The All Progressives Congress (APC) Igbo group, under the aegis of Omalegwuoku Progressive Initiative (OPI)/Igbo Kwenu for Asiwaju-Shettima, has cautioned the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, to wait for his turn to rule the country.
The group insisted that it was an insult for Obi to have called out President Bola Tinubu to clarify his state of origin and academic qualifications.
The global president of the group, Mrs Ginika Tor, while addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, said she was disappointed in Obi for his action.
She said: “I had already put up my speech and suddenly I realised that my own brother, whom I respect so much, Peter Obi, who is also the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, came up on ARISE TV to say that our president, a man that is the number one man in this country, should come out and explain his state.
“So by now, a man who served eight years as a governor, you don’t know his state, [and he] should tell us his background educationally, is that right?
“It is an insult to Nigeria as a nation for you to call out our President, who was massively supported, elected, confirmed, and validated as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to come and stand before who, to say he’s from this state, from this country, from this region, from this locality. Does he owe us that? What the President owes us now is to take us to our destination of choice.
“So, I am disappointed in a man that I respected so much, my brother, who stood in front to run for Igbos. It may not be his turn now, but it could come in future. Whatever he does now is going to play out in the future. So let us be cautious and let all Igbos not be misled by this press interview that our own brother granted ARISE.”
Continuing, she said: “We are telling our brother, Obi [to] calm down; if God wanted you to be there, He would have made you the President. He did not. There is a lot of distraction on this President. Are you not bothered with the issues of the world?”
