The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council has insisted
that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won’t leave Nigeria despite
pressure being mounted on him to do so.
The PCC claimed that the pressure being mounted on the
former Anambra State governor from some quarters was the handiwork of mischief
makers who were bent on derailing Obi from pursuing justice through the court.
Recall that Obi had on Wednesday said he was being pressured
to leave the country with attacks against his person emanating from different
quarters.
Obi, in a statement on Wednesday night on his Twitter handle, also added that the leaked audio conversation between himself and the Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, was doctored and fake.
But in a statement on Thursday night by the Chief
Spokesperson, Obi-Datti Campaign Council, Dr. Tanko Yunusa, the council
maintained that Obi had no intention to leave the country, irrespective of the
pressure on him and his family.
The statement read, “Most unfortunately, in the past few
weeks, Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023
presidential election, has been contacted by associates, elder statesmen,
family and friends with concerns for his personal safety.
”These concerns have increased intensely in the last few
days as immense pressure has been mounted directly on Obi to leave the country,
no doubt, from sources allied to the APC and its agents in the security
services.
”Mr. Obi has been repeatedly and categorically told that he
has a choice to leave Nigeria or face the prospect of being arrested on false
charges of inciting insurrection in the country.
“It is difficult to
fathom and regrettably unfortunate that state institutions have become part of
a well-calculated, deliberate and orchestrated campaign of calumny by the APC
to discredit and delegitimise Mr Peter Obi and compel him to abandon his right
to seek redress in court, following the outcome of the last election which was
adjudged both locally and internationally to have failed to meet any standard
of credibility or fairness.
“As part of the grand design, they are circulating a fake,
doctored audio call. At no time throughout the campaign and now did Mr Obi ever
say, think or even imply that the 2023 election is or was a religious war.
”It is very sad and wicked the attempts to manipulate
Nigerians. Our legal team has been instructed to take appropriate legal actions
against the media outlets that make themselves willing tools in the hands of
the APC’s malicious propagandists.”
It added, “There are many more campaigns of calumny against
Mr Obi planned for the near future, both before and during the court process.
However, we want to make it clear to the APC party, APC led-government and its
agents that Mr Obi, a widely travelled man, has no intention to leave the
country at this time, irrespective of the pressure on him and his family.”
“We call on Nigerians and the international community to
caution the APC and the APC led-government to stop their nasty attacks. Mr.
Obi’s focus and commitment to lawfully and peacefully retrieve our mandate to
secure and unite our nation, take Nigeria from consumption to production, pull
millions of Nigerians out of multidimensional poverty, especially in the North
and jumpstart prosperity through agricultural, industrial and technological revolution
remain unchanged
“He has continued to impress upon his supporters the essence
of the legal process and will not now or in the future encourage any violence
against the state. He has absolutely no reason for this nor desperate,
especially as throughout the campaign, he called for a new Nigeria defined by
opportunities for all, an end to poverty and criminality in government,
especially corruption and an end to tribal and religious divisions and bigotry.
“It is for this reason that we appeal to revered religious
leaders, especially in the North, not to be part of the grand design of the
state apparatus to further increase the religious and ethnic divide in the
country.
”Irrespective of the outcome of the court process, we have
the obligation to strive for the peace and co-existence of all Nigerians. We
call on President Buhari to rein in his desperate officials at all levels as
their action or inaction could lead to unnecessary crises in the country.”
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