The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has flayed the presidency over what he described as a futile attempt to cast him in a bad light, using the American presidential election.
Obi spoke through his media office, in a statement titled, “Why desperate Obi traducers are kissing the dust.”. The statement was signed by his spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, in Abuja, yesterday.
It said desperate propagandists and presidential enablers were indulging in the distortion of facts all in a bid to destroy his impeccable image.
Umar said: “For these traducers, it would be a huge omission for a day to pass without finding something to negatively link Obi within the media space; if he and his family members are not being arrested imaginarily, he is being wickedly accused of sponsoring violence or twisting his public appearances in a manner to suit their dubious motives.
“Perhaps the most laughable of such delusions is the Presidency’s effort to ridicule Obi by dragging his name into the United States of America electioneering process, by scandalously linking him with the Republican Party Candidate, Donald Trump.
“We are very much aware of the motive behind these ridiculous comparisons, which is their uncanny way of currying favour so undeserved from the democrats.”
According to the statement, every discerning mind who wants to compare Obi and Tinubu and attempts to equate them with the two American presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, knows too well the similarities and parallels in terms of morality, transparency, good-standing antecedents and people-focused policies.
“The Presidency, by indulging in such clever-by-half comparisons, which are intended to discredit Obi, merely brings to the fore the glaring weaknesses of the incumbent administration and their crassness and inability to discern the realities and especially the pains and pangs their actions and policies foisted on the nation in the past year.”
