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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The senator representing Enugu East in the National Assembly, Chimaroke Nnamani, has accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, of playing wicked and dangerous politics.
Nnamani, who lost his re-election to the Labour Party candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, said Obi had “set the Igbo political trajectory 24 years back.”
The senator was suspended by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), after he endorsed president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the build up to the election.
He subsequently took the party and its leadership to court.
However, Nnamani in a statement on Monday announced his resignation from the party, saying that he made the decision after consultation.
The former governor of Enugu State also took to his Twitter handle on Monday to criticise Obi, describing the Labour Party candidate’s style of politics as wicked.
“Peter ‘Gringory’ Obi has set the Igbo political trajectory 24 years back. He has become a twin Blight & Scourge on the Land. His devious opium served to Christians within sections of Nigeria and to Igbo domiciled in different sections of Nigeria is wicked and dangerous,” he wrote.