Obi-Datti Media office said some hirelings had been engaged by opponents to make abusive and provocative statements against ethnic and religious groups with the sole purpose of harming the growing goodwill of its candidate and his Vice-presidential candidate within such groups.
In a statement, on Friday, 30th September, 2022, the media office said intelligence available to it showed that some money had even been deployed in the project whose main purpose was to recruit these persons with the main agenda of making the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his Vice, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad, look bad in the yes of some interest groups particularly the ethnic Youruba, Fulani and the North.
The Office added that its findings showed that some of these hirelings wouldl be issuing threats and utterances that would provoke other tribes to change their minds and reconsider their support for Obi.
“We are privy to critical information that both the hirer and the hirelings involved in this devious act have been adequately mobilized financially and detailed to cause the South West and the North to reconsider their growing positive position on Obi and the Labour Party.
“These are people living in the past where tribe and religion were fanned mischievously to gain undue advantage in the political space with the main purpose of subverting the larger interest of the society,” the media office said.
It further noted that this development was the latest of the mischief aimed at undermining the growing support of the LP ticket holder whom they had tried in vain to pigeonhole into various groups, ethnic, religious or regional.
“We want to reiterate for umpteenth times that Obi-Datti candidacy is a national project designed by the people to rescue and take back their country from the grip of corrupt bad leaders holding it.
“Our candidate has said repeatedly that 2023 election is not going to be determined by ethnic or religious colorations or even entitlements but must be based on character, competence and capacity,” the media office added.
The Media Office alerted members of the public to watch out and disregard any such pecuniary induced statements purported to be coming from Obi supporters when in reality it’s designed to harm the project.
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