Senator Uche Ekwunife has refuted reports that she has abandoned Atiku Abubakar for Peter Obi insisting on Sunday that the Labour Party presidential candidate does not have the permutations to win the presidential election.
. reports that news reports had quoted Ekwunife as calling on her constituents to vote for her in the Senate election and vote for Obi in the presidential election during a stakeholders’ meeting last Sunday.
Speaking in Igbo, she was quoted to have said: “Vote for me in PDP. In the presidential election, we all know where we are going to vote. We are politicians. We know this game very well. It’s on our fingertips. Peter Obi is our son and my mentor; we can’t work against him.”
Senator Ekwunife has, however, refuted the reports insisting that she remains a firm supporter of the PDP presidential candidate adding that Obi cannot win the poll.
The statement with the caption, ‘My purported endorsement of Peter Obi’, read, “It has come to my notice that an online blog has been circulating articles claiming that I have endorsed the presidential candidate of the LP, Mr Peter Obi, in the forthcoming February poll.
“It further attributed statements that may translate as adopting Obi as my candidate for the election.
“I want to state categorically that those statements never emanated from me or my campaign council.
“I also, wish to state that Peter Obi is my leader and an elder brother from Anambra Central whom I respect and hold in high esteem.
“But our political aspiration has become divergent, hence, the need for me to focus on delivering our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, who are of the PDP.
“May I restate that I’m of the PDP and we have candidates in all the elective positions across Nigeria and I cannot at this point, work against my party or any of her candidates for whatever reasons?
“Peter Obi is no doubt, a force to reckon with in the election, but will not be able to garner the required spread that will secure a win, unlike Atiku who has everything it takes to win the election with a high margin,” Ekwunife said.
She urged the people of Anambra and Nigerians to key into Atiku’s presidential aspiration as a “project to rescue Nigeria and get her on the path of greatness.”
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