The 2023 Labour Party, presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi has denied taking a picture with Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.
This is following a viral picture of Obi and Ekpa together, Although, Obi claims that the said picture was photoshopped.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Head of the Media Office, Diran Onifade, in Abuja, on Thursday, 27th July, 2023.
He noted that the aim of the photoshopped picture is to tarnish Obi’s image as well as ruin his reputation.
Onifade said, “We all grew up being educated that photos tell a thousand stories and do not tell lies as photos are usually self-evident.
“Yet that was long years ago and long before digital technology took the World like a storm.
“That standard narrative has changed remarkably with dubious minds always ready to deploy it creatively albeit negatively, to create what is non-existent.
“Obi-Datti Media office notes that the scenario is exactly what played out in the photoshopped picture of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi supposedly standing with the Finland-based irritant Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa all in a desperate move to drag Obi’s name into disrepute by linking him with the ugly story that Ekpa has become in Nigeria.
“For clarity, the picture was taken by Obi standing with an admirer on a Virgin Flight on Friday, July 21, 2023. In trying to authenticate their filthy and disgustingly dirty act, they inserted the picture of Aisha Yusuf behind them.
“The memory may be short to forget that Obi was the first to describe the sit-at-home thing as an act being engineered and bred by a criminal that the system has refused to squarely tackle.
“Now that the menace of this crime is becoming manifest even to attract the views of the nation’s parliament, it may be necessary to critically study the handling of this crime.”
