NIGERIA – A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, has said no one can halt the Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s movement.
Senator Dino Melaye during the weekend had claimed that Obi was not known nationally until the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar discovered him in 2018.
In his reaction, Monday, the former deputy chairman, Media and Public Affairs of the House of Representatives, Ogene said either Melaye his civics classes or is simply a poor student of current affairs to have described a pacesetting two-time governor of Anambra state as “not known nationally, until 2019.”
Continuing, the statement read: “Having been chased out of Kogi politics by a younger brother, Governor Yahaya Bello, Melaye appears to have crossed over to nearby Abuja to seek relevance, not as a political gladiator, but an irritant intent on gaining notoriety through theatrics.
“It is, perhaps, a veritable proof of his forgetfulness, or poor knowledge of contemporary Nigerian politics, that Dino Melaye would consider a man at whose behest, through a novel Supreme Court pronouncement some states – including Dino’s Kogi – now have staggered governorship elections, as not known nationally. Besides being a record-breaking chairman of the South East Governors Forum during his tenure, Mr. Peter Obi was simultaneously vice chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum at about the same time, despite being governor on the platform of a minority party.”
