Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither the willingness nor the capacity to be the different and transformational leader that his supporters think he will be.

He's merely riding on the crest of the wave of mass discontent with the status quo.

The list isn't just inexcusably insular (Igbo men are even state coordinators for Sokoto and Lagos!), it is also riddled with the type of embarrassing clerical errors and oversights that we've become accustomed to from Nigerian governments.

If I were a man that idealistic young men and women have elevated to near sainthood as Obi has been, I would look through the list carefully, ensure there are no clerical errors in it, think through the optics that the names in it will communicate, and be careful to not come across as indistinguishable from the establishment parties because it's the first hint of what he'll be as a president. He failed in that elementary duty--much like Buhari.

That’s why former Defence spokesperson John Enenche who said two years ago that “videos of shootings in Lekki tollgate were photoshopped” was appointed to Obi’s presidential campaign council.

The inclusion of Enenche on Obi’s campaign list is significant because the core of Obi’s youthful supporters who’re engaged because they’re enraged are drawn from #EndSARS agitators for whom the cover-up of the massacre of protesters in Lekki is a sore point.

To put a denier of the mass massacre of their comrades in the campaign council of a candidate they support and campaign for is both insensitive and disrespectful.

And why does a campaign that is fueled by a desire for difference need nearly 1,300 people to sit in a council? That’s unwieldy. How is it different from APC and PDP? In fact, APC and PDP are better. APC’s initial list was just 422 and PDP’s was 520.

If his presidential campaign council was going to be worse than APC's and PDP's, why did it take him so long to unveil it? This sends off uncomfortable Buhari vibes.

Corridon:
Maybe Tinubu's moles have infiltrated Obi's camp.

Corridon:
Maybe Tinubu's moles have infiltrated Obi's camp.

femisplash:
The zombidient's logs are falling off their eyes. First was Fisayo Soyombo, now, it's Kperogi, more to follow. Peter Obi would never disappoint. His incompetence, ethno-religious bigotry would always come to the fore, no matter how hard Igbos try to hide it.

Corridon:
Maybe Tinubu's moles have infiltrated Obi's camp.

Majesty2:
Piter Obidient will never rule this country

femisplash:
The zombidient's logs are falling off their eyes. First was Fisayo Soyombo, now, it's Kperogi, more to follow. Peter Obi would never disappoint. His incompetence, ethno-religious bigotry would always come to the fore, no matter how hard Igbos try to hide it.

LeoDeKing:

I have the feeling Tinubu is a spirit always turning pandora hoebi's plan upside down.

Chinedu, how you reason am?

LegendHero:


Tinubu name don suffer for Obi supporters hand. Everything must be blamed on Tinubu.

Peter Obi is a clown, he need to first remove that Ibo men used as coordinator for Lagos and Sokoto OR better still just use Yorubamen for the campaign coordinators for Abia and Anambra state to foster unity.

I’m pretty sure if APC had appointed a Tunji Ayinde as their campaign coordinator for Anambra, all these Obituarists would have cried to CNN and tagged Tinubu a tribalist.

Farooq Kperogi is just being useless in his assertions, everyone know that Peter Obi and Datti are the exact replica of PDP and the usual old politician. Until few months ago, they are both in PDP so anyone that think they will suddenly have ideological change for joining LP is just being plain st*pid.

Corridon:
Trash. Tinubu is a desperate man that can do the unthinkable just to become president but he will fail woefully.

XerXers:
Nobody said he is different. But he is better than the rest. Thank you