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Mr. Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate

Obi educates Okowa, says attending Church programmes has nothing to do with politics

Mr. Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate

The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has described as uncharitable, reports credited to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa accusing him of dragging the Church into politics on the sole reason that he attends Church programmes.

Obi, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, said that it is on record that he attends programmes he is invited to, including those organised by churches.

In a release made available to the Press, Obienyem asked, “Should Obi start shunning Church events because of politics, even when we know that since leaving office in 2014, he has visited over 1,000 schools and hospitals owned by the churches, offering them all manner of support for the upgrade of their schools and hospitals that serve the citizens of Nigeria?”

Obienyem, while cautioning against bringing the name of the Church into disrepute, said that those doing such were those linking genuine actions of patriots to politics, even when it was absolutely unnecessary.

The Media Adviser, who also said that the reference to politics was unnecessary because electioneering had not started, disagreed with Okowa on distinguishing those to be reached out to or not, saying: “Why would Okowa suggest that it is wrong for anybody to reach out to the churches? Is this not contemptuous of churches? Everybody is affected by the bad governance in the country and should expectedly be involved in the efforts to enthrone good governance.

“He should be told about the difference between being politically aware and getting involved in active politics,” Obienyem said, stressing that he suspected that very soon they would start to criminalize the encounters Obi is having with Nigerians in Diaspora.

Assuring Nigerians that Obi would not get tired of preaching to them about good governance and the need for the people of Nigeria to take back their country, Obienyem called on other patriots to join in the crusade rather than wishing people to keep quiet so that the status quo would remain.

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