The top Igbo sociocultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has denounced a rumored attempt to link Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, to crimes committed in the United Kingdom.
This has reportedly happened following the former governor of Anambra State’s imprisonment by UK immigration agents for offences committed by a forger.
Acting Ohanaeze Ndigbo President Damian Okeke Ogene said Peter Obi’s humiliating imprisonment on Friday of last week was an attempt to silence him.
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According to Ogene, who spoke to the Saturday Telegraph, the incident is an attempt to thwart Obi and his running companion Datti Baba-Ahmed from regaining the mandate that was taken from them at the general election on February 25.
Okeke said: “They are at it again, and they are planning more to frustrate the voices of the Nigerian populace who were denied their constitutional right to choose their leaders.
“The first one was when Lai Mohammed accused Obi and Datti of treason, but that one was dead on arrival, and this time, they have planted some people to impersonate Obi so that if a crime is committed, they would hold him responsible.
“We want to make it public that we know their antics, and the Nigerian people know exactly what they are planning, but they will not succeed.”
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Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of Anambra State, also spoke and pleaded with UK officials not to allow themselves to be used as tools to undermine the long-standing connection between their nation and Nigeria.
He said: “The government of the United Kingdom cannot claim that they don’t know the Peter Obi who has been with them for more than two decades now for them to begin to suspect him.
“Again, since it is a case of impersonation, the UK government should rise to the occasion by fishing out those involved in that impersonation plot and make them public.
“If this is not done as quickly as possible, the government of the United Kingdom owes us and Peter Obi an apology for this embarrassment because those executing this plot would end up tampering with the age-long bilateral relationship between UK and Nigeria.”
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