Tinubu can’t appreciate facts, figures, says Obi-Datti

The media aides of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, have indicated why his rival in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, fears opponents who substitute facts and data for rhetoric.

Sunday in Abuja, Diran Onifade, head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, responded to Tinubu and the APC Campaign’s allegations over Peter Obi’s use of statistics.Information Guide Nigeria

Onifade noted that Obi’s use of numbers was an effort to debunk campaign rhetorics.

This, he noted, has agitated the APC candidate, who is incapable of comprehending either mathematics nor statistics.

Onifade said, “Tinubu had said at a rally of rented crowds in Gbaramatu Delta State that Peter Obi of the Labour Party lied with figures.

“A contestant who cannot pronounce or spell ‘m.u.l.t.i.p.l.i.c.a.t.i.o.n’ and wants to argue about numbers, arithmetic, and statistics says a lot about how low we have climbed in this country.”

The LP Campaign further stated that its candidate was brimming with practicable ideas and he was demystifying electioneering rhetorics by employing simple facts and figures in his campaigns.

“Providing the numbers shows Peter Obi’s preparedness for the high office of the President if and when hired by Nigerian voters come 2023,” the media office said.NYSC portal

It said, “This has resulted in a grand design to distract his focus from the issue-driven campaigns, which are resonating very well with Nigerians who are ready and committed to taking back their country from forces that have held it down over the years.”

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Responding to the APC on the use of numbers to express facts, the LP stated that it is perilous to appear to dine with the devil without the proverbial long spoon or to run with the robber and confuse passersby as to the true thief.JAMB portal

Onifade further said, “Our candidate has said repeatedly that his assertions were verifiable and dared anybody with contrary facts and figures to come up.

“Analysts, media houses, and opponents have formed fact-checking units in their organisations ostensibly to contradict Peter Obi’s facts and figures, but they are yet to succeed.”

To buttress its point, the LP campaign cited a recent Arise TV town hall meeting in Abuja where a team of fact-checkers was raised to hook Obi, but they ended up apologising to him.

He said, “The acceptable mantra is always if you can’t beat them join them, but in Nigerian politics, the reverse is the case: if you can’t beat them pull them down.JAMB portal

“That is what Obi’s opponents who cannot cope with his deep know-how about the economy are doing.”

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