I Never Met With Tinubu Over Fidelity Bank Debt Claims, Blackmailers Are At Work – Peter Obi

Peter Obi

Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has come out to debunk reports saying that he travelled to Rome to meet President Bola Tinubu regarding an alleged ₦225 billion debt linked to Fidelity Bank.

He recently had his say via a press statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the reports are a clear blackmail campaign aimed at ruining his reputation because he never met secretly with Tinubu in Rome to seek intervention in a purported financial scandal involving Fidelity Bank.

He added that even though he once served as a Fidelity Bank board member, his solemn spiritual trip to Rome should not be misinterpreted.

His words, “It is clear that the biggest business for blackmailers now is to speak about Peter Obi from every negative angle. Even my solemn spiritual trip to Rome has been distorted into yet another blackmail campaign by paid merchants intent on spreading falsehoods against me.

I have never sought an audience with, nor met, President Tinubu since he assumed office, except for a brief, respectful greeting during the inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, where I was seated behind him alongside other dignitaries.

The self-proclaimed ‘blackmailer-in-chief’ and others who profit from spreading pain and falsehoods have claimed that I own Fidelity Bank. For the record, I do not. Throughout my career, I have served as Chairman or Director of three banks and financial institutions, one of which is Fidelity.

Fidelity has over 500,000 shareholders, none of whom hold a majority stake. What these blackmailers seek is to harm hardworking Nigerians and cause unnecessary distress.”

WOW.