Lasun Alagbe
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Mr Omoyele Sowore, has descended heavily on the former Anambra State Governor and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi.
He says Obi is part of the old rotten system.
Besides, Sowore argues, Obi had been with two parties before, adding that when he was Anambra State Governor, he did not build hospitals or schools.
Sowore said this on Friday when speaking on a ‘Channels Television’ programme.
He said: “Peter Obi is part of the old system that I’ve always fought against. I understand where he is coming from. This is 1999 repeating itself – Nigerians want change, some young people are genuinely interested in change to a different direction, and then they are presented with somebody who worked for the establishment; somebody who has been in the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, came back to the PDP, and now in the Labour Party. We can be emotional about it but that’s the truth.
“I don’t see Peter Obi as a threat. He’s not new to the rotten system. Somebody who was Anambra governor for eight years . He didn’t build any schools, he didn’t build any industry, he didn’t build a power station. He’s not my kind of progressive.
“I was the only candidate who participated in 2019 that did not stop campaigning or advocating. I engaged, immediately after that election, in a number of revolutionary activities that took me to jail, and I have been doing this for about 32 years now.”
