2023: Reject Presidency By Proxy – Obi-Datti Media Office Tells Nigerians; Condemns Use Of Govt Plane By Mrs Tinubu

The Media Campaign Office of the Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has responded, strongly,  to a bait thrown at Obi by the Spokesperson of the APC Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, SAN.

A son of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Seyi Tinubu, had held a political rally for his father, Bola Tinubu, in Lagos.

Following that, Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour, had asked Obi to get his own son to hold a rally for him in Anambra.

However, the Obi -Datti Media Campaign Office has laughed at such suggestion, and told Keyamo that “Obi’s family is not part of his politics. They are running their lives, contributing to development without nearing public funds. They are no parasites to Government funds.

“The LP candidate, Peter Obi, is the man seeking the mandate of the Nigerian people to serve them as President not any other member of his family. He has said it repeatedly that Nigerians must reject anybody desiring to be President by proxy.

“It is dangerous and discomforting when we cannot differentiate public funds from family and private funds, and a serving Minister of the Republic is defending and celebrating it.”

The full text of the statement reads:

“The attention of the Obi-Datti Media Campaign office has been drawn to a challenge thrown to the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi by one of the opponents attack dogs, the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo for his son to organize a successful campaign rally in his state Anambra akin to what APC flag bearer’s son Seyi Tinubu did for his Dad in Lagos.

“But the attack dog forgot to differentiate the two sons, and their fathers.

“The only thing that joins Obi and Tinubu is that they were once governors of States in Nigeria. After that, one became a parasite to the State Government he served with his entire family while the the other left Government House and he and any members of his family never collected a dime from Anambra state. This assertion is verifiable for Keyamo and his other hirelings.

“Unlike Tinubu and his household who have grown to be stupendously  wealthy with no identifiable industry or means of making money outside the State Government for over two decades.

“If Keyamo had taken time to study the family he speaks for very well, he would have avoided this comparison that is bound to expose the parasitic life of his Principal and understand why the entire household is headlong in the campaign.

“The other time Tinubu’s wife, Senator Remi was threatening fire and brimstone over Lagos, then the daughter and now the son is showing off with rally. Do you blame a people struggling to keep a family business? The Tinubu family have cornered the commonwealth of Lagos state which they now run as a family enterprise.

“Obi’s family is not part of his politcs, they are running their lives, contributing to development without  nearing public funds.

“Obi-Datti Media office also noticed that Tinubu’s wife and some parasitic First Ladies took government airplane to campaign spots because they can hardly exist without government patronage.

“The LP Candidate, Peter Obi is the man seeking the mandate of the Nigerian people to serve them as President not any other member of his family. He has said it repeatedly that Nigerians must reject anybody desiring to be President by proxy.

“We, therefore, join our candidate to demand that candidates, not their wives , sons or daughters are seeking for the peoples votes and they should be scrutinized by the people.

“It’s dangerous and discomforting when we cannot differentiate public funds from family and private funds and a serving Minister of the Republic is defending and celebrating it.

“But that is exactly what Nigerian youths through the Obidient Movement are out to halt through their take back Nigeria mantra.”