‘‘Datti and I are with you”- Peter Obi writes his supporters who have ‘suffered vituperations from those regarded as civic leaders and conscience of our nation’
The Presidential candidate of Labour party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has written an open letter to his teaming supporters better known as ‘’Obidient”.
In his letter, Obi recognized that most of them have suffered ‘’vituperations, physical attacks, loss of rights and privileges, hateful trolls, indignities and vexatious fighting words” and that these attacks have come from people they have ‘’long regarded as civic leaders and conscience of our nation”.
He stated that he and Datti and are with the Obedients and that they should see the ‘’attacks ‘’as the sacrifices required to create a new Nigeria, where justice, equity, fairness, love, and prosperity shall reign.
He said he and his team are using all lawful and peaceful means allowed under Nigeria’s laws and constitution to ‘’reclaim their mandate.”
He wrote the open letter days after Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka described his supporters popularly known as Obidients as “one of the most repulsive, off-putting concoctions” he has ever encountered in any political arena.