It’s Photoshop, Obi Did Not Take Pictures With Ekpa – Obi-Datti Media Office

The Obi-Datti Media Office has described as a lie from the pit of hell, circulating photographs which claim that Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, took them with Simon Ekpa, an estranged member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who has been giving orders, from Finland, for a continuous sit-at-home order in the South-east.

A statement signed by its head of Media, Diran Onifade, titled: “Photos don’t tell lies, but Phoyoshop does: Obi did not take pictures with Ekpa”, this described the pictures as a product from “dubious minds always ready to deploy its creativity, albeit, negatively to create what is non-existent.”

Following is the full text of the statement.

“We all grew up being educated that photos tell a thousand stories and do not tell lies as photos are usually self-evident. Yet that was long years ago and long before digital technology took the World like a storm. That standard narrative has changed remarkably with dubious minds always ready to deploy it creatively albeit negatively, to create what is non-existent.

“Obi-Datti Media office notes that the scenario is exactly what played out in the photoshopped picture of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi supposedly standing with the Finland-based irritant Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa all in a desperate move to drag Obi’s name into disrepute by linking him with the ugly story that Ekpa has become in Nigeria.

For clarity, the picture was taken by  Obi standing with an admirer on a Virgin Flight on Friday, July 21, 2023. In trying to authenticate their filthy and disgustingly dirty act, they inserted the picture of Aisha Yusuf behind them.

“The memory may be short to forget that Obi was the first to describe the sit-at-home thing as an act being engineered and bred by a criminal that the system has refused to squarely tackle.

“Now that the menace of this crime is becoming manifest even to attract the views of the nation’s parliament, it may be necessary to critically study the handling of this crime.

“In a related development, APC troll agents have put out a loss leader advert purporting Peter Obi as “providing 20GB Free Data and N5000 Airtime in celebration of his 62nd Birthday.”

“This is a SCAM!  Subscriber beware!!

“It is mindboggling that these criminal ploys are passed off as playing politics.  Instead of seeking the line of a final solution to the cankerworm that has embarrassingly held the region and the country down, some mischief makers who are obsessed with Peter OBI’S rising fame are concerned with linking him to Ekpa.

“Yet another failed attempt to dent the political Eagle whose concern is how to create a new Nigeria and reduce the growing poverty in the land.

“Obi-Datti Media office thinks that the reasonable thing to do if this country is sincere in tackling its socio-political and economic challenges is to quietly study the views laboriously expressed by this phenomenal political leader of contemporary Nigeria instead of trolling him endlessly.”