Some concerned elders across the country have vowed to hold
the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, responsible if
anything happens to the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
To this end, the elders under the aegis of the Conference of
Nigerian Elders for Peace and Good Governance (CNEPGG), urged President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rein in the
minister over the assassination claim against Obi.
Recall that Keyamo claimed that Obi was planning to stage an
assassination attempt, to curry sympathy ahead of the 2023 election.
Condemning Keyamo’s claim, the elders said Keyamo’s claim
might be exactly what is being plotted against Obi.
In a statement jointly signed by its National Coordinator,
Prof Dele Banjo and Mallam Hamza Shinkafi, National Secretary, the concerned
elders tasked relevant security agencies to invite Keyamo for interrogation
urgently.
“We are of the view, that extending invitation to the
minister of labour and employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, will enable him provide
evidence on his allegation that the LP presidential candidate, a man so loved
by many, was planning to stage an assassination attempt.
“We warn that should anything happen to our dear son, Obi,
Keyamo and his party would be held responsible, more so that many concerned
Nigerians feel it is what is being plotted, that the minister presented in a
different way.”
The elders enjoined politicians and their followers to
ensure that they play by the rules, noting that at the end of the day, only one
person will emerge as Nigeria’s President.
They admonished that the interest of Nigeria should take
precedence over personal ambition as Nigeria will outlive all of them.
It added: “Our attention was drawn to a very shocking and
embarrassing statement made by a supposed Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN),
Barr Festus Keyamo, one of the spokesmen of the APC presidential candidate,
that the peoples’ candidate, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr
Peter Obi, is arranging for his own attempted assassination to give APC, a bad
name.
“We say nothing can be funnier and more desperate than this
statement because it is an established fact that desperation is the slogan, and
identity of the APC presidential candidate and his team.
“We are, however, worried that this false claim by Keyamo
may just be exactly what his party may be plotting against the popular
Presidential candidate of LP, and by the special grace of God, has the support
of millions of Nigerian voters.
“It is important to send this warning to those that may be
plotting against Obi: touch the LP candidate, and you will feel the resolve of
the teeming youth population across ethnic, religious and other divides in the
nation.
“In any case, no amount of desperation by Keyamo and his
cohorts in the APC will change the direction of the majority of the votes in
the 2023 presidential poll.
“In unison, Nigerians have agreed to give their youthful
presidential candidate a chance to redirect and refocus Nigeria on the part of
prosperity, and greatness, which has continued to elude it, as a result of
corruption, maladministration and incompetence of past and present leaders”.
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