The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has refuted a report that he met with Reno Omokri in London, the United Kingdom (U.K.) where he rebuked Omokri for demanding money to support him in the presidential race.
The Media Adviser to Peter Obi, Valentine Obienyem, in a statement noted that a purported rebuke of one Reno Omokri by Peter Obi during their meeting in London is being circulated. Obienyem further noted that the report claimed that the said Reno demanded money to support Obi and that Obi refused. He maintained that Obi never met the said Reno in London as reported.
Obienyem, accordingly, declared: “Beyond predicting correctly what would have been Obi’s attitude towards such a demand, let us, however, for the avoidance of doubt, state clearly that Obi did not meet the said Reno in London as the write up claimed. The statement being circulated did not come from Obi neither did he sanction it.”
Having dissociated Obi from the social media statement, Valentine Obienyem stated that the Peter Obi Media Office suspects the statement as the usual prank being played by the same people desirous of citing it as a justification for strengthening their unprovoked attack on Obi. He maintained that is indicates “desperate efforts to present Obi as an attacker and hide under the assumption of defense, launch further attack on Obi.”
The Labour Party presidential candidate while insisting that he is appalled at the bitterness with which some people treat political opponents, to the extent of trying to instigate hatred against them as evidenced by those that planted his head on playing mats and pictures in a brandy, he expressed his gratitude to the ObIdient family for keeping faith. Obi urged the continued sharing of the dream of a society in which there shall be no corruption, no recklessness, no poverty, no hypocrisy and no injustice with the ObIdient family and, indeed, all Nigerians of goodwill.
The Media Adviser to the former Anambra State governor also noted in passing, the deliberate misinterpretation of the statement by Peter Obi about six Commissioners that worked with him. He clarified that from the context of what he said, the former governor clearly referred to Commissioners of Police and not his EXCO members.
Obi assured Nigerians of his abiding good wishes for to the country.