Chimaroke Nnamani, a former governor of Enugu State who just lost his position in the Red Chamber to the Labour Party’s candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, has responded to Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 election.

Nnamani, who was running for re-election to the National Assembly to represent Enugu East, had accused Obi of engaging in “wicked and hazardous politics” and blamed him for his loss. Nevertheless, in response to the former governor’s letter on Tuesday, Obi claimed Nnamani must be confusing him with someone else.

Obi insisted that he never engaged in ethnic or religious politics during his campaign across the federation and expressed surprise at the former governor’s comments.

Chimaroke Nnamani, a former governor of Enugu State who just lost his position in the Red Chamber to the Labour Party’s candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, has responded to Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 election.

Obi insisted that he never engaged in ethnic or religious politics during his campaign across the federation and expressed surprise at the former governor’s comments.

He also urged Nnamani to stop making such “senseless and unfounded claims only to harm one’s reputation.”

Read the full letter;

Throughout these electioneering campaigns, you have consistently cast aspersions on my person, despite my always being respectful to you as an elder brother, and never publicly or privately commenting negatively about you.

I am really surprised that you as my dear elder brother would go out of the way in the exercise of his fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression as enshrined in our law to go into saying what he knows is not true.

I find it very shocking that you had to label me as an ethnic and religious bigot and as one who indulges in a campaign of hatred. In this instance, I like to state unequivocally that I am the direct opposite of what you said in your statement and what my campaigns have been.

I want to believe that my dear elder brother must have mistaken me for someone else because, in this campaign, I have consistently championed issues-based campaigns, and maintained so, even using illustrations and data to buttress my position, to the extent that I have been accused of using data wrongly and media houses had to create fact check desks just to monitor and address issues I raised during campaigns.