The Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25th election, Peter Obi, has expressed disappointment over the comments that Senator Chimaroke Nnamani made about him recently. Obi said that he is surprised that Nnamani who is his elder brother could say such things about him when he knows that what he said is not true.
After losing his re-election bid to the Labour Party candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, Nnamani had taken to social media to attack Peter Obi. He said that Obi has set Igbo political trajectory 24 years back, and claimed that Obi has served what he described as “devious opium” to Christians and Igbos that are living in different parts of the country.
Nnamani who is a Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District blamed Obi for the ethnic profiling and attacks on the Igbo people in parts of the country.
In the letter which he addressed to Nnamani, Obi slammed Nnamani, and challenged him to show evidence that he whipped up ethnic and religious sentiments during his presidential campaigns.
Obi said that he has never said anything bad about Nnamani, yet during the campaigns, Nnamani consistently said negative things about him.
In the report which was made by Vanguard, he said – “Throughout these electioneering campaigns, you have consistently cast aspersions on my person, despite my always being respectful to you as an elder brother, and never publicly or privately commenting negatively about you. I am really surprised that you as my dear elder brother would go out of the way in the exercise of his fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression as enshrined in our law to go into saying what he knows is not true.”
