The Obidient Movement has clapped back at Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), over his claim that Peter Obi isn’t an opposition figure.
Sowore, speaking on Channels Television’s Inside Sources, dismissed Obi’s stance on national issues.
“I don’t know why anybody refers to Peter Obi as an opposition,” he said, insisting Obi “is not opposed to anything the government is doing.”
He also criticised the former Anambra governor for staying silent when fuel prices were hiked.
But the National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko, wasn’t having it.
He told Channels Television that Obi remains a dominant force in Nigeria’s political space.
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“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,” Tanko said.
He also slammed Senate President Godswill Akpabio for his recent dig at Obi during a valedictory session for the late Chief Edwin Clark.
“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,” Tanko added.