The media office of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, have explained why Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dreads facts and figures used by opponents in place of mere rhetorics.
The APC flagbearer’s aspersions cast on the informed use of statistics by Peter Obi of the Labour Party to demystify campaign rhetorics, have caught the attention of the Obi-Datti Media Office which declared Sunday, that the APC candidate is ill-equipped to comprehend both arithmetic and statistics, a glaring proof of his poor educational background and footing.
Tinubu had said at a rally of rented crowds in Gbaramatu, Delta State, last week that Peter Obi of the Labour Party lied with figures.
“A speech-challenged contestant who cannot pronounce or spell ‘m.u.l.t.i.p.l.i.c.a.t.i.o.n’ and wants to argue about numbers, arithmetic, and statistics says a lot about how low we have climbed in this country,” the media publicity handlers in a statement signed by Diran Onifade, Head of the Team, stated.
The statement further reminded that APC candidate that the LP candidate was brimming with practicable ideas and was demystifying electioneering rhetorics by employing simple facts and figures in his campaigns.
“Providing the numbers shows Peter Obi’s preparedness for the high office of the president if and when hired by Nigerian voters come 2023.”
The Obi-Datti Media Office added that it was aware of the inpracticality of some of the presidential candidates to cope with Peter Obi’s speed and deep knowledge of issues, which is why they are throwing mud at him, to drag him to their low level.
“Unfortunately for them, they have failed woefully in their grand design to distract Obi from his focus on issues-driven campaigns which are resonating very well with Nigerians, who have vowed and are committed to taking back their country from the dark forces that have held it down over the years.”
Responding to APC on the use of figures to convey facts, the LP Media Team added, is like seeking to dine with the devil without the proverbial long spoon or to run with the robber and confusing passers-by about the identity of the real thief.
“Our candidate has said repeatedly that his assertions were verifiable and dared anybody with contrary facts and figures to come up.
“Analysts, media houses, and opponents have formed fact-checking units in their organisations ostensibly to contradict Peter Obi’s facts and the statistics he has been dishing out, but they have not succeed, because facts remain fact, at any time, and at any day.”
The statement cited a recent Arise TV Town Hall Meeting in Abuja where a team of fact-checkers was raised to hook Obi, but ended up apologising to him.
“The acceptable mantra is always if you can’t beat them join them, but in Nigerian politics, the reverse is the case: if you can’t beat them pull them down.
“That is what Obi’s opponents who cannot cope with his deep know-how on the economy are doing.
“We find it extremely laughable and shameful that a candidate who is aspiring to lead his country but has not been able to present any identifiable record of his origin, age, and educational background, is challenging the man who is indisputably equipped with the way to go about salvaging our dear country.
“The fact that the APC’s candidate has questionable bio-data has left the electorate guessing his real age and health status,” the ObiDatti Media Office stated.
These days, every APC rally produces its tongue-twisters like “Blu bla blu”; “no down payment for roasted corn for electricity”; “the Deputy Senate President will be the governor of Niger Delta State”; “I will recharge Lake Chad if am elected President”; “if you love me, go and collect your APV and vote for APC”; “God bless PDAPC”, or miscalling the name of his campaign director-general, Solomon, instead of Simon.
“How many of such faux pas should he make before he withdraws from the race and allow the undisputably health go for the rescue of Nigeria which their likes have so much messed up?
“It is game up for people who cannot point at any of their classmates or whose certificates are tainted in mystery or whose past is tainted.
“Nigeria deserves the best and that is what Peter Obi represents,” the statement stressed
The statement added that Nigeria should rather “weep for a country whose ruling party could only produce a presidential candidate that is so disfigured as is the case currently to stand in a presidential contest as their first among equals”
