The media office noted that the scenario is exactly what played out in the photoshopped picture of Obi supposedly standing with Simon Ekpa all in a desperate move to drag Obi’s name into disrepute.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The media office of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 poll, Peter Obi, has described as fake a photo of Obi and the Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa.
Ekpa has been responsible for calling several sit-at-home orders in the South-East region which have resulted in loss of lives and property.
Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, Diran Onifade, said the perpetrators of the fake photo inserted Obi’s popular supporter and rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, to further claim credibility.
The media office in a statement on Thursday urged the public to disregard the fake photo which was photoshopped from a photo Obi took with a supporter on Virgin Atlantic aircraft on July 21.
The statement reads, “We all grew up being educated that photos tell a thousand stories and do not tell lies as photos are usually self-evident. Yet that was long years ago and long before digital technology took the World like a storm. That standard narrative has changed remarkably with dubious minds always ready to deploy it creatively albeit negatively, to create what is non-existent.
“Obi-Datti Media office notes that the scenario is exactly what played out in the photoshopped picture of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi supposedly standing with the Finland-based irritant Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa all in a desperate move to drag Obi’s name into disrepute by linking him with the ugly story that Ekpa has become in Nigeria.
“For clarity, the picture was taken by Obi standing with an admirer on a Virgin Flight on Friday, July 21, 2023. In trying to authenticate their filthy and disgustingly dirty act, they inserted the picture of Aisha Yusuf behind them.
“The memory may be short to forget that Obi was the first to describe the sit-at-home thing as an act being engineered and bred by a criminal that the system has refused to squarely tackle.
“Now that the menace of this crime is becoming manifest even to attract the views of the nation’s parliament, it may be necessary to critically study the handling of this crime.”
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In a related development, the media office said, “APC troll agents have put out a loss leader advert purporting Peter Obi as ‘providing 20GB Free Data and N5000 Airtime in celebration of his 62nd Birthday.’ This is a SCAM! Subscriber beware!!
“It is mindboggling that these criminal ploys are passed off as playing politics. Instead of seeking the line of a final solution to the cankerworm that has embarrassingly held the region and the country down, some mischief makers who are obsessed with Peter OBI’S rising fame are concerned with linking him to Ekpa.
“Yet another failed attempt to dent the political Eagle whose concern is how to create a new Nigeria and reduce the growing poverty in the land.
“Obi-Datti Media office thinks that the reasonable thing to do if this country is sincere in tackling its socio-political and economic challenges is to quietly study the views laboriously expressed by this phenomenal political leader of contemporary Nigeria instead of trolling him endlessly.”