…days PDP’s Ozigbo is 50, young
The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has clarified his speech during the campaigns for the emergence of the PDP candidate, Mr. Val Ozigbo.
A release from his media office, signed by Mr. Valentine Obienyem, however declared that Obi recommended that anybody above 60 should not be elected governor.
Obi, a former Anambra State governor, also in his speech at Aguata, Orumba North and South, and few other places, pointed out numerous projects he did across the state, from roads through schools to security.
He appealed to the people of these areas to vote for Mr. Ozigbo for possessing the capacity and youthful age to deliver. He also said that whilst the other two contestant have had opportunity to help their people and did nothing, that Ozigbo would be the clear difference.
Obi said that two out of the three major governorship contestants were over 60 years, while Mr. Val Ozigbo of PDP is 50.
He therefore concluded that Ozigbo possessed the ideal age for governorship at sub-national level, which he put between 40 and 60.
Obi added that it was the experience garnered at that level that would contribute to the success of leadership at the presidential level, which he put at between 60 and 80 years.
“These things were so clearly said and on tape to be twisted by even those contesting election to create dissatisfaction among Val’s campaign team”, the statement clarified.
He averred that Ozigbo remains the best both in terms of age, background, and experiential pedigree garnered out of long years of managing human and material resources.