The Labour Party (LP) has accused Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, of misinforming the international community on the true political development in Nigeria.
National Chairman of the party, Barr Julius Abure, said this while reacting to Mohammed’s treason allegation against LP presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi.
It was reported that during his official engagements with some international media organisations, admonished Mr. Peter Obi, not to incite people to violence over the outcome of this years’ presidential election.
During the interactions with the media organizations, the minister said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth incite people to violence.
“Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed cannot be threatening Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is sworn in on May 29, it will be the end of democracy in Nigeria. This is treason. You cannot be inviting insurrection, and this is what they are doing.
“Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person, he is not the democrat that he claimed to be. A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election,” Mohammed said.
However, the LP National Chairman, Abure, berated the minister, saying that there is no basis for that admonition.
He said Obi has sued for calm even when his supporters have been calling for a nationwide protest.
“Our presidential candidate is a peaceful and law-abiding person. Despite the fact that the election was provocatively rigged, he decided to be peaceful and toe the part of justice. This in spite of all pressures from our supporters to move into the street to protest the outcome of the general election and to reclaim the mandate freely given to our candidate by the people, he has decided to calm the nerves in other to give the judicial process a chance.
“The presidential candidate of the Labour Party is the only candidate whose campaign was issues based. In spite of all provocation, it was the Labour party and its candidate that were attacked in Lagos, in Port Harcourt and all other states in the federation. But we have continued to promote peace,” Abure said.
He said that for the Minister of Information and Culture to be admonishing their presidential candidate, was done in bad fate, thus the Minister should desist from such utterances.
He said, “It is our considered opinion that it is even the APC through their spokespersons and all others who have been engaged in provocative utterances in other to cause chaos that should be admonished. The admonition is largely for APC themselves, their spokespersons and their officials.”
(Daily Trust)
They’re preparing the ground for the arrest of Peter Obi even when it is glaringly clear that the person vehemently against the swearing in of Tinubu is Datti-Ahmed, the LP’s VP candidate. I cannot see where Peter Obi has been so virulent about Tinubu’s swearing-in.
A discerning mind who was old enough to follow Nigeria’s politics when Buhari first ruled as military head of State in 1984/85, should know Buhari’s signature tune. Buhari staged a violent coup against Shehu Shagari, who was the Executive President, while Alex Ekweme, the Vice President, had no power at all. In spite of this, Alex Ekweme, being Igbo was the one locked up in Kirikiri prison, while Buhari was only restricted to his local government area in Sokoto. They’re trying to play the same scenario now. The one that is advocating violence, being Fulani will not be arrested while his peaceful principal, because he is Igbo, would be the one to be arrested.
May God grant us long life to see how the whole drama unfolds.
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“… while Shagari was only restricted to his local government area”