Peter Obi, former Labour Party presidential candidate says he’s being focused by employed blackmailers bent on spreading lies.
He denied assembly President Bola Tinubu privately in Rome over an alleged ₦225 billion debt scandal tied to Fidelity Bank.
Obi described the story as unfaithful and calculated to smear his picture.
In a submit shared on X, he stated his latest journey to Rome was strictly non secular. He attended the mendacity in state of Pope Francis and the inauguration Mass of Leo XIV.
His phrases: “It’s apparent that the largest enterprise for blackmailers now could be speaking about Peter Obi from each destructive perspective.
Even my solemn non secular journey to Rome has been twisted into yet one more blackmail marketing campaign by retailers paid ostensibly to propagate something destructive towards Obi.
“One such particular person, whose complete life revolves round blackmail, falsely claimed that I went to Rome to have a personal assembly with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu concerning a purported ₦225 billion debt disaster involving Fidelity Bank. These claims are usually not solely baseless, malicious, however completely false.”
He clarified that the one contact he had with Tinubu was a quick alternate of pleasantries at St. Peter’s Basilica in the course of the papal mass.
“Let me categorically state that I’ve by no means sought an viewers with, nor met, President Tinubu since he assumed workplace, besides about 1 minute assembly on the enviornment of Saint Peter’s Basilica Rome in the course of the inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV, the place I used to be seated behind, and needed to respectfully greet him, and different dignitaries current.”
Obi defined he had been in Rome on Might 9, attended the mass, after which left instantly for London earlier than returning to Nigeria.
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He additionally pushed again towards claims that he owns Fidelity Bank.
“The self-proclaimed ‘blackmailer-in-chief’ and others who thrive on spreading ache and falsehoods have additionally claimed that I personal Fidelity Bank. For the document, I don’t. All through my profession, I’ve served as Chairman/Director of three banks/{Financial} establishments, of which Constancy is one in every of them.
Constancy has over 500,000 shareholders, none of whom maintain a majority stake. What this blackmailer seeks is to hurt these hard-working Nigerians and trigger them useless misery.”
Obi ended by calling for reflection:
“To these peddling these falsehoods, and fascinating in blackmail, I provide a easy prayer: Might God grant you the virtues of gratitude and understanding to know that we got here right here with nothing and can go together with nothing, that they can’t revenue from their evil methods. A brand new Nigeria is POssible.”
