ABUJA – Those behind the recent travail of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in London airport has been revealed. The Peter Obi Support Network, POSN, has fingered the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling party in Nigeria and officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, as the brains behind the cloning of the identity of Obi in Britain, resulting in his arrest and detention by UK immigration officers at Heathrow Airport in London. POSN also praised Nigerians at the airport who defended Obi until he was released by the UK immigration on last week Good Friday.
The POSN, in a statement issued on Friday, April 14, and signed by FCC Onwuasoanya Jones of its Directorate of Strategic Communications, expressed shock at the extent the APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to neutralise the influence of Obi, whom it sees as a nightmare and the main threat to its stolen presidential mandate.
According to the statement, “From spending billions of naira paying lobbyists and sponsoring propaganda teams to the USA and UK, the Buhari-led APC government has now graduated to sponsoring a clone of Peter Obi in the UK in its desperation to demonise a man widely recognised as the conscience of the nation.”
The POSN stated that the passport with which the fake Peter Obi obtained UK Visa, must have been issued by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), adding: “It is instructive that the Nigerian government has remained silent on Obi’s unwarranted Heathrow Airport ordeal, one full week after the regrettable incident”.
POSN said that though unfortunate, Obi’s underserved humiliation at Heathrow Airport has its positive sides. “It provided Nigerians at the airport an opportunity to rise in defence of their hero and they did so – for which we’ll eternally be grateful. It also has exposed the dirty anti-Obi schemes of the APC Government as the whole world now knows that whatever crime is committed by the fake Peter Obi has nothing to do with the one and only Peter Gregory Obi, who is universally known and respected for his unimpeachable integrity,” POSN said.
The Peter Obi Support Network also urged the federal government and the APC to stop wasting scarce resources seeking Obi’s downfall, adding: “Rather than be discouraged, this can only make Obi more resolute in recovering his stolen mandate through the judicial process and in rededicating himself to the crucial task on helping to birth a new Nigeria, which, of course, is very much POssible.”
Sundiata Post reports that many organisations and individuals have condemned the embarrassment meted out to Obi at the London airport.
The Labour Party candidate has returned to Nigeria after the incident. (Realnewsmagazine)
