2023: ”A vote for Obi takes Nigeria one step closer to break-up” – FFK

53 days to the general elections in Nigeria, the Director of New Media for the Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday said the “secret desire” of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, “is to push us to the brink of that another civil war”.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that in a piece published on his website, Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, cited Obi’s reluctance to outrightly condemn the activities of the insurgents in Nigeria’s southeast region as proof of the presidential hopeful’s subtle approval of their horrific acts.

He wrote: “Unlike Obi neither Asiwaju Bola Tinubu nor Waziri (Atiku Abubakar) has been going from mosque to mosque or Church to Church dangerously stirring up and inciting the passions of believers, preaching religious politics and hate from the pulpit and attempting to set us on the path of a cataclysmic and blood-curdling sectarian war which will bring Nigeria to her knees and eventually an abrupt and bloody end.

“Neither have links with IPOB and neither has used the symbol of IPOB on any of their businesses or business products like Obi has done.

“A vote for Obi takes us one step closer to the break-up of Nigeria and a second civil war because that is precisely and simply what he really wants.

“Whether it is an ethnic war, a religious war, or both I do not know but his secret desire is to push us to the brink of that war.

“And guess what? So far he is doing pretty well in that respect by creating clearer and deeper fault lines of division and potential conflict.

“A clear example is his refusal to condemn the brutal killing and killers in the South East known as unknown gunmen who kidnap and murder anyone and everyone including our security personnel.

“Peter says he refuses to condemn these barbaric creatures and cruel beasts because he does not know who they are. Does this really make sense?”