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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Social gathering on the February 25 Nigerian presidential election, has stated that the id theft state of affairs that received him questioned at Heathrow Airport, UK, by immigration officers in April had taught him to be further cautious.
Obi, who had by no means spoken about his ordeal by the hands of the immigration officers, defined what truly transpired when he appeared as a particular visitor on Sunday on the “Media Chat with Peter Obi” organised by Parallel Information Media.
“I’ve been to the UK this yr, a minimum of 4 occasions once I went to Chatham Home, once I was invited by the UK authorities,” the previous Anambra State governor stated.
“So it was a shocking factor to me to look earlier than the authority, and I used to be requested to take a seat down—I used to be stunned. However all these items occurred inside a couple of minutes as a result of there have been many dramas that occurred on that journey.
“The shocking factor is for anyone to inform you that your id has been duplicated. My first response was, “Nicely, it means nothing” till I used to be referred to an skilled on id duplication, who shocked me,” he stated.
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He defined that after a quick go to to an id duplication skilled, he realised the extent to which his protractors and people hell-bent on tarnishing his picture can go.
The Labour Social gathering presidential candidate stated that the duplication skilled informed him that one of many implications of that id theft could possibly be that he could possibly be arrange for a rape crime in any nation.
He additional went on to clarify the diploma of sophistication adopted by these criminals, who would go to any extent to implicate him for any critical crime in any of the western international locations simply to hold him.
He, nevertheless, appreciated God for saving him by exposing the evil plans of his opponents.
“I’ve been to the UK since then, and whereas they too are investigating, we hope that once I arrive after that I might be requested what went flawed,” he stated. “They came upon that I used to be duplicated, and they’re trying into it.”
He added that since that unlucky however lifesaving expertise, he has discovered to be further cautious, particularly since his protractors, who he believes are principally Nigerians, aren’t resting on their plans to convey him down.
