By Daniel Kanu
Assistant Politics Editor
Former Presidential candidate of National Conscience Party (NCP) in the 2015 election Engineer Martin Onovo has said it was discernible that Oby Ezekwesili, Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), who withdrew from the race on Thursday, January 24,2019, was going to burn her fingers.
“she was the convener of the platform for the search of a consensus candidate but later joined the Presidential race. So, you could see a contradiction. We knew it was just a matter of time for what has happened to take place. We knew she was going to burn her fingers” Onovo told The Niche when contacted on phone.
The renowned petroleum engineer said that, that singular action of the former Minister of Education discredited the entire consensus exercise and then helped the ruling party to infiltrate and disunite the third force.
According to Onovo “that move by Ezekwesili to join the Presidential bid as well as other political developments brought negative impact that discredited the consensus exercise and later pave the way for the ruling party to disunite the third force.
On the ACPN endorsing President Muhammadu Buhari, Onovo said “political jobbers can do anything. We know that Buhari is not constitutionally qualified to run. But most importantly, he lacks the vision, competence, capacity, acceptability, he is both mentally and physically unfit to lead Nigeria at this point and if I may add, the worst candidate”.
It would be recalled that Ezekwesili has accused her party (ACPN), of playing politics with a transactional mindset that betrays her own personal values.