A former member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, has taken a swipe at Senator Dino Melaye for saying Peter Obi had no national visibility until Atiku Abubakar brought him into limelight in 2019.

Ogene who was a former deputy chairman, Committee on Media and Public Affairs of the House of Representatives was reacting to Senator Melaye’s claim Obi who was the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the forthcoming coming 2023 general elections was discovered nationally by Atiku who himself is flying the flag of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in the same poll.

In a statement he personally signed and made available to Vanguard in Abuja on Monday, Ogene reasoned that it was either Melaye missed his Civics classes, or was simply a poor student of current affairs, to have described a pacesetting two-time governor of Anambra State as “not known nationally, until 2019.”