Our attention has been drawn to the restless activities of Reuben Onyishi on social media platforms where the Obimo, Nsukka LGA born media handler of the PDP gubernatorial campaign in Enugu State has been running amok with lies, character assassination and toxic propaganda intended to pit the church, members of the IPOB and prominent citizens of the state against the Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga.

Onyishi who has been exposed as the dirty character hiding behind over 50 pseudo accounts on different social media platforms to attack presumed enemies of his paymasters has lately run berserk with fake stories in which he made desperate efforts to pitch the Catholic Church against the Anglican Church with false comments which he mischievously attributed to Hon. Edeoga.

Pushing his propagandist agenda to a ridiculous height, Onyishi had circulated a spurious story where he had reported that the Anglican Bishop of Enugu Diocese, His Lordship, Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma had endorsed Hon. Edeoga and in his usual invidious manner, attributed unprintable words to both Chukwuma and Edeoga in the report. There is no truth to that story. It should be totally ignored by everyone.

Onyishi whose narrow understanding of his media brief does not stray too far from criminal shadowboxing, character assassination and masterminding brainless conspiracy theories also injected another fake story currently trending on social media in which he alleged that Hon Edeoga was complaining about being betrayed by Senator Chukwuka Utazi and Dr Maduka Onyishi, the Chairman of Peace Mass Transit Ltd. That is a blatant lie. Hon. Edeoga could never have picked issues with his dignified brothers who are some of his fiercest supporters.

But the most ridiculous of all the stories Onyishi has peddled so far is the one in which he alleged that Edeoga had blamed members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) for the security situation in the South East. That is a very disgusting lie that no one should take seriously at all.

Indeed, we have observed that since he emerged as the Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in Enugu State, the fear of Chijioke Edeoga has driven other opposition parties, especially the PDP into embarrassing panic and sleepless nights, leading to the waves of calumny campaign they have mounted to discredit him.

This is because Edeoga is seen as a charismatic political leader whose candidacy stands out in the on-going race as the only contestant with a clear edge over his closest rivals. A broad section of Enugu residents tip him to win the February 2023 election.

The belief in Edeoga’s likely victory in the Enugu gubernatorial election was recently boosted by the results of two online polls which placed him clearly ahead of his fellow contestants.

It is widely believed therefore that the endless smear campaign against him, especially the one led by Reuben Onyishi and heavily funded by the state house in Enugu, is intended to slice off Edeoga’s tremendous lead by pitching him against the church, IPOB and prominent indigenes who have the capacity to influence large segments of the voting population in the coming elections.

In conclusion, as the campaign for the 2023 elections gathers momentum, we consider it proper to alert the general public to the likelihood of more organized and desperate efforts to misinform, mislead and divert the attention of voters from their preferred candidates to candidates who have nothing but misery and pain to offer them.

Hon Chijioke Edeoga of Labour Party remains Enugu’s best hope to reclaim its centrality in Southern Nigeria and its lost glory as the former capital of the old Eastern Region. A vote for him is therefore, a vote for the greatness of Enugu State.

Signed:

Hon. Chijioke Edeoga Media Team.

PDP has started reging in some village in enugu i have fact to back it up