Arthur Eze not happy with the new order Peter Obi represents – Group

A group, Diasporans for Good Governance (DGG), has chided oil mogul, Prince Arthur Eze over comments credited to him asking Presidential Candidate of the Labor Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi to perish his presidential ambition.

Prince Arthur Eze was reported to have told traditional rulers and women groups in his Ukpo country home on Christmas eve, that Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, is the expected Nigerian president of Igbo extraction, not Obi.

In a statement jointly signed by the conveners of the group, Sir Johnny Obika, Dr Ben Opara, Barr. Franklin Nwakor, Mike Okaka and Amb. Camillus Konkwo said that the billionaire businessman had no moral grounds or political relevance to ask Obi to withdraw from the race.

The group stressed that Peter Obi’s candidacy represents the new order of competence, capacity, integrity, and political decency while Arthur Eze represents the old order of criminality and rentier system that has held Nigeria down.

The statement reads, “As a private citizen, Eze is entitled to his choice of candidate. He however does not have any moral grounds to ask Peter Obi to withdraw from the race.

“When Peter Obi started talking about turning Nigeria from consumption to production, we knew that those who profit from Nigeria’s dysfunctional rentier system will fight hard to retain the status quo. These are people of the establishment who thrive on such scams like subsidy.”

“The people have however resolved to take their destiny into their hands. That’s why the
masses are flocking to Peter Obi who represents the new order and the light that will guide
them out of darkness. It is only logical that agents of darkness will lament about the regime of light.

“Arthur Eze’s continued support for the PDP and APC only shows that he is a part of the political cabal that has brought unprecendented insecurity, economic hardship, oil theft, corruption, unemployment, and debt crises. His latest attack on Obi is only an attempt to sustain the stranglehold on Nigeria which they have turned into the poverty capital of the world.

According to the group, gone are the days when Eze and a few privileged individuals like him decided for the people. They said that ordinary Nigerians have been pushed to the wall for far too long and that is why they are now deciding for themselves.

The group reminds Nigerians everywhere of their obligation to defy party boundaries and vote Labour Party’s Peter Obi if they desire to rescue themselves from the shackles that have tied them down. They group says it joins the entire Nigerian citizenry in Nigeria and the diaspora to say no to political merchants of neo-imperialism, dehumanization and mass impoverishment.