Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders in Abia State, Senator Chris Adighije, has asked candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in last week’s presidential election, Peter Obi, to accept defeat and congratulate the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the interest of South Easteners and Nigeria at large.
Obi is challenging Tinubu’s emergence as winner of the February 25 presidential election in court, insisting that he won the poll.
But in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, Senator Adighije who is the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council, Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, said any decision Obi takes in this circumstance has a high propensity to affect Nigerians and especially the South Easterners positively or negatively.
Senator Adighije also asked the President-elect and his party, the APC to do everything humanly possible to reach out to Obi and all concerned in the interest of the country.
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He said, “l want to congratulate the leader of my party, the President -Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. l also will use this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for his forthrightness and resilience in the election.
“I will appeal that he (Obi) congratulates the winner of the presidential poll as l believe sincerely that such a good gesture would endear him more to the hearts of the Obidient Movement and Nigeria at large.
“In this regard, it is pertinent that l call the eminent political sons and daughters of the South East political extraction to call their son, Peter Obi on the need to see the bigger picture for the interest of Ndi Igbo and Nigerians.”
