The lawmaker representing Enugu East, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has urged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi to withdraw his petition against the president-Elect, Bola Tinubu.
KanyiDaily recalls that Peter Obi had filed a petition at the Presidential Elections Tribunal in Abuja, seeking the nullification of the election victory of Bola Tinubu.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Chimaroke Nnamani asked Obi to withdraw his petition which he claimed is “dead on arrival” and join Tinubu in the task of making a new Nigeria.
The lawmaker also urged Obi’s supporters to align with the ebullience and conviviality of welcoming Tinubu’s victory to the Office of the President of the greatest black nation on earth.
He claimed that the former Anambra governor does not have the spread nor national appeal to win the presidential election, stressing that Obi’s petition is “bad belle, petulance and demarketing.”
He said: “His Petition is dead on arrival. He does not have the spread or national appeal. 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 safe landing to include our stake in the national Palavar 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 a 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.”
KanyiDaily recalls that Chimaroke Nnamani had accused Peter Obi of using the “message of hate, bile and incitement” to subjugate people of the South-East.