Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has condemned, in strong terms, the attacks on the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
Obi, in a statement issued on Twitter, reprimanded “people masquarading as his followers” for hauling insults at the 81-year-old cleric.
He called on his supporters to stop name calling and insulting people, while saying that insult of eminent personalities is “most unacceptable”.
“The use of subterfuge by people masquerading as Obidients to abuse and insult eminent personalities like Most Reverend Pastor Enoch Adeboye or anyone else is most unacceptable.
‘Obidients are by and large, law-abiding citizens,”
“While differences of opinion are normal, calculated efforts to create ethnic or religious chasm all in the name of politics should not in any way be tolerated.
“As a person, I eschew name-calling, insults, and abuses, likewise most of my supporters.
“The suggestion that some in the fringes engage in such conduct casually overlooks the fact that the political opposition deploys such methods to gain undue advantage and create confusion and bad blood,” the statement read.
