2023: Why Peter Obi Has Not Released Manifesto – Ononuju

The special adviser to the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi on public affairs, Katch Ononuju has defended his boss over the non-release of his campaign manifesto.

The aide said Obi and his team are working to ensure the manifesto is properly fine-tuned and avoid its plagiarism by other political parties.

Ononuju also added that the trust Obi has earned from Nigerians and their belief in him is bigger than any manifesto.

Speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, he said however that the manifesto would soon be made public but before that, any version of his manifesto seen in circulation is fake and should be ignored.

In his words, “We are fine-tuning, we already have our manifesto and we are also aware of plagiarism. We know these parties like to copy things like this.

“We are careful. The first thing we have done was to establish trust, the most important tool in leadership is trust.

“If these candidates were bank, which bank will you put your money in? We showed Peter Obi to be the presidential candidate Nigerians trusted.

“Whatever you get in a while is not his (Obi’s), people could have seen different version of different things but the one my principal will introduce to the world will be the authentic manifesto. So there is nothing big about manifesto, we are doing things in different ways.”