Tanko during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday also said every scheme being put in place to demarket the party and its presidential candidate is only making the party stronger and more popular.
The spokesperson for the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Yunusa Tanko has said the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi will not go anywhere despite alleged threats against him and other members of the party.
Tanko during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday also said every scheme being put in place to demarket the party and its presidential candidate is only making the party stronger and more popular.
He said, “With the issue of whether Peter Obi was asked to leave; yes, there have been threats like that. Not only to him but to all of us.
“They have been threatening our lives but we didn’t care because Nigeria is our focus; that is the focus of Peter Obi and he has said clearly, he is not going anywhere.
“We are right here; we are going to challenge this particular case of illegality legally and that is it. But the issue of intimidation and probably asking him to leave this country, no, he is not going anywhere.
“He is a general in this particular legal case and he has his legal team and we are there to support and the Nigerian people are there to back him up until when we get to the root of this matter.
“It is very clear that the Labour Party is the darling political party of most Nigerians as at today, at least those of us who are interested in getting Nigeria back on the right track and so every attack and every means of demarketing the Labour Party, including the presidential candidate is the scheme that is being put into place at the moment now and it only makes us more popular and stronger.
“And the more they throw things at us, the more we rebuff them and then make sure we are doing the right thing at the right time.”
Tanko also said those using religious and tribal sentiments are a serious threat to society not Obi.
He said, “There are serious threats against the Nigerian state; it’s not about Peter Obi. Now, he has gone beyond that because when you challenge the Nigerian state and then its unity and then using religion and tribal sentiment in order to send a negative signal to the Nigerian people of course actually those are the people who are a threat to the Nigerian society, not Peter Obi.
“Because it is very clear; you told us that an election has been conducted based on provision of the laws, we challenged that particular provision of the law.
“We said that the candidate which was put in place does not have the prerequisite to contest for election; we also said that particular person has already been convicted as a felony on the issue of drug abuse which we still maintain and we are still pursuing, so what we are simply doing, we are challenging the system legally and so it has become a problem for those who could not maintain this particular fact of the matter.
“So as it is now, they are now using all kinds of ways; they started with the issue of religion, concocting all kinds of audio and all sending a signal to our Muslim brothers in the north, saying that probably Peter Obi is drumming the war music.”