Lauretta Onochie, the former chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission Board, has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force to arrest the Labour Party (LP) candidate in the 2023 presidential election for allegedly inciting violence in the country.
Onochie accused Obi of attempting to incite violence through his fans, known as Obidients, following his electoral defeat.
According to Onochie, if Obi is jailed, heaven would not fall. She called for the former Anambra governor’s arrest in a post on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday, in response to a video posted by one Abubakar Sidiq Usman.’
In the video, Obi can be heard encouraging Nigerian youths to confront Nigerian officials about the country’s poor governance. Obi could be heard stating in a video inserted in another video of demonstrators, saying:
“It is not people you remove by prayers, so it is time to act, not to pray. The youths, unfortunately, do you know how Marcus left office in the Philippines? “Marcus left office because, on a Sunday, Cardinal Sien finished church service. Instead of saying the mass has ended, let us go, he told everybody, Today, follow me and block the presidential lodge. “After three days, Marcus and his wife left. It is time for us to close the church and deal with these people.”
Reacting to the post in which Usman wrote;
“This is the kind of man you wanted to make your President,” Onochie said that it was high time the DSS and the police arrested Obi, whom she described as a “clown” to answer a few questions, According to her, Nigerians want to know why he is desperate to be the President. She wrote, “Attn: @OfficialDSSNG, @PoliceNG, I think it’s high time you pulled in this clown.
“He did the right thing by seeking power through the ballot box. That’s legal! He managed to win some and lost the most. Fair enough!
“Then, his running mate and other unpatriotic Angry Birds, began to instigate our youth to violence. But our Noble and patriotic youth completely ignored them, because sensible youth in Nigeria, are more in number than his headless mob.
“Knowing he had no leg to stand on, he allowed himself to be foolishly led to the Tribunal by #Cashactivists, to pursue issues already decided by the Supreme Court, years ago.
“Then they tried using the Labour movement to call for (WARNING?) strikes around the PEPT judgement day. It failed woefully. Kudos to our youth population!
“This man, @PeterObi continues to instigate his headless and consequently, brainless followers to a violent change of government. I have never seen a more desperate individual.
“There’s something sinister and ominous about a man who came 3rd in a race and wants to be declared the winner, AT ALL COST!
“I think it’s high time he was pulled in to answer a few questions. Nigerians want to know why Peter Obi is this desperate. Pull him in, heavens will not fall.”
Obi, who finished third in the February 25 presidential election, in which All Progressives Congress (APC) President Bola Tinubu was proclaimed the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has challenged Tinubu’s election.
The Presidential Election appeal Court in Abuja dismissed Obi’s appeal against Tinubu on Wednesday for lack of substance. Obi, on the other hand, has promised to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
