Afrigather The Minister of Data and Tradition, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has tackled elder statesman, Edwin Clark over name for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly spreading pretend information towards Labour Occasion Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi.
Life-style Nigeria reviews that Clark, the Chief of the Southern and Center Belt Leaders Discussion board, SMBLF, had in a current assertion referred to as for the arrest and prosecution of the Minister for allegedly spreading pretend information towards Obi.
Mohammed had throughout his current go to to the US claimed that Obi and his working mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, made inciting feedback over the result of the presidential elections.
Clark reacted in an announcement titled, “Lai Mohammed, Minister of Data ought to be prosecuted for spreading pretend information towards the presidential candidate of Labour Occasion, Peter Obi.
Within the assertion, Clark puzzled why Mohammed “took greater than standard curiosity in not solely mendacity towards Obi.”
The elder statesman added that Obi’s “rising profile” can’t be broken by the Nigerian authorities.
However the Minister, in his response on Wednesday morning, stated the decision for his arrest for allegedly inciting the general public to violence by Clark is unjustifiable.
The Minister stated he stood by his admonition of Obi and his working mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, insisting that his recommendation was by no means premised on falsehood.
“What might be my offence? Is it by chiding Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Occasion who stated on dwell tv that if the President-elect Bola Tinubu is sworn-in on Could 29 that that will be the tip of democracy in nigeria?
“Is it for chiding him for saying that swearing-in Tinubu in Could 29 is like swearing-in the navy?
“What’s the pretend information in that?” the minister queried.
Mohammed stated Baba-Ahmed had by no means denied his assertion made on the dwell tv neither has Obi referred to as his working mate to order over the treasonable utterances.
“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,” he stated.
Mohammed burdened that the APC gained the presidential election “honest and sq.” and INEC was proper in declaring Tinubu the winner.
He reassured Nigerians and the worldwide neighborhood that the president- elect can be sworn-in on Could 29.
NAN
