2023: PDP laments as Clark, Ortom endorse Obi

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, by an elder statesman, and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, on Tuesday has further confirmed that the party must reconcile with the five aggrieved governors.

The party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said this in an interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday while reacting to the endorsement by Clark.

Clark had announced the endorsement at a press conference in Abuja barely 48 hours after a similar endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said it was only fair and just that the South produced the next president after eight years of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

He disclosed that he had earlier directed the national leadership of the Pan Niger Delta Forum to meet with Obi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on December 23, 2022.

He said after being briefed on the successful outcome of the interaction; he had taken note of some observations which led to the endorsement.

Clark said, “Considering all these factors, and putting His Excellency Peter Obi side-by-side with all other candidates being presented by other political parties, I am convinced beyond doubt, that our country Nigeria has a great opportunity to elect a phenomenal team, the candidate of the Labour Party, and his Deputy, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmad, as President and Vice President respectively. Punch