A former Commissioner of Information in Edo State, Kassim Afegbua, has described Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, as a candidate of the Christians and Igbo ethnic group.
The political analyst made the assertion in an interview with Arise Television, while analysing the outcome of the recently concluded presidential poll.
Afegbua appealed to Obi not to further deepen the divisiveness that the country is currently facing.
He explained that if Obi had emerged president, he would have divided the country along ethnic and religious lines.
He said; “I want to appeal to him not to deepen the schism of political divisiveness, by the way and manner he carried his campaign. If Obi had been the president, God forbid at this time, he would have been dividing the country along ethnic and religious lines because Obi was the candidates of the Christians and of the Igbo ethnic stock.
“He has coordinators who are Igbos in some parts of the North, that means he never believed in the capacity of a northerner to even campaign for him,” he added.
Obi, who was loved by educated youths, came third in the election behind Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu. He has vowed to challenge the outcome of the vote in court.