The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi as a rabble-rouser, a dangerous politician and a demagogue capable of spewing all manners of lies just to get the votes.
Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, while reacting to a statement credited to Mr Obi said he (Obi) expanded his catalogue of lies on Monday by playing the medical doctor when he declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as unwell for the presidency. “He even added most gratuitously that Asiwaju’s supporters are backing him for his money.
“We find these statements unbecoming of a man who nurses the ambition to be Nigeria’s next President.
“Since he is not Asiwaju’s doctor and is not privy to his medical record, Obi, the poor philosophy graduate, has again disgracefully elevated what has for long been a beer parlour gossip and social media lie being propagated by his IPOB supporters. Obi in his characteristic manner is amplifying falsehood which should not have a place in a decent political campaign.
While expressing the belief that political leaders should be guided in their utterances and be sticklers for the truth, the former Director-General of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) maintained that Mr Obi has thrown all caution to the wind, pronouncing on issues he has no moral and professional competence to make a judgement call on.
“We want to make it crystal clear to all the traducers of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate that Asiwaju Tinubu is not ill. He is hale and hearty. A man who works for 20 hours a day, meeting people and strategizing about finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems, cannot be said to be ill. We make bold to say that our candidate is as fit as the fiddle.
“We also want to educate Peter Obi and his horde of gullible followers that Tinubu’s millions of supporters countrywide are backing him not because of any pecuniary benefit. Asiwaju Tinubu supporters are rooting for him because of their strong belief in his demonstrable ability to provide progressive leadership for our country.
“They are supporting him because they believe in his capacity as a transformative leader, who once made a historic mark in Lagos State and is capable of replicating the same in Nigeria.
“On this score alone, Tinubu is unmatched in the field by even the perennial presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He is certainly not in the same league with the rabble-rousing Peter Obi by all leadership parameters.”