The Media Office of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party has described as ludicrous insinuations in some quarters that the party’s candidate, Mr Peter Obi is considering stepping down from the presidential race.
The Campaign Office restated a strong reaction to the insinuation on January 27, wondering who Obi should withdraw for as the most popular candidate in the race.
The office insisted that the fact that other contestants are struggling to identify with him portrays clear that Obi is the man to beat.
The reaction of the Obi-Datti media office follows reports that the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, held alliance talk with Obi and the Candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Atiku made the revelation during an interview with BBC Hausa service on Tuesday.
He stated also that neither Obi nor Kwankwaso was a threat to his election.
He gave the assurance that one of the two presidential candidates would join his push for the Presidency.
“I see no threat because we are not together with them (Kwankwaso and Obi). We are in talk with them, one of them may possibly come,” he said.
But the Obi-Datti Media Office insisted that it reaction to the reports on merge talks have not changed.
“On January 27, 2023, Obi-Datti issued the release below, nothing has happened to make this irrelevant. Let this answer those calling for response on meeting or no meeting with anybody now and in the future.”
The earlier statement recalled from the archive reads:
Obi to withdraw for who?
Obi-Datti Campaign Media office finds it so ludicrous as to be amusing the counterfeit news item suggesting that the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi is considering stepping down for somebody.
Nothing can be more absurd than the fact that 18 persons are in a marathon to pick a trophy and somebody is suggesting that the front runner in the race who is already sighting the trophy wants to step down for somebody behind.
The fact that other parties contesting for the President have been cloning the LP candidate in their corruptly induced gift items like bags of rice, posters and bill boards speak volume of who is the man to beat in this race.
Since June 2022 when Obi emerged as the flag bearer of the Labour Party alongside other Presidential contestants, the Labour Party and it’s presidential campaign have increased in leaps and bounds attracting both local and global attention. The truth is that Peter Obi’s performance is now the standard by which other contestants and their parties are being measured.
The fact that the other parties struggle to associate their own candidates with Obi even without his consent says it all who should be associated with withdrawing or discontinuing in the race.
In an ideal clime where respect is accorded to merit and other audacious qualifications, other presidential candidates should have honourably
thrown in the towel.
What those flying the unreasonable and ridiculous kite are trying to achieve which appeared dead on arrival, is firstly to give themselves the fake hope that they are in the race to win; secondly to distract and remove our candidate’s eye from the ball where it’s already glued to and thirdly, to inject confusion in the mind of the public.
After being confirmed to be ahead by four scientifically conducted opinion polls, it would be laughable to suggest even as a joke that Obi is considering stepping down, for who, for God’s sake.
But we understand their handicap of living in the past and refusing to buy into the raging idea whose time has come that the most vibrant and vigorous arm of the country’s populace, the youths are resolute and already charged to take back their country and that they have found in the LP standard bearer, Obi the right man for this journey whose destination is already known.
It’s either that the purveyors of this ignoble news are incomprehensible and unintelligible about the developing political dynamics in the country or that they are clear agents of mischief hoping to inject confusion in the polity.
Finally, given what is in the political space around the leading Presidential candidates since the electioneering, it’s crystal clear that the obviously established filthy and disgustingly dirty candidates should be the ones who should be bowing out to give way for the revolution whose time has come.
