Abuja–based lawyer, Prince Orji Nwafor-Orizu has urged the LP to ensure it produces governors and state assemblies members in states it won at the presidential and National Assembly election. He said by working hard in that direction would make its movement to remain alive, even as he believed that the champion of the election was the LP’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.
“The champion of the election is Peter Greg Obi, who challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that has been in the system for about 24 years; 16 years in government, with governors and; eight years in opposition with governors.
He also challenged to a duel, the All Progressives Congress (APC) that is in power and became a sunami. FCT failed. Tinubu’s base and stronghold, Lagos state failed; Nasarawa, Plateau and other states failed. While Tinubu is president, let them produce governor of lagos state and other states where they won.”
“It is stated by philisophers that, it is never heard, seen, known that faithful men failed. This was stated by my father, Rt Hon Abbysynia Akweke Nwafor – Orizu in one of his books. Obi got seven out of the eight federal houses in Enugu; got six out of nine federal houses in Anambra and two senators therefrom too,” he told journalists in Abuja.
As the LP has headed to court to challenge the election result and when his opinion was sought on the judiciary’s trustworthiness, the constitutional lawyer said: “When a lawyer makes a mistake, he goes for an appeal. You can remember in the case of Ihedioha.
They went to court for a review and the court refused, meaning that there might be something they ought to have told the court at the trial which they didn’t and were asking a review for. May be they didn’t tell the Supreme Court (SC) that the votes with which Hope Uzodimma were being announced were higher than the registered ones.”
Urging the legal team to do their job seriously and uphold it to the bench, the legal icon however informed that it was the plaintiff and the defendant that knew the truth, not the judge, even as he enjoined them to tell the judge the truth.
When asked, he said he wasn’t supporting Obi as an Igbo, but as a better presidential candace than his competitors, both in education, confidence, age and performance.
“I am not supporting Obi, because he is an Igbo man, but because he is obviously a better presidential candidate than his competitors, both in education, age and performance. My father went to prison while fighting for Nigeria’s independence. For that, I will be a bastard to support anything that won’t move Nigeria forward.
“From my pedigree, I shall support Obi and you want me to run away, because I am an Igbo man. Because he is a Nigerian presidential candidate of Igbo extraction, is the season why Afenifere, Northern Elders Forum, Middle Belt Forum, among others, say, please allow Igbo to go, for the interest of fairness, equity and justice. Is Igbo not a part of the country?,” just as he justified his support for Obi, by quoting Awolowo as saying in one of his books: “I therefore don’t belong to that breed of people, who claim to be good Nigerians to the exclusion of their good members of their ethnic or tribal group …”