The Director of Media and Publicity for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, has described the Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi as an ‘incurable liar’, stating that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is hale and hearty.
Onanuga said Tinubu is not ill and works assiduously for 20 hours daily.
He stated this on Tuesday while reacting to Obi’s comment that Tinubu is not fit to rule the country.
KEMI FILANI NEWS had reported that Obi alleged that Tinubu is sick, but Nigerians are urging him to contest the 2023 elections because he doles out money.
The former Anambra State governor made this claim while recently speaking at a meeting with Nigerians in Belgium.
The statement partly read, “We want to make it crystal clear to all the traducers of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate that Asiwaju Tinubu is not ill. He is hale and hearty. A man who works for 20 hours a day, meeting people and strategising about finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems, cannot be said to be ill. We make bold to say that our candidate is as fit as the fiddle.
“We find these statements unbecoming of a man who nurses the ambition to be Nigeria’s next President. Since he is not Asiwaju’s doctor and is not privy to his medical record, Obi has again disgracefully elevated what has for long been a beer parlour gossip and social media lie being propagated by his IPOB supporters. Obi in his characteristic manner is amplifying falsehood which should not have a place in a decent political campaign.
“We believe that political leaders should be guided in their utterances and be sticklers for the truth, but Obi has thrown all caution to the wind, pronouncing on issues he has no moral and professional competence to make a judgement call on.”
He added,
“The supporters are supporting him (Tinubu) because they believe in his capacity as a transformative leader, who once made a historic mark in Lagos State and is capable of replicating the same in Nigeria.
“Coming so soon after his gaffe and falsehood in accusing Tinubu of mobilising Yoruba voters not to support him, Obi is coming across as a dangerous politician and a demagogue capable of spewing all manners of lies just to get the votes.
“Already discredited with statistical lies and fallacies, Obi is now treading new ground, spreading lies with unfounded claims on Asiwaju Tinubu’s health.
“A politician who left no worthy legacy in eight years as governor of Anambra state, who instead built his own family ‘Next Cash and Carry’ retail mall in Port Harcourt and Abuja not in Awka, the capital of the state he governed, is latching on lies after lies to hoodwink his motley crowd of impressionistic and gullible followers.
“We must warn Peter Obi to desist from politics of falsehood. We advise him to canvass on issues and for once give his hollow campaign some credibility by refraining from telling lies.”
