Peter Obi raises alarm over fake picture of him with IPOB's Simon Ekpa

<h2></h2>, <h2>Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 General Elections, has described as fake, a photo of him and the Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator, Mr Simon Ekpa.</h2>, <p>Onifade stated that this photo is another failed attempt to dent the political Eagle whose concern is how to create a new Nigeria and reduce the poverty in the land.</p>, <span>Peter-Obi-with-pro-Biafra-agitator-Simon-Ekpa (Credit: The Eagle Online)</span>, <p>The Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, Mr Diran Onifade, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.</p>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Expa had been allegedly responsible for calling for several sit-at-home orders in the South-East region, which had allegedly resulted in loss of many lives and property.</p>, <p>Onifade said the perpetrators of the fake photo inserted Obi’s popular supporter and rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, to further claim credibility. He said they all grew up being educated that photos tell a thousand stories and do not tell lies as photos were usually self-evident.</p>, <p>According to him, yet that was long years ago and long before digital technology took the World like a storm. Onifade said the standard narrative had changed remarkably with dubious minds always ready to deploy its creatively albeit negatively, to create what was non-existent.</p>, <p>He said: “The scenario is exactly what played out in the photoshopped picture of Peter Obi supposedly standing with the Finland-based irritant Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.</p>, <p>“This is all in a desperate move to drag Obi’s name into disrepute by linking him with the ugly story that Ekpa has become in Nigeria.</p>, <p>“For clarity, the picture was taken by Obi standing with an admirer on a Virgin Flight on Friday, July 21, 2023.</p>, <p>“In trying to authenticate their filthy and disgustingly dirty act, they inserted the picture of Aisha Yusuf behind them.</p>, <p>“The memory may be short to forget that Obi was the first to describe the sit-at-home thi