Obi displaying unpresidential traits, according to Dino Melaye

Senator Dino Melaye, the spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, has spoken on the argument that took place between him and Mr. Peter Obi, the candidate for the Labour Party (LP), on Sunday night.

At the Town Hall event for presidential candidates hosted by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and Arise Television on Sunday night in Abuja, there was a little altercation between Obi and Melaye.

Melaye had been heckling and calling his followers “noisemakers” when Obi appeared to admonish him angrily.

I’m not taking this. Although you claim it is Obi People, that colonel is a member of the NNPP. Dino, halt that now!

I’ve had enough of you already. Why do you call me so frequently? stated the LP flagbearer.

Melaye, meanwhile, claimed that Obi’s reaction displayed “unpresidential qualities” in a video he published following the incident.

“I’m making this film merely to explain yesterday’s outburst by Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi.

“He wasn’t provoking him. I was positioned directly across from them in the upper seat. I omitted using his name. And seeing that kind of response from a presidential contender really startled me.

Is that the kind of president he’s going to be, one that just takes on people and behaves badly? said Dino Melaye.

He continued by saying that Obi had called him out even when he had done nothing to merit it.

Dino Melaye said, “There was nothing I could have said that Obi would have heard from where I was seated.

Obi’s outburst was “unwarranted, very unpresidential, (and) unacceptable of a leader,” according to the former Kogi West senator.