The claim that Peter Obi impersonated using his brother’s academic credentials from the University of Nigeria has been refuted by Yunusa Tanko, the chief spokesperson for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization.
Tanko responded in a statement released on Monday in Abuja.
The Lamidi Apapa section of the Labour Party, according to the Obi-Datti spokesman, is determined to portray Obi to Nigerian voters as a subpar product.
Owing to the ongoing certificate scandal in the nation involving Tinubu, Atiku, and Peter Obi
In response to the accusation, Tanko responded on Monday, stating that since the two took different degrees, his principal could not have been showing off his late brother’s UNN diploma.
He stated, “Obi in his capacity as Labour Party standard bearer had innocuously advised the embattled President to rest the certificate-gate around him and save the country further embarrassment by reintroducing himself and putting the records straight.
“A simple patriotic advisory that was informed by belief in anything that is connected to national development, but their hirelings, freebooters and lawless adventurers prefer to insult our candidate with fabrications.
“In one of his pieces of fiction, they claimed that Obi was impersonating his dead senior brother; a farce, slapstick comedy from hell. Obi’s most senior brother is alive. One of his senior brothers who died was in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN years ahead of Obi and read Computer Science while Obi read Philosophy.
“Political hirelings and buccaneers indulged in menial work of character assassination to ostensibly soil the name of our Presidential candidate,” Tanko went on to describe the Lamidi Apapa group.
He emphasized that it is documented that Arabambi and Apapa had left the LP leadership.
He stated, “At the forefront of these malicious hatchet jobbers, is Dr Abayomi Arambabi, who dubiously continues even to identify himself as a member and Publicity Secretary of Labour Party.
“He and Chief Lamidi Apapa have been going about merchandising with the name of the party and endlessly castigating our flag bearer who we are proud to say is the most popular and loved Nigerian politician today.
“As they go about using the name of the party, none has said anything positive about Peter Obi as the presidential candidate of the party they claim. That speaks volumes. Instead, they have even been more vociferous against Peter Obi than their sponsors, yet they claim they are of the Labour Party.
“Is it not time the media houses blacklist them for wearing the devil’s coat and speaking on the saint’s platform. After all, none of them or their family members voted for Peter Obi,” he said.
