The Labour Party (LP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, has criticised the presidency for what he described as a futile attempt to give him a bad image during the US presidential election.
Obi, who issued a statement via his press centre titled “Why are OBI’s desperate slanderers kissing the ashes?”, signed by his Press Secretary, Ibrahim Umar, in Abuja yesterday, said desperate propagandists and their presidential cronies were indulging in distorting facts in an attempt to destroy his impeccable image. The statement read: “For these slanderers, it would be a huge omission to go a day without finding something negatively linking Obi in the media space.
If he and his family members are not arrested in a fanciful manner (a kite flown to test the waters?), he is viciously accused of sponsoring violence or distorting his public appearances to suit their dubious motives. "Perhaps the most ridiculous of these misinterpretations is the president's attempt to ridicule Obi by dragging his name into the United States electoral process and scandalously linking him to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
"We fully understand the motivation for these absurd comparisons - a bizarre way to garner undeserved favor for the Democratic Party. "Nigerians have reflected on this ridiculous and humorous comparison and tried to ask, 'Does calling Peter Obi "Trump" mean or translate that Tinubu is Harris?'
"Anyone with insight who seeks to compare Obi and Tinubu and equate them with the two US presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, is well aware of the similarities and similarities in terms of morality, transparency, good qualifications and people-centered policies. "The President, by making such sly comparisons meant to discredit Obi, only exposes the glaring weakness of the incumbent administration, its prudishness and inability to recognise reality and above all the pain and suffering its actions and policies have inflicted on this country in recent years. The past year.
"No Nigerian is so gullible to be fooled by such meaningless propaganda. It is even more ironic that from the first days of the election campaign and more than a year into his inauguration, the leader's communications advisers have remained strangely distant and apparently unable to present himself or his policies to Nigerians through the media. continue to evade public accountability and, to all intents and purposes, seek to smear Obi, who has easily emerged as the most visible and articulate political figure of our time.
"Obi remains a man who has not only become the conscience of the people but also the hope for a new egalitarian democracy. "Rather than promote and seek to justify their rustic, anti-people and disastrous policies that have placed Nigeria and Nigerians in the worst possible situation, they have chosen to communicate misleading information about the activities of their principals simply to distract the attention of a gullible public.
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"We know the intentions of these trolls and PR advisors who have distorted recent media interviews to insinuate that he is ready to become vice president of anyone, provoking the director's many supporters across the country and the diaspora.
"But this false notion does not apply to a man who has repeatedly stated in various forums that he is not desperate to become president and that he wants to see Nigeria function. "Such plebeian acts are a total lack of sincerity and the height of wickedness on the part of propagandists who are jealous of the growing authority of our nation's principal.
"Finally, POMR would like to appeal to Nigerians, especially our supporters both at home and abroad and all political parties, not to be distracted by their aspirations and desires to see a new Nigeria come into being."
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