The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has dismissed claims that he is not on the same level as the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi.
Speaking in Benin City on Thursday, September 24, Umahi said there was no area in which Obi could be considered superior to him, arguing that their backgrounds, intellectual capacity, and records of service could be compared.
He took exception to the suggestion that Obi was not his “match”, saying he considered whether such a comparison could be justified based on their family backgrounds, intellectual capacity and contributions to the South-East.
“And when that guy says that Peter Obi is not my match, it took me ten minutes to think about it; is it in my larger family background that his is better than my own? Is it in intellectual capacity? Is it in what we have done for the people of South-East? Is it what we did when we were governors?
So, when you say he is not a match, put it side by side and tell me what Peter Obi is better than this Dave Umahi. You can’t be tackling counsel without knowledge. What we are saying is that it is not the turn of Igbos yet. I heard in today’s this thing one charlatan that was saying ‘oh no, the Igbos can never be president’. That can will not be alive when the Igbos become president because we will one day become president but it is not yet our turn, it is the turn of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Umahi said.
