Peter Obi rejects request to join Tinubu’s ‘Govt of National Unity’

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, states that he will not accept any offer to join the Government of National Unity led by Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC).

In an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on March 16, 2023, Obi was asked how he would respond if invited to be a member of Tinubu’s government, to which he replied that he is currently contesting the election results in court.

Peter Obi on Why He Won’t Join Tinubu’s ‘Govt of National Unity’

“The first thing I want to see is that the process is right. The process through which you achieve anything is far more fundamental than what you do thereafter.

“Let us go back first, I am challenging the process and the declaration. Until we get it right, then we can talk about a government of national unity.

“Otherwise, we would go and sit down and say that those who stopped a train and kidnapped people can call us to discuss peace when they have people in captivity. Until things are done rightly, we will be encouraging what we don’t need to encourage,” He said.

Accepting the Judgment of the Court, Obi says;

“Issues about the election will be sorted out in court. I will be shocked if this country goes on with that situation. It will then stand that it is a corporate criminalized country. We can’t allow it. We need to start unbundling this criminality.

“When people were talking about structure, it is this fraud and criminality that we witnessed that they were talking about, and we want to unbundle it for the sake of our children.”

“Until we get it right, until justice is done, we can’t talk about government of national unity. We should get things done rightly, and I am sure that the judiciary will do the right thing.”