A former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Labaran Maku, has admitted many saw the ‘Obidient’ Movement and the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi as a joke.
Mr. Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, took the nation by storm when he emerged as a third-force candidate. Despite being dismissed as lacking a political structure, the LP candidate who enjoys a huge youth following scored over six million votes and won in 11 states to finish third in the just-concluded exercise.
But while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily about the outcome of the 2023 elections, Mr. Maku admitted that the opposition politicians never gave the LP candidate and his supporters a chance.
We thought the ‘Obidient’ and Peter Obi wave was a joke, says former Information Minister Labaran Maku. @SunriseDailyNow#CTVTweets pic.twitter.com/Iae06cBSKe
— Channels Television (@channelstv) March 28, 2023
“What happened in the presidential election as you could see was that there was this wave of young people, the ‘Obidients’ that we all took for granted and we were thinking Peter Obi was a joke. Where would he go?” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain said on the breakfast show Tuesday.
“So, both PDP and the APC, we were thinking ‘This man does not have structure. He will not be able to do so much’.”
