Amobi Ogah, a member-elect for the House of Representatives, claims to have been unaware of President Bola Tinubu’s “intelligent” nature.
Following a meeting between Tinubu and members-elect of the national assembly at the presidential residence on Thursday, Ogah, who would represent the Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal constituency of Abia in the tenth legislature, spoke.
Ogah, who was elected on the Labour Party (LP) platform, claimed that Tinubu’s charisma demonstrates that he is prepared for the difficult job of governing the country.
“Today is my best day. Today, I’m so happy that I’m an elected member seeing my president talking. In fact, I’ve never known that this man is so intelligent,” he said.
“I never knew that this man is so prepared to serve this country. I saw the love, character, and charisma, the belief that Nigeria can be a better nation.”
Ogah said he is convinced that he should support the All Progressives Congress (APC) nominated candidates for the leadership of the House of Representatives.
“So I’m so glad that the meeting we had today is going to take us a little bit to a more stabilized house. Now, even without talking to us again, we have agreed that we are going towards the government’s decision,” he said.
The APC had nominated Tajudeen Abbas from Kaduna and Benjamin Kalu from Abia for the positions of speaker and deputy speaker of the 10th assembly.
“Not minding (that) I’m of Labour Party, as of now, the party is not the issue. We’re talking about building the nation. We are talking about the unity of the nation,” he said.
Peter Obi, who was the standard-bearer of the LP in the 2023 presidential election, lost to Tinubu of the APC.
Obi and the LP are currently challenging Tinubu’s victory at the presidential election tribunal.
