Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described Peter Obi as the president Nigeria required at the moment.
The former leader said this during a chat with popular interviewer, Chude Jidenwo in his response to pressing national issues.
Obi, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate for the February 25 election lost to Bola Tinubu in the election.
The LP candidate is currently at the Election Petition Tribunal seeking to overturn the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that Tinubu won the keenly contested election.
Despite the outcome of the election Obasanjo said Obi is still the best man for the job.
According to him, “It is not Peter Obi that is important to me. It is Nigeria. Peter Obi is not the issue, Nigeria to me is the issue.
“I believe that the Nigeria we need to have at this point, Peter Obi is still the man.”
The former leader, according to those familiar with the nation’s politics is one of the arrowheads of the Third Force that threw up Obi as a major presidential contender for the once inconsequential LP after more than two decades of the dominance by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and recently the All Progressives Congress, APC in the nation’s political space.
The LP candidate came third in the election won by Tinubu, while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second.
Meanwhile, the former president has yet to make a public statement on Tinubu’s presidency, close to a month after the incumbent took power from Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, thus signaling what some Nigerians have aptly described as a seeming cold war between the two political figures.
Also, Obasanjo unlike other former occupiers of the office has not congratulated the incumbent,
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