Afrigather Reno Omokri, a frontline campaigner for Atiku and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has requested the Federal Authorities to go after Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Get together (LP) if he makes a treasonable assertion.
He made the assertion whereas reacting to a warning by Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Info and Tradition that Obi and his operating mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are vulnerable to being prosecuted for treason over a few of their utterances over the February 25 presidential election.
In keeping with the minister of knowledge and tradition, he mentioned Obi and his operating mate have been inciting individuals to violence over the result of the ballot
Recall that Datti Baba-Ahmed in an interview with Channels Tv mentioned Tinubu failed to satisfy the necessities stipulated within the part of the 1999 Structure (as amended) for election to the workplace of the president.
Because of this interview, the Nationwide Broadcasting Fee (NBC) fined Channels Tv N5 million for allegedly violating the NBC code within the programme with Baba-Ahmed.
The data minister who’s at present in Washington to interact with worldwide media organizations and think-tanks over the simply concluded elections, resembling Washington Submit, Voice of America, Related Press and International Coverage Journal, claimed it was unsuitable for Obi to hunt redress in court docket over the result of the polls and on the identical time incite individuals for violence.
“Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed can’t be threatening Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is sworn in on Might 29, it will likely be the top of democracy in Nigeria. That is treason. You can’t be inviting rebellion, and that is what they’re doing”, he mentioned.
He additional mentioned Obi’s assertion is that of a determined individual and that he’s not a democrat that he claimed to be. He added {that a} democrat mustn’t imagine in democracy solely when he wins the election.
Peter Obi refuted the allegations, saying he by no means mentioned or inspired anybody to undermine the Nigerian state.
Omokri in a tweet reacted to the assertion by saying, “The subsequent time both Peter Obi or Datti Baba Ahmed open their mouths to make treasonous feedback, the Federal Authorities ought to arrest them. Nothing will occur. What occurred when FG arrested Nnamdi Kanu? Did heaven fall? Arrest the wimpy simps in the event that they blab anyhow!”
This assertion has generated plenty of controversies on social media as a number of netizens disagreed with him.
