Tanko Yinusa, spokesperson of the National Consultative
Forum (NCF), says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), is
not interested in political mudslinging.
The NCF, a political movement set up in 2020, has Pat Utomi,
a professor of political economy, as co-convener.
On Monday, Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, had accused Obi of playing
sectional politics, adding that the LP candidate is planning a “fake
assassination attempt”.
Keyamo was reacting to a viral video clip in which Obi was
reading a message which claimed south-westerners were asked not to vote for
him.
Speaking on the development on Monday in an interview on
Channels Television, Yinusa said the LP candidate’s focus is on issue-based
politics.
“Let me quote Peter Obi just this afternoon when he was
speaking. He said all of the presidential candidates, some of them are his
senior brothers and he gives them respect as Nigerian leaders. He has never and
will never derogate any individual, especially in the position of leadership,
that they have established good relationships,” Yinusa said.
“He has always been interested in issue-based politics and
campaign, not mudslinging, not backstabbing, not even mentioning people’s
names.
“But we are also
aware that certain individuals are trying to pin issues of religious and tribal
sentiments on our candidate, and we have always been trying to run away from
it, and that’s the reason why such information they are touting is exactly what
their target is.
“We are making it very clear that Peter Obi will not engage
in any personal attack on anybody. So, I doubt that particular possibility of
the statement they are making reference to.
“To say the fact, Nigerians have gone beyond the issues of
personal attacks and consistently, the opposition is always trying to make out
of nothing, because quite honestly, our presidential candidate does not have
time. His interest is the Nigerian people and he is going to face the Nigerian
people.”
The NCF spokesperson also said those supporting Obi do so
out of personal conviction, adding that the recent rallies have been organised
without participants receiving a dime from the party.
“For the first time
in the history of Nigeria, the people are the ones moving this particular
movement. This particular election in 2023 is unconventional politics,” he
said.
“People are on the streets financing, mobilising, producing
billboards and are feeding people by themselves using their own earned
resources.”
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