On April 4, 2023, Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), retweeted a post claiming Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, had deleted the tweet announcing his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Keyamo tweeted “Are you serious? He deleted it? OMG! As deceitful as that? Is this the man that wanted to be President? The ‘new breed’? Oh, no! This is so cheap and disappointing! Those who classified him a ‘conman’ were not wrong after all. Now, we can relate this to the lame denial of the ‘yes-daddy’ audio!”
Claim: Did Peter Obi delete his resignation tweet?
Verification
The CDD Election War Room can confirm that Peter Obi did not delete the said Tweet. Obi has been a member of LP since he joined on May 27, 2022.
Before joining the Labour Party, Obi was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party and a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Under APGA, he was elected as governor twice from 2007 until 2014 when he defected to the PDP.
Under the PDP, he became the vice presidential candidate for Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 general election.
On May 24, 2022, the former governor of Anambra state and the vice presidential candidate of the PDP, resigned from the PDP. Obi withdrew from the presidential contest to pursue his presidential ambition.
On May 27, 2022, he announced his decision to join the Labour Party (LP) and pursue his ambition. The announcement is contained in this tweet and his resignation letter was shared here.
We found that Obi has not deleted his resignation tweet from his Twitter page.
Verdict: FALSE
The claim that Peter Obi has deleted his resignation tweet is false. The tweet announcing his resignation from the PDP is still available on his official Twitter page.