The Presidential Candidate (LP), Peter Obi spent the Easter Holiday in detention in United Kingdom after being accosted by immigration officials at the Heathrow Airport, as he was asked to step aside during the protocols
Penpushing reports that on arrival to the Heathrow airport on Friday, April 7, 2023 and while on queue alongside other passengers for immigration clearance he was handed over a detention note for alleged impersonation.
The Head, Obi-Datti Media, Diran Onifade made this known in a statement on Wednesday explained that the high implication of the offence is that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.
“The LP presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential poll arrived at the Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, and joined the queue for the necessary Airport protocols when he was accosted by immigration officials who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside’, Onifade said.
Penpushing further reports that Onifade in the statement, said the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi was harassed by London immigration officials and placed in detention where he spent the Easter holidays.
“He experienced a delay at the airport because someone duplicated his details. But he has since returned to the country. “…though his supporters and many other election watchers including international observers believed very strongly that he won the election but was manipulated out’, he said
The spokesperson for Obi-Datti Media said Obi was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country, adding that after the incident he(Obi) has since returned to Nigeria
Penpushing also reports that he stated that since the impersonator is still at large, the scenario is unimaginable as Peter Obi could be implicated in a series of forbidden acts and even be framed in a manner that could be a huge embarrassment to him, his family, his party, the Obedient movement, and Nigeria, where he currently and remains the conscience of the people.
The Head of the Media pointed out that Obi has been under all kinds of attack, since the presidential election in which he put up an outstanding showing coming third out of 18 contestants as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Penpushing reports that Onifade said since Obi was told to go to court since he feels unsatisfied with the election outcome, which all international monitors chorused was flawed and full of imperfections and he accepted, there have been severe attacks on him from all corners.
“Even the Federal Government who directed him to go to court even dispatched the Minister of Information Lai Mohammad to the United States to attempt at de-marketing him and accused him of treason’, he added.
Penpushing further reports that Onifade accused the Nigerian government of bugging Obi’s phone while possibly looking for information to portray him badly before a section of the country who had voted for him massively.
‘As if they were not getting the desired results of denting his image, and possibly placing the traducers under a heavier conscience load, they tried to persuade him to leave the country and go take a rest,” he said, adding that it is also not impossible that those urging him to leave the country may have planted the impersonators ostensibly to tar the Eagle’s immaculate appearance.
‘The Obi-Datti Media office will like to therefore assure all persons of goodwill especially the Obidients that the Rock is not deterred as he is ready to suffer the pain and remain even more determined to pursue whichever path his creator destined for him in Nigeria’, Onifade emphasised.
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