Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the APC presidential campaign
council, has submitted a petition to the Department of State Services (DSS)
over inciting comments capable of disrupting law and order in the country.
Keyamo filed the petition against Peter Obi, candidate of
the Labour Party (LP), and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, his running mate, on
Thursday.
Recall that Baba-Ahmed claimed that Bola Tinubu, the
president-elect, did not meet the constitutional requirements to become
Nigeria’s president.
In the petition, Keyamo said while Obi and Baba-Ahmed would
claim to be exercising their freedom of speech, their post-election comments
are capable of causing an insurrection against the Nigerian government and the
president-elect.
“I write this
petition with the full realisation that in a post-election period such as this,
there is a need to soothe frayed nerves, lower the temperature and begin the
healing process. The President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has issued a
statement to this effect a few days ago. However, it appears the President and
Vice-Presidential Candidates of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi and Datti
Baba-Ahmed are not prepared to toe this conciliatory path for the sake of peace
and national cohesion, whilst exercising their rights to pursue duly laid down
constitutional means of addressing their grievances,” the petition reads.
“In this regard, since the declaration of the Presidential
election results, they have been hopping from one media house to the other
making incendiary comments and claims about the declaration of the
president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“These comments and claims are made, not just within the
boundaries of exercising their rights to freedom of speech and the freedom to
air their grievances publicly, but they have since crossed the line to call for
the outright truncation of democracy by insisting on the adoption of other
processes outside the contemplation of our Constitution. In some cases, their
privies have even called for the establishment of an interim government.
“The latest of such
are the comments made by Datti Baba-Ahmed on behalf of himself and Mr. Peter
Obi on Channels TV on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, wherein he threatened that if
the President-Elect is sworn in on May 29th, 2023, it would “signal the end of
democracy”. Posing as an accuser, a judge, and a jury all by himself, he
unilaterally declared the duly elected President-elect as “unconstitutional”
and, in a subliminal manner, threatened mayhem if the President-Elect is sworn
in on May 29th, 2023.”
Keyamo also alleged that the LP flagbearers are running a
group of syndicates mandated to push inciting messages to cause social unrest.
He asked the service to arrest, interrogate, and investigate
Obi and Baba-Ahmed, and charge them in court for “their conduct which amount to
incitement and treasonable felony”.
“I also have it on good authority that Mr. Peter Obi and
Datti Baba-Ahmed have camped some youths in a popular hotel in Abuja with the
sole aim of instructing them to push out inciting messages everyday on social
media in order to cause panic and fear within the federation and to incite
people to riot and social unrest.
“It is noteworthy
that Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed have submitted Elections Petitions to the
courts for adjudication, but their conducts and utterances amount to a subversion
of the processes they have instituted in court and a subversion of our
Constitution and the laid-down processes for addressing disputes and
grievances. These conducts and utterances are a build-up to something more
sinister and it is important you rein them in now!
“In the circumstance, I submit this petition in my personal
capacity as a patriotic Nigerian to invite/arrest, interrogate and after
investigation, if necessary, charge both individuals to court for their conduct
which amount to incitement and treasonable felony.”
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Festus keyamo, you have no business writing for the arrest of Obi, you should have used your personal security to effect the arrest. We already know the Hitler style of presidency you intend to run with Tinubu. You can play God now but certainly not all the time. And for the records, if any government agency touches Peter Obi now, you have set this country on a collusion course. Try it, Just try and see.
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