Isaac Fayose has described Peter Obi as Nigeria\u2019s \u201cincoming president\u201d as the Nigeria Democratic Congress\u2019s 2027 presidential candidate visited his home on Saturday, days after Fayose had accused Obi of ingratitude and threatened to withdraw his support.\n<\/p>\n
Isaac Fayose shared a video of the visit on his Instagram page the same day.\n<\/p>\n
In the video, Fayose said, \u201cIt\u2019s not every day the President comes to your house. Our incoming president. So shall it be, in Jesus\u2019 name.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He added that the visit proved him wrong to his critics, declaring, \u201cFor you others abusing me, you can see now, I am 100 per cent Obidient. So you better be Obidient. We are together, and we are winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obi, responding, said many of those criticising Fayose online were not genuine supporters of the movement.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHalf of the people that abuse you, they don\u2019t follow us. What they do, when they hire people, they carry them, call them all sorts of names,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Obi said criticism was something he welcomed rather than resented.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cMy people will tell you one thing: the one thing I take is criticism. You can never be annoyed with anybody for saying I did something wrong.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you have any reason to criticise, and when we are not doing what is right, please, I want to hear that I am wrong. It is important that we do that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He added that a leader must listen and learn, and must be willing to admit mistakes.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t, he shouldn\u2019t lead. He should just go, because he thinks he knows everything. And if you know everything, you are an idiot. You shouldn\u2019t be a leader. A listener, a learner, always,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The visit follows days of tension between the two men.\n<\/p>\n
Fayose had earlier expressed disappointment that Obi never appreciated his support for the 2023 presidential campaign, saying he made personal sacrifices, including providing his hotel for Obidient Movement members, without acknowledgement from Obi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Fayose has described Peter Obi as Nigeria\u2019s \u201cincoming president\u201d as the Nigeria Democratic Congress\u2019s 2027 presidential candidate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[2729,163437,121058,122,65562,9287,20452,1481,105897],"class_list":["post-337350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-2027-presidential-election","tag-fayose-obi-reconciliation","tag-isaac-fayose","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-democratic-congress","tag-nigerian-politics","tag-obidient-movement","tag-peter-obi","tag-political-endorsements"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116942721828573627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}