The Labour Party’s presidential candidate was ridiculed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday, claiming he is looking for “cheap” media attention.
Earlier, Obi had in a press conference asked President Bola Tinubu to save Nigeria and himself from what he described as โprotracted embarrassment and undue anxietyโ over the controversy surrounding his certificate.
He was speaking in light of what has transpired recently where a US court ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to release the Presidentโs academic records at the request of the Peoples Democratic Partyโs presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
In a statement on Wednesday, APC spokesperson, Felix Morka, said Nigerians who voted for the President know him and were not โgroggyโ during the polls.
Noting that Tinubu does not need a re-introduction, Morka said the President was elected lawfully.
โUnwilling to miss out in the orchestrated campaign of calumny against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his certificate from the Chicago State University, Obi jumped on the tailboard of Atikuโs bandwagon to satisfy his uncanny and insatiable thirst for cheap media attention, long after his Labour Party had dissociated itself from a bogus call to action by the former Vice-President,โ the statement reads.
โIn his drivel, Peter Obi demanded that the President reintroduce himself to Nigerians, as though the 8.9 million Nigerians who voted him last February were all groggy when they made their free democratic choice.
โMr. Obi must know that President Tinubu does not need a re-introduction. He does not have any identity problem, except the one contrived by the Atikus and Peters of our political firmament.
โThe 8.9 million Nigerians who voted him into office were, and remain, aware of his outstanding record and accomplishments as a defender of democracy, freedom, social and economic justice for over three decades.
โNigerians know President Tinubu as a thoroughbred professional and former auditor and treasurer of Mobil Nigeria, now ExxonMobil.โ
