The Abia State Governor-elect, Alex Otti, has said that
those trying to twist his statement about having won an election in the past
when he and his friend who doubles as the presidential candidate of Labour
Party, Peter Obi, were not in the same party, do not know the extent of their
relationship and virility of their bond, which he described as unbreakable and
evergreen.
Reacting to a trending report quoting him as saying, “I had
won election in the past without Peter Obi,” Otti described the report as “headline-induced
journalistic sensationalism” geared towards driving social media traffic and
drawing needless controversy that would keep the promoters busy.
The ex-bank chief in a statement by his Special Adviser,
Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma, on Saturday, pointed out that the LP
presidential candidate will be laughing at those behind the story.
He stated, “Obi knows and understands my personality, and knows that I hold him very high, and thus would be laughing at those that twisted my statement in a manner it would look like a denigration of him.
“That I almost lost the APGA governorship ticket in 2019 in
Abia, was because I had the audacity to defend Obi publicly when I presented
facts of evidence to prove that he left the money he claimed to have left
behind in Anambra’s treasury while leaving office as governor. This was against
the denial by the then-Anambra State government.
“Again, my Thisday Column of June 8, 2020 captioned, ‘The
Triumph of Profligacy Over Prudence’ was
used to celebrate Obi and his leadership style.
“As we were not in
the same party then, there was no better way to prove that my love, support and
appreciation of Okwute has nothing to do with politics. I’m sure he would be
laughing over this report, because he’s smarter and thus understands the agenda
of those circulating the distorted portion of my interview.
“Obi and I have unbreakable bond, therefore those trying to
use a news headline to bury the substance of my analogical submission which was
made to respond to a question and explain that, outside the massive impacts of
the Obi wave, we are on ground in Abia and had won elections twice in the past;
are either being misled or are outrightly mischievous.”
The LP governor-elect had while responding to a question on
whether it was the Obi wave that made him win the election had responded that
he won in 2015 and 2019, which were stolen.
In 2015, his party also won close to 50 per cent of the
House of Assembly seats, an assembly that PDP had always won all the seats
since 1999.
He was trying to explain the need to be on ground and work
hard rather than expecting victory on the wing of a wave.
He also explained that when he was joining Labour Party, he
wasn’t expecting the Obi wave as he didn’t know Peter was joining the party
until a week later.
“These are verifiable statements of fact,” he stated.
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