2027: Obi not better than me — Umahi

… Insists it’s not yet Igbo turn to be president
By Olayinka Ajayi
BENIN CITY — Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has dismissed suggestions that he is not on the same level as the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, insisting there is no area in which the former Anambra State governor is superior to him.
Umahi spoke on Thursday in Benin City at the ‘Operation Rescue Benin-Asaba Road’ event, where he also maintained that it was not yet the turn of the Igbo to produce Nigeria’s president, saying President Bola Tinubu should remain in office.
The minister said comparisons between him and Obi should be based on their family backgrounds, intellectua...