The media office of the Obi-Datti 2023 Presidential campaign has reacted to reports claiming that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has struck a ‘political deal’ to back the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
During the week, reports emerged that Obi has struck a deal to back the 2023 presidential ambition of the former Vice President.
On its part, Peter Obi’s campaign office claimed that the speculations are the handiwork of propagandists who indulge in distorting facts in the pursuit of imaginary relevance for their paymasters.
The statement read in part, “Rather than strive to contend with the hard sell of their candidates, these mischief makers bandy about misleading accounts of the issue-based messages of our candidates just to score cheap political points and thus distract the discerning public.
“While we understand the frustration of dealing in their hard-to-sell, “expired milk” [apologies to BAT] in a competitive market, the FairPlay rule demands that you don’t associate the good with the bad product. We demand honour even among thieves!
“We know the intention of the spin-doctors in selling an utterly false story that the high-flying Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, met with his PDP counterpart and reached a deal. Nothing can be further from the truth.
“Obi’s foreign trip, its motive, and where and who to meet is already in the public domain; his meeting in the UK with some Nigerian political leaders is visually seen by all.
“But mischievous propagandists prefer to concoct lies in a desperate effort to clean up their candidate.
“We understand why the focus is on the Obi-Datti candidacy; they are easily the front runners in this 2023 race and the tag team has irresistible messages that are resonating with the embattled Nigerian public who are anxious more than ever to reclaim and take back their country.
“The LP candidates are on a divine mission to rescue and rebuild this country and cannot be distracted by any fabrications intended to mislead.
“ If Obi’s mission is to rescue Nigeria from the old order, he ought not to be seen working for the changing order.“
Peter Obi was the Governor of Anambra from March to November 2006, February to May 2007, and from June 2007 to March 2014.
In May 2022, he became the Labour Party nominee for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election
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