The media office of Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has alleged a plot to arrest him.
In a press statement by its spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, on Saturday, the Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR) said “the wild, wicked and baseless allegations” by President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, that Obi was the mastermind of a planned protest in the country, is government’s orchestrated plot to pounce on him.
POMR said “these unsubstantiated allegations are being orchestrated to arrest Obi, limit his freedom and association and stop his propagation for good governance which they find injurious to their lavish lifestyle.”
It said that Obi has never shown or been associated with violence, stating that the Labour Party candidate “has always shown even during the electioneering that he is issue-driven as he carries on without calling anybody’s name.”
The media office said it was aware that “attack dogs have been hired and strategically deployed to ensure that Obi does not enjoy the ear of the Nigerian populace who are keen on hearing his voice on issues.
“These spine doctors and hirelings, to justify their pay, indulge in all kinds of falsehood ostensibly to distract Obi and confuse Nigerians who already see Obi as suiting balm in the current turbulent political and economic environment.
“All the problems real and imagined created by their insensitivity and lavish lifestyle they have curiously tried to link to Obi.”
POMR said that the challenges of the Tinubu government was caused by its actions and inactions, “like fuel subsidy fallouts, growing poverty in the land, inflation, nepotism and unresolved historical conflicts among others they blame all on Obi.”
It urged Nigerians to ignore the Presidency’s cheap blackmail “as Obi and the Obidient family all over the country and in the diaspora remain resolute in their search for a new Nigeria that is Possible and would not be cowed or be made to lose focus.”
