The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has said that there is a ploy by the media aides of the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to carry out a smear campaign called the ‘Killer Punch’ on the person of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.
According to the PCC, the APC campaign council has resorted to character assassination after realizing they may not have a chance in the upcoming presidential election.
The campaign council claimed that Femi Fani-Kayode, Festus Keyamo, and Adamu Garba are behind the smear campaign.
According to a statement signed by the PCC’s Head of Media, Diran Onifade, the trio is set to release a video dubbed the ‘Killer Punch’.
The statement reads;
Having failed in all their plans to win the February 25 election, and seeing their campaign derailing on all fronts, Tinubu’s media handlers led by the trio of Femi Fani-Kayode, Festus Keyamo, SAN and Adamu Garba are set to release a video they term “Killer Punch.”
Already, they have been releasing snippets of the documentary on social media, without getting any attention, as people already know about their desperation to drag down Obi, who they rightly know, is far ahead.
These documentary of lies and falsehood, which they have fabricated, attempt to portray Mr Obi as a drug peddler, killer and sexual pervert among other innuendos in their fertile imagination.
Already, the Obi-Datti Media Office is aware, that they are a product of a strategy session between Tinubu and selected members of his media team, where Tinubu reportedly accused his media handlers of not “punching to knock out” and not doing enough, to halt Obi’s unprecedented progress.
According to Diran, Tinubu later requested more wild propaganda from his aides in order for voters to question Peter Obi’s moral stance.
The PCC, on the other hand, stated that they were amused by the APC’s efforts, as evidenced by their frustration.
Diran boasted that he is the most fact-checked of the four top Presidential candidates, and that he is the only one running an issues-driven campaign.
This instruction of a faltering Presidential candidate to his media team, to bring down the Labour Party flag bearer at all cost, is a clear indication of their hopelessness.
We at the Obi-Datti Media Campaign Office have all the details of their machinations, including some anti-Obi persons, already contacted for a role in the so called ‘Killer Punch’ documentary’, and also the release of N500m for this failed smear campaign.
International media recently did a comprehensive check on the fake news generated on the LP flag bearer, which highlighted designs to cast aspersions on this new awakening , that beckons from Nigeria, and indeed Africa.
Another sponsored video is also going round, dishing out libelous and unsubstantiated lies against Obi’s clearly outstanding eight-year tenure as Governor of Anambra State.
Clearly, these will not be the last of the despicable media lies and falsehood.
We assure the Nigerian people and our supporters in Nigeria and globally, of our candidate’s unflinching focus on this month’s election and the impossibility of any distraction, regardless of all machinations, the statement added.