Tanko Yunusa, the Labour Party Chieftain has stated that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi identifies other presidential candidates as brothers.
The party chieftain in a recent statement is reacting to the video of a “Tinubu group” that went viral on social media.
The message Peter Obi read in the video was an anti-Igbo message warning people who are Yoruba against voting for him. The former Anambra State governor was also recorded to have complained about Tinubu’s health, amongst others.
Yunusa, however, backed Obi, saying the video did not emanate from him.
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“I am so sure that that video was not even made by him (Obi).
I am 100 per cent sure because he is not that kind of person neither is he an ethnic person.
His interest is in the Nigerian project,” Yunusa said Monday on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
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The Labour Party chieftain added that Obi viewed all presidential candidates as his senior brothers and won’t engage in any personal attacks with anybody, as he is focused on an issue-based campaign.
Yunusa accused the opposition of being interested in stoking the embers of ethnic tension and divisions.
He said;
“Let me quote Comrade Peter Peter Obi this afternoon when he was speaking: he said the presidential candidates, some of them are his senior brothers.
He has so much given them respect as Nigeria’s leaders.
He has never and will never derogate anybody, especially in the position of leadership.”
Speaking further, he stated;
“He has always been interested in issue-based politics and campaigns, not mudslinging, not backstabbing, not even mentioning people’s name.
“We are aware that there are also people who are trying to pin the issue of religion and tribal sentiments on our candidate and we have always tried to run away from it.
“Peter Obi will not engage in any personal attack with anybody. So, I doubt the veracity of that particular statement they are making reference to,” he said.
The Labour Party chieftain also said the party has unveiled online registration and free membership for all those who are willing to join ‘Obidient Movement’.
Yunusa further reiterated that Obi has not opened any account for any election donation.
