Obi didn’t condemn Datti Baba-Ahmed’s ‘treasonable’ utterances: Lai Mohammed

Peter Obi, Labour Occasion standard-bearer within the February 25 presidential election, has didn’t publicly condemn the “treasonable utterances” of his working mate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, says info minister Lai Mohammed.

The minister said this on Wednesday in London in response to requires his arrest and prosecution.

The chief of the Pan Niger Delta Discussion board (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, had referred to as for the arrest of Mr Mohammed for spreading “faux information” about Mr Obi.

However the minister insisted that his statements about Messrs Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed weren’t primarily based on falsehood.

Mr Mohammed said, “What can be my offence? Is it by chiding the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Occasion who mentioned on reside tv that if President-elect Bola Tinubu is sworn in on Might 29, that may be the tip of democracy in Nigeria?”

The minister added, “Is it for chiding him for saying that swearing in Tinubu on Might 29 is like swearing within the navy? What’s the faux information in that?”

He pressured Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed had not denied his “treasonable” assertion and that Mr Obi didn’t publicly condemn Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed’s objectionable utterance.

“The place of the regulation is evident that anyone who’s aggrieved over election outcomes ought to go to court docket. It isn’t to start out threatening Nigerians and heating up the polity merely since you misplaced an election,” the minister defined.

Mr Mohammed pressured that the APC received the presidential election “honest and sq.” and INEC was proper in declaring Mr Tinubu, the winner.

He reassured Nigerians and the worldwide neighborhood that the president-elect can be sworn in on Might 29. 

(NAN)