2023: Mr Ibu Joins Rally For LP’s Peter Obi In Jos After Endorsing Tinubu

Popular Nigerian comic actor, John Okafor, best known as Mr. Ibu has sparked quite a reaction after joining the youths to rally for Peter Obi in Jos

Mr. Ibu, who is known to support All Progressive Congress, APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was seen rooting for Labour Party 2023 Presidential candidate, Peter Obi during a  rally held in Jos, Plateau State.

TopNaija recalls that Mr. Ibu, in November 2021, endorsed the former Governor of Lagos State, Tinubu during a conference meeting with the theme; ‘South West Stands with Bola Tinubu’

That same year, Mr. Ibu was seen with some of his colleagues like Foluke Daramola, Harry Anyanwu and Benedict Johnson in a meeting with members of APC and Tinibu’s campaign team.

His past actions made many react after photos and videos of the actor at the rally made rounds on social media.

In one of the videos shared, the crowd could be heard hailing the 60-year-old who wore a branded polo with the Labour Party logo and pictures of Peter Obi and his running mate Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed.

Watch the moment Mr. Ibu attended Peter Obi rally;

However, after receiving backlash from critics over the 2021 visit, Ibu was forced to release a statement denying that he endorsed Tinubu for president.

Ibu claimed that his allegiance was with former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and not Tinubu.

“I am a completely independent person in the area I perform, I am a comedian, a musician and an actor. I don’t know why this is going round like this. I have never run any sideways. From time it has been me and Atiku all this while. He has been taking me to places and if Atiku is contesting for president, certainly because he has done a lot of things for me, there was a time he changed a house for me. He is like a father to me. He is contesting for president under PDP.

“Atiku is my candidate, these are my people, anybody I visited is simply because I’m an actor and they want me to assist them one way or the other in whatever they are doing. That does not mean I abandoned them. I did not,” he said.