The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed speculation that its Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi’s purported company in the United Kingdom, Next International (UK) Ltd was recently shut by the British authorities.
The Party distanced its Presidebtial candidate from the ownership of the said company.
In a release issued by Mr. Diran Onifade, Head of Media, Obi-Datti Media Office, the Party claimed that Mr. Obi had long, seized to have aby interest in the company.
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Onifade’s statemebt reasld thus, “In order that the huge human and material resources deployed to search and locate any negative against the high flying Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi is not seen to have been wasted, anything could be concocted to justify the efforts.
“We have watched with bemused skepticism as agents of the political opposition unsettled by the high rising profile of the Labour Party flag bearer, ran around and made fools of themselves over the Next International (UK) Limited being removed from the record in 2021.
“Ordinarily, this is the type of mischief and impishness that should deserve no response but for the credulous in our midst who are the real target by this impairment.
“For the record, the entity was 99% owned by Next Nigeria International Ltd. and establised as its buying office in the 90s and Peter Obi was its CEO.
“At the time Peter Obi became Governor of Anambra State, in 2006, his wife assumed management of the winding down of the company and about one year ago requested that the company be dissolved under the voluntary strike off of the entity on grounds of dissolution and being inoperational, which is normal in winding up an entity.
“Peter Obi has consistently maintained that he is no longer involved in any Next-related business.
“When our Principal insists that you go and verify facts about him and the information he dishes out, it didn’t say go and falsify facts.
The LP candidate by his antecedents in Anambra State for eight years, in private ventures where he held sway his records among the pack in this race for the Presidency, puts him miles ahead in moral rating.”