Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the
2019 elections, Peter Obi, has denied being refused a United States’
visa.
A Facebook user, Austin Brown, had accused Mr Obi of being denied US visa over alleged fraud.
Mr
Brown said Obi was on Monday denied visa by the American Embassy
following an alleged report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
indicting Obi as the third most fraudulent politician in Nigeria over
the past five years, Igbere TV reports.
Brown also alleged that
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the US had in July indicted Obi
over some $10 billion allegedly found in a Swiss bank account linked to
him.
In a statement on Saturday by Obi’s media aide, Valentine
Obienyem, the former Anambra State governor said his critics are
hell-bent on indicting him, adding that he is currently in the US.
Mr Obienyem reeled out a number of projects Obi completed in his time as governor.
“What
a confused bunch! Since he left government, his records which nobody is
even trying to surpass, still speak for him. Some of them are: He
bequeathed over 75 Billion Naira to his successor; completion of all the
roads started by his predecessor and construction of massive roads that
made Anambra during his time to be regarded as the best in network of
roads; return of schools to the Church and provision of over 6 Billion
Naira used to rehabilitate the schools, as well as provision of two
buses to them; Internet connectivity; boreholes; sporting equipment;
computers and generators to power,” he said.
The statement also
described Obi as “a saint in Nigerian politics” whose critics have
“prayed every day that he could sin a little even out of respect for the
frailty of human nature.”
Source: LOCAL NEWS
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