As individuals, stakeholders and interest groups continue to bare their minds on the conviction of the IPOB Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his comments on the verdict of the Abuja High Court.
The party in its reaction via a statement by its spokesman Seye Oladejo, pointed out that Obi took the position to gain relevance in the political space.
According to the statement, only a man steeped in political confusion could refuse to condemn IPOB’s murderous activities, yet preached morality to the Nigerian state.
The broom party who noted that Obi’s sudden moral awakening was fraudulent, added that his selective outrage was insulting, emphasizing further that his attempt to dress up terrorism in the garb of sentiment was equally dangerous.
The statement made it clear that What is wrong, however, is deceiving Nigerians with feigned neutrality and hypocritical sermonising.
“Obi’s misguided attempt to ‘tackle’ the Federal Government and reject a valid court ruling is nothing more than the cry of a man whose political career is in its last embarrassing throes. He is desperately fishing in troubled waters, hoping to harvest sympathy that the Nigerian people have already denied him at the polls.
‘’The salient question that Peter Obi must answer is simple: Why the inconsistency in his position? How does he condemn Boko Haram and their ilk wholeheartedly in one breath, only to embrace, defend and rationalise IPOB in another?
‘’We strongly recommend that Obi drops his ethnic blinders, read the judgement without emotions, and in good conscience return to Nigerians with the truth about his sincerity and his innermost desires for the nation he claims he wants to lead.
“There is nothing wrong in boldly admitting he is a regional champion committed to defending “his own”- for good or for bad.
‘’If Obi truly believes his own words, let him first explain: Why he maintained criminal silence when the Southeast burned. Why he could not condemn IPOB even once with clarity or courage. Why he continually plays both sides of the fence- leader by day, sympathiser by night,” the party pointed out.
Recall, Obi had warned that the sentencing of Kanu could end up worsening tensions rather than decreasing it.
