Onanuga added that the APC PCC considered statements made by Obi on Arise TV and Channels TV as prejudicial to the case he filed in court.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) on Friday said that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, is bent on making Supreme Court judges cancel the February 25 poll.
Director of Media and Publicity of the APC PCC, Bayo Onanuga, stated this in a press release on Friday, calling on security agencies to caution Mr Obi from making incendiary remarks over the outcome of the presidential election.
Onanuga said, “The defeated Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, still goes around inflaming passions.
“Spreading lies as if he is still campaigning for the highest office in the land, weeks after the exercise was concluded and a winner announced.
“We are worried about his recent media rounds on Arise TV and Channels TV, in which he made profoundly misleading, criminally false and inciting statements about the election that he lost woefully.
“We call on the security agencies to caution Obi from further making incendiary remarks, especially after he claim he is challenging the results of the election in the tribunal.”
The APC PCC said “Obi derided the election considered by many to be the best in our recent history, describing it as the worst, wrong election and not God’s will.”
Onanuga added that Obi, a former governor of Anambra, had in one moment likened the election to robbery.
“He also fleetingly wore the toga of a political scientist redefining democracy, which the world knows as government of the people, by the people and for the people.
“Later, he clarified in his moments of sobriety after leaving the studio, that what he wanted to challenge in court was the process of declaring the winner of the election.
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“On Channels TV few days later, Obi made the ridiculous claim about his stolen mandate.
“Echoing the position of his unthinking mob of supporters, who believe that he won the election because some sponsored polls made the claim before the election,” Onanuga said.
He noted that the APC PCC considered Obi’s claim as very fraudulent as he fell short of winning any mandate after coming third in the election.
Onanuga added that the APC PCC considered statements made by Obi on Arise TV and Channels TV as prejudicial to the case he filed in court.
“Only a desperate politician like Obi will embark on his course of action: seeking justice in court and simultaneously embarking on a mission of blackmailing and intimidating the judiciary.
“He is trying to present himself before his case takes off in court as a helpless, cheated victim of the system, robbed of a mandate by INEC.
“He is trying to position himself as the candidate who won the people, who is loved by the people, going by his self-serving definition of democracy.
“His antics, if he is able to sway the judges is to make them cancel the entire election, even without sufficient, substantial proof of malpractice,” Onanuga said.
He added that this would pave way for Obi’s “dream alliance” with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a fresh election.
“We also advise the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to caution Television houses giving Obi the platform to de-legitimise a free and fair election, when he has taken his case to court,” Onanuga said.