Adebayo Adenrele
The Labour Party (LP), has called on its candidate of the 2023 general election, Peter Obi to apologise to President Bola Tinubu
over what they described as “reckless lies, bitter and toxic accusations” against the President on modern day slavery.
The LP National Chairman, Alh Bashiru Lamidi Apapa made this known in a statement released by the party.
Apata noted that Peter Obi lied against the federal government of sponsoring 1,411 Delegates to Dubai as against 422 which was announced.
He said his destructive criticism of the country on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery came from someone, who is myopic about the topical issues in his home Country, Nigeria and world at large.
The statement reads, “Basking on the euphoria of 2023 Presidential Election defeat shock,Peter had come up recently with his style of deceptive politics of shunning out fictitious and unfounded figures and indices on national issues where he lied that the federal government sponsored Delegation to Dubai was 1,411 as against 422.
“Peter Obi’s destructive criticism of the Nigerian State on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery came from one who is myopic about the topical issues in the world at large,and Nigeria in particular.
“Peter Obi’s outburst of confusion regarding the Walk Free Organisation Global Slavery Index Reports of 2023 has further exposed his shallow intellectual capacity and campaign of calumny against the Nigerian State and further exposes his quest to wallow in character assassination of Mr. President to gain underserved sympathy
“Nigerians are always enjoined to go through researches to get first-hand information themselves,rather than rely their views on falsehood peddled by Peter Obi to discredit Nigeria.
“The lies in the form of figures,data,indices and parameters quoted by Peter Obi have been found to be the handiwork of a frustrated self-acclaimed opposition leader,bereft of spirit of patriotism and goodwill to the nation.
“From 2023 Global Slavery Index Reports by the Walk Free Organisation,the country rated with the highest rate of people experiencing modern slavery in 2023 in the world was North Korea.So,Peter Obi ought to have embarked on an in-depth research before coming to the public sphere to dish out fake indices and data.
“In Africa,the countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery are Eritrea,Mauritania and South Sudan.Nigeria is adjudged to be a country enjoying minimal cases of modern slavery.
“Coming to the world in general,the latest Global Slavery Index Reports produced by human rights groups,Walk Free Organisation,revealed the ten countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery.
“In the descending order of magnitude were North Korea,Eritrea,Mauritania,Saudi Arabia,Turkiye,Tajikistan,UAE,Russia,Afghanistan,and Kuwait.
“The LP National Chairman Alh Bashiru Lamidi Apapa therefore distance the party from the unguided utterances of Peter Obi, who is well known for cooking up figures,data and indices to deceive the gullible Nigeria and his daft infamous Ethnic irredeemable irresponsible irredentist obi-dient supporters.
“Nigerians must disregard the malicious and false erroneous piece,dished out by Peter Obi on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery,since Nigeria had cleared herself from the menace of slavery since 1945.
According to him (Peter Obi), “Vast majority of those in the Nigerian delegation to COP28 are either non-relevant civil servants or relations, friends and hangers-on of high government officials. Most of them hardly understand or have anything to do with Climate Change, as we have kept emphasizing, we must stop waste as a tradition of our government and nation. We urgently need to cut the cost of governance and invest in production
“We need to de-emphasize unnecessary ceremony and showmanship as a mode of government behaviour. We need to tie spending to necessity and national Priority. A New Nigeria is possible. We only need to do the reasonable and the necessary.”
“Steve Maraboli once said that ‘Be Careful… not all are what they seems. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand’.
