Your Petition Against Tinubu Dead on Arrival, Chimaroke Tells Obi

Former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, has asked the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, “to get down from his high horse”.

He advised Obi to withdraw his presidential election petition and mediate with the ‘President-elect’, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Chimaroke who lost his senatorial bid to a Labour Party candidate in the 2023 general elections remarked on the information he made available to reporters on Sunday.

The former governor said the petition filed by Obi and his party to challenge Tinubu’s victory will accomplish nothing, “his petition is dead on arrival”.

Chimaroke said Obi neither has “the spread” nor “national appeal” that was required to win the presidential election of February 25, 2023.

He also said, “His appeal to non-electoral matters is to de-market the President-elect and besmirch his prominence.

“He does not have near spread and national appeal. His petition is ego-driven, a joke carried too far. His attempt to highlight on-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.

“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.

Recall that in March, Chimaroke blamed the ethnic and religious profiling and attacks on the people of the Southeast living in some parts of Nigeria on Obi’s political journey.

Chimaroke who lost his Enugu East Senatorial District re-election to Kelvin Chukwu of the Labour Party said that Obi had set the Igbo political trajectory 24 years back, adding that he had become a twin blight and scourge on the land.

The former governor also described Obi’s political trajectory as devious and vicious. He also described it as a dangerous opium served to Christians and Igbos living in different parts of Nigeria.

“Peter Obi has set the Igbo political trajectory 24 years back. He has become a twin Blight & Scourge on the Land. His devious Opium served to Christians within sections of Nigeria and to Igbo domiciled in different sections of Nigeria is wicked and dangerous,” he added.