- Says Presidential Candidacy By Proxy Will Not Work
The Media Office of Obi-Datti Campaign has described as “baseless” the former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiohmole, that the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi has no capacity to tackle security.
The Media Office also asked the former Comrade to allow his principal to speak for himself, stating that the era of proxy presidency or winning the presidential race by proxy is gone in Nigeria.
Saying the former Edo Governor is now trading in “groundless outburst to satisfy his paymasters,” the Obi-Datti Media Office stated that “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.”
The statement said it only peddlers of perfidy and ” attack dogs like Oshiohmole who would always stand truth on its head, fabricate tales ostensibly to satisfy his pay master” who is “incontrovertibly not verifiable.”
According to the statement, “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. Crime record in Anambra state under Obi was outstanding and security leadership never failed to appreciate this feat.
“Below we republish a story as published by one of the top National Dailies, the Nation Newspaper in the country on April 11, 2014 captioned “IG declares Anambra safest since five years”
“The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, yesterday declared that Anambra State remained the safest state in the last five years, according to police records.
Abubakar, who was speaking at the Women Development Centre, Awka, at the state’s Stakeholders’ Summit announced 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 inspector-general 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.
He urged Obiano to deal with any ruler, who encourages crime in his community.
‘’I am ready to support Anambra Governor actualize its dream of securing the state. And I must assure you that if the governor is initiating measures to strengthen security in Anambra, he needs the support and it is time for the governor to tell you that the change you are looking for is here.’’
He assured the people that the era of police impunity is over, and ordered that the harassment of road users by siren-crazy politicians should stop”
Obi-Datti Media therefore urge 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.”