Tinubu wholesome, works 20 hours every day, APC marketing campaign replies Peter Obi

The Presidential Marketing campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has attacked the presidential candidate of the Labour Occasion (LP), Peter Obi, over his touch upon the well being of its candidate, Bola Tinubu.

The council, in a press release by considered one of its spokespersons, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday, stated Mr Obi lacks the qualification to touch upon Mr Tinubu’s well being.

Mr Obi had in a viral video claimed that Mr Tinubu shouldn’t be bodily match for the workplace of president however that most individuals round him are supporting his ambition due to the cash they are going to get from him.

He additional claimed {that a} Tinubu assist group despatched out a message urging Yoruba folks to not vote for him primarily based on ethnic sentiments.

“Yoruba shine your eyes o, for those who vote for Peter Obi, it’s robotically voting for seaports in South-South and South East. The Igbos will cease coming to Lagos State to speculate, fairly they are going to go to Delta and Rivers states, they could even cease constructing homes in Lagos. It is going to have an effect on lots of Yorubas. Yoruba ro nu o,” Mr Obi stated within the video.

On Monday, Festus Keyamo, one other spokesperson of the APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council, had responded to the remark made by Mr Obi. He accused Mr Obi of stoking ethnic rhetoric.

Obi an incurable liar— Onanuga

Within the assertion, Mr Onanuga described Mr Obi as an “incurable liar”, noting that his feedback are unbecoming of a presidential candidate.

“We discover these statements unbecoming of a person who nurses the ambition to be Nigeria’s subsequent president.

“Since he’s not Asiwaju’s physician and isn’t aware about his medical report, Obi, the poor philosophy graduate, has once more disgracefully elevated what has for lengthy been a beer parlour gossip and social media lie being propagated by his IPOB supporters. Obi in his attribute method is amplifying falsehood which mustn’t have a spot in an honest political marketing campaign,” he stated.

Mr Onanuga additional said that Mr Obi has “thrown all warning to the wind, announcing on points he has no ethical {and professional} competence to make a judgement name on.”

He insisted that the 70-year-old Mr Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, is match to proceed the marketing campaign to be president.

“We need to make it crystal clear to all of the traducers of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate that Asiwaju Tinubu shouldn’t be unwell. He’s hale and hearty. A person who works for 20 hours a day, assembly folks and strategising about discovering options to Nigeria’s issues, can’t be stated to be unwell. We make daring to say that our candidate is as match because the fiddle,” the assertion stated.

“We additionally need to educate Peter Obi and his horde of gullible followers that Tinubu’s tens of millions of supporters countrywide are backing him not due to any pecuniary profit. Asiwaju Tinubu supporters are rooting for him due to their sturdy perception in his demonstrable capacity to offer progressive management for our nation.

“They’re supporting him as a result of they imagine in his capability as a transformative chief, who as soon as made a historic mark in Lagos State and is able to replicating similar in Nigeria.

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“On this rating alone, Tinubu is unmatched within the area by even the perennial presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He’s definitely not in the identical league with the rabble-rousing Peter Obi by all management parameters.

“Coming so quickly after his gaffe and falsehood in accusing Tinubu of mobilising Yoruba voters to not assist him, Obi is coming throughout as a harmful politician and a demagogue able to spewing all manners of lies simply to get the votes.

“Already discredited with statistical lies and fallacies, Obi is now treading a brand new floor, spreading lies with unfounded claims on Asiwaju Tinubu’s well being.”

Mr Onanuga stated Mr Obi has no report of efficiency after eight years as governor of Anambra State.

“A politician who left no worthy legacy in eight years as governor of Anambra state, who as a substitute constructed his circle of relatives Subsequent Money and Carry retail mall in Port Harcourt and Abuja, not in Awka, the capital of the state he ruled is latching on lies after lies to hoodwink his motley crowd of impressionistic and gullible followers,” he stated.

He, due to this fact, warned Mr Obi to desist from politics of falsehood, including, “We advise him to canvass on points and for as soon as give his hole marketing campaign some credibility by refraining from telling lies.”