2023: Political parties pay agents to smear Obi, campaign office alleges
From Chinedu Nwafor Abakaliki
The campaign office of the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has alleged that some political Parties were paying agents to launch smear campaign against Mr Obi, and portray him as enemy of the Northern Nigeria.
Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Media Adviser to the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi made this known in a statement, in Awka.
Obienyem said his claim was hinged by an acidic report credited to one AG. Mahmoud who sought to discredit Obi and bring him to disrepute by heaping false allegations on him.
He wondered “if it was by coincidence that the report came when we were reliably informed that some political parties have charged their political office holders to hire people to relentlessly attack Obi with falsehoods on all available social media platforms”.
According to him, the obviously non-existent AG Mahmoud, accused Obi of doing the opposite of the things he did while in office.
“These include his relationship with Northerners in his handling of the relocation of goat and onions sellers who constituted nuisance at bridgehead, Onitsha in 2006.”
“Obi also took far reaching actions that fostered unity among all those living in the state to prevent such happening again.
“The writer claim that Obi rejected an idea of exchange programme between the North and Anambra state; that Obi requested the DSS to remove an Hausa trader near his house, and the allegation that Obi deported people of Northern extraction back to kaduna during his tenure as governor of Anambra state, were obviously, a calculated attempt to pitch Mr. Peter Obi against the North.
“What Obi did in Anambra State was to send back underaged beggars to their states, citing child abuse
“When a real deportation by the then Governor of Lagos took place, Obi fought against it, saying that every adult Nigerian’s right to reside wherever he desired should be respected. A single search on Google will show you the truth”.
Obienyem said that Obi was very competent to become the President of Nigeria, saying that unfortunately, it is the incompetent ones that always appeal to tribalism to hide their incompetence.
“A sedulous enquirer would discover that as Governor, Obi celebrated Sallah with the Moslem community that visited him as a routine. He also routinely sponsored Muslim faithful on pilgrimage to Mecca”, Obienyem said among other things.
