Tinubu Not God’s Will In Feb 25 Poll, Obi Replies Church Leaders, Statesmen

Peter Obi has dismissed calls from church leaders and statesmen not to contest the outcome of the 2023 presidential election being that it was God’s will for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to emerge.

Speaking in an Arise News television interview, Peter Obi also denounced attempts to ethnicise the voting pattern during the February 25 presidential poll saying that he was supported across ethnic boundaries in the same way that President Olusegun Obasanjo was supported by 90% of the votes of Ndigbo in 2003.

Asked why he would not take the pleas of church leaders and elder-statesmen to take the outcome of the election that produced Tinubu as God’s will, Obi said:

“I am very respectful to them and I think that they should be respected for what they represent to society. But I disagree with them. What they are actually preaching is the problem of Nigeria.

“The problem of Nigeria is accepting wrongdoing, accepting what is unacceptable, that is using God’s name in vain. That’s not what God said. God said do not use my name in vain. What they are saying is not God’s wish.

“So are they saying that the 133 million Nigerians who are poor is God’s wish? Why don’t we accept that 95 million Nigerians living in absolute poverty is God’s wish? It is God’s wish that your children are kidnapped? It is God’s wish that we have collapsed Primary Health Care making us to be the country with the highest infant mortality.

“That’s not what God’s will says. God’s will is that when you do the right thing then in the end it is well.

“We have clear laws about the conduct of the election. If it was followed, if the results were uploaded from the polling booths, we wont be here talking about all these. It would have been concluded within hours without anybody arguing about it. But it is not God’s will that you do the wrong thing. It is not God’s will that you go and rob a train and start sharing money. This is what is killing the country. People come here take public money then go and give it to the people in the church and they give them title… that is what we are fighting,” Obi said in insisting that it was not God’s will for Tinubu to emerge through a crooked process.

Responding to the allegation of being supported only by Ndigbo, Obi said it was wrong saying that the votes he won from Nasarawa, Plateau, Lagos and including Aso Rock did not fit into the ethnic strength of Ndigbo. According to him he was supported by a cross section of Nigerians who saw him as the beacon of a new Nigeria.

Continuing he said that in 2003 the Igbo forsook Chief Emeka Ojukwu to give 90% of their votes in the Southeast to President Olusegun Obasanjo.

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