The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank and Anap Business Jets Limited, Atedo Peterside has declared support for Peter Obi the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), in the forthcoming February 25th election
Atedo Peterside made this disclosure on Wednesday during Arise Tv programme. He stated that Peter Obi represent a new way and a new path
“In 2015, I worked with Jonathan and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as his coordinating minister. We did an ANAP Foundation report stating that Muhammadu Buhari was ahead of him in the poll. There was fury in the villa from some people. But I said, integrity is not about being a member of one government or the other
“In 2019, I made it clear I was supporting Atiku over Buhari again, and the poll showed PDP was behind also. Some members of the party also criticised it
"I know the three of them quite well, and if I have to make a choice. Let us say a first among equals. To answer why I would vote Peter Obi is because it represents a new way, a new path. And not because you are saying a new path is better
"But I even like the idea of a government that does not have the absolute majority in the parliament because we have seen that absolute majority abused
“Where people bring rubbish economic policies and it’s rubber-stamped by their whole party. They put Nigeria aside and they approve it. I prefer an arrangement where nobody controls the national assembly and any policies there brought there must be in the national interest or there would be a bloodbath
“On the individual, people said he has no federal experience and I disagree slightly. I served with Peter Obi on the economic management team of former president Goodluck Jonathan for four years. It was like a period of tutelage. If he was always on the wrong side of every economic argument, I would never vote for him. I believe there is a new arrangement that he represents
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