{"id":104049,"date":"2023-04-04T22:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104049"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:16:54","slug":"anti-obi-comments-lai-mohammed-back-to-familiar-terrain-of-misinformation-abure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/anti-obi-comments-lai-mohammed-back-to-familiar-terrain-of-misinformation-abure\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Obi Comments: Lai Mohammed back to familiar terrain of\u00a0misinformation &#8211; Abure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party, on Tuesday rebuked the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed, over anti-Peter Obi comments in which he accused the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 elections \u201cof inciting people to violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nJulius Abure, national chairman of Labour Party, also lambasted the Minister for embarking on what he described as \u201ca familiarisation tour of misinforming the international community of the true political situation in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, in response to Lai Mohammed\u2019s comments during the latter\u2019s official engagements with some international media organisations in Washington DC, Abure said that the Minister\u2019s comment was done in bad fate.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed had during interactions with some media organisations in the US said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth inciting people to violence.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBut the LP national chairman in a swift reaction warned the Minister to desist from such utterances.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is our considered opinion that it is even the APC through their spokespersons and all others who have been engaged in provocative utterances in order to cause chaos that should be admonished. The admonition is largely for APC themselves, their spokespersons and their officials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in part, \u201cThe Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who was on a familiarisation tour of misinforming the international community of the true political situation in Nigeria yesterday during his official engagements with some international media organisations in Washington DC admonished Mr. Obi for weeping up sentiments across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister who engaged respectively with the \u201cWashington Post\u201d, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy Magazine said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth inciting people to violence.<\/p>\n<p>Let me state categorically that there are no bases for that admonition. Our presidential candidate is a peaceful and law abiding person\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Abure insisted that even though \u201cthe election was provocatively rigged\u201d, Obi chose to be peaceful and toe the part of justice \u201cin spite of all pressures from our supporters to move into the street to protest the outcome of the general election and to reclaim the mandate freely given to our candidate by the people, he has decided to calm the nerves in order to give the judicial process a chance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He stated further \u201cthat the presidential candidate of the Labour Party is the only candidate whose campaign was issues based.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In spite of all provocation, it was the Labour party and its candidate that was attacked in Lagos, in Port Harcourt and all other states in the federation. 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