The Labour Party (LP) campaign office has raised the alarm that the life and personality of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi is in danger as his impersonator could commit all kinds of weighty crimes and dubious acts in his name.
The campaign office said this on Wednesday while reacting to the report of how the former Anambra State Governor was detained for hours and harassed by immigration officers at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Obi’s former aide, Chinyere Stella Okunna, revealed how Obi was last Friday delayed and questioned for hours over a case of “duplicate identity” by some immigration officials in London, United Kingdom.
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.
Reacting to the incident, the Labour Party campaign spokesman, Diran Onifade, in a statement said that “He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.
“Since Obi’s face was already an international frame, especially for Nigerians, Africans home and in Diaspora who are likely to be Obidients, the people quickly raised their voices wondering why he was being delayed.”
According to Onifade, the detention and questioning of Obi for a duplication offense suggests that someone must have been impersonating him in London.
Onifade said that “Since the impersonator is still at large, the scenario is unimaginable as Obi could be implicated in a series of forbidden acts and even be framed in a manner that could be a huge embarrassment to him, his family, his party, the obidient Movement, and indeed Nigeria, where he currently and indisputably remains the conscience of the people.”
He pointed out that the high implication of the offence is that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.
This is coming a few days after the Nigerian government last week accused Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed of treason for allegedly inciting people to violence over the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
But Onifade accused the Nigerian government of “demarketing” Obi by accusing him of treason.
Recalling the audio leak of Obi’s telephone conversation with the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, where Obi was heard saying that the 2023 presidential election was a “religious war”, Onifade said that “Obi’s telephone line was also bugged when they were possibly looking for information to portray him badly before a section of the country who had voted for him massively.
“As if they were not getting the desired results of denting his image, and possibly placing the traducers under a heavier conscience load, they tried to persuade him to leave the country and go take a rest.”
 campaign office has raised the alarm that the life and personality of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi is in danger as his impersonator could commit all kinds of weighty crimes and dubious acts in his name.){kind=link}