ObiDatti tackles Keyamo over call for Peter Obi’s arrest, says Minister desperate for relevance

Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN, yesterday reportedly petitioned the Department of State Service, DSS, demanding the arrest and prosecution for “incitement and treasonable felony”, the Labour Party, LP Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates, Mr Peter Obi and Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, respectively, for comments he described as incendiary and capable of causing rebellion.

 

But Diran Onifade, the Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, has described the call by Keyamo as a joke no Nigerian should take seriously.

 

Similarly, the Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, has dismissed the petition filed by Festus Keyamo, describing it as a desperate attempt by Keyamo to gain political relevance.

 

Reacting to Keyamo’s call yesterday, Mr. Diran Onifade, the Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, described the call as a joke no Nigerian should take seriously.

 

Onifade while responding to a question on Keyamo’s petition yesterday, told our correspondent that Keyamo’s call was unworthy of a response because it was a huge joke.

 

“Such a call is a huge joke nobody should take seriously,” he said.

 

Also speaking on the matter yesterday the Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, described Keyamo’s call as a desperate attempt to gain relevance.

 

Spokesperson of the LP PCC, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, who stated this in a statement yesterday, said: “Datti is a free citizen of this country and entitled to his fundamental right of freedom of fxpression. Datti never called for insurrection or any act envisaging treason.

 

“Keyamo talked about healing, that means Nigeria is sick, that means he recognised that February 25 which announced his principal as the President elect and the March 18 state elections were marred by blatant rigging, high level violence, voters suppression and intimidation orchestrated by his party.

 

“Surprisingly Keyamo who claims to be a ‘patriotic citizen’ closed his eyes to the ethnic and tribal vitriolic by his party and their supporters against non-Yorubas in Lagos.

 

“The so-called ‘patriotic citizen’ didn’t report MC Oluomo who told Igbos not to vote in Lagos.

 

“After the shameful Chatam House appearance of Keyamo’s principal, his principal was recorded telling key supporters to fight, snatch, grab and run with ballot boxes which were exactly what happened in the elections. Why didn’t Keyamo the ‘patriotic citizen’ report to the DSS.

 

“Keyamo is just making baseless accusations, he’s a known rabble-rouser and chatterbox who doesn’t want to lose political relevance before his paymaster who has now seen him for what he is, which is a political paperweight who has achieved nothing as a minister except posting fake news to rile up the polity on social media.”