Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi
was last Friday, allegedly detained in London by UK immigration officials.
Obi was said to have been detained for hours, and
interrogated by the officials, after his British Airways plane landed in
Heathrow Airport on Friday morning.
Prof Chinyere Okunna, a famous Mass Communications scholar,
and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Paul University Awka, who is also a confidant of
Obi, revealed this on Wednesday morning.
Okunna, who worked with Obi as commissioner for information,
commissioner for economic planning and coordinating commissioner for
development partners said Obi who lived honourably in the UK narrated the
ordeal to her in private, and expressed pain about his ordeal, and others,
which is meant to hound and chase him out of Nigeria.
Okunna said: “I suppose he told me all this confidentially.
My very sincere apologies, Your Excellency, for ‘breaking’ this
confidentiality, but History beckons and I CANNOT KEEP QUIET.
“Obi spoke to me at the Official Opening of the Specialist
Hospital of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Sisters, Nkpor (on Tuesday). He
had arrived at the event after flying in from London.
“I actually had no idea he had travelled out of the country,
until the ovation over his presence in a London Church went viral on the
Internet.
“He arrived at Heathrow Airport and joined the usual queue
to pass through Immigration, and that was when his ordeal began.
“He was stopped and questioned for a long time and
subsequently handed a detention note and told to wait for further interrogation
and investigation.
“This was terribly unusual for a man who had lived honourably
in the UK for a long time.
“In the face of this harassment, some well-meaning
Nigerians, knowing who he is, raised their voices in protest, demanding to know
why he was being treated that way.”
Okunna revealed that in the face of seeming protest by some
Nigerians, the immigration officials revealed that someone was impersonating
Obi in the country.
“The shocking revelation by the Immigration Officer was that
his (Obi’s) identity ‘was duplicated’. This revelation has definitely set off
alarm bells.
“For people who are knowledgeable about such matters, this
is a very dangerous development because the implication is that someone is
impersonating Peter Obi.
“And that someone could implicate Obi in all manner of
dubious and even criminal activities, and rope him into any number of offences;
he could get Obi framed for one criminal act or another. The frightening
scenario of what can happen is unimaginable!!!
“This is the height of it all for a man who has been under
sundry intimidation and emotional torture: Bugging of his phone and those of
his wife and children; keeping him constantly under surveillance; calling him
names; putting him under severe pressure to leave (run away from) the country;
wrongly accusing him of negative things he knows absolutely nothing about, etc.
“As he was telling me his ‘Heathrow tale of woe’ at Nkpor
today, I could see a man who was in severe pain and under unbearable stress,
who many would expect to be at the point of despair.
“But, as he confirmed, he is ready to suffer this pain and
is as determined as ever to pursue the path which he has chosen to enable him
arrive at the destination which well-meaning people in Nigeria and far far
beyond are expecting him to arrive at.”
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