Ahead the 2027 election, supporters of the Labour party, LP, Presidential candidate in the 2023 election Peter Obi are seeking for forgiveness from Nigerians.
Comrade Enag Joseph Maigari, the head of the Reconciliatory Committee set up by the Obedient Movement, the body rooting for the former governor of Anambra state, on Sunday harps on the need to reconcile Nigerians in other to be able to liberate them from their oppressors.
Noting that Nigerians must come together he said “we too need forgiving and to forgive ourselves” in order to be able to achieve the sole aim of making Obi president in the next election.
The Movement has been widely condemned for being too intolerant of those opposing the presidential ambition of Obi on the social media.
The former Anambra helmsman recently asserted his interest in vying for the president the second time.
As part of this plan, Obi had visited some prominent leaders of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, including former vice President Atiku Abubakar, raising suggestion among some Nigerians of his possible defection to the PDP.
The Reconciliation Committee, according to Maigari, is necessary to harmonise the gains the Movement has recorded so far, and to plan for the future.
Instructively, the members of the committee have been carefully selected from across the six geo-political zones, the Movement said.
The members of the committee are: From the North East: Joseph Enan Maigari, Hon. Dr. Yawe Jinadu, Comrade Zanna Ali Haruna, and Dr. Kambu Papka. From the North West: Khalifa Sharif Anta, Alhaji Usman Graham, Abubakar Yawale, and Mrs. Deborah Bwala-Maina. From the North Central: Sheikh Rufai Al-siddiq (PRO), DIG Lawal Gambo (Rtd.), Iortyom Kenneth Terhemba, and Caleb Audu (Assistant Secretary).
From the South South: Chief Ephraim Etete-Owoh, Comrade Gometi Crested, and Dr. Chinelo Onwusi (Secretary). From the South East: Mmaduabuchi Chekwubechukwu (Mobilization), Dr. Chibuzor Obiesili, and Engr. John Iwuchukwu. From the South West: Adeyeye Tosin (Head ICT), Odusote Emmanuel, Kolade Gbolagade, and Hon. Prince Austin Yonwunren
According to he group, they need Nigerians support to end the oppressive government, adding that the country needs to heel at this time to be able to move forward.
Maigari said, “We are a wounded people because of the failure of the past and present leadership, no matter on which side we stood. We all stand in need of healing. We on the team are no superhuman exceptions. We too need forgiving and to forgive ourselves in order to be able to wrestle the oppressors holding this country captive since 1960.
“Everyone is aware that we have been assigned a delicate task whose execution, success or otherwise, will have critical and far-reaching consequences for our land and nation in the coming years.
“We will be engaging in what should be a corporate nationwide process of healing through contrition and forgiveness. To be able to forgive one needs to know whom one is forgiving and why. That is why the truth is so central to this whole exercise.
“But we will be engaging in something that is ultimately deeply spiritual, deeply personal. That is why I have been appealing to all our people – this is not something just for the committee or team alone. We are in it, all of us together, Muslim and Christian, North and South, we this rainbow people of God.
“The miracle must endure. Freedom and justice must become realities for all our people and we have the privilege of helping to heal the hurts of the past, to transcend the alienations and the hostilities of that past so that we can close the door on that past and concentrate in the present and our glorious future.”
Recall that former vice president Abubakar has promised to support Obi if the PDP zoned the president to south in 2027.
