A Nigerian-American scholar, Prof Farooq Kperogi, has berated the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over inclusion of a former Nigerian Defence Headquarters’ Director of Information, Major General John Enenche (retd.) in his 2023 election campaign council. Kperogi also taunted Obi for appointing men from the South-East region as campaign directors for Sokoto State in the North, Lagos State in the South-West, saying it was an indication of his tribalistic inclination.
Inclusion Of Retired General, Enenche In Peter Obi’s Campaign Shows He Isn’t Different From APC, PDP Parties – US Scholar, Farooq KperogiKperogi also taunted Obi for appointing men from the South-East region as campaign directors for Sokoto State in the North.
He said that including Gen. Enenche who said in 2020 that photographs of the massacred #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos by the Nigerian Army were a photoshop makes Obi insensitive and disrespectful to the massacred comrades, the #EndSARS protesters and his supporters who are largely the youths.
The statement he captioned “Obi’s Campaign Council Shows He Isn’t Different from APC and PDP” read, “Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither the willingness nor the capacity to be the different and transformational leader that his supporters think he will be.
“He failed in that elementary duty--much like Buhari. That’s why former Defence spokesperson John Enenche who said two years ago that “videos of shootings in Lekki tollgate were photoshopped” was appointed to Obi’s presidential campaign council.
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