Euclid Myke
The senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has argued that Nigeria would have been better than what it is today if the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, had won the election.
Nepotism which thrives under President Bola Tinubu would have been nonexistent under an Obi presidency, Abaribe said on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ aired on Monday.
His words: “If Peter Obi had won, you probably would have seen a better Nigeria than what we are seeing today. He would not be as nepotistic as this government, he won’t, it’s not in him. That is just who we are, we feel for the other people”.
Abaribe queried Tinubu’s appointment of four ministers from only Ogun State when many other states have just one, stating that while former President Buhari towed the path of nepotism, it has become worse under President Tinubu.
The senator further stated that rather than waiting for presidents to be fair to the people of the South-East, it is high time people of the zone went back to revamp it, make it more livable, better and more cohesive.
He pointed out that apart from Obasanjo and Jonathan, no president has been fair to the people and that the people cannot continue to wait for that.
Speaking on the arrest of the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra in exile, Simon Ekpa, in Finland, Abaribe described it as a welcome development and caution signal to purveyors of violence in the Southeast.
The lawmaker pointed out that the Igbo had always condemned what Ekpa and his ilk try to direct from foreign lands even as he added that the violence in the South-East can be brought to an end when Nnamdi Kanu is released from federoa government detention.
