Obi bows to pressure, set to remove Enenche from campaign council

<p><strong>The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Obi-Datti Campaign Organization<&sol;a> has announced that it will release an &OpenCurlyQuote;updated list’ following the outrage that trailed the inclusion of former military spokesperson&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Major-General John Enenche<&sol;a>&comma; in its presidential campaign council&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The spokesperson for the campaign organization&comma; Tanko Yunusa&comma; acknowledged in a tweet posted on Thursday evening that there were issues with the campaign list released on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the campaign council and Labour Party executives have noted the issues raised with the list&comma; promising that an &OpenCurlyQuote;updated list’ will be released to the public soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move might not be unconnected to calls for Enenche’s removal from the campaign council&comma; although a couple of other issues have been raised with the list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Enenche is yet to be removed from the campaign council contrary to media reports&comma; it was learnt that plans are underway to replace him on the presidential advisory council&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;court-acquits-discharges-nnamdi-kanu&sol;">Court Frees Nnamdi Kanu <&sol;a><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Allegations of lopsided appointments also trailed the campaign council list&comma; specifically with the Lagos and Sokoto state coordinators of the campaign&comma; who are both from the South-East region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enenche’s inclusion in the presidential advisory council of the campaign drew the ire of Obi supporters over statements he &lpar;Enenche&rpar; made as Defence Spokesperson during the October 2020 &num;EndSARS protest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obi’s supporters who described Enenche as an enemy of Nigerian youths&comma; called for his outright removal from the campaign council&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enenche&comma; a former Director of Information at the Nigerian Defence Headquarters&comma; had described a live video from the Lekki tollgate incident where the military opened live fire on unarmed &num;EndSARS protesters as &OpenCurlyQuote;photoshop’<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;…Up till this morning before I came here&comma; I even got analysts&comma; people that have analysed the various videos and they were cropped and photoshopped&comma;” Enenche who was defence spokesman at that time&comma; said of the Lekki tollgate shootings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Lagos State government&comma; confirmed that the military indeed opened live ammunition on and killed at least 9 protesters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; Lagos State Governor&comma; Babajide Sanwo-Olu&comma; confirmed that 2 people died during the incident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Source&colon; The Whistler<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;