Following media reports that the vice presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the just concluded Presidential election and the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Obi is in the hospital as a result of a heart attack, the media aide to the former governor Mr Valentine Obienyem has refuted the report as the handiwork of “reckless fringe.”
He stated that the former governor never suffered any form of heart attack as wrongly reported by some media organization that simply twisted what he wrote yesterday about his boss.
“Yesterday, I posted a report of how The former Governor of Anambra State felt a bit feverish and had to visit a Hospital at Onitsha. I equally reported that he returned and went straight to office to continue his work. We spent the whole day planning on the focus of his next apostolate: support to 50 selected hospitals.
Today, the reckless fringe twisted the report that Obi suffered a heart attack. I should believe that anybody capable of coming out with such a wicked and twisted lie is as well as wishing him dead. But the sooner they realize that God is the creator and custodian of all lives, the better for them.”
“May I therefore use this medium to inform the public that Obi did not suffer any heart attack or any debilitating illness. He felt a bit feverish, which is one of the pangs of humanity, visited a hospital in Anambra State and that is all. Mr. Peter Obi is hale and hearty” he said.
In the statement by the media aide, Mr. Peter Obi called for prayers for the purveyors of this fake and wicked news.
“Though the reactions of many is that the wish of those liars for Obi should visit them, Obi’s position is that we should continue praying for the harbingers of such wicked news to realize that life belongs to God.
“He encourages Wealthy Nigerians to remember the sick and extend our hands of love to them always” he concluded.
