Labour Party Presidential Candidate Mr. Peter Obi has been urged to beware of politicians whose antecedents are capable of derailing his integrity-driven campaign.
This is coming from Obidient Across Party Alliance (OAPA), a pressure group mobilizing support for the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, across party lines,
The group which gave the advice in a statement issued by its National Coordinator, High Chief Ndubuisi Obia on Wednesday, said Obi should not associate with a politician in Abia whose tenure in a liquidated bank has become “a study in corporate mismanagement and outright failure.”
The group noted that “the Obidient movement is beyond Labour Party and cuts across party lines”, explaining that Nigerians were not rooting for Obi merely because he is running under LP as Nigerians from different political parties including the PDP APC, APGA, NNPP, YPP, ADC, etc and “even those who are not members of any political party are investing their time and resources to elect him as President because of his competence, credibility and capacity.
“Even, the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba stated recently on AIT that “NLC is not just supporting Peter Obi because he is the Labour Party candidate but because he met our criteria based on his competence, credibility and capacity.
“NLC is not supporting every Labour Party candidate. For instance, in Taraba, we are not supporting the LP candidate because he did not meet our criteria and in Kebbi, we are supporting the APC candidate, Dr Nasir Idris, the President, Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT)”.
“All those trying to hide behind Obi without having his antecedents, you have failed “Ọrụ unu akuola“
The group specifically advised Obi to desist from hobnobbing with the Labour Party governorship candidate for Abia State, Alex Otti saying a man who had been a regular guest and whose case files remained open at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC right from the time he was running for office of Governor in 2015, cannot be supported by the people of Abia State.
The group declared that “the people of Abia State cannot entrust their state into the hands of a man who (allegedly) has no regard for clear regulatory stipulations.”
Accusing Otti of being “Anti Labour”, the group said he does not believe in the Labour Party’s Labour/socialist ideology and has come to ride on the Obidient crest of Obi’s credibility to power, “after destroying his own credibility.”
The group further said: “The revelations following his exit from the bank were so damning that the new management of the bank sacked every staff that joined the bank with him, especially those in its risk management office who were brought in by him from First Bank where he previously worked and was equally eased out.
“In due course, the board of the bank realized the full extent of his alleged mismanagement of the bank and a year later had to declare 78% decline in profit as widely reported by different newspapers including Thisday where Otti later pitched his tent as a columnist.”
