Oseloka Obi, the son of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, has publicly dismissed online attacks and rumors targeted at him.
He described them as cheap distractions that take attention away from Nigeria’s deeper challenges, including insecurity, poverty, and bad governance.
In a strongly worded open letter addressed to Nigerians, Oseloka said he had avoided speaking out for a long time despite facing insults, suspicions, and constant fabrications about his private life.
However, he explained that the persistence of these false narratives had now made it necessary to respond.
He made it clear that his father’s involvement in politics had dragged him into unwanted public scrutiny.
According to him, people often display what he called a “malicious obsession” with his personal life, mistaking his private choices for political statements. Oseloka stressed that he is not a politician and does not intend to be treated as one.
“To assume that my life or choices are somehow political statements is a flawed and childish calculation,” he wrote.
“It reveals more about the pettiness of those spreading such narratives than it does about me or my father.”
Oseloka, who works as a professional actor and filmmaker, also addressed rumors about his career.
He noted that, unlike his father who built a career in business and economics, he deliberately chose a different path in theatre and film.
He rejected suggestions of nepotism, insisting that he was raised to build his own future and not depend on his father’s wealth.
He went further to dismiss edited photos and online claims about his personal life.
According to him, these stories are not truths but deliberate fabrications designed to mislead. “They are not exposés,” he wrote. “They are simply misrepresentations fiction spun from pictures. What is being circulated is gossip.”
Oseloka stressed that this obsession with him is a dangerous distraction from the real issues facing the country.
He listed insecurity, economic hardship, decaying infrastructure, a collapsed healthcare system, and political corruption as the true crises that deserve national attention.
“Our nation still struggles with insecurity, a weakened economy, crumbling infrastructure, failing healthcare, and politicians who steal from the people they swore to serve.
Yet some prefer to focus on gossip about who Peter Obi’s son appears with in a photo,” he said.
Despite the attacks, Oseloka declared his full support for his father’s presidential ambition.
He emphasized that his support was not just because Peter Obi is his father, but because he believes Obi is the right man to rescue Nigeria from its problems.
He concluded by saying that he would continue to uphold the values of honesty, hard work, and service to others, principles he learned from his upbringing.