Obidient Movement is a group canvassing for the emergence of Obi as the next president of Nigeria in the February 2023 presidential election.
The spokesman for the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Daniel Bwala, has slammed the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi and his Obidient Movement, describing them as a "scam".
Obidient Movement is a group canvassing for the emergence of Obi as the next president of Nigeria in the February 2023 presidential election.
Obi announced the suspension of his 2023 presidential campaign when he visited the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom in Abuja on Wednesday.
His decision was birthed by the plight of citizens affected by the flood that has wreaked havoc in several places in the country for a few weeks.
Obi also called on presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu respectively to follow suit.
According to him, if the candidates can purchase their party’s expression of interest form for millions of Naira, they should be able to render help to the victims who lost their belongings during the flooding.
“I personally stopped and told my people no more campaign, until we are able to visit some of the sites, at least sympathise with those going through problems.
“I came to take permission and ask him (Ortom) that I want to visit some of the sites in Benue as I am going to do in one or two other states.
“I am also calling other presidential candidates to stop campaigning and see what we can do.
“If we can buy our forms for millions of naira, we should have some little thing to go, now that people are suffering, and at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue," Obi had said.
But Atiku's presidential campaign spokesman, Bwala on Twitter described Obi and his supporters as a scam.
Bwala also posted a picture of Peter Obi wearing clothes have Labour Party insignia.
He wrote, "Scam; he said he has put campaigns on hold to visit victims of flood. See him here with Labour Party logo. Everything about that movement is a scam."
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Bwala did not stop at Obi, he also took a swipe at the ruling APC, saying in another tweet, "In 2016, APC said within 3 years they would produce Distributable 10k mega watts power to homes. When asked if they delivered in 2022, they started speaking in tongues. All Promises Cancelled."
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Obi's running mate Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed during an interview with Channels TV on Thursday said it was not certain if there was a massacre at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State on October 20, 2020.
According to him, the use of “massacre” during the October 20, 2020 event is highly debatable.
“There was abuse of procedure, if some people interpret that as massacre. The use of 'massacre' in #EndSARS is highly debatable but I can say for sure there were abuses of procedure and civil rights violations,” he had said.
He added that it was “heavy” to say that the Labour Party was a beneficiary of the #EndSARS protest.
Datti Baba-Ahmed said, “It’s a very heavy statement to make, saying that our party, Labour Party is a beneficiary of EndSARS. While we are always on the side of the people, on side of good governance, we are against attrition; we are against repression and all those.
“You may be more correct to put it in another way, but we are not direct beneficiaries of EndSARS. The use of the word ‘massacre’ is highly debatable. We never wanted EndSARS to happen. We never want any Nigerian whatsoever to be attacked. Accordingly, we are not happy for anybody to say we are beneficiaries of EndSARS.
“We benefit from a peaceful Nigeria. That is what we benefit from. We benefit from progress and development. We are about correcting all the mistakes of bad governance.”