*Says attack dogs like him always stand truth on its head
The Media Office of Obi-Datti Campaign has lampoon’s for erstwhile national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiohmole, for casting unfounded aspersions on the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi.
Oshimhole on Sunday has has no capacity to tackle security citing his tenure in Anambra state as an instance.
But the ObiDatti Media Office dismissed Oshiohmole’s claims as baseless and unfounded.
The campaign office stated: “The attention of the Media Office of Obi-Datti Campaign was drawn on Sunday to a baseless claim by the former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiohmole that the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi has no capacity to tackle security as his tenure in Anambra proved so.
“The former Edo Governor also in his groundless outburst to satisfy his audience claimed that it was Obi’s successor, Willie Obiano who was able to solve some security challenges that Obi could not tackle.
“When the LP candidate told Nigerians severally to go and verify his past, he knew what the outcome of such verification would be, in his favor, except for attack dogs like Oshiohmole who would always stand truth on its head, fabricate tales ostensibly to satisfy his pay master who incontrovertibly is not verifiable.
“If Comrade Oshiohmole had bordered to verify Obi’s security records as Anambra state governor, he would have found what the Inspector General of Police in 2014, Abubakar Mohammad said in Awka, Anambra state capital on April 10, 2014 shortly after Obi left office that was copiously captured by many mainstream and social media establishments on April 11, 2014.
“Oshiohmole, but for mischief, would also have found that Obi is on record to have been one of the most ruthless state Governors in tackling the kidnap menace in the country.
“It’s still green in everybody’s memory how Obi personally supervised the sealing off and demolition of hotels and buildings used by Kidnappers and other criminal gangs in the state”.
They noted that crime record in Anambra state under Obi was outstanding and security leadership never failed to appreciate this feat.
They referred him to a news story as published by the Nation Newspaper on April 11, 2014 captioned “IG declares Anambra safest since five years” advising him to refresh his memories with the contents of the story.
According to the Media Office, “The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, had declared that Anambra State remained the safest state in the last (then) five years, according to police records”.
They told Oshiohmole that Abubakar made the statements at the Women Development Centre, Awka, at the state’s Stakeholders’ Summit, announcing that “there was no bank robbery in the state in the last five years during former Governor Peter Obi. He urged Governor Willie Obiano to emulate his predecessor by sustaining the security situation in the state”.
The IGP had equally hailed the relationship between the police and the government under Peter Obi, which contributed to the improved security, and reassured Governor Obiano that the police would give him a 100 per cent support to rid the state of kidnappers and robbers.
The Obi-Datti Media Office therefore urged members of the public to be vigilant and resist any attempt to foist proxy Presidents on them with lies and they should repel any fraudulent try to frustrate the Movement’s goal of taking back our beloved country battered by corrupt and greedy leaders.
“Let’s always remain Obidient and focused for a new Nigeria whose time has come, they advised.
