Reno Omokri, former special adviser to ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan, says Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi, presidential candidates of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party (LP), respectively, are “regional
candidates”.
Omokri spoke on Wednesday during an interview on Channels
Television.
Speaking about the 2023 general election, the former special
adviser described Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a
“national candidate”.
“Right now, we have three major candidates; Atiku Abubakar
is the only national candidate. If you talk about Peter Obi, he is a regional
candidate,” he said.
“IPOB had a
sit-at-home yesterday. Obidents and Peter Obi who normally have things to do in
the south-east every day, they obeyed that IPOB sit-at-home and this is not the
first time.
“Previously, IPOB’s sit-at-home was on Mondays. Obidents
obeyed and Peter Obi himself obeyed it. They never had anything on a day IPOB
held their sit-at-home. This shows that they are obeying IPOB rather than our
constitution.
“If you talk about someone like Bola Tinubu, we saw it on TV
and it went viral. In Ogun, when he was giving his basis for contesting this
election, he said, in Yoruba, that it is the turn of the south-west. That is
the basis — it is already a regional basis.
“Our candidate is the
only candidate that is not coming from a regional, ethnic, and religious basis.
He is saying ‘I am a unifier’. If you look at him, that man is ready. This is a
national leader, who is ready to go.”
Omokri added that the PDP presidential candidate has the
capacity to move Nigeria away from the “stormy weather”.
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