By Seun Opejobi A former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has faulted those linking the Labour Party, LP, presidential can...
By Seun Opejobi
A former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has
faulted those linking the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi
to Igbo presidency and Biafra agitation.
Abaribe said such move was a smear campaign aimed at
de-marketing Obi.
The Abia South Senator wondered why the All Progressives
Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has not been referred to as
“Yoruba presidency” and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku
Abubakar, as Fulani presidency.
Abaribe spoke during a virtual town hall meeting organized
by Ikengaonline.
He stressed that the former Anambra State governor should be
seen as an individual pursuing his constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
According to Abaribe, critics should stop linking Obi to his
tribe and religion.
He said: ”It’s unfortunate that Peter Obi’s emergence which
is now a silver lining has come with complications. Tinubu has a presidential
ticket, nobody is saying it’s a Yoruba ticket.
”Atiku has a ticket, nobody is saying it’s a Fulani ticket.
But Peter Obi got a ticket and everybody is shouting: ’It’s Igbo presidency.
Some even try to link him with the Biafra agitation.
”Have they tried to associate Tinubu with the Oduduwa self
determination agitation? Or Atiku within the Fulani herdsmen menace or the
banditry in the North?”
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