Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has said the visit by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to First Lady Remi Tinubu shows that the Labour Party presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, was used and dumped......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
A photo went viral on Monday showing Obasanjo and Remi Tinubu during his visit to the First Lady in Abuja. The visit followed the former president wearing President Bola Tinubu’s signature cap at an event in Lagos. This was despite his support for Obi against Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election.
According to Omokri, Obasanjo never liked Obi but used him to divide the votes that would have gone to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election Atiku Abubakar.
He wrote on X, “First, it was the wearing of the Tinubu logo. A visit has now followed. But you can trust that they will still argue and refuse to accept that Peter Obi was used. Pride mixed with stubbornness will prevent them from seeing and learning from the now obvious truth. And their failure to learn from the past will make them repeat it in 2027.
“President Obasanjo does not like our candidate. But he is a strategist. He knew that if he came out openly against our candidate in the Peoples Democratic Party, it would win him sympathy votes during both the primaries and the general election. So, what did he do?
“He supported Peter Obi, knowing Obi stood no chance. His only purpose was to divide the PDP’s votes and ensure that the person he was against did not win. Obi, because of hubris, did not consider that of your head is used to break coconut, you will obviously not eat it.
“It is a military strategy called divide and conquer. If not for Peter Obi, Waziri Atiku Abubakar would have won the #NigerianElections2023.”