Peter Obi, vice-presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the only reason security
operatives searched the private jet of Atiku Abubakar, is because he is the
presidential candidate of an opposition party.
On Sunday, a combined security
team, including operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), searched
the jet that brought back Abubakar to Nigeria from Dubai.
Commenting on this when he
featured on a programme on Arise Television, Obi accused the current
administration of harassing its opponents.
“His only offence is that he is
the presidential candidate of an opposition party. It is not as if you are not
allowed to do a routine check,” Obi said.
“I’ve been privileged to have
travelled with a number of high-profile people in the past in a private jet
where they gave me a lift. I’ve not experienced what was experienced. What I am
saying is that we have a country and what we need now is to be showing each
other love and show the example to the younger ones that we are not divided,
that we are together, that we want the country to work. It’s about the country.
“All these divisions is not
necessary for our future. But what we do is that we are dividing the country.
But you see people coming to a programme chanting war songs. It shouldn’t be.”
Hadi Sirika, minister of state
for aviation, had accused Abubakar of raising false alarm over his encounter
with security operatives.
He said searching of planes is a
“routine process” which applies to all international arrivals “unless the
passenger is the president of Nigeria”.
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