My Problem With Peter Obi – Najaatu Muhammad

By Gideon Njoku

Najaatu Muhammad, a Director on the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who resigned on Saturday from the office, has explained why she is not supporting the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Muhammad, whose description of the kind of President she would want for Nigeria, fits Obi like a glove, however, explained his problem with Obi.

In her first interview after she cut links with Tinubu and APC, and pitched her net with Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Muhammad said she takes an exception to Obi because he has failed to publicly condemn the activities of the South-East based Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.

IPOB, which leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been under the custody of the Federal Government since June, 2022, and being prosecuted for sundry issues, including treasonable felony and terrorism, is a group campaigning for the independence of the South-East Region from Nigeria. It is seeking for a Republic of Biafra.

She told THE WHISTLER on Obi: “Why I take exception to Obi is that he has never condemned it (IPOB). That is my problem with him.  He has never come out to condemn IPOB.

“If you want to lead, how do you dialogue with them?  They are even killing his own people. He said they have a right to agitate for secession.

“So, if you believe they can agitate, then you shouldn’t be the President of the country.

“He should be like Desmond Tutu and negotiate for peace as a national figure.”

She said she dumped Tinubu because the APC Presidential Candidate is neither physically nor mentally fit to be the President of Nigeria, a country with about 200 million people.

He also rejected, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, his former State Governor, insisting the Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, stands no chance, at all.

She, has, however, decided to work with the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, describing him as the “lesser of two devils” (meaning: between him and Tinubu).