The Coalition for Peter Obi has said with the exit of the former governor of Anambra State from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), the party will lose over 15 million votes in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
Obi, who was a presidential hopeful on the platform of the PDP announced his defection from the party a few days before its primary election.
Reacting to the development in a statement issued by Chairman of the Coalition, Marcel Ngogbehei, alleged that transactional politics that was going on in PDP pushed the former governor out of the party.
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The statement reads: “We are delighted that the former governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi listened to the request of his 23 support groups to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the shenanigans going on inside the party ahead of the party’s presidential primary.
“With the recent development, it is obvious that PDP has automatically lost 15 million votes because of Peter Obi’s decision to dump the party.
“We, therefore, urge Mr Peter Obi to look for Nigerians of like minds and vie to be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the forthcoming 2023 general elections .”
