Obi Distances Self From Attacks On Pastor Adeboye; Says Opposition Orchestrating Ruse Against Him

Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has distanced himself from recent attacks on Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.

Adeboye had come under attack by a number of people over his statement that the in-coming Bola Tinubu Government is likely to redeem Nigeria, and put it on the pathway of progress. He called for support for it.

However, his statement did not go down well with not a few people who called him a hypocrite and asked him why he had remained silent over the sufferings of Nigerians in the past eight years of the Muhammadu Buhari APC Administration only to suddenly find his voice now.

But some people attributed the source of the attacks on Adeboye to Obidients- supporters of Obi.

However, in a statement, the Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, Diran Onifade, distanced Obi from the attacks and put the blame on those against the Presidential Candidate, his plans and aspirations for Nigeria.

Following is the full text of the statement.

“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.”