Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has come under fire from the Peter Obi media office for claiming that the Labour Party (LP) candidate runs his campaign in churches.
The vice presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged Obi with stoking religious controversies.
“Peter Obi factor is as if he is trying to go through the church and make it look as if he is driving the Christians into politics.
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“I do not believe that the church should actively go into politics because that is not their calling”, he told reporters.
In response, Obi’s team said that Okowa disregarded the severity of the country’s problems and the reasons why Nigerians are rallying around the former governor of Anambra.
The attempts to portray Obi as someone who pits one religion against another were denounced in a statement released on Thursday.
The media office reported that Obi had been called an Igbo affiliate of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and labeled as a simple social media blitz without organization.
The retort characterized Obi as the leader of a movement with support from all elements of the national life.
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It stated that attempts to categorize him into any particular field will be unsuccessful and cited Obi’s visits to churches even before he entered the presidential contest.
“In July 2021, he was at St Mary’s Catholic Church, Karu, Abuja, to attend the 25th anniversary of a priest and the church erupted when he was introduced.
“At various weddings in Abuja, Lagos, and all over the country, Nigerians celebrated him for what he stood for and what he did when he held public office in Anambra State.
“One of such functions was Dr Okowa’s child’s wedding at the National Ecumenical Conference Centre in Abuja, this year.”
The letter further stated that the Delta governor was invited to the majority of Obi’s high-profile public church engagements, including a recent Dunamis Church outing in Abuja.
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The office stated that it doesn’t anticipate Okowa to participate in the discussion of attack dogs, but rather to take advantage of any opportunity to promote both himself and PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Okowa was informed that even he is aware that the LP candidate is driving an unstoppable movement since Nigerians’ “long-standing persecution” “prompted” it.
“Taking back the country and rebuilding it is a task, there is no going back. The oppressors have forced the oppressed to pull the trigger and there is going back”, the statement added.
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