Peter Obi
Obi described the allegations as sheer fabrication, wicked and inhuman from
opposition in their desperation to get elected into public offices.
Did Peter
Obi lie about having just one house in Onitsha?
The former
governor of Anambra state and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has denied the allegation that he demolished
mosques and also sent Hausa people out of the state while he was governor.
Responding
to questions at an event in Lagos on Thursday, November 1, 2018, Obi said it
was pitiful that rather than finding a way to resolve the plight of Nigerians,
the opposition is spreading falsehoods in their desperation to be elected into
public offices.
Obi
described the allegations as sheer fabrication, wicked and inhuman as he was
accused of snubbing the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar and former Minister of
Planning, Shamsudeen Usman in their attempts for mediation.
The former
governor denied disrespecting the Sultan as it is never in his character to
disrespect elders.
He said,
"The irony of this concoction is that I have been a friend of His
Eminence, the Sultan right from my first year at the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, in 1980 through his tenure as Nigeria's Defence Attaché in Pakistan
till the present.
"The
fact is that the visit of his Eminence, during which I was alleged to have
snubbed him was purely a courtesy call after which I personally accompanied him
to see the Obi of Onitsha, Obi Alfred Achebe with whom he had a meeting. I also
requested His Eminence to visit the Hausa community in the state during which I
offered to rebuild and subsequently gave them the funds for that purpose."
Last
month, Obi was chosen as the running mate to PDP presidential candidate, Atiku
Abubakar, to contest in the 2019 presidential election.
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