A former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, to withdraw his petition against the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the February 25 presidential poll, but Obi is challenging the outcome of the poll at the tribunal.
However, Nnamani, who chairs the Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa/NEPAD, in a statement yesterday urged Obi to withdraw his petition against Tinubu, saying “It’s dead on arrival.”
Nnamani 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, joke carried too far. His attempt to highlight non-electoral issues is trying to embarrass the 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 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 ‘dey kampe’ and are ready to bargain for our own share. It is common knowledge that others are doing the same.
“Igbo have to confront reality now or be consigned to the backwoods of history. Time to align is now.”
