Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has clarified his statement in Port Harcourt misunderstood to mean that he and former Rivers State governor Peter Odili were classmates.
Obi was in Rivers State on Thursday to commission the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo flyover on the invitation of Governor Nyesom Wike.


Obi had said, “Dr. Peter Odili was my Senior Boy in Secondary School. We couldn’t have played football in CKC without Odili. Any day he is not in the match we’ve lost, so we know. I have people in Rivers state that went to school with me, some people nobody have seen people who went to school with them. So we must say this.”

Obi’s statement generated a lot of controversies because publicly available records said Mr Odili, governor from 1999 to 2007, was born in 1948 and graduated from high school in 1967.

From the record, Odili graduated more than a decade before Mr Obi and barely six years after the Labour politician was born in 1961.


Responding to the controversies, Obi in a series of Tweets on Saturday said his comment was “deliberately” taken out of context.

“My remarks when I visited Port Harcourt have been wrongly interpreted by some people. The former Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili and I, are among other prominent Nigerians that schooled in Christ the King College (CKC) Onitsha, and we remain alumni of the school.

I did not say that former Governor Odili was my classmate, rather I said that he was a great footballer in my school, and we all cherished and had good memories of his football exploits when we got into the school.


I was in CKC from 1973 to 1978 and Dr Peter Odili had graduated before I got into the school. He was such a fabulous footballer whose image still loomed large even in our time, especially considering the fact that my Primary School was very close to CKC

The Primary School that I attended, Santa Maria School/Holy Trinity School, were both owned by the same Catholic Church that owned Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha. In fact, both Primary Schools were feeder schools to CKC,and a large number of pupils who passed through the schools ended up in CKC for secondary education. – PO
https://newsday.com.ng/obi-clarifies-statement-on-peter-odili/

Why are you responding to smelly urchins


Did Odili go to CKC? Yes!


Did he played Football? Yes!


Was he Obi's senior in school? Yes!


Case closed!


Unlike Amoda that is the last of it's kind..even Buhari classmates visited him in Katsina.


Everything about Amoda is just fraud from A to Z


Balu bulala bulumkum bululu

This is perhaps one of the most ridiculous rebuttal I have ever listened to.
How will you have a fond memory of something you were never a witness to... nawa oo

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Tribalists,
Religious fanatics,
Political actors and,
Illiterates.
Check the list and note where you belong