The National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko has rubbished the claims by presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, that Peter Obi does not provide viable opposition.
Sowore made the claims when he appeared on Channels Television’s Inside Sources.
"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. "
But reacting, Tanko said Obi’s relevance in national discourse remained “unmatched.”
“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.
“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.