The National Coordinator of the All Progressives Grand Alliance Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, has urged voters in Anambra State to support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027, warning against backing Peter Obi.
Obigwe described voting for Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, as a wasted effort, arguing that supporting Tinubu would give Anambra and the wider South-East a better opportunity to secure development projects from the Nigerian Government.
He made the appeal in a statement issued in Awka on Wednesday, following Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s endorsement of Tinubu for a second term.
Obigwe urged voters to set aside what he described as emotional considerations and support the President, stressing that their votes could serve as a bargaining tool in securing political and developmental benefits for the state.
He said, “Anybody in Anambra joking with Governor Soludo’s advice with regard to the forthcoming 2027 general election is doing so to the detriment of our state and also to his or her own peril.
“If you already know that Peter Obi will not win the 2027 general election and still decide to vote for him so that you will fail the election with him, you should as well get ready to face the consequence of failure.”
The APGA chieftain urged Anambra residents and other people in the South-East to support Tinubu’s second-term ambition.
“The best thing for Anambra voters and Igbo at large to do is to do away with the whipping of emotional sentiment and get it right by voting for President Bola Tinubu for his well deserved second term in office re election.
“This time, Anambra votes must count. In politics, you bargain with your votes, according to Governor Chukwuma Soludo. Voting massively for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2nd term re election is the best thing for Anambra voters to do. Umunnem ndi Anambra, let’s follow who know road,” he added.
Soludo has publicly endorsed Tinubu’s second-term ambition ahead of the 2027 presidential election, arguing that supporting the President could strengthen the South-East’s relationship with the Nigerian Government and improve the region’s chances of attracting development projects.
APGA has also adopted Tinubu as its preferred presidential candidate for the 2027 election, announcing that it would not field its own candidate.
At the launch of the party’s 2027 campaign in Awka on November 6, Soludo said APGA was targeting at least 50 per cent of Anambra’s votes for Tinubu.
The governor’s endorsement has attracted attention because Anambra gave Tinubu fewer than 5,000 votes in the 2023 presidential election, while Obi, who contested on the Labour Party platform, secured 584,621 votes in the state.
Editorial note: The claims about Obi’s chances of winning and the expected development benefits are Obigwe’s political opinions and have been attributed to him rather than presented as established facts.