Peter Obi Raising Campaign Funds in US, Europe? Media Office Reacts, Tackles APC, Tinubu

LegitSept 4, 2022Read original

The Obi-Datti Media Office has debunked allegations that the Labour Party presidential candidate,

, is currently on a fund-raising tour in the United States and Europe.

According toThe

, the media office released the statement after a support group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, asked the

to sanction the LP for violating electoral laws external funding for elections.

In the statement on Sunday, September 4, the Obi-Datti Media Office described the allegation as “desolate and baseless”.

gathers that the media office adding that Obi’s trip was to “sensitise and carry along Nigerians abroad on his upcoming agenda of rebuilding the country is open and transparent and not a fund raising.”

It chided the ruling party for allegedly fabricating and imagining things it (the APC) wanted INEC to act on against “structure-less and social media candidates” who had now become the ruling party’s “headache.”

“Obi’s successful trip abroad which is ostensibly to sensitise and carry along Nigerians aboard on his upcoming agenda of rebuilding the country is open and transparent and not a fund raising.

"But we know why its discomforting (to) some people, because they cannot meet Nigerians in diaspora knowing that they contributed to their leaving the country in the first place," the statement read in part.

The media office added that Obi and his running mate know the law and operate within it, noting that they are financially, politically and socially doing legitimate businesses.

"They have no bullion van history of questionable wealth and are ready and willing to be scrutinised.

“Just as Obi and Datti’s backgrounds and antecedents are verifiable, so also are their sources of income before and now are unambiguous and auditable," the media office stated.

Earlier,

reported that Obi’s presidential candidacy under Labour Party

following recent development in the ongoing crisis in the party.

There is reportedly an ongoing battle over the leadership position of the party in the

chapter that might affect Peter Obi’s eligibility as the party’s legit standard bearer.

gathered that the aggrieved person in the middle of the whole crisis is the factional chairman and governorship candidate of the Lagos chapter of the party, Ifagbemi Awamaridi.