A prominent economist, and close associate of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Prof Pat Utomi has reacted to allegations that he lured Peter Obi to Labour and funded his campaign with funds received from the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Utomi who reacted through his Twitter handle denied the allegation insisting the only money he has ever received from Tinubu in 25 years was $2000 donation for MIT event.
Read his tweets below:
As I watch the desperation with which past acts sown in love for the common good is unearthed and bent into disinformation regarding the present I am thankful that in the end truth is the only thing that prevails when lust for power is consumed by its own negativity. So I ignore.
World of ironies. Last week I participated in a program of the Deliberative Democracy Lab of Standford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law on disinformation in social media unaware I was ongoing victim of disinformation in Nigeria.
Some fellow pulling up a 9 year old video from an Ileya visit claimed the know of conduit of money through me to PO to uend Atiku. 1st, have had no direct or indirect contact with BAT in 4 years. Only material transfer from BAT to me in 25yrs we have known is $2000 for MIT event.
In truth I have been much closer to Waziri Atiku who I first met in 1983 and wrote the feasibility for his farm a year later. I have served on the Board of his university, AUN. Only a warped or misinformed mind would invent such disinformation.
As for funding PO I cannot but be amazed at this disinformation. The outpouring of resources of citizens in support groups and PO’s prudent draw on his own purse was so humbling I even turned to ODs to fund my own activities in support of the campaign for faith in saving Nigeria.
Below is the video they are referring..
