.
”But, for the fact that the administration is people-oriented and delivering to the masses, which is the core of the Obedients, we have to throw out support behind this performing governor.”
While urging Otti to remain steadfast, focused, and to continue to deliver on his mandate, he solicited the support of the different segments of society in the state for him.
