The Labour Party has disregarded objections to Mr. Peter Obi's outstanding performance in a recent survey done by NOI Polls Ltd. under contract with ANAP Foundation.
It claimed that after the results of the polls confirmed the widely reported fact that Obi was leading with 21% of the vote, the public's attention had been drawn to a number of damaging, inflammatory, false, and divisive statements that had been purposefully spread by "the drowning APC and few other political parties."
This was said in a statement released by the party's national publicity secretary, Comrade Arabambi Abayomi, on Friday in Abuja.
"The hasty conclusion reached here by the unscrupulous APC administration undoubtedly demonstrates a group of APC members and supporters greatly lack the capacity to accurately appreciate the difficulties in rational thinking needed to be responsible public commentators," he stated.
"It is commonly believed to be true by everyone who has access to information that while it is exceedingly unlikely to deceive everyone all the time, it is possible to fool certain people occasionally.
Before the results of the NOI POLLS were made public, the vast majority of Nigerians felt the intense and eruptive impact of the Obi phenomenon, which has long received the approval and broad support of the majority of Nigerians throughout the country.
"Both the APC and PDP that had for a long time been busy mortgaging the future of the Nation and Citizens through very much dubious, deceptive, dishonest, and incompetent in Governance for should have simply kept quiet and not engage in some naked dances in the market by feigning untenable indignation over a poll that confirms the barometer of public opinion," the author writes.
The majority of Nigerians have come to accept as fact that the ruling party "has fallen short in all departments of good Governance and has been deservedly rejected," and Abayomi said it was quite embarrassing for the party to dispute this. The ruling party "has failed in all indices of governance."
According to the LP spokesperson, "The NOI POLLS is a further proof and affirmation of the widely held political views of Nigerians who have decided to take their Nation back from the evil paws of the party that unceasingly, bluntly, recklessly, and foolishly busy plundering the Nation in Governance."