Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, former governor of Enugu State , on April 23rd advised Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, to withdraw his petition challenging the victory of his opponents, Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Tribunal.

Nnamani noted this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, he urged Peter Obi and his supporters to accept the fact that Tinubu emerged as the Nigerians’ President-elect.

He said that, “Obi knows he has neither spread nor national appeal to win the presidential election, what Obi is doing with the petition is trying to demarket Tinubu.

“His petition is dead on arrival, he does not have the spread or national appeal, his appeal to non electoral matters is to demarket the President elect and damage his reputation. the petition is ego driven and a joke carried too far.

Nnamani affirms that Obi needs to come down from his high horse to allow negotiation on behalf of the Igbo nation and South-Eastern part of the country in general.

“We must join the mainstream and participate in the making of a new Nigeria.

“We are not going anywhere, and are ready to bargain for our own share. It is a common knowledge that others are doing the same.

“Igbo has to face reality now or be consigned to the backwoods of history. Time to align is now,” says Nnamani.