Former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential aspirant under the platform of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has replied fellow Presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, Nyesom Wike on his comment regarding his (Peter Obi) resignation from the People’s Democratic Party to Labour Party.
While faulting Wike for questioning his loyalty and integrity to the PDP, Obi stated that integrity was about prudent management of public resources and not membership of a political party.
Wike had on Thursday taken a swipe at Obi for quitting the PDP few days to the presidential primary of the opposition party adding that Obi had never won an election since he left the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
Wike had said, “It is not surprising to me. Peter Obi leaving the party is not surprising to me. I know and he knows that there was no way he would have won the presidential primary. The issue is that there must be integrity, there must be character. How can a man who had gone to all the states to tell them how he had been a trader, how his family has been trading, how everybody should support him, how he wore one (pair of) shoe(s), how he did not allow anybody to carry his bag, and all those things…three days to the primaries, he said he had left the party. Integrity…character is very important in whatever you are doing.”
Replying Wike on the same programme on Friday, Obi, who had earlier dodged a question seeking his reaction, said nobody could question his loyalty to the PDP while in the party.
“I don’t know how that one came in but I think when we talk about integrity, we are talking about integrity in management of public resources. That is what we should be talking about in this country. And when such things are mentioned about me, I feel maybe there is something missing somehow. Go and check my records as a governor.”
“I have moved on to where the process might allow me,” he added.
