The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has described the endorsement of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by former president Olusegun Obasanjo as an “endorsement of failure.”
The endorsement of Obi by Obasanjo Sunday sparked reactions across rival political camps, as other candidates had hoped to be ones endorsed by the former president.
Parties and supporters have attempted to downplay the influence of the former president seeing as he was not in support of their candidate.
Reno Omokri, a supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, claims the endorsement would have no impact on the elections.
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Reacting on Monday via a Facebook post, Sowore described Obasanjo as an overrated Nigerian ruler who “fetishised the rumination of Nigeria.”
He said rather than an Obasanjo’s endorsement, he would rather be satisfied by ‘the ‘people’s endorsement.’
“Obasanjo’s repeated endorsement of @Peter Obi shows once again that the overrated three-time Nigerian ruler fetishises the ruination of Nigeria.
“Failure endorsing Failure. For us, we crave and are satisfied with the endorsements of the people,” the AAC candidate said.
