Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has stated that his administration, if voted into office, would support any initiative that would improve the economy of Nigeria.

Obi stated this in a statement where he denied a statement credited to him in a section of the media that he was opposed to the initiative to commence crude oil exploration in Bauchi and Gombe States, describing the report as a ‘fake news’.

In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP by the Head of Media of Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Diran Onifade, on Sunday, the Labour Party presidential hopeful stated that except the statement he made at the venue of his campaign rally in Ibadan, Oyo State during his recent outing to the city which was widely reported by the media, he did not grant interview to any journalist on the sidelines.

The statement, which described the report that Obi was opposed to the oil exploration in the North-East as a deliberate mischief by the opponents of LP presidential candidate, to demarket him in the North-East and North-West regions of the country ahead of the 2023 presidential poll, however, declared that the plot would fail.

Titled, “Peter Obi Supports North-East Oil Find”, the statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to the false information mischievously attributed to the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party Mr Peter Obi portraying him as being opposed to the commencement of crude oil exploration in Bauchi and Gombe States.

“The fake news deliberately targeted at the North East and North West regions of the country claimed that Mr. Obi made the statement in an interview in Ibadan, Oyo State where he addressed a rally on Wednesday, 23 November, 2022.

“We hereby State categorically that apart from his campaign speech which has been widely reported Mr Obi did not speak with any journalist while in Ibadan.

“He has also not had the cause to make any reference to the oil find in the North East at any time.

“Peter Obi is supportive of any endeavour aimed at improving the economic fortunes of Nigeria. He has stated time and again that his plan for Nigeria’s economic turnaround rests substantially on the vast land of the North.

“He therefore urges all Nigerians to regard the fake news as another ploy by desperate political principalities to hold on to the last straw as they are clearly about to lose their stranglehold on the people and resources of our dear country.”

Aufbauh:
What is that olodo Pitopi saying?
Does he really has any option not to support it?
Who's even asking a joker like pitopi such question that bothers on national interest? Smh!.

A man has no solution to Anambra challenges for eight years is being fraudulently packaged & egged on by headless mob to contest the presidential election of this great country.

Oksman:



A neighbor Pa Shina once told me that children only throw stones at ripe mangoes.
Did you read the article before commenting? You guys are full of vile. I wonder how you sleep at night. Well why should I worry myself over your wahala. What is wrong in PO aspiration? Is he not a Nigerian? When OBJ and Yar'Adua contested for the presidency did the Igbos not support them? Please tone down your hatred for them and always remember that "hating is more injurious to the hater than the hated"
Martin Luther King.

ganisucks:
Mr President, with due respect, I wholly disagree with you. The Mungo Park oil discovery project in the north east is nothing more than a white elephant wizard of Oz wild goose chase project. It's a scam and nothing more. There's no oil in the north, there never has, and there never will be.

Oksman:



A neighbor Pa Shina once told me that children only throw stones at ripe mangoes.
Did you read the article before commenting? You guys are full of vile. I wonder how you sleep at night. Well why should I worry myself over your wahala. What is wrong in PO aspiration? Is he not a Nigerian? When OBJ and Yar'Adua contested for the presidency did the Igbos not support them? Please tone down your hatred for them and always remember that "hating is more injurious to the hater than the hated"
Martin Luther King.

Aufbauh:
What is that olodo Pitopi saying?
Does he really has any option not to support it?
Who's even asking a joker like pitopi such question that bothers on national interest? Smh!.

A man who has no solution to Anambra challenges for eight years is being fraudulently packaged & egged on by headless mob to contest the presidential election of this great country. What an audacity of mediocrity!

FreeStuffsNG:

Asiwaju Tinubu is the best among all the candidates. He is the most brilliant, the most patriotic and most competent of all the candidates. That is why we will elect him to be Nigeria's next President.

BATified2023:
we are giving u igbos d energy u gave us

We never hated u before, we see u as our brother but your actions n comments during nnamdi kanu madness gave u out that u hate us n also this Peter obi campaign which is more of a personal vendetta against Yoruba n tinubu have exposed u igbos more

We will hate u more than u have even hate us,now we know your mind towards us n we promise to give u double