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The presidential flag-bearer of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has boldly claimed that his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, was fraudulently packaged for the 2023 election to deceive Nigerians.

Sowore made this claim in a recent no-holds-barred interview with Pulse Nigeria, wherein he disclaimed certain misconceptions about his perception of the former Anambra State Governor.

The AAC presidential candidate has never hidden his disdain for the political class, especially those who have had the opportunity to serve in one capacity or the other.

He has been a constant thorn in the flesh of President Bola Tinubu since the time the latter held sway as the Lagos State Governor. He also didn't spare Tinubu's predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari of criticisms throughout his eight-year tenure.

In the build-up to the 2023 elections, he was severely critical of Obi, who was driving the Labour Party movement as a third force after dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2022.

Sowore presented himself as a youth-centric candidate and has always advocated for a revolution that would lead to the dislodgement of the current ruling class for well-meaning and young Nigerians to take over the reins of the country.

Asked why he was not sold on the Obi movement even though many Nigerian youths were gravitating towards the Labour Party torchbearer, the activist said he has a general disdain for dishonest politicians.

"What is true is that I have a general disdain for the dishonesty of Nigerian politicians. I have disdain for lacklustre performance, and whenever anybody then comes up as a politician or who wants to run Nigeria, they come with this fraudulent packaging.

"My default position is to warn people first and then expose them later. My position about Peter Obi has been consistent. The same way my position about Tinubu has been consistent. It is only that the people who are now on the internet as influencers weren't born at the time when I've been against all these terrible politicians, including those in the military.

"Otherwise, you would have known that in 2006 or 2008, I was the first to expose Tinubu's drug history in Chicago. But the people who now follow Peter were not interested at that time because it wouldn't favour them.

"But in 2022, they suddenly realised that Tinubu was a druggy and took it and ran away with it without giving credit to Sahara Reporters, which was the platform that was used in publishing at the time.

"I was the one who exposed Atiku's corruption, including all the bribes he collected, to the extent that Atiku ran away from the US based on the report done by Sahara Reporters on his corruption. This included the corruption between him and Obasanjo, including using educational funds to buy cars for their girlfriends and how they were stealing them. It was me and Sahara reporters who did that.

"I and Sahara Reporters also found out that Peter Obi was building substandard hospitals and never built schools, as it later revealed. He was investing state money in his private business and carrying money in cash to Appap. One of which was N250 million, and the police arrested them (Peter Obi) and found out that he was stealing money.

"All these things are on Sahara Reporters now. So if some people now go and repackage Obi and claim that he is going to help Nigeria work, and I say to them my full chest that this is a packaged fraud, and you get upset about that, that is not my problem," he said.

He continued: "That you love a fraudster is not my mistake. People loved Buhari, too, until his tenure killed their parents. Some families were wiped out. Peter Obi is nothing compared to the way the fraudulent Buhari was packaged. Buhari used to get 12 million votes every election season until he won in 2015. Was he not loved? What did we get from it? Insecurity, killings, and corruption of unimaginable proportion.

So if we tell you that we know Peter Obi and that he is not what he is presented to be, and you say you must impose these on Nigeria, and we say no, we don't accept that. Now you get upset; it's your right to be upset or that you love him. Is it your right to love him?

But it's also our right to keep saying the truth as we know it and as we understand it.

"So, the emotional aspect of it is nothing new. There is no politician in the world that doesn't have followers. If you go to the US, Donald Trump has followers who are willing to kill themselves. There was even a man who went to set himself ablaze in front of the district court, where he was undergoing trial.

"What is new about that? But that doesn't change the facts about Peter Obi's tenure as an eight-year governor in Anambra state who didn't build a school. Not a single road, not a single hospital that you can count, exists.

"They will say go and , and when you to them, they (Obi's ers) say no, we're not going to accept it. That's not my problem. And I know that some of you fell for those things, but you also now see that the position I maintain that is not different from the rest of them is coming into play.

