Oseni’s Funeral Expenses: I Didn’t Play Any Role , Peter Obi Tells Reno Omokri

Labour Party  presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as untrue insinuations that he financed  and took care of Pa Oseni’s funeral expenses last year.

Pa Oseni is  the father of  Mr Rufai Oseni, a  journalist and television host.

It will be recalled that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Assistant , Mr. Reno Omokri had  alleged that Obi gave Rufai necessary supports during his  father’s burial hence his loyalty to the former Anambra state governor.

 Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Omokri, who  had tweeted about this  on August 25,  also posted  the picture  Obi  took with  Rufai .

‘AriseTV and Mr Rufai Oseni should kindly answer the following question. Did Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, fund the funeral of Mr Rufai Oseni’s father by giving him money in cash or via electronic means, either directly or through a third party, in August 2022, and has that influenced Mr. Oseni’s open bias in favour of Peter Obi, whereby Mr. Oseni used the AriseTV platform as a medium to campaign for and launder the image of Mr Peter Obi, and his undisguised personal animosity towards me for my refusal to support Mr Peter Obi’s Presidential ambition? I counsel them to think very carefully before they answer’ he wrote.

Obi while replying Onokri  on Monday  disclosed that he never sponsored such, an event adding that it is ‘a categorical lie’.

‘There is a recent case where my name has been mentioned in a malicious and cheap blackmail against one of Nigeria’s best Television presenters, Mr. Rufai Oseni, who has stood sternly for what is right and has challenged me fearlessly on some occasions while speaking truth to power. I have recently been mentioned to have bribed Mr. Rufai Oseni by financially sponsoring the burial of his father.

Let me clearly state that this is a categorical lie. It is not true, cannot be true and will never be true. Everyone who understands or follows my approach to things will attest to the fact that I do not give anyone money to promote my name’ he wrote while also asserting that he  has never enticed any journalist to speak or write in his favour.

‘I have never and will never monetarily induce any journalist to speak or write in my favour. When I am invited to birthday celebrations or funerals, people know that I do attend. Countless journalists, media personnel, the less- privileged, the wealthy etc., have all invited me to their occasions, and they will attest to the fact that I honour such invitations, especially when people are grieving. I have never been to Rufai’s village. Even at the point of writing this, I do not know where he is from.

One then wonders why people could decide to tarnish other people’s image for no justifiable reason. To those involved in such evil endeavours, I wish them well and pray that God will have mercy on them’ he added.

Obi also emphasized the need to rescue the country from the many challenges it had faced.

‘We should focus more on lifting people out of poverty. Millions of Nigerians do not know where their next meal will come from’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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