A former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, says the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just-concluded election, Peter Obi, was demarketing the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, with his (Obi) petition challenging the latter’s election at the Presidential Election Tribunal.

Nnamani, who urged Obi to withdraw his petition against the election of Tinubu, said the former governor of Anambra State lacked the spread or national appeal to win the February 25, 2023, presidential election.

The former governor said this via a statement issued on Sunday, April 23.

He further enjoined Obi and his supporters to accept the reality of the fact that Tinubu had emerged as the President-elect of Nigeria.

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Nnamani said: “Obi knows he has neither spread nor national appeal to win the presidential election; what Obi is doing with the petition is trying to demarket Tinubu.

“His petition is dead on arrival, he does not have the spread or national appeal. His appeal to non-electoral matters is to demarket the President-elect and damage his reputation.

“He does not have near spread and national appeal; the petition is ego driven and a joke carried too far.

“His attempt to highlight on non-electoral issues is trying to embarrass the President-elect.”

Nnamani said Obi needed to come down from his high horse to allow negotiation on behalf of the Igbo and South-East for a stake in the nation and share of the accruals of the commonwealth.

“We must join the mainstream and participate in the making of a new Nigeria.

“We are not going anywhere and ready to bargain for our own share. It is a common knowledge that others are doing the same.

“Igbo has to confront reality now or be consigned to the backwoods of history. Time to align is now,” the former governor added.

The Star