‘Provide evidence of my ethnic, religious bigotry’, Obi slams Nnamani

JOHN ALECHENU FROM VANGUARD

The Presidential Candidate Of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has responded to allegations of ethno-religious bigotry against him by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani. 

Nnamani, had in a statement on Monday accused Obi of whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments in his quest to win the presidency. 

The ex-Enugu State Governor accused Obi of exploiting the nation’s fault lines to advance his personal cause. 

Nnamani, who lost his re-election bid to a candidate of the Labour Party last Saturday, accused Obi of other sundry infractions. 

In response, Obi in a letter addressed to Nnamani, a known acolyte of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, said, the Enugu Senator must have mistaken him for someone else because the facts on ground do neither support nor justify his claims. 

Obi’s letter read: “Throughout these electioneering campaigns, you have consistently cast aspersions on my person, despite my always being respectful to you as an elder brother, and never publicly or privately commenting negatively about you.

“I am really surprised that you as my dear elder brother would go out of the way in the exercise of his…