{"id":103771,"date":"2023-03-21T16:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103771"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:40:05","slug":"obi-writes-nnamani-says-im-opposite-of-what-youre-trying-to-portray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/obi-writes-nnamani-says-im-opposite-of-what-youre-trying-to-portray\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi writes Nnamani, says I\u2019m opposite of what you\u2019re trying to portray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidential Candidate Of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has responded to allegations of ethno-religious bigotry against him by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamani, had in a statement on Monday accused Obi of whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments in his quest to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The ex- Enugu State Governor accused Obi of exploiting the nation\u2019s fault lines to advance his personal cause.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamani, who lost his re-election bid to a candidate of the Labour Party last Saturday, accused Obi of other sundry infractions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, Obi in a letter addressed to Nnamani, a known acolyte of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, said, the Enugu Senator must have mistaken him for someone else because the facts on ground do neither support nor justify his claims.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nObi\u2019s letter read: \u201cThroughout these electioneering campaigns, you have consistently cast aspersions on my person, despite my always being respectful to you as an elder brother, and never publicly or privately commenting negatively about you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really surprised that you as my dear elder brother would go out of the way in the exercise of his fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression as enshrined in our law to go into saying what he knows is not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it very shocking that you had to label me as an ethnic and religious bigot and as one who indulges in a campaign of hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this instance, I like to state unequivocally that I am the direct opposite of what you said in your statement and what my campaigns have been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to believe that my dear elder brother must have mistaken me for someone else because, in this campaign, I have consistently championed issues-based campaigns, and maintained so, even using illustrations and data to buttress my position, to the extent that I have been accused of using data wrongly and media houses had to create fact check desks just to monitor and address issues I raised during campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been on record to have insisted severally throughout the country that I should not be voted for based on any ethnic or religious link,\u00a0 but to be considered based on Character, Character, Capacity, and Compassion. I have always respectfully requested that my track records &amp; integrity be verified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will also like to challenge anybody including, my dear elder brother to show anywhere in my public appearance where I\u00a0 in any way portrayed ethnic, or religious bigotry or where I called names, even when I came to campaign in Enugu State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also taken aback at your attributing the \u201cLagos is no man\u2019s land\u201d statement to Igbos because there is no evidence of that which I see as a case of giving a dog a bad name just to hang it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe my brother would like to know that I got more votes from non-Igbos in Lagos, Abuja, &amp; other parts of Nigeria, and even if Igbos voted for me should it be the reason why they should be chased away from where they are living and making tangible contributions to development?.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritain will not send Indians packing because they voted for an Indian to become the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also noticed the spirited efforts you put up to tag me a tribal bigot but such would be hard to prove empirically and I would like to advise my dear elder brother not to join in such senseless and unsubstantiated allegations just to dent one\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I very much know that among the critical characteristics of every good leader are listening, and learning and my brother advised that I should return to school to learn some aspects of leadership I am lacking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should I go to school to pay huge fees when I can get it free of charge from my dear elder brother who knows it better? I respectfully appeal that I be invited by my Senior brother to teach me accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy warmest regards to the family and God bless.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Candidate Of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has responded to allegations of ethno-religious bigotry against him by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani. 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