- Why LP Presidential Candidate Was Detained, Interrogated– Campaign Office.
The embattled Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who is currently enmeshed in alleged treason crisis, suffered another public embarrassment on Good Friday at the Heathrow Airport as he was reportedly quizzed and detained in London, United Kingdom, where he had gone to celebrate the Easter, Professor Chinyere Okunna, an erudite Mass Communicator, and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Paul University Awka, has revealed.
The LP presidential candidate who is back from his holiday trip in the UK, also confirmed the story of his harassment by London Immigration officials who engaged him for hours and eventually placed on detention but was rescued by the spontaneous reactions of Nigerians who recognized his person at the Heathrow Airport and raised their voices, wondering why he was being delayed.
Also, a release by the Spokesman of the Obi-Datti Movement, Diran Onifade which confirmed the incident, disclosed that the Immigration officials were who were shocked at the reaction of the people were out fear of the unpredictable forced to reveal that Obi was being questioned for a DUPLICATION offense, meaning that someone somewhere has been impersonating him in London.
But Okunna, who worked with Obi as commissioner for information, in a statement on Wednesday, said that Obi was detained for hours, and interrogated by the Immigration officials shortly after his British Airways plane landed in Heathrow Airport on Friday morning.
The Varsity Don stated that shortly after Obi arrived at the Heathrow Airport, he proceeded to join the queue for the necessary Airport protocols when he was accosted by an Immigration official who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside.
The statement reads, “He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.
“The high implication of the offense 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.”
He added that since the impersonator is still at large, the scenario is unimaginable as 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 Obidient Movement, and Nigeria, where he currently and remains the conscience of the people.
“Since he was told to go to court if he feels strongly about the election which all international monitors chorused were 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.
“Obi’s telephone line was also bugged when they were 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.
“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.”
