He expressed the view that this move would be perceived as a betrayal, especially in the south-west and other southern regions, where Obi’s actions would be easily misrepresented as those of a self-serving politician.
According to him, “If he’s not going to be the presidential candidate (PDP), he (Obi) will not only have embarked on a futile exercise, he’ll lose a lot of his support for the reason that I mentioned earlier, especially that he will be abbreviating the eight years that are expected. In the south-west, almost every zone in the south will have a grudge against him. Why are you doing this? It’ll be so easy to demonise him. A sellout, a greedy politician, so I can see circumstances of him going back to the PDP other than being invited to become a presidential candidate.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
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