A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Council and the Director of the Campaign’s CUPP/Inter-party Directorate, Senator Ben Obi, has described as insensitive and height of mischief Vice President Yemi Osibanjo’s comment on 2023 elections.
Obi, in a statement in Abuja, berated Osinbajo for asserting that the presidency will revert to the South West after Buhari in 2023, saying “apart from the fact that the PDP will win the 2019 presidential election in which case Osinbajo’s reckless and morally outrageous scenario will never come to pass, the mere thought of making that insensitive declaration after Obasanjo’s eight year presidential tenure and Osinbajo’s four year vice presidency, in the context in which power is yet to rotate to the Southeast, is the height of political intolerance and mischief-making”.
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Obi urged Osinbajo to re-learn the historical circumstances that threw up the Obasanjo versus Falae presidential contest in 1999 and why the late Dr Alex Ekwueme sacrificed so much to ensure that Obasanjo won that election.
He urged Osinbajo to retrieve his lost moral compass with regard to this issue, and “also with regard to his trader moni vote-buying antics which, as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a Professor and a Pastor, he knows to be an unethical, corrupt and reprehensible electoral manoeuvre”.
The PDP chieftain, who was the immediate past National Secretary of its Caretaker Committee, said: “PDP will blend the season of love, grace, giving and sharing that Christmas is known for, irrespective of faith and creed, with robust outreach programmes on consultative meetings, mass mobilisation, stakeholder sensitization and voter awareness creation in all the states, local government areas and wards across the country.”
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