The Labour Party (LP), has sent a clear warning to those within the corridors of power at the highest level who were toying with the idea of illegally arresting its Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, to bury such thoughts and focus on governance.
National Youth Leader of the LP, Kennedy Ahanotu gave the words of caution and advice in Abuja, late yesterday.
He spoke against the backdrop of calls by a Presidential Media Aide, Bayo Onanuga, for Mr. Obi’s arrest on trumped up charges of being the brain behind calls for a national protest against bad governance.
Ahanotu said: “We wish to dissociate our hero of democracy Mr Peter Obi, from any form of allegation from Bayo Onanuga’s wonderful government and therefore state categorically clear that any attempt to unlawfully and illegally arrest Mr Peter Obi will truly and sincerely be an affront on Nigerian citizens who believes that a better Nigeria is Possible.”
The youth leader described allegations contained in Mr. Onanuga’s media release against Mr. Obi as unfounded.
“It is important to state categorically clear that Mr Peter Obi is the most peaceful Nigerian politician alive today who, despite the manipulation of his clear electoral victory in the 2023 presidential election had asked his supporters who are mostly the youths of my generation not to engage in any form of protest or agitation.
“It must be noted that it could have only taken a statement from Peter Obi in that instance for Nigerians to flood that collation centre in Abuja to occupy.
“It must be recalled that it was in this same country that a former president made an inciting statement of making the country ungovernable if he was not elected; eventually he was not elected and indeed people were massacared and yet that person was never arrested in 2011.
“It was also in these country that the current president incited his supporters in the last election to grab his political victory by all means, including fighting for it as power is not served in alarcarte; of course without recourse we saw the compliance in lagos state and many other states where APC were thoroughly defeated by the Labour Party.”
