- The founder of Aiteo group Benedict Peters debunked reports that he funded a new coalition headed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo
- Peters said he does not have anything related to politics doing with former president Obasanjo
- He, however, vowed to take legal action against his detractors if they continued to spread rumours about him on social media
A billionaire businessman and founder of Aiteo group Benedict Peters declared that he did not fund any coalition headed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Punch reports that Peters made this known in a statement released on Friday night, January 26.
The stamen read: ''For the record, I wish to state, categorically and unequivocally, that I am not a financier of the said organisation or any socio-political partisan association or political party in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world.
“As an international businessman of repute, I have deliberately stayed away from politics preferring, instead, to focus and give my all to the development of my business interests across the African continent.
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“Corporate social responsibility contributions has seen the Aiteo group, which I lead, provide investment support in medicine and medical research dedicated to seeking cures for several ailments which affect the African continent as well as investment in sport and sport as a panacea for the development of Africa’s teeming youth population.”
“In the publishers’ indecent haste to malign the former president and I, amongst others, they demonstrated a shameful shallowness that paid no heed to the very personal nature of our relationship.
“For the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever, I also confirm, categorically, that the former President has, on no occasion, discussed or mentioned any such plan or intention to me. This situation very pointedly affirms the irrationality and farcicality of the allegations as a whole.”
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The billionaire said he would be forced to take legal action against his detractors if they continued to spread rumours about him on social media.
Peters added, ''As unconvincing and implausible as these allegations are, I am constrained to take steps to address these unbridled excesses as a means of protecting my family, my business and I from these unwarranted personal attacks.
''Accordingly, I have instructed my lawyers to immediately take steps to obtain a retraction, in the absence of which they are to take all steps available to provide me with protection, remedy and relief.''
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that a coalition of 30 Nigerian political parties started a grand plot to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress from power as the race to 2019 general elections comes up.
Former national chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) and national chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Yunusa Tanko, made this known on Thursday, January 25, in Abuja.
Tanko said the new platform which will operate under the aegis of Coalition for a New Nigeria (CNN) will address a news conference on its strategies next Tuesday, February 1.
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Source: Naija.ng