“Comparing me to Trump won’t change Nigeria’s reality” — Peter Obi tackles presidency

The Labour Party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has slammed the  Presidency for trying to tarnish his image with comparisons to the U.S Republican Party Candidate, Donald Trump.

Obi spoke through his Media Office, in a statement titled: “Why desperate  OBI traducers are kissing the dust?”, signed by his Spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, in Abuja, on Sunday.

According to Peter Obi, desperate propagandists along with their presidential enablers were endulging in the distortion of facts in a bid to destroy his impeccable image. 

Umar said, “For these traducers, it would be a huge omission for a day to pass without finding something to negatively link Obi within the media space, if he and his family members are not being arrested imaginarily (a kite being flown to test waters?), he is being wickedly accused of sponsoring violence or twisting his public appearances in a manner to suite their dubious motives.

According to Umar, the most laughable of such delusions is the Presidency’s effort to ridicule Obi by dragging his name into the United States of America, USA electioneering process, by scandalously linking him with the Republican Party Candidate, Donald Trump.

He went further to state that they are very much aware of the motive behind these ridiculous comparisons, as he described it as their uncanny way of currying favour so undeserved from the Democrats.

“Nigerians who mused about the derisory and facetious comparison have tried to ask: ‘Will your calling Peter Obi ‘a Trump’,  translate to or mean that Tinubu is Harris’?

“Every discerning mind who wants to compare Obi and Tinubu and attempts to equate them with the two American Presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, knows too well the similarities and parallels in terms of morality, transparency, good-standing antecedents and people-focused policies.

“The Presidency by indulging in such clever-by-half comparisons, which are intended to discredit Obi, merely brings to the fore the glaring weaknesses of the incumbent administration and their crassness and inability to discern the realities and especially the pains and pangs their actions and policies foisted on the nation in the past year.

“Nigerians are not so gullible to be fooled by such empty propaganda.

“It’s even ironic that the spin doctors of a leader who since the early campaign days into over a year as President has remained disturbingly aloof and seemingly incapable of presenting himself and his policies to Nigerians through the media, and who has continued to evade public accountability, are trying to malign Obi who has easily emerged in all ramifications as the most visible, focused and articulate political personality in this dispensation.”

The statement further made it clear that Obi remains a man who has not only become the conscience of the people but also their hope for a new and egalitarian Democracy.