Tinubu To Obasanjo After Peter Obi Endorsement
Following the recent post by excelbreakingnews on the endorsement of Peter Obi of the Labour Party by Former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the next president of Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu responded.
On Sunday, January 1, 2023, following Obasanjo’s viral new, Tinubu in a “preliminary statement” said the action taken by Obasanjo has made his opinion known.
Tinubu in the statement which was released on Sunday, recognised the democratic right been expressed by the former president.
The statement reads;
“Following calls by journalists from various media houses who asked for our reaction we decided to make this preliminary statement, though we didn’t consider the so-called endorsement to be of any value.
“We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election. “Except that he made it known formally in his new year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that Chief Obasanjo’s preference for Peter Obi is expected.
“He had earlier stated his position at various public events, the last being at the 70th birthday anniversary of Chief John Nwodo, former President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Enugu.”
The Campaign Council of the Labour Party has also reacted to the endorsement of Peter Obi by Obasanjo
Onanuga added that his principal, Tinubu, won’t worry about Obasanjo’s support for Obi, which he characterized as meaningless.
“We make bold to say that our party and candidate, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not lose sleep over Obasanjo’s move, as Obasanjo is notorious for always opposing progressive political forces, as he did against MKO Abiola in 1993.
“The endorsement is actually worthless because the former President does not possess any political goodwill or leverage anywhere in Nigeria to make anyone win a Councillorship election let alone win a Presidential election. He is a political paperweight.
“He is also not a democrat anyone should be proud to be associated with. We recall that in 2003 and 2007 general elections when he was a sitting President, Obasanjo used all the coercive instruments of State at his disposal to railroad people into elective offices against the will of Nigerians as expressed at the polls. In 2007, he declared the polls a do or die affair after he failed in his bid to amend our constitution to have a third term”