"He himself knows that he's a fraud he knows this. In anybody that Obasanjo is ing, Babangida is ing, Doyin Okupe. Even Doyin Okupe has come to say that they were fraudulently packaging themselves to use the Labour Party to hoodwink Nigerians. So that's the point." Sowore added.

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Mr sowore pls don't just look down on the person of Peter obi just because you needed a chance to contest as a president.
No amount of bad mouth can stop him.
Peter is a man of integrity!

Sowore you’re very stupid for calling Peter Obi names



If Obi is packaged fraud then what is your urine sample of a certificate forging cocaine sniffing tribes man from Irigbaji



Na why you dey always get 16 votes for general elections



You should be worried that Tinubu is the best candidate that came out of your tribe

This one loud o.. Sowore hit the nail on the head, no beating around the bush.
What happened to the 250 million Obi was caught with in Lagos?. 250 million that year no be small money o.

Never would any serious opposition attack follow opposition when you have a none performing president

Sowore is on Tinubu pay role I have said and would keep saying it

Bitter Pandora Agulu 419 is a well known thief

This mad man left the president in office to attack the opposition as if Peter Obi is responsible for the nuclear inflation bombarding Nigerians.


The goat is crazy.

This is the same position I've always maintained - all politicians are packaged fraud.

Don't come here and start wailing that one is holier than the other.

Nigerians were presented with 3 packaged fraudulent presidential aspirants in 2023, we only managed to pick the best packaged of them all.

One thing is certain though - Peter Obi never won that election. He performed woefully in the North. That alone cost him that election. He himself knows this... and any reasonable follower(s) should know this too.

They all rigged massively... I mean all three major political party rigged, but the best rigger won. Now, we have a president.

In of performance, I believe the Bola Tinubu's istration is on the right track to carry out the necessary reforms to push the country to greater heights in the years ahead (Long-term). Honestly, these reforms are needed if we must compete with other world economies. We can't continue doing same thing year and year again, expecting a different result. A reboot is needed, and I so much believe now is the right time.

In as much as these reforms are needed, a short term welfare package should be provided to the citizens mostly affected by the reforms. No doubt, these reforms brings suffering and hardship in real time, so government should as a matter of urgency make available resources to counter some of the hardships from these reforms.

Who open gate for this one?

Peter as a governor outclassed Buhari by far as president yet this imp have the misfortune of comparing Peter Obi to a complete dunce head disgrace and embarrassment called Buhari. Shamelessness @ it peak.

At least, Buhari used his packaging or repackaging to become the president for 8 years. You see that Agulu fraud who achieved nothing as Anambra governor, he’s never sleeping in Aso Rock for a day. Never! No matter the packaging, Peter Obi Gbajue will never become the president of Nigeria 🤣🤣

He said obi did not build hospitals, road, schools. So who built the hospitals, roads etc in anambra

mrvitalis:
Never would any serious opposition attack follow opposition when you have a none performing president

Sowore is on Tinubu pay role I have said and would keep saying it

Focus on the message and stop attacking the messanger.. he said Obi used 8 years to build nothing in Anambra coupled with other corruption allegations hanging on his neck. True or false?

SOWORE IS A BETTER PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL THAN OBI AND ATIKU.

mrvitalis:
Never would any serious opposition attack follow opposition when you have a none performing president

Sowore is on Tinubu pay role I have said and would keep saying it

There is nothing wrong with a honest and sincere opposition figure calling out a fraudulent and lying opposition figure. It’s all about being 100% sincere with the people of Nigeria.

Although, I understand that sincerity and honesty are virtues strange to folks from your side of the country so it’s not surprising that you did not see anything good in Sowore. Again, not everybody is swayed by money. Millions of Nigerians genuinely don’t believe in Peter Obi and no one is paying them for that.

Real sucker punch!

