A House of Representatives member, Afam Ogene, has commended the recent political move of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Ogene was on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme on Wednesday.
It was also recalled that Obi dumped the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, alongside former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, on Sunday.
The lawmaker said, “I thought people should applaud Obi, giving his own opinion. Would you rather loll in crisis or go to a conducive atmosphere.
“I don’t want it to be a We vs Them issue, otherwise I would have asked you why Atiku Abubakar didn’t stay in the PDP and handle the crisis that broke out because of his candidacy only four years ago.
Why didn’t he stay back in the several political parties that he came out to run on as their presidential candidate and thereafter left?
“What Mr. Peter Obi wants is a country that works for all. “It’s not a political party that is mired in several shenanigans by competing interests in house and by government trying to make sure that he does not even appear on the ballot.”
