2023 Presidential Elections: Peter Obi Blasts US APC Over Comments on Obidients' White House Park Protest
- The ObiDatti Campaign Organisation has said that Peter Obi is not involved in the protest against the emergence of Bola Tinubu as president-elect
- The protest is scheduled to take place at the Park opposite the White House and is said to be allegedly sponsored by Peter Obi and the Labour Party
- According to the ObiDatti organisation, neither Peter Obi nor Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has anything to do with the planned protest in the USA
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The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has disagreed with the United States of America chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over sponsoring a protest against the outcome of the 2023 poll.
Members of the Labour Party and the Obidient Movement had written to the US government to allow them to use the Park opposite the White House, US, to protest against the alleged illegal declaration of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria's president-elect.
Source: AFP
However, in a recent statement seen by Legit.ng, the chairman of the US chapter of the APC, Professor Tai Balofin, accused Peter Obi and the Labour Party of sponsoring the said protest.
Balofin said Tinubu won the 2023 presidential poll in a free and fair election after beating Obi and 16 other opponents.
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But in his reaction, Yunusa Tanko, the spokesperson for the ObiDatti campaign organisation dissociated Obi and the party from the protest.
Vanguard reports that Tanko said:
“There is no presidential candidate that has been in full control and admonishing his supporters to be calm than Obi and Datti. The only thing is we are not satisfied with the process that led to the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect.
“We have raised fundamental issues about the process and the process is part of the democratic process. Obi has not sponsored anybody to do anything, rather he has urged them to be calm and follow the rule of law. However, if Nigerian people are protesting the injury done to them, they have the right. Nobody is sponsoring anybody.”
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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has said that he was wary of the effect Peter Obi had on voters before the 2023 general polls.
The governor confirmed that he had warned his party members and some of his supporters against the wave of the Obidient movement across the country.
According to Okezie Ikpeazu, he never campaigned against Obi as widely claimed in some quarters.
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Yunusa Tanko, the spokesperson of the Labour Party, has said that the party would follow due process and would not be part of any insurrection.
Tanko said this while reacting to DSS' revelation that some key players are sponsoring protests against the February 25 presidential election results to achieve interior motive and truncate the democratic process.
However, the Labour Party chieftain queries why the DSS was silent over the alleged attack on the party's member during the election.
Source: Legit.ng
