2023 Presidency is not about anybody’s turn, Peter Obi tells Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi says The 2023 presidential election will not be about anybody’s turn, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour party has said.

Obi stated this at a retreat organised by the party in Abuja, adding that the exercise should be based on “competence”, in apparent reference to Bola Tinubu’s narration in June of how he helped President Muhammadu Buhari become president in 2015, noting that 2023 will be his turn.

The APC presidential flagbearer had used the phrase “Èmi Lọ Kàn” – a Yoruba term meaning, “I’m the next” in Ogun State.

Obi’s comment, no doubt, appears to be a jibe at Bola Tinubu.

“We will do this retreat now; after the election, we will do another one. Next year’s elections will not be based on ethnicity,” the labour party candidate said on Monday.

“We have had it before; it would not be on religion. There is no place that Christians buy things cheaper; there is no place that Muslims buy things cheaper.

“It will not be by turn, it is nobody’s turn. It must not be by connection. The election next year must be based on character and trust; it must be based on competence.”