Tobias Sylvester
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has denied the threat of violence attributed to him in his quest to reclaim his mandate.
The former Anambra governor was alleged to have vowed “to fight and bleed to death” in his challenge of the results of the February 25 presidential election.
Reacting in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Obi said he will not endanger the relative peace existing in Nigeria in order to reclaim his mandate.
Obi told his supporters to ignore the fake news where he was quoted as saying that “he never lost an election; that he would fight and “bleed to death until” his mandate is restored; that he would drag “INEC until there will be no life left in them”; that he was “looking forward to jailing all that partook in this scam and fraud called election, among others”.
The LP presidential candidate said he never uttered or issue any such statement, stressing that “the news as not only false but also mischievous, misleading and out of character”.
The former governor added that insofar as he believed that the election was gravely flawed, as being attested to by everybody that was part of the process, he would continue to pursue the recovery of the stolen mandate through the legal process.
“I have worked through similar paths in the past and was successful. I shall follow the same path without endangering the relative peace in the country, which is actually what those election riggers are striving desperately to upset”, Obi said.
He, therefore, appealed to members of the “Obidient” family and all men and women of goodwill to remain calm, prayerful, and be alert to the events in the country.
KanyiDaily recalls that earlier this week, Peter Obi canceled gubernatorial campaign trips across states in the country to head to court to fight for his mandate.
