Obidient Movement from the Obi-Datti media office, has described as untrue the statement credited to the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, where he accused the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi of not fixing the security challenges in Anambra state when he was governor.
The former governor of Edo said that Obi was incapable of solving Nigeriaโs insecurity because he failed to tackle insecurity in Anambra when he served as governor.
Irked with his statement, the Obidient movement on Monday replied him with, Abubakar Mohammad IGโs testimonial and other outstanding Obiโs record on security in the state.
According to the movement: โThe attention of the media office of Obi-Datti campaign was drawn on Sunday to the baseless claim by the former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi has no capacity to tackle security as his tenure in Anambra proved so.
โThe former Edo Governor also in his groundless outburst to satisfy his audience claimed that it was Obiโs successor, Willie Obiano who was able to solve some security challenges that Obi could not tackle.
โWhen the LP candidate told Nigerians severally to go and verify his past, he knew what the outcome of such verification would be, in his favor, except for attack dogs like Oshiomhole who would always stand truth on its head, fabricate tales ostensibly to satisfy his pay master who incontrovertibly is not verifiable.
โIf Comrade Oshiomhole had bordered to verify Obiโs security records as Anambra state governor, he would have found what the Inspector General of Police in 2014, Abubakar Mohammad said in Awka, Anambra state capital on April 10, 2014 shortly after Obi left office that was copiously captured by many mainstream and social media establishments on April 11, 2014.
โOshiohmole but for mischief would also have found that Obi is on record to have been one of the most ruthless state Governors in tackling the kidnap menace in the country. Itโs still green in everybodyโs memory how Obi personally supervised the sealing off and demolition of hotels and buildings used by kidnappers and other criminal gangs in the state.
Crime record in Anambra state under Obi was outstanding and security leadership never failed to appreciate this feat”.
โBelow we republish a story as published by one of the top national dailies, the Nation Newspaper in the country on April 11, 2014 captioned โIG declares Anambra safest since five yearsโ
โThe Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, yesterday declared that Anambra State remained the safest state in the last five years, according to police records”.
โAbubakar, who was speaking at the women development centre, Awka, at the stateโs stakeholdersโ summit announced that there was no bank robbery in the state in the last five years during former Governor Peter Obi”.
โHe urged Governor Willie Obiano to emulate his predecessor by sustaining the security situation in the state”.
โThe inspector-general hailed the relationship between the police and the government under Peter Obi, which contributed to the improved security, and reassured Governor Obiano that the police would give him a 100 per cent support to rid the state of kidnappers and robbers. He urged Obiano to deal with any ruler, who encourages crime in his community.
โโI am ready to support Anambra governor actualize its dream of securing the state. And I must assure you that if the governor is initiating measures to strengthen security in Anambra, he needs the support and it is time for the governor to tell you that the change you are looking for is here.โโ
โHe assured the people that the era of police impunity is over, and ordered that the harassment of road users by siren-crazy politicians should stopโ
โObi-Datti media therefore urges members of the public to be vigilant and resist any attempt to foist proxy presidents on them with lies and they should repel any fraudulent try to frustrate the movementโs goal of taking back our beloved country battered by corrupt and greedy leaders.
โLetโs always remain Obidient and focused for a new Nigeria whose time has come.โ
