By G9ija
Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate has identified election riggers who he claimed are working desperately to malign him as those behind the recent attacks on Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
The Obi-Datti Media team in a statement issued on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 said that the attempt to accuse him and Obidients for mudslinging Adeboye, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God over a statement that the pastor did not make was in line with the attempt by those it claimed stole a mandate to instigate the public against Obi.
The statement issued by Diran Onifade on behalf of the Obi-Datti Campaign said:
Our attention has been drawn to yet another campaign of calumny emanating from opposition ranks, this time blaming ‘Obidients’ for recent unjustified social media attacks on the revered General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
We wish to state categorically that supporters of Mr Peter Obi, like their Principal, have great respect for Pastor Adeboye, indeed every responsible and respectable Nigerian, and therefore are not involved in any social media hounding of the revered man of God most especially over a statement he did not make.
It has become a pattern for desperate political operatives to orchestrate a ruse and blame it on Peter Obi’s supporters in furtherance of the opposition’s subterfuge strategy which has failed back to back.
We wish to appeal to fellow Nigerians to ignore the antics of election riggers who believe that demarketing Peter Obi is their sure means of keeping a stolen mandate.
Nigerians are aware by now that issuing personal insults is not Peter Obi’s character and he does not encourage his followers to engage in the same.
Meanwhile, Adeboye has been mute over the attacks and insinuations of Obi or other political actors being behind the issue.