Former Enugu State Governor Chimaroke Nnamani has chided presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, to get down from his ‘high horse’, and instead join president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in making a new nation.
Nnamani said this while speaking to journalists on Sunday.
He described Obi’s petition against Tinubu as ‘dead on arrival’, stressing that from the inception, Obi never had the ‘spread’ nor the ‘national appeal’ required to win the presidential election of February 25, 2023.
He continued, “His appeal to non-electoral matters is to demarket the President-elect and besmirch his reputation.
“He does not have near spread and national appeal. His petition is ego-driven, a joke carried too far. His attempt to highlight on non-electoral issues is trying to embarrass President-elect.
“Obi needs to come down from his high horse to allow sedate minds to negotiate on behalf of the Igbo and South East for a safe landing to include our stake in the national palaver and share of the accruals of the commonwealth.
He urrged Obi and his supporters to ‘align with the ebullience and conviviality welcoming Tinubu’s victory to the Office of the President of the greatest black nation on earth’
“We must join the mainstream and participate in the making of a new Nigeria. We are not going anywhere. We de kampe and ready to bargain for our own share. It is common knowledge that others are doing the same.
“Igbo has to confront reality now or be consigned to the backwoods of history. Time to align is now,” he added.