The Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party (LPPCO) has blasted the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, over comments against its presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi.
The council said it deemed the comments as insulting and disparaging which negates the spirit of the Peace Accord signed by all the candidates.
Shettima had, in a recent interview, reportedly said that Obi would be the “best President in Igboland but definitely not in Nigeria” because “Nigeria is too big for him to handle.”
While kicking against the comments in a statement on Saturday, the Director-General of the LPPCO, Dr Doyin Okupe, described the comments ascribed to Shettima as “insults and disparaging” to its presidential candidate and other candidates which violated the spirit of the Peace Accord all presidential candidates and their parties subscribed to.
Part of Okupe’s statement reads:
“Our political parties are all signatories to…
