The leadership of the Labour Party has said that there is no
way its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, could be tempted to work with President
Bola Tinubu’s government of national unity.
The position of the party was stated in two separate
interviews with the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh and the
National Legal Adviser of LP, Kehinde Edun.
The party’s position is coming six days after the former
Anambra State governor shaded the president on Arise TV’s ‘Morning Show’
following the controversy surrounding his academic records at Chicago State
University.
Obi stated that any leader who falsifies his credentials or
age cannot be trusted to do the right thing and is unfit to lead the people.
He said, “We are at the point where we are challenging the
process and that has to come to a logical end before any other thing. These are
parts of what makes a nation. The processes through which people assume office
are far more than what they do thereafter. It is important that people come in
through the right door and not just jump in through the window and keep saying
‘Let’s move on.’
“The issue of qualification is the issue of leaders making
statements and doing things that are honest and truthful. This is an issue of
honour and integrity.
“If you look at what is happening in Nigeria today, there
are so many issues of certificates, age, and all sorts of one falsification or
the other with the leaders. There is no way people can do this and be able to
do the right thing. That means they are living a falsified life.”
A few days after Obi’s scathing remark, his party also
admonished the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
not to drag the LP candidate into his feud with the president.
The party was reacting to an earlier call by Atiku, for
Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso to join his crusade in exposing the alleged dirty
secrets of the president.
The reaction of LP was seen by some people as a possibility
that Obi would prefer to work with Tinubu than team up with his former PDP
ally, Atiku.
But the national legal adviser of LP insisted that such a
figment of imagination can never come to reality, reiterating that Obi has
already made his stance known.
He said, “I think Obi has something he is pursuing, especially
when we are sure we won the election. So it will be out of place for us to now
say we want to work with this government. As far as LP is concerned, we are
waiting for the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Presidential
Election Petitions Tribunal that will pronounce Obi as the winner. That’s what
we are waiting for.
“This is why we cannot be talking about Obi, somebody who is
the owner of the mandate, working with somebody who is a pretender to the
office. Until we see to the end of this case at the Supreme Court, it is not
over.”
Sharing the same sentiment, the party’s spokesman also
insisted that the LP candidate can’t be distracted by such a notion as he is
presently focused on reclaiming his ‘stolen mandate’ from the apex court.
“We are still in the process of reclaiming our stolen
mandate through our appeal at the Supreme Court. There is no way our candidate
can be seen working for this government. For now, he is focused on the appeal
at the apex,” he said.
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