The Labour Party has called on security agencies to place
Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential
campaign council, on security watch list.
The party was responding to Keyamo’s allegation that Peter
Obi, the standard bearer of Labour Party, was planning to fake an assassination
attempt by hiring hoodlums donning APC caps and T-shirts to attack his party
offices.
Keyamo had also accused the former governor of Anambra of
stoking ethnic tensions and divisions in a viral video showing him saying that
people have been asked not to vote for him in the south-west to malign Bola
Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC.
But reacting through a statement on Tuesday, Abayomi Arabambi, spokesperson of the Labour Party, said the security chiefs should place Keyamo on a watch list for “unlawful and treasonable activities” in the country.
“President Muhammadu
Buhari must now as a matter of urgency directs the service chiefs to place
Festus Keyamo and other APC presidential Campaign members and supporters on a
security watch list as they are now a threat to democracy ahead of the 2023
general elections” the statement reads.
“I called on the Inspector General of Police to urgently
commence a comprehensive investigation into Mr Festus Keyamo unlawful and
treasonable activities.
“His conducts are likely to cause a breach of peace and
anarchy in our country if this ugly trend is not nipped in the bud and Keyamo
be made to face possible prosecution in a court of Law.”
He added that the Labour Party see Keyamo’s outburst as a
confession of the ploy of the ruling party to employ crude tactics to win the
2023 polls.
“LP sees the forced self-confession of the APC about the
conspiracy being floated by the APC to assassinate the most popular and
supported people’s preferred and loved 2023 Presidential Candidate, as yet
another proof of God’s involvement with the Peter Obi candidacy,” he said.
“It is also the responsibility of security agencies to
ensure that all the candidates are truly secured. The LP is loudly and clearly
expressing its condemnation of the criminally-inclined politics the APC is
trying to re-introduce into the Nigerian political system.
“Labour party considered this devilish act by the APC
presidential spokesman as not only deceitful but a subtle way to gain unmerited
sympathy in their bogus attempt at employing crude primitive tactics
clandestinely in order to win the 2023 presidential election through fraudulent
means.”
But Keyamo, APC presidential campaign spokesperson, said he
is convinced Obi wants to cause religious crisis in the country by circulating
hate message against Tinubu and failing to apologise for his action.
“I also call on the security agencies in Nigeria to place
Mr. Peter Obi and his some of his demented supporters on the terror watch lists
for circulating an incendiary video with a fake message by one of his
supporters called Powell Glad Legbe (on his Facebook page) calling on Yorubas
not to vote for Peter Obi,” he said.
“Mr. Peter Obi then wrongly and wickedly attributed that
quote to an amorphous ‘Tinubu group’. Up till now he has not withdrawn his
accusation nor has he apologised to our candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“It is obvious Mr. Peter Obi wants to cause religious crises
in the country and for this, I call on the security agencies to place Mr. Peter
Obi on security watch or invite him for a thorough investigation. If necessary,
I prepared to be invited too as a witness to prove my case against him.”
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