A former spokesman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Seye Oladejo, on Sunday said the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi cannot lie his way to the presidency.
Oladejo noted that leadership is not a theatre, adding that the presidency is certainly not an acting competition where emotional anecdotes can substitute for truth.
The APC chieftain made the remark in reaction to Obi’s face-off with airport officials.
Obi had accused officials of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport of wrong doing in an incident regarding wrong parking.
He claimed that his vehicle was unjustly clamped at the airport in an attempt to frustrate him.
But the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo charged Obi to publicly apologise to airport officials and pay a N25,000 fine because he was wrong.
Keyamo disclosed that an internal investigation showed that Obi’s car was unjustly parked.
According to the minister, CCTV footage from the airport showed that Obi arrived at the domestic terminal on July 4, 2026, at about 8:28 p.m in a vehicle driven by a police officer.
He said that after dropping Obi and two other occupants, the police driver parked the vehicle in a designated drop-off zone and left it unattended while entering the terminal, contrary to airport regulations.
However, a statement by Oladejo said: “Politics is ultimately built on trust. Every campaign promise, every policy proposal and every appeal for public support rests on one indispensable currency: credibility. Once credibility is squandered, every subsequent
