Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Office Expresses Concern Over Peter Obi's Detention In UK

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Office, on Wednesday, expressed concern over some hours of detention suffered by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP; Peter Obi by immigration officers at the Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom. 

The spokesman for the Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, in a statement on Wednesday, confirmed the detention, but expressed concern over the incident adding that Obi was detained and questioned for a duplication offense that suggests that someone has been impersonating Obi in London.

Onifade, stated that Obi just returned from London, where he celebrated Easter, affirming that he was saved from humiliation, because of the spontaneous reactions of Nigerians at Heathrow Airport.

Onifade said that Obi on arrival at the Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, joined the queue for the necessary airport protocols, but an official of the immigration accosted him and handed him a detention note and told him to step aside.

He said, “He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.

“Since Obi’s face was already an international frame, especially for Nigerians, Africans home, and in Diaspora who are likely to be Obidients, the people quickly raised their voices wondering why he was being delayed,” Onifade said.

Onifade said that the immigration officials who were also surprised by the reactions of the people, quickly revealed to the people that Obi was being questioned.

Onifade expressed concern over the incident because of the implication of the offense, adding that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.

He said, “Since the impersonator is still at large, the scenario is unimaginable as Obi could be implicated in a series of forbidden acts and even be framed in a manner that could be a huge embarrassment to him, his family, his party, the Obidient Movement, and indeed Nigeria, where he currently and indisputably remains the conscience of the people.”

According to the Obi-Datti Media office, Obi has been subjected to all manners of attack, since the February 25th, 2023, Presidential election.

The campaign office said since Obi was asked to go to court; there have been severe attacks on him from all corners.

“Even Federal Government who directed him to go to court even dispatched the Minister of Information Lai Mohammad to the United States to attempt at de-marketing him and accused him of treason.

“Obi’s telephone line was also bugged when they were possibly looking for information to portray him badly before a section of the country who had voted for him massively.

“As if they were not getting the desired results of denting his image, and possibly placing the traducers under a heavier conscience load, they tried to persuade him to leave the country and go take a rest.

“It’s also not impossible that those urging him to leave the country may have planted the impersonators ostensibly to tar the Eagle’s immaculate appearance.”

“The Obi-Datti Media office will like to therefore assure all persons of goodwill especially the Obidients that the Rock is not deterred as he is ready to suffer the pain and remain even more determined to pursue whichever path his creator destined for him in Nigeria.”