Nobody can capture South-East with defections – Peter Obi

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has said ongoing defections by state governors in the South East cannot guarantee the political capture of the zone.

Obi said this in response to enquiries from reporters in Abuja.

Reporters asked him to react to the gale of defections currently sweeping the South East where he hails from.

This was contained in a statement released by his media team, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

Obi explained that Nigeria was currently a democracy not under military rule where states can be “captured.”

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

Speaking specifically on the defection of the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, 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.”