Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president, has denied rumors that he recently met with Reno Omokri, a former presidential assistant.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Omokri stated in a post that a WhatsApp message going viral claimed that he met Obi and wanted $100,000 to promote his presidential campaign.
In addition, he had criticized the Labour Party’s presidential candidate and demanded information on where they had met in London.
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Peter Obi responded by denying making such a statement in a statement emailed to Newsmen on Sunday morning by his media adviser, Valentine Obienyem.
The statement, according to Obi, was likely just a harmless joke made by the same people who wanted to use it to justify intensifying their aggressive attack on him.
The statement reads: “A purported rebuke of one Reno Omokri by Mr. Peter Obi during their meeting in London is being circulated. The statement claimed that the said Reno demanded money to support Obi and that Obi refused.
“Beyond predicting correctly what would have been Obi’s attitude towards such a demand, let us, however, for the avoidance of doubt state clearly that Obi did not meet the said Reno in London as the write up claimed. The statement being circulated did not come from Obi neither did he sanction it.
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“The Peter Obi Media Office suspects the statement as the usual prank being played by the same people desirous of citing it as a justification for strengthening their unprovoked attack on Obi – desperate efforts to present Obi as an attacker and hide under the assumption of defense and launch further attack on Obi.
“While insisting that he is appalled at the bitterness with which some people treat political opponents, to the extent of trying to instigate hatred against them as evidenced by those that planted his head on praying mats and pictures in a brandy, he expressed his gratitude to the ObIdient family for keeping faith.
“He urged the continued sharing of the dream of a society in which there shall be no corruption, no recklessness, no poverty, no hypocrisy and no injustice with the ObIdient family and, indeed, all Nigerians of goodwill.
“Let us also note, in passing, the deliberate misinterpretation of the statement made by Mr. Peter Obi about six Commissioners that worked with him. From the context of what he said, he clearly referred to Commissioners for Police and not his EXCO members.
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“Finally, Mr. Obi assures Nigerians of his abiding good wishes for our dear country, Nigeria.”
1-This has been circulating on WhatsApp. I challenge @PeterObi to say where he met me in London and I demanded $100k. In the last month, I’ve been on a cruise to Mexico, and in The Bahamas with my 17 year old daughter. I have passport stamps and tickets to prove it#TableShaker pic.twitter.com/omErdBKllo
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 9, 2022
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