The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has slammed Tinubu’s government for what he called a failed attempt to tarnish his image by referencing the American presidential election.
In a statement titled “Why Desperate Obi Opponents Are Failing,” released by his media office and signed by his spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, in Abuja on Sunday, Obi accused desperate propagandists and their presidential supporters of distorting facts in a bid to ruin his spotless reputation.
Umar said, “For these traducers, it would be a huge omission for a day to pass without finding something to negatively link Obi within the media space, if he and his family members are not being arrested imaginarily (a kite being flown to test waters?), he is being wickedly accused of sponsoring violence or twisting his public appearances in a manner to suite their dubious motives.
“Perhaps the most laughable of such delusions is the Presidency’s effort to ridicule Obi by dragging his name into the United States of America, USA electioneering process, by scandalously linking him with the Republican Party Candidate, Donald Trump.
“We are very much aware of the motive behind these ridiculous comparisons, which is their uncanny way of currying favour so undeserved from the Democrats.
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“Nigerians who mused about the derisory and facetious comparison have tried to ask: ‘Will your calling Peter Obi ‘a Trump’, translate to or mean that Tinubu is Harris’?
“Every discerning mind who wants to compare Obi and Tinubu and attempts to equate them with the two American Presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, knows too well the similarities and parallels in terms of morality, transparency, good-standing antecedents and people-focused policies.
“The Presidency by indulging in such clever-by-half comparisons, which are intended to discredit Obi, merely brings to the fore the glaring weaknesses of the incumbent administration and their crassness and inability to discern the realities and especially the pains and pangs their actions and policies foisted on the nation in the past year.
“ Nigerians are not so gullible to be fooled by such empty propaganda.
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