The ambition of the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, suffered a setback as Fulani Youths in Nigeria, unanimously endorsed the standard bearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, as its preferred candidate in the 2023 poll.
Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi who is the Leader of the group, during the endorsement in Abuja, explained that the country needed someone who would be fair to every region, which Obi represented.
Abdullahi explained that support of Obi would heal the wounds caused by the civil war which led to the killing of thousands of people.
‘Of course, the present president is our kinsman. But we have come to realise that we do not need our own or people you share the same faith with to become the president before your lots improve. We need somebody that is honest.
‘We need somebody that is just and fair. When you have that he should come from Jupiter, there is no problem.
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‘So the Nigerian-Fulani are no longer after tribal, ethnic, and religious sentiment. We are looking for a leader that is capable of bringing Nigeria to the promised land.
‘We have realised over the years that these two tribes– the Fulani and the Igbo hold 99% of the corporate existence of Nigeria. The Igbo has a control of about 80 to 90% of commerce and industry in Nigeria.
‘The Fulani man controls 99.99 of the livestock that we have in this country. And by implication, we have the 99.99% of the protein meat in Nigeria.
‘These two groups have accepted to work for the good of Nigerians and it is the best thing that will ever happen to this country. It has been done before.
‘We have seen how the alliance in the First Republic and so we believe that the North and South East which brought prosperity to Nigeria will continue.
‘And we have seen when there was division, these two very important groups suffered because of the civil war which was unfortunate.
‘We are still leaking the wounds of the civil war. Therefore we have decided to this time around that, of course we have offended ourselves but we have decided to make peace.’
Meanwhile, a former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, said the hand of God was in the movement of Obi known as ‘Obidients’.