Blame Obi for Tinubu’s victory, Omokri tells Obidients

Reno Omokri, a former presidential spokesman, claimed that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate at the recently held 2023 presidential election, jeopardised the PDP’s chances of winning the 2023 election.

The former presidential spokesman made this assertion in a tweet on Monday, claiming that PDP would have won the 2023 presidential election if Peter Obi hadn’t run on the Labour Party platform.

He called on those saying that Bola Tinubu is not their president to wake up to reality, suggesting that Obi should be blamed for Tinubu’s emergence as Nigeria’s president.

“Those saying Tinubu is not my President should wake up and smell the coffee. Bola Tinubu is your President, and for that, you can blame only one person – Peter Obi.

“The Peoples Democratic Party has won in every state of the Southeast in every election since 1999. If Peter Obi had not contested in 2023, the PDP would still have won in the Southeastern states during the #NigerianElections2023.

“Peter Obi had absolutely no path to victory. None whatsoever. I told him this personally. Others told him. He even knew it.

“The only people who believed he could win were the same people who believed that Buhari died and had been replaced by Jubril, a clone from Sudan. Peter Obi was just a pawn in the hands of the All Progressives Congress,” Omokri said in a tweet.

“Both the man who convinced him to leave the PDP and much of the money he got as donation came to him from the APC. If his supporters are humble enough to think, they won’t stumble. But these are not humble people.

“They insult first, then act second, and think last. That is why they are today insulting the judiciary, and tomorrow, they will be praying for the same judiciary to give them their stolen mandate at the Supreme Court,” he added.

PoliticsNow recalls that Peter Obi who was PDP’s vice presidential candidate at the 2019 presidential election, dumped the party to pick the presidential ticket of Labour Party ahead of the 2023 general election. There were suggestions that he left the party because he knew he did not stand the chance to pick the party’s ticket over Atiku Abubakar.