Obasanjo can’t win councillorship seat in Ogun — Tinubu says after Peter Obi was endorsed by the Former President

Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reacted to the endorsement of his Labour Party LP counterpart, Mr Peter Obi by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying the ex-Nigerian leader can’t win a polling unit in Ogun.

Tinubu in a preliminary response to the development however conceded that it was within the democratic rights of the former president to endorse anyone.

The APC standard bearer recalled how the former president’s adopted candidates had lost elections in the past, declaring that not even in Obasanjo’s home state, Ogun, can anyone rely on his endorsement to be governor or councillor.

Obasanjo had in a new year message to Nigerian youths carpeted Tinubu and his own former deputy, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, saying only Obi holds a promise for the country.

“Let me say straight away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues are one and the same thing and are wrong attitudes and mentality for the leadership of Nigeria now. They cannot form the new pedestal to reinvent and invest in a new Nigeria based on an All-Nigeria Government for the liberation and restoration of Nigeria. Such a government must have representation from all sectors of our national life public, private, civil society, professional, labour, employers, and the diaspora. The solution should be in we’ and ‘us’ and not in ‘me’ and ‘I”, the former president had declared.

According to a statement issued by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu said he was responding to the development after a series of calls by journalists seeking his reaction.

The council noted that the former president has a history of failed endorsements, and expressed sympathy for Mr Obi who it said is on his way to joining the lost of losers endorsed by Obasanjo in the past.