Strong Allegations Levelled Against Peter Obi’s New Campaign DG
- Osun Osuntokun has been accused of not resigning as a member of Zenith Labour Party and should not be Peter Obi's campaign DG
- The allegation was levelled by the suspended publicity secretary of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi
- Arabambi insisted that Osuntokun’s appointment was obtained with fraudulent intentions, among others
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Peter Obi and the Labour Party have been accused of appointing the wrong person as director general of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council.
This is the position of the suspended publicity secretary of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi. He claimed Osuntokun is still a member of the Zenith Labour Party, Vanguard Newspaper reports.
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Recall that Osuntokun replaced the former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation after he was convicted.
Arabambi, in a statement, insisted that Osuntokun could not be trusted with such a position as a result of several factors, This Day Newspaper added.
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According to him, Osuntokun remains the ZLP senatorial candidate for Ekiti central district.
He said:
“From available record, the ZLP has its own presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate. How then will he be leading our party campaign from another party?
“The costly mistake made by the LP to have picked Osuntokun among arrays of eminently qualified and dedicated members of the Party may have a devastating effect on the victory of our candidate, His Excellency, Peter Obi, and Ahmed Datti, if we fail to act now."
Osuntokun's defection
Meanwhile, findings by The PUNCH confirmed the claim of Arabambi that Osuntokun was indeed listed as a senatorial candidate for the 2023 ballot.
Sitting on number 392 on page 57 of the INEC register was the name ‘Osuntokun Olusola Akintola’, representing Ekiti Central on the platform of the ZLP.
When called for a reaction, Osuntokun told the newspaper that the issue was of no relevance.
He said,
“That’s a redundant issue. I have left the ZLP. It was actually the Constitution that I wrote. Dan Nwanyanwu was the chairman of (Zenith) Labour Party. It was at his insistence that I entered the party because I thought it was Labour Party.
2023: Igbo groups berate Arthur Eze over opposition to Peter Obi
Meanwhile, a businessman and prominent Anambra indigene, Prince Arthur Eze, has incurred the wrath of Igbo groups after he distanced himself from the presidential ambition of Obi on Monday, December 26.
Eze said he was not part of Obi’s aspiration because he had seen that the former Anambra state governor could not win votes in the southwest and in the north.
Responding to Eze, prominent Igbo groups declared there is no going back on their support for Obi.
2023: Olisa Metuh tells Arthur Eze to 'calm down' over comments on Peter Obi
Similarly, Olisa Metuh, a former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), berated Eze for dismissing Obi's presidential ambition.
Metuh urged all the Igbo elites, including Eze, to hold their peace and let Obi be.
The former PDP spokesman noted that like every other qualified Nigerian, Obi has the right to contest for the presidency.
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