The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has opened up about controversies that he has attracted in recent times.
In what could be tagged a Tell-all interview on Arise TV on Monday and monitored by Theliberationnews, Obi denied being arrested at the London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom during last Easter.
He also described the treason remark made against him by Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed as the height of rascality.
Commenting on the Heathrow Airport Saga, Obi Said: “I was stopped for a routine immigration check in the UK because it appears that my identity was duplicated by someone. I was NEVER arrested. I was treated with due respect and walked through the VIP process. Everything lasted less than 20 minutes.”
Commenting on Lai Mohammed’s treason remark, Obi said, “It is the height of rascality, it I am in Onitsha and he went to Washington to announce treason against me. The amount he wasted, could have been used to build a block of 6 classrooms in his village. It is a waste. It is rascality of the highest order. He should have come to see me or invited me.”
The former Anambra State governor also disclosed that the Labour Party was considering reinstating factional chairman, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa given his claim that he, Apapa had collected the money from enemies of the party to destroy the party.
His words: “I have never met the Apapa in my life. The Labour Party has no issue. We know they have paid him to cause confusion, and since he has collected his money, we are still contemplating asking him to come back.”
On the presidential election, Peter Obi said: “We went into the election with the strong faith in the law signed by Buhari. FG spent billions of Naira for the election. Buhari would’ve just appointed his successor and invested the money in other sectors of the Economy instead of this shamble.
Commenting on his leaked conversation with Bishop David Oyedepo, Obi dodged the question when he was ask to confirm if truly, he described the 2023 election as a religious war but said this: “Let’s assume I even begged Bishop totos congregation to vote for me so as to save Nigeria, is it not better than telling my followers to snatch it, steal it, and run away with it.”
