The people of the South-East and Middle Belt have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi. 
The Southeast and Middle Belt Forum made the endorsement at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday. 

Chairman of the Forum, Olisa Uzowulu said noted that Obi ranked higher than all presidential candidates for next year’s exercise.
His words, “We are going to go out there and fight a change. That is why you get the South-East, the Middle Belt, the South-South and the South-West to be one body and campaign for Peter Obi. There is no two-way about it.
“The Forum has decided on it. We are going to go out and work for him as a group. There is no choice about that.
“It is the people that are driving Obi, not even the party. They love him, people want a change. They are tired of the situation,” Uzowulu explained.
“There is nothing to sell to people anymore ... It is not tribe, or religion but the belief that we have to move ahead. People are going to make a choice this time, nobody is going to hoodwink them again.”

According to him, as far as the Forum is concerned, Obi’s support base transcends tribe, religion, and ethnicity as the former governor’s aspiration is people-driven.
Uzowulu, therefore, called on members of the Forum and its supporters across the regions to collect their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, and vote enmasse for the Labour Party candidate in the next year's election.
Obi is among the leading contenders for the presidential seat alongside the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar as well as candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmed Bola Tinubu