Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council says the endorsement of Peter Obi, by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, is worthless. Onanuga said this in a statement in Abuja.
“We read with amusement the endorsement of Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his New Year message on Sunday.
“Any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that Chief Obasanjo’s preference for Peter Obi is expected,”he said. This, he said, was especially because Obasanjo had earlier stated his position in various public events, the last being at the 70th birthday of Chief John Nwodo, a former President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Enugu.
“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,” Onanuga said. He said that in 2003 and 2007 general election when Obasanjo was a sitting president, he used all coercive instruments of state at his disposal to railroad people into elective offices against the will of Nigerians.
“Chief Obasanjo’s endorsement is not a political currency Mr Peter Obi can spend anywhere in Nigeria because he is not a political force, even in his part of the country,” Onanuga said. He said that Obasanjo similarly endorsed Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in 2019 against President Muhammadu Buhari.
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