The Director, New Media, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has given an insight into how the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed and supporters, Obidients, would be treated should the All Progressives Congress (APC) retain power in 2023.
Fani-Kayode gave the indication in a Facebook post on Thursday.
The APC chieftain lamented that some LP counterparts have turned making mockery of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, into a favourite pastime.
He said that this was being done with the connivance of a popular television station that has not disguised its bias against Tinubu and the ruling APC.
Fani-Kayode said that Obi’s supporters have taken the APC’s silence for weakness but should prepare for retribution when the party wins in the 2023 general election.
“With disgust and consternation, I watched one of the leaders of Peter Obi’s PCC insulting and attempting to mimick Asiwaju’s speech on Channels TV the other day and suggesting that he had mental health challenges.
“A few days earlier I heard another Obi spokesman on yet another Channels Television programme referring to him as “Nebuchadnezzar”, “a monkey” and “satan”.
“The thing that appalled me the most was that in both interviews the moderators allowed him to keep making the point and mocking our candidate.
“They all appeared to be enjoying themselves and having a good laugh.
“This has become the norm on virtually all the television stations in Nigeria today where insulting and denigratiing Asiwaju has been turned into a public bloodsport and favourite pastime.
“In this respect the prize goes to Arise Television who can barely disguise their utter disdain and hatred for our candidate.
“Like Obi’s men, the PDP, their spokesmen and their leaders are also guilty of this attempt to slur and say some of the most outrageous things about our candidate and his health on national television as well.
“Up until now I have been quite gentle and I have kept the peace by refraining from targetting the respective opposition candidates on national television.
“However let me serve them notice that it is my intention to respond to them fire for fire as from today on every social media platform, every newspaper and every television and radio station that they seek to disparage our candidate and leader.
“If nothing else at least we have the right of reply and reply we will,” Fani-Kayode said.
He added, “Peter’s supporters particularly mistook our silence and restraint for weakness but they will learn the hard way because we will expose them for what they are and tell the world who Obi really is.
“The truth is that of all the filthy maggots that crawled out of the political sewer in the last 62 years, the most fickle, ignorant, naive, gullible, rude, fraudulent, crooked, fascistic, disrespectful, vain, uncouth and deluded are those asinine & dumb little imbeciles that call themselves Obidients.
“They are a curse, an affliction and a plague all rolled into one.
“By the end of February next year, after we crush and bury them in the election, they will be confined to the dustbin of history never to rise again.
“After we come to power we will deport their leader to Malaysia where he has many questions to answer and we will ensure that his running mate faces criminal charges for his hate speech against members of the LGBQ community and for inciting others to target and kill gays.”