Obi-Datti Media Office, the campaign office of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has condemned the various alleged attacks on the party’s flag-bearer.

The campaign office said the alleged attacks on Obi were sponsored by “haters and frustrated detractors” of the LP presidential candidate.

It said this via a statement issued and made available to The Star on Saturday.

The Obi-Datti Media Office said the attackers have resorted to blackmail to distract Obi ahead of the next month’s presidential election.

“We will continue to be amused over the desperation of opponents to search for faults on the front-running candidate of the Labour Party and the apparent frustration of not finding him wanting.

“The LP standard bearer has remained the most searched and fact-checked among the top four candidates. He is the only one running issue-driven campaigns and has generated intellectual conversations.

“We will remain focussed on taking back Nigeria and rebuilding it after February 25, 2023.

“Our mission this day is to alert especially those desirous to see a new Nigeria emerge through Peter Obi, to ignore and treat as thrash any doctored and faked item on Peter Obi.

“Recently in the South East, some hirelings recorded a fake video of unknown gunmen pretending to punish a man for allegedly wearing a Peter Obi T-shirt; it was indeed a polo shirt of PDP’s Peter Mba of Enugu State.

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“The video makers objective was to portray Peter Obi as unwanted in his region and frighten his supporters, which is utterly false. The fake video came ostensibly to counter the heartwarming rallies of the Labour Party in the two South East states of Anambra and Enugu.

“Also on Friday while the Obidient movement was shutting down Jos for the arrival of Obi, detractors concocted another video of someone claiming to be an Obidient complaining of missing money for mobilisation. It was doctored to counter the organic nature of Obi’s rallies and make them look like the rented crowds of the other parties,” the campaign office stated.

It added that it would continue to expose the alleged assailants’ deceptions “which have roundly failed since our candidate has demonstrated unequivocally that he is the best man for the job, having possessed all the required ingredients for the missing leadership in our polity: character, capacity, competence and capabilities.”

“We, therefore, remind everyone that Peter Obi, the head the cap fits, is seeking the Nigerian people’s mandate to serve and provide what has been lacking in our country and he comes proudly with attractive and satisfactory features embedded in his lifestyle and antecedents in his public and private life,” the Obi-Datti Media Office added.

The Star