Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council has described Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi as "an incurable liar" following comments about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's health status credited to Mr. Obi on Monday.
Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council said the statements were unbecoming of a man who nurses the ambition to be Nigeria’s next President.
Onanuga, said since Obi wasn't Asiwaju’s doctor and is not privy to his medical record, Obi has again disgracefully elevated what has for long been a beer parlor gossip and social media lie being propagated by his IPOB supporters.
He said Obi in his characteristic manner is amplifying falsehood which should not have a place in decent political campaign.
Onanuga, said the APC believe that political leaders should be guided in their utterances and be sticklers for the truth, but rather Obi has thrown all caution to the wind, pronouncing on issues he has no moral and professional competence to make a judgement call on.
Onanuga made it crystal clear to all traducers of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate that Asiwaju Tinubu is not ill, saying he is hale and hearty.
He said a man who works for 20 hours a day, meeting people and strategizing about finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems, cannot be said to be ill but as fit as the fiddle.
Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council called on Peter Obi and his followers to know that Tinubu’s millions of supporters countrywide are backing him not because of any pecuniary benefit.
He said Asiwaju Tinubu's supporters are rooting for him because of their strong belief in his demonstrable ability to provide progressive leadership for our country.
"They are supporting him because they believe in his capacity as a transformative leader, who once made a historic mark in Lagos State and is capable of replicating same in Nigeria."
Bayo Onanuga said coming so soon after his gaffe and falsehood in accusing Tinubu of mobilizing Yoruba voters not to support him, Obi is coming across as a dangerous politician and a demagogue capable of spewing all manners of lies just to get the votes.
He also claimed that Labour Party presidential candidate has already being discredited with statistical lies and fallacies, thus Obi is now treading a new ground, spreading lies with unfounded claims on Asiwaju Tinubu's health