The Director General of Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said that there is hope that his principal may still contest for the post of the president in the 2023 general election.
Obi announced his resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, just as he also withdrew from the presidential race.
A letter was tendered to that effect by Obi to the national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, and dated May 24, 2022.
But speaking after the announcement on Wednesday, Okupe, who was Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, said however that Obi was not desperate on becoming president of Nigeria, but to offer solutions to problems bedeviling it.
His words: “You will recall that consistently former Governor Peter Obi has repeatedly stated that he’s not desperate to be President.
“He is desperate to cause a change, to cause a redirection, to change the way the government of Nigeria is being run. It is for this reason and to offer solution to the various problems of Nigeria.
“It was for these reasons that he entered into the race. According to what he said in his letter, various development in the PDP, makes it virtually impossible for him to find full expression of his desire on the platform of the PDP.
“This is not to say that all hopes are lost. I can say on his behalf that Nigerians must not give up, we must never give up. Hope is on its way and help is coming.
“All options are on the table, by the grace of God Obi’s name will be on the ballot in 2023,” he said.
Obi, who was a governor of Anambra State, was also the party’s running mate to PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in 2015 presidential election.
Until his resignation, he was one of the 15 aspirants vying for the presidential ticket of the PDP, of which the party’s primary is expected to hold on May 28 and May 29 in Abuja.
