The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just
concluded February 25 general election, Mr Peter Obi has described as an act of
rascality, the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed going to
Washington to announce he committed treason.
Obi made the assertion on Monday while fielding questions on
Arise Televison’s Prime Time program.
Recall that the Federal Government said that Obi and his
running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, risked being prosecuted for treason over some
of their utterances during and after the presidential election.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave
the warning in Washington.
However, Obi said the money Lai Mohammed spent in going to
the US to announce he committed treason would have fixed and built a block of
six classrooms in his village.
”It is an act of rascality that it was even announced in
Washington. I committed a treasonable offence, and I am in Onitsha, and my
minister went to announce it in Washington.
“We are talking about waste in governance here, and people
don’t want to understand. The amount it cost Nigeria for you to go and announce
that in Washington can fix, I can tell you, I have been in government, can fix
and build a block of six classrooms in a primary school.
“In fact, if you go to his village, there are so many places
where children don’t even have desks or classrooms to go to school. And instead
of using that money to go and do it, he used that money to go to Washington to
announce the treason of somebody who is in Onitsha.
“He does not need to do that; it is the rascality of the
highest order. That is the reason we want a new Nigeria where things will work
the way it works in other climes.
“Then he went to London to announce the same thing while I
was in Nigeria. He should come to invite me and tell me this is my offence,”
Obi said.
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