Release of another Fitch; Plot To Slow Obi’s Rising Profile – Labour Party

On Monday, Labour Party presidential campaign media office in Abuja said that it was aware “of a number of devious actions being planned by the opponents to try and slow this rising image of the LP flag-bearer across the country.”

The recently released report of Fitch Rating that confirmed Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate as the most preferred candidate to win the 2023 elections, has been punctured and described as another of the governing party’s plot to slow Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi’s Rising profile.

“the concocting of a fake election poll using the name of a credible organization like Fitch Solution is not unconnected with the level of desperation of a suffocating opponent to get a breather.” The statement added that

“It’s also in the same light that they tried to create a division among the highly revered Yoruba umbrella body, the Afenifere in the challenge of the laudable endorsement of Obi’s candidacy by the authentic Pa Ayo Adebanjo-led Pan Yoruba group.

“Nigerians know the clear position of the Yoruba race on the issue of justice and equity for which they have been fighting since independence and which informed their endorsement of Peter Obi ahead of any other candidate outside the SouthEast region.

“The revered Pa Adebanjo, a notable Nationalist has said repeatedly that for peace, justice and political stability, all Nigerians should allow South East to produce the next President. His patriotic position is in keeping with the known role of the Yoruba race in all Nigeria’s struggle as a nation.

We will continue to eulogize Pa Adebanjo and the authentic Afenifere for refusing to be distracted from their focus on having a stable and egalitarian Nigeria where justice and fair play will reign supreme.”

The statement also condemned the alleged labelling of Obi supporters as violent, claiming that the move was to “becloud Nigerians from knowing what they are capable of doing as shown in 2019 in Lagos state.”

(Independence)