Only those obedient miscreants believe obi is the Messiah that will save Nigeria, the rest of the world knows obi is a packaged fraud who is desperate to be president so he can milk the country dry as he did in anambra.

Those history that Sowore's grandpa forgot to tell him back then, Obidients would relay am on this thread .

It should be entertaining

100% well said Comrade sowore

seunmsg:


There is nothing wrong with a honest and sincere opposition figure calling out a fraudulent and lying opposition figure. It’s all about being 100% sincere with the people of Nigeria.

Although, I understand that sincerity and honesty are virtues strange to folks from your side of the country so it’s not surprising that you did not see anything good in Sowore. Again, not everybody is swayed by money. Millions of Nigerians genuinely don’t believe in Peter Obi and no one is paying them for that.

But you believe in Tinubu a man who is rich without any known enterprises before he became governor?

A man who has swiped out 50% of our GDP in the last one year?

Sometimes I wonder if you guys believe the rubbish u comment on this forum

Sowore has been actively attacking PBAT and he used to be a darling of the Obidient group but now that he's chose to spit another truth, they'll suddenly his tribe and attacking wild wild

flokii:


Focus on the message and stop attacking the messanger.. he said Obi used 8 years to build nothing in Anambra coupled with other corruption allegations hanging on his neck. True or false?

Build nothing? This Awolowo sickness is really deep rooted... All u know is build infrastructure and pay workers to u that's business

There is only one way to measure governance that's improvement of SDGs goes under your reign... And no body in the history Nigeria has performed better then Obi

Obi improved HDI by almost 30% in 8 years and you don't even know what that means I guess.. Sometime just shut up

Obi tho

Everyone knows he's a fraud
It must feel terrible to be him

mrvitalis:

Build nothing? This Awolowo sickness is really deep rooted... All u know is build infrastructure and pay workers to u that's business

There is only one way to measure governance that's improvement of SDGs goes under your reign... And no body in the history Nigeria has performed better then Obi

Obi improved HDI by almost 30% in 8 years and you don't even know what that means I guess.. Sometime just shut up

If infrastructure isn't necessary.. then why are you Igbos all running to Lagos, Ogun and now Ibadan?. Even your Obi stays in Lagos, not Anambra.

I don't think you lots understand the complexity of Nigeria as a nation.. diverse ethnicities, diverse religion, diverse people etc.

You really think a learned person will buy into this your bullshlt that Obi developed HDI and didn't build any infrastructure cos he doesn't need to?.
To think some of you are exposed, travel outside the country, have doctorate degrees yet mediocrity is baffling. Tufia!

Obi built nothing? Only a fool can say that and only fools will believe the Sowore.

helinues:


Those history that Sowore's grandpa forgot to tell him back then, Obidients would relay am on this thread .

It should be entertaining

Do you have any history of working? Hurry up ok.

No matter how they repackage him,I will never vote for him

mrvitalis:

But you believe in Tinubu a man who is rich without any known enterprises before he became governor?

A man who has swiped out 50% of our GDP in the last one year?

Sometimes I wonder if you guys believe the rubbish u comment on this forum

This is between Sowore and Obi gbajue so stay on topic. I responded to you specifically because of the nonsense you posted about Sowore. So, stay on topic and leave Nigerians to decide on Tinubu’s performance after four years. There is a reason why the constitution gives every president 4 years and not 1 year.

Arobaga:
Sowore you’re very stupid for calling Peter Obi names



If Obi is packaged fraud then what is your urine sample of a certificate forging cocaine sniffing tribes man from Irigbaji



Na why you dey always 16 votes for general elections



You should be worried that Tinubu is the best candidate that came out of your tribe

Sowore is not a fan of Tinubu. No igbo or opposition dead or alive have criticized Tinubu more than Sowore.

The fact that he is Yoruba and he often criticize obi does not imply that he is a er of balablu.
Sowore doesn't give a damn about any bloody polithiefian, that is why I like him .

A new found enemy of ipob