The Obi-Datti Media Campaign office has warned Nigerians to be wary of anybody attempting to use proxies to run the country's affairs.
The campaign office made this statement in response to a challenge made to Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, by Festus Keyamo, SAN, the minister of state for labour. Keyamo asked Obi's son to plan a successful campaign rally in his state of Anambra, much like what Seyi Tinubu, the son of the APC flag bearer, did for his father in Lagos.
It claimed that Keyamo could not distinguish between the two sons and their dads.
This was said in a statement provided to Vanguard on Tuesday in Abuja and signed by the Obi-Datti Media Campaign Office.
It read in part, “The only thing that joins Obi and Tinubu is that they were once governors of states in Nigeria.
“This assertion is verifiable for Keyamo and his other hirelings.
“If Keyamo had taken time to study the family he speaks for very well he would have avoided this comparison that is bound to expose the life of his Principal and understand why the entire household is headlong in the campaign.“
It further said, “The other time Tinubu’s wife, Senator Remi was threatening fire and brimstone over Lagos, then the daughter and now the son is showing off with rally.
“Do you blame people struggling to keep a family business?
“Obi’s family is not part of his politics, they are running their lives, contributing to development without nearing public funds.
“Obi-Datti Media office also noticed that Tinubu’s wife and some First Ladies took government aeroplanes to campaign spots because they could hardly exist without government patronage.
“The LP Candidate, Peter Obi is the man seeking the mandate of the Nigerian people to serve them as President not any other member of his family. He has repeatedly said that Nigerians must reject anybody desiring to be President by proxy.
“We, therefore, join our candidate to demand that candidates, not their wives, sons or daughters are seeking the peoples' votes and they should be scrutinized by the people.
“It’s dangerous and discomforting when we cannot differentiate public funds from family and private funds and a serving Minister of the Republic is defending and celebrating it.
“But that is exactly what Nigerian youths through the Obidient Movement are out to halt through their take back Nigeria mantra.”