Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate for president, has stated he will reject any invitation to join Bola Tinubu’s Cabinet of National Unity.
Obi has sued Tinubu, the president-elect, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the results of the election on February 25.
The APC candidate’s campaign made hints that the former governor of Lagos would build an inclusive administration and include all of his rivals.
On Thursday, when Obi was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, he was asked what he would do if asked to join Tinubu’s Government of National Unity.
Obi responded by stating that he was still contesting the election and declaration processes.
“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.
He stated: “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 criminalised 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.”
Peter Obi expressed his confidence in the judiciary’s ability to uphold justice.
