Nobody can capture any state because of a governor’s defection – Obi

Obi

By TANKO ALI

….Salutes the Sowore group on the Release Kanu Agitation.

The Labour Party leader and 2023 Presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi has said that no political party can capture any state electorally because a governor defects to it.

Obi, who was responding to reporters who accosted him in Abuja to react to the gale of defections to the ruling APC, especially in the South East, said that this is a democracy, not military rule, where states are captured.

The people will decide where to go, not governors or Senators, no party will capture or win any state just because it has a governor.

On Mbah’s defection and APC’s alleged move to capture the South-East for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election, Obi said

, “Peter Mbah is a good friend of mine. And I believe that as governor, he must have taken his decision based on his own political views and calculations”

“As for the alleged plot to capture the South-East, we are not in a military time when you capture people. You are a leader. You tend to do the right things for them to follow you. So I don’t think anybody is capturing anywhere”

“The government needs to do more if it wants the people to support it.

On the planned protest for the release of Mazi Nnamani Kanu by political activist Omoyele Sowore,

The former Anambra State Governor said “I’ve always been consistent on Nnamdi Kanu’s situation. There was no need for his arrest in the first place. And I’ve always said that for me, I will consult, negotiate and discuss with anybody who is agitating. I said it clearly and I remain there.