Various Obidient support groups under the umbrella of Abia Obidients have urged the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to cancel his visit to Aba, Abia State, ahead of the governorship election on Saturday.
The groups pleaded with the LP flag bearer to cancel his visit due to security concerns.
In a statement, the support groups stated that Obi’s visit to Aba “is a setup fraught with serious security threats.”
The coalition includes the Peter Obi Grassroots Movement (POGM), the Obidient Across Parties Alliance (OAPA), the Peter Obi Support Movement (POSM), the Women for Peter Obi Alliance (W4POA), the Obidient Abia Youths Forum (OAYF), the Abia Obidients Vanguard (AOV), the Peter Obi National Movement (PONAM), the Abia Obidients Students Forum (AOSF), the Abia O (AOYA).
Chetachi Ikpe (POGM) and Chief Ndubueze Obiakwata (OAPA’s chairman) signed the statement.
They said:
The Abia Obidents comprising members of various political parties who all worked for the LP presidential candidate during the presidential election in the state are of the firm belief that Obi has played his part by coming severally to Abia to campaign for LP despite the fact that they (Abia Obidients) mobilized virtually all citizens of the state to vote for him at the just concluded presidential election.
They subsequently urged the former Anambra Governor to ignore those pushing for his visit to the state as it would worsen the already tense situation.