A senior member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Ben Obi, has said reacted to the comment by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the 2023 presidency going to the Southwest.

According to him, Osinbàjo’s remark was insensitive and height of mischief.

Recall that Osinbajo had said President Muhammadu Buhari would hand over the presidency to the South West after completing his two terms in office.

But in a statement in Abuja, Obi berated Osinbajo for asserting that the presidency would revert to the South West after Buhari in 2023.

“Apart from the fact that the PDP will win the 2019 presidential election in which case Osinbajo’s reckless and morally outrageous scenario will never come to pass, the mere thought of making that insensitive declaration after Obasanjo’s 8-year presidential tenure and Osinbajo’s 4-year vice presidency, in the context in which power is yet to rotate to the South East, is the height of political intolerance and mischief-making,” he said.

Obi, who is also the Director of the Campaign’s CUPP/Inter-party Directorate, said Osinbajo should learn the historical circumstances that threw up the Obasanjo Vs Falae presidential contest in 1999 and why the Late Dr. Alex Ekwueme sacrificed so much to ensure that Obasanjo won that election.

The senator charged Osinbajo to retrieve his “lost moral compass” with regard to this issue, and “also with regard to his Tradermoni vote-buying antics which, as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a professor, and a pastor, he knows to be an unethical, corrupt and reprehensible electoral manoeuvre.”

The PDP chieftain said the opposition party would be working closely with local communities and their grassroots-based organizations for a full buy-in into its vision of getting Nigeria to work again, the first step of which would entail taking the country back and re-directing it on the path of peace, security, and prosperity

http://mcebiscoo.com/2018/12/27/osinbajos-dream-2023-presidency-insensitive-will-never-come-pass-obi/

From time immemorial, politicians have always taken due and undue advantage of the support, weaknesses, and blunders of others.

Political calculations and equations are in eternal state of flux. Opportunity can become threat and an enemy can become a friend all in matter of hours.

Eternal vigilance and awareness are needed but sometimes are not even enough to ensure survival. It is a jungle where everybody is focused on one's interests, relevance and aspiration.

It is a journey. Sometimes you get to the bustop and you suddenly discovered that the bus has left you behind. Sometimes, you get on the bus and your co-passegers throw under the bus for their own safety.

Nothing is served on a platter of gold. Nothing is granted and nothing is guaranteed. But the basic thing required is to have a plan, projections and hope.

That's the second most insensitive statement ever by a Nigerian leader, the first being the 97%/5% analogy by the dullard himself. Nigeria made the worst mistake of its existence with these ethnic champions and religious bigots, and must correct such.

Osibanjo and his skull mining sophisticated brothers love day dreaming..

He think say na to stutter.. or by trade money..

Abi ba make Tinubu become president make Ahmodu sheriff come dey slap am anyhow..

Abi na fashola go soon tell us leadership is not a rocket science.. only to go dia deporting Nigerians in Nigeria

They ain't serious.. just mouth

Herdsmen:
Osibanjo and his skull mining sophisticated brothers love day dreaming..

He think say na to stutter.. or by trade money..

Abi ba make Tinubu become president make Ahmodu sheriff come dey slap am anyhow..

Abi na fashola go soon tell us leadership is not a rocket science.. only to go dia deporting Nigerians in Nigeria

They ain't serious.. just mouth

keep quiet since you have suddenly sold your Biafra agitation for VP. The Federal Government will not hesitate to unleash a full Python dance on you hypocrite after the 2019 is decided

It's unfortunate that a supposed SAN would utter such nonsense as his selling point.

Afamed:

keep quiet since you have suddenly sold your Biafra agitation for VP. The Federal Government will not hesitate to unleash a full Python dance on you hypocrite after the 2019 is decided

Noise..

Who's the federal government..
Jubril heading to Sudan abi
Dullard enroute to daura..

Who really cares?

Herdsmen:

Noise..
Who's the federal government.. Jubril heading to Sudan abi Dullard enroute to daura..
Who really cares?

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