The Ijaw National Congress, INC, has endorsed Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
The endorsement was carried out at the Ijaw House, Yenaoga, Bayelsa State, on Thursday morning during an interactive session with the apex Ijaw socio-cultural body.
The Ijaw, who are spread from Sierra Leone to Gabon, dominate Bayelsa State, have sizeable populations in Delta, Rivers, and Ondo States, and are spread around the coast of Nigeria. They have a population strength of about 4 million, which could be about 2% of the Nigerian population of 200 million plus.
The endorsement of Obi, the Labour Party presidential flag bearer by the Ijaw follows the endorsements also received from socio-cultural groups in the Southwest, Middle Belt, and Southeast.