Obi wasn’t outperform as governor, I can’t align with him for my presidential ambition- Sowore

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general election has described Peter Obi as a non-performing politician like others who had previously held various political positions, boasting that he had been contesting for the presidency long before Obi was “discovered.”

Sowore, while stating the reasons why he will not form a coalition or support the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the election, Peter Obi, or former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who vied under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the latest episode of Nedu’s Honest Bunch podcast, said that supporting or joining forces with Obi or Atiku would mean going against everything he ever stood for.

He said, “If I join Peter Obi, I will be going against what I had always stood for, which is that I will never support a Nigerian leader who has been president, governor, chairman, local government councillor before, whom I consider non-performing.

“Is the same reason I would never have joined hands with Atiku. The Peter Obi you are talking about was a vice presidential candidate to Atiku when I was a presidential candidate in 2019.”

“Before you discovered Peter Obi, I was already running for President, na because I look small?”

According to him, Obi was just packaged into politics, and anybody could also be packaged in that manner.

“So, what are we talking about? There is no lesser evil in my book. If you are evil, you are evil. If you are good, you are good. I have a general disdain for non-performance,”

“So where the money wey he save, which bank e dey? The person wey take over from am, Obiano talk say na lie, the video dey, say they no save any money, in fact say them owe money, the money that they claimed to save was already owed to contractors,” he added.

Source: LEADERSHIP newspaper