Obidient Movement has responded to the claim by the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, that Peter Obi does not oppose Tinubu administration.
Sowore, who appeared on Channels Television’s Inside Sources, had said Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, cannot be referred to as an opposition.
“I don’t know why anybody refers to Peter Obi as an opposition,” he said, adding Obi “is not opposed to anything the government is doing. ”
He also noted that the former Anambra State Governor did nothing when fuel prices were increased.
But reacting, the National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko, told Channels Television that Obi’s relevance in national discourse remained “unmatched.”
Tanko said, “So, the question we want to ask is this: when someone is not a worthy opposition, why do you keep talking about him? As we stand today in Nigerian politics, if they don’t talk about Peter Obi, none of them gets traction. None.
“Whether he goes to the toilet, speaks, or makes a statement, it becomes news. That’s the level of Peter Obi’s relevance in today’s political dispensation.”
Tanko also criticised the recent comment on Obi by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during a valedictory session for the late Chief Edwin Clark.
“To a point that Peter Obi was discussed at a valedictory service by no less a person than the Senate President — not even on national policy, but on character assassination. That says a lot.
“They should allow Peter Obi to continue doing what he’s doing — challenging the establishment for the interests of the Nigerian people, which he will continue to do, and which we will continue to support,” he said.
