Kungiyar shugabannin Kudancin Middle Belt (SMBLF) ta ki amincewa da abokin takarar shugaban kasa ga tsohon mataimakin shugaban kasa, Atiku Abubakar, mataimakin dan takarar shugaban kasa na jam’iyyar PDP na jihar Delta, Dakta Ifeanyi Okowa, a zaben 2023 mai zuwa.
Sanarwar da shugabannin SMBLF, Cif Edwin Clark, na kungiyar shugabannin Kudancin da Middle Belt (SMBLF) da Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) suka fitar, Cif Ayo Adebanjo, shugaban Afenifere, Dr. Bitrus Bitrus, shugaban kungiyar , Middle Belt Forum da kuma Farfesa George Obiozor, shugaban Ohaneze Ndigbo, sun bayyana Gwamna Okowa a matsayin “cin amanar babban tsari” don karbar mukamin mataimakin shugaban kasa.
Sanarwar ta kuma bayyana cewa gwamnonin jihohin Kudu 17, na jam’iyyar PDP da na APC a karkashin jagorancin gwamnan jihar Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu, sun gana a Asaba, babban birnin jihar Delta a ranar 11 ga Mayu, 2021, kuma ta yanke hukunci cewa, bisa ka’idojin adalci, daidaito da adalci, yakamata fadar shugaban kasa ta koma Kudu a karshen wa’adin shekaru takwas na Shugaba Muhammadu Buhari.
Ta bayyana cewa, daga baya gwamnonin Kudu sun sake haduwa a Legas, a ranar 5 ga watan Yuli, inda suka sake jaddada matsayarsu, sannan kuma a Enugu, a ranar 16 ga Satumba, sun sake kiran shugaban kasa ya sake komawa Kudu a 2023.
A cewar sanarwar, “Ba abu ne mai yiwuwa ba kuma abin takaici ne a ce Gwamna Ifeanyi Okowa, wanda a halin yanzu shi ne Shugaban kungiyar gwamnonin Kudu-maso-Kudu, kuma dan asalin garin Owa-Alero a karamar hukumar Ika ta Arewa-maso-gabas (daya daga cikin ‘yan kabilar Igbo). Yankunan magana) na jihar Delta, za su nuna irin wannan rashin dogaro da kai.”
Sanarwar ta koka da cewa, babban abin takaici ne yadda Okowa, wanda ya kamata ya sani, ya amince da nadinsa a matsayin mataimakinsa ga Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.