Headline : Peter Obi Defends Birthday Tribute to Gowon, Says Nigeria Must Move On With Love

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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has responded to the barrage of attacks he received at the weekend for congratulating a former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, on his 90th birthday anniversary, saying Nigeria must move on with love and not in hate or anger.

But a former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has said the former Nigerian leader was not an enemy to be forgiven.

Writing a long response on his X titled: ‘Why I Congratulated Gen. Gowon at 90’, Obi said “My felicitation with Nigeria’s former military Head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, on his 90th birthday anniversary, which was celebrated by a cross-section of Nigerians, has been received with mixed feelings by some Nigerians, and some have expressed their sentiments publicly, and privately to me.”

According to statement by Ibrahim Umar, Obi said, “I share in some of them, and I feel that as a leader in the vanguard of providing direction for our country to shift base away from all our shortcomings, including the issues that caused our avoidable cruel civil war, I needed to show to the World that the ultimate heroism is forgiving the enemy and moving forward.

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