By Sam Onwuemeodo
April 14, (Newshour.com.ng) – From all indications, Peter Obi’s media handlers, appear to have gone home to sleep or had gone on vacation, the moment the 2023 Presidential election result was announced and it didn’t favour the LP Presidential Candidate.
They had left the scene after Bola Tinubu was announced winner by the Yakubu Mahmood led INEC.
They had done that, either because they had expected that Obi would win or must win and that wasn’t the case. And they felt terribly disappointed or discouraged or both. Or, they had lost interest in the whole venture . Or, they had felt that there is no light at the end of the tunnel and pointless staying put .
Or, they had become ” battle fatigue” or weak. Or, they have the case of inexperience. Or, all of the above.
Since the announcement of the Presidential election result in favour of BAT, Obi’s media apostles have not come up with the expected strength or dogedness. They’ve not been able to handle professionally and stoically any of the contentious or controversial issues concerning Obi or associated with Obi.
As we write, the Video of his alleged chat with Bishop Oyadipo is still trending without a counter. The Bishop has shown no interest in getting Obi out of the blackmail. And if Obi does not have the main or correct video of the discussion, what stops his media team editing the existing or trending one to remove the lies. And push out the correct version and allow the public to decipher. Oral denial without any counter was not enough especially when the Winners” Chapel owner didn’t want to offend his brother BAT because of Obi, by agreeing with Obi that the Video or their discussion was doctored or polluted .
Even the London Airport incident, his media team would not have waited for Obi to speak before knowing what to do?. Obi does not enjoy any immunity. So, for them to have released or allowed him to go, was enough information that they had found out the truth. His media would have leveraged on that to make some Serious demands, whether they would be met or not, would be secondary. And the whole development would have further told the World what Obi has been going through. At least, sympathies for him, within and outside, would have snowballed. But they allowed that to become a case of ” they have apologised. No, l have not received any apology”, as if nothing happened.
Lai Mohammed accused Obi of treason over his innocent comments and Obi’s media team could not come up with strongly worded response , with existing proofs that his accuser, would have been in prison for treason since 2015. It took others to unveil the past speeches or video clips of Lai Mohammed, Yemi Osinbajo, Elrufai and Buhari in 2015 that were more serious than what Obi said.
And so many of such cases or instances. If there has been a time Obi needs strong and committed media team, it’s now. Especially when the South West man is involved. And the earlier he does that , the better . He should reinforce his team. lnject life into the team.
Members of his media team , must be those who genuinely and strongly believe in him , in the Labour Party and in his Presidential project, win or lose. Not those who believe or feel that he must win before they show strength or capacity
My name is Sam Onwuemeodo.
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