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<\/p>\nObienyem, who spoke to journalists during a seminar by the Laity of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province at DRAAC Centre Enugu, on Saturday afternoon, observed that Oshiomhole\u2019s reactions were put of mischief.<\/p>\n
He said if after the outpouring of good wishes, universal elation and ecstatic reactions as many people across the country declared Obi\u2019s nomination as a prelude to a new dawn; and somebody still talked in terms of his being \u201crejected\u201d, that the person was simply being mischievous at best and devious at worst.<\/p>\n
Admitting that an issue or two were raised when Obi\u2019s name was announced, Obienyem explained that even as the likes of Oshiomhole began to misinterpret those issues even when those who actually raised them asserted unequivocally that Obi was, indeed, one of the best Igbo men for the position.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cTheir only problem then was that of not being consulted in the spirit of conviviality.<\/p>\n
According to Obienyem, \u201cI followed Obi on his courtesy visits to the Governors and several leaders of the South-East and I shed tears of joy to see how emotional they all were as they received him. Some tagged Obi an \u2018Iconic Igbo son\u2019, while others described him as \u2018an exemplary Igbo son\u2019,among other moving epithets\u201d.<\/p>\n
Insisting that Oshiomhole\u2019s recent troubles with his party and elsewhere might have distracted him from determining the facts, Obienyem noted that \u201cIt is an irony that Oshiomhole\u2019s\u2019 statement came two days after who-is-who in Igboland led by the Chairman of Ohaneze, Chief Nnia Nwodo gathered in Enugu to give the final imprimatur to the Alhaji Atiku\/Obi ticket as they showered encomiums on Alhaji Atiku for Obi\u2019s choice, which, recalling what Obi did in Anambra State, they said was the best choice. How else should the likes of Oshiomhole know that Obi\u2019s nomination is a turning point in the history of politicking in the South-East and the entire country at large?\u201d<\/p>\n
Continuing, Obienyem doubted that Oshiomhole was actually briefed or read the papers to have a glimpse of what happened in Enugu: \u201cI doubt if he understood what happened in Enugu, how some elderly Igbo leaders braced all odds and travelled from wide and near to attend the meeting. Consider the galaxy of Igbo stars that were in attendance.<\/p>\n
Concluding, Obienyem said that if after the Igbo leaders openly endorsed Obi and somebody talks about division among the Igbos, the person is clearly acting out another agenda and does not wish Ndi Igbo well.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Media Aide to Mr. Peter Obi, the former Governor of Anambra State and the Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Val Obienyem has debunked a statement by the Chairman of All People\u2019s Congress (APC), Com. Adams Oshiomhole that the people of the South-East rejected Obi as the running mate for Alhaji […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1048,4383,6214,269],"class_list":["post-62552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-oshimhole","tag-peter-obi","tag-south-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}