Member of the PDP Presidential Council and the Director of the Campaign’s CUPP/Inter-party Directorate, Sen Dr Ben Obi has described as insensitive and height of mischief, Vice President Yomi Osibanjo’s comment on 2023 elections.
Osibanjo had recently postulated that President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over the presidency to the south west after completing his two terms of eight years in office.
Sen 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 8 year presidential tenure and Osinbajo’s 4 year vice presidency, in the context in which power is yet to rotate to the South East, is the height of political intolerance and mischief-making”.
Sen. Obi directed Osinbajo to re-learn the historical circumstances that threw up the Obasanjo Vs Falae presidential contest in 1999 and why the Late Dr Alex Ekwueme sacrificed so much to ensure that Obasanjo won that election.
He further further charged 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 high ranking PDP chieftain who was the immediate past National Secretary of its Caretaker Committee, further revealed that the “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 mobilization, stakeholder sensitization and voter awareness creation in all the states, local government areas and wards across the country”.
Sen Obi averred that the “PDP will be working closely with local communities and their grassroots based organizations for a full buy-in into its vision of getting Nigeria to work again, the first step of which will entail taking our country back and re-directing it on the path of peace, security, prosperity and life abundant for all our people after its resounding victory in the 16 February, 2019 presidential election”.
