The Presidency alleges that Peter Obi has launched religion and ethnicity into Nigerian politics

The Presidency has leveled accusations against Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Celebration (LP) presidential candidate, alleging that he launched “two harmful issues” into Nigerian politics all the contrivance in which thru the new elections. Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Files and Procedure, made this assertion on Monday, accusing Obi of stoking religious and ethnic tensions all the contrivance in which thru the new electoral direction of in Nigeria.

Onanuga contends that Obi’s actions had a divisive impact on the political panorama, implying that they exacerbated present tensions along religious and ethnic lines.

Moreover, Onanuga emphasised that Tinubu’s administration just isn’t any longer preoccupied with Obi and his supporters, is believed as the Obidients. For the length of an look on Mic On with Seun Okinbaloye, the presidential aide conveyed self belief that Tinubu’s administration is declaring its heart of attention and no longer allowing itself to be distracted.

He acknowledged: “As of now, we are busy with governance and we don’t settle on our attention diverted from the purpose of interest of what the executive is making an strive to conclude. We are very busy, we’re no longer even having a peek at them now.

“What I be taught about the campaign of Obi was that for the first time in a in actuality lengthy while in our country, we had a candidate who was inflaming ethnic ardour and that was the vogue the election went at that time, he was inflaming ethnic and religious passions, bringing two harmful issues to our politics: ethnicity and religion.

“That was what he did and folks issues were harmful to our politics.”