Obi: Information minister misinforming international community, says LP

Obi: Information minister misinforming international community, says LP

The Labour Party has accused Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, of misinforming the international community on the true political development in Nigeria.

National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, said Mohammed’s treason allegation against LP presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, was misdirected.

The minister on Tuesday warned Obi not to incite people to violence over the outcome of the presidential election.

He had said the threat by Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed, that swearing in the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on May 29 would end of democracy in Nigeria amounted to treason.

However, the LP National Chairman, Abure, berated the minister, saying that there was no basis for his accusation.

He said Obi had sued for calm even when his supporters had been calling for a nationwide protest.

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He said, “Our presidential candidate is a peaceful and law-abiding person. Despite the fact that the election was provocatively rigged, he decided to be peaceful and toe the path of justice. This in spite of all pressures from our supporters to move into the street to protest the outcome of the general election and to reclaim the mandate freely given to our candidate by the people, he has decided to calm the nerves in order to give the judicial process a chance.

“The presidential candidate of the Labour Party is the only candidate whose campaign was issues based. In spite of all provocation, it was the Labour Party and its candidate that were attacked in Lagos, in Port Harcourt and all other states in the federation. But we have continued to promote peace.”

He said that for the Minister of Information and Culture to be admonishing their presidential candidate was done in bad fate.

He said, “It is our considered opinion that it is even the APC through their spokespersons and all others who have been engaged in provocative utterances in order to cause chaos that should be admonished. The admonition is largely for APC themselves, their spokespersons and their officials.”

Obi: Information minister misinforming international community, says LP