By Gideon Njoku
The Obidient Movement, supporters and loyalists of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and his running mate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has responded to the unwarranted attack on Obi, by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode.
FFK had inexplicably launched an attack on Obi and called him all kinds of derogatory names because Obi said he would only respond to comments by Presidential candidates, and not their Aides.
For that FFK descended on Obi, called him arrogant and empty and a dunce and a common trader. Then, he ended by asking, “Who is Peter Obi?”
In a swift response, the Obidient Movement answered the question, and urged FFK to follow suit and answer questions credentials on his own candidate, Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Following is the full text of the response.
“Party-switching champion and notorious attack dog of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Femi Fani-Kayode, recently made an issue about Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) leading the race for the Aso Rock Villa.”
The Obi-Datti Media Office of the LP, warning for the umpteenth time about APC’s race-by-proxy, and says it has the answer to FFK.
“We will only respond to actual candidates, not their proxies and or attack dogs seeking attention and trying to justify their pay,” it said in a press statement today.
“Peter Obi is a Nigerian trader leading the movement for the new Nigeria of our dreams. He made a modest income and created wealth by doing legitimate business.
He was Governor of Anambra State between 2006 to 2014 and left office with unprecedented track records, yet unchallenged, both in infrastructural development, accountability, and investment to earn him the award of Governor of the Decade.
“Obi has a traceable history of both origin and educational career. Obi has a message of competence, capacity, and character in leadership which he flaunts. He has no trace of narcotics to warrant his visiting either Ghana or Europe for rehabilitation to be stable enough for public office.
“What FFK wants us to do by his question is to re-highlight, to the public, who the candidates are. Thus we are proud and eager to do this because we have good products and are very ready to take them to market.
“Now that we have answered Fani-Kayode’s question on who Obi is and has been, we challenge him to tell Nigerians who his candidate is, his origin, antecedents, what he did before coming into politics, his criminal records, and his source of income before, and after governorship.
“Obi has never hidden that he was into trade and commerce since his undergraduate days which his classmates can attest to, but Fani-Kayode’s Principal has no classmates, even though he claimed to have gone to some schools.
“We understand Fani-Kayode’s struggle to be relevant in the system for survival. When he migrated to the APC, he thought he would get the attack dog job for the party ahead of 2023. That bid was lost, but he is now trying to show presence by attacking Peter Obi.
“Today’s Nigeria needs a man who, from selling tomatoes grew to become the youngest Nigerian to be Chairman of a post-consolidation bank, who became a Governor and remains relevant almost a decade after leaving office, not an economic parasite who knows little about growing and developing the economy and only lives by acquiring and spending public funds.”
The statement further said that “the train journey to take back Nigeria had left the station; joining the Obidient family on this mission of rescuing and rebuilding Nigeria is the best option for every true patriot.”
