The Director of Media and Public Affairs and Official
Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo,
on Monday, alleged that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi,
was planning to fake an assassination attempt on himself and hire some
supporters dressed in the APC caps and T-shirts to attack some of his party
offices.
This is even as the Minister of State for Labour and
Employment accused the former Anambra governor of circulating a hate-filled
video online to disparage the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu.
Keyamo made the claim in a statement issued in Abuja on
Monday.
While challenging Obi to reveal the source and name(s) of
the culprits behind the nebulous WhatsApp message, the minister noted that it
was obvious Obi deliberately concocted the message and circulated the offensive
video himself as a campaign strategy.
The allegation is coming hours after Labour Party held a
two-day retreat for its national officers, trade unions and party candidates.
The statement partly read, “Our attention has been drawn to
an offensive, hate-filled video made and circulated by the presidential
candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, in which he accused an amorphous
and non-existent “Tinubu’s Group” of spreading a WhatsApp message calling on
the Yoruba people not to vote for him. The purported message, according to Mr.
Obi, forewarned the Yoruba that a vote for Obi would be a vote for a seaport in
South-South and South-East.
“We are also aware that plans are afoot by Mr. Peter Obi to
fake an assassination attempt on himself and hire Labour Party boys dressed in
the APC caps and T-shirts to attack some Labour Party offices. It is all part
of the “US Plan”. It is the first in a series of incendiary actions planned by
this ill-prepared but desperate candidate.
“Firstly, we vehemently deny the existence of any of such
“Tinubu group” that made and circulated such a message. All groups supporting
the APC presidential candidate and his running-mate have clear designations
with well-known promoters. In addition, it is only messages released by the APC
Presidential Campaign Council that are officially authorised and for which we
take responsibility.
“As the takeoff date for campaigns draw closer, Mr. Peter
Obi has suddenly realised that Nigerians are beginning to burst his bubbles as
his messages are bereft of ideas, depth and clear-cut solutions to our
challenges. His messages are only full of false data and highfalutin jargons in
what is clearly a disingenuous ruse to distract a scrutiny of his empty records
as a Governor of Anambra State and nothing else. Hence, his easy recourse to
playing ethnic card and fanning the ember of hate.
“We have in on good authority that part of the “US Strategy”
(just like the failed “Dubai Strategy” his former boss and himself adopted in
2019) was to return to the country and spread ethnic hatred amongst the voters
and cause chaos, then pose as the victim. They have just begun that plot by
orchestrating and circulating the said video.
“We find it utterly disgusting, demeaning and insulting to
the sensitivities and sensibilities of Nigerians for a presidential candidate
of the ilk of Peter Obi to make such a video parroting a spurious, unverified
and sham message that has the potential of deepening our fault lines as a
nation and further promoting ethnic tensions. This is completely unbecoming of
a presidential candidate that hopes to unite this country.
“Again, we note that Mr. OBJ’s latest stunt is consistent
with what is now widely perceived as his adoption of hate as campaign strategy,
having consistently failed to rein in his known and identifiable supporters,
mostly domiciled on social media, threatening political opponents with violence
and death.
“We call on all well-meaning Nigerians, irrespective of
ethnic origins or political divides, to rise up and condemn this tactless
tactics and cheap maneuver by a desperate non-starter of a presidential
candidate who has decided to resort to crude revisionism, ethnic jingoism and
crass insensitivity with a view to whipping up undeserved sentiment to fuel his
faltering ambition that is nothing but a flash in a pan. Our advice to Mr.
Peter Obi is to quit the race if he has nothing more to tell Nigerians.”
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