Tension has continued to build up across the country, particularly among the supporters of presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi over purported plans by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to get him arrested.


The alleged move was sequel to the activities of the former Anambra Governor, his running mate, Datti Ahmed and their supporters after losing the February 25 presidential poll.

Recall that Peter Obi, his party and supporters, popularly known as Obidients, rejected the outcome of the just concluded presidential poll that produced Bola Tinubu of APC as president-elect.


DAILY POST reports that Obi, who through his campaigns late 2022, galvanised many young and first-time voters, came third in the presidential poll, behind the winner, Bola Tinubu of the ruling party and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar.


Obi and Atiku who vowed to seek redress in court to overturn Tinubu’s victory after alleging that the electoral umpire was compromised to manipulate the results of the elections, had in several outings, called for the cancellation of the results.

Obi on March 2, while addressing a world press conference in Abuja, alleged that the election was programmed to deliver a predetermined outcome.

Obi also said the election did not meet the necessary requirements and could not be adjudged credible, insisting that there is evidence signalling his victory.


According to Obi, the election that brought Tinubu was not excellent, stating that the former Lagos governor does not deserve the excellency title.

Similarly, Obi’s running mate, Datti on Wednesday insisted that Tinubu cannot be sworn in as president of the country.

Datti declared during an interview with Arise Television that swearing in Tinubu would be “as good as swearing in a military regime”.

According to the vice presidential candidate, there was a constitutional breach during the presidential poll that produced Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as president-elect.


DAILY POST observed that tension over purported moves to arrest Obi and Datti started building up when a Nollywood veteran actor, Kanayo O Kanayo raised the alarm, alleging that there were plots to arrest Obi.

In an Instagram post, the veteran actor said: “Peter Gregory Obi will soon be arrested. Watch Out. The conspiracy is brewing, you want to bet?”

In what looks like a corroboration to Kanoyo’s revelation, a spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, on Thursday petitioned the Department of State Services, DSS demanding the arrest of Obi and his running mate.

Keyamo, current Minister of State for Labour and Employment, asked DSS to arrest and prosecute Obi and his running mate, Datti Ahmed over alleged “incitement and treasonable felony”.

In the petition addressed to the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, dated March 23, the minister stated that in a post-election period such as this, there is a need to soothe frayed nerves, lower the temperature and begin the healing process.

The Minister, however, noted that since the declaration of the Presidential election results, Obi and his running mate have been hopping from one media house to the other allegedly making incendiary comments and claims regarding the declaration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Speaking with DAILY POST on the matter, the chief spokesperson of the Obi/Datti campaign council, Salisu Tanko tackled Keyamo, stating that the minister was only making baseless accusations.

He questioned why Keyamo and his cohort failed to call for the arrest of former Lagos State National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, chairman Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo who allegedly incited religious violence during the Gubernatorial elections in the state.

He said, “Keyamo, the so-called patriotic citizen, didn’t report MC Oluomo who told Igbos not to vote in Lagos.

“After the shameful Chatham House appearance, his principal was recorded telling key supporters to fight, snatch, grab and run with ballot boxes which was exactly what happened in the elections. Why didn’t Keyamo the ‘Patriotic citizen’ report to the DSS.

“Keyamo is just making baseless accusations, he’s a known Rabble rouser and chatterbox who doesn’t want to lose political relevance before his paymaster who has now seen him for what he is, which is a political paper weight, who has achieved nothing as a minister except posting fake news to rile up the polity on social media.”

Also speaking with DAILY POST, an activist and staunch supporter of Peter Obi, Okoh Marcus said any attempt to arrest Obi will set the entire nation ablaze.

He said, “Nigerians are already fed up with all these unending issues from these old politicians who want to impose themselves on us.

“Any attempt to arrest Obi will not go well with Nigeria. Let somebody try to touch that man, that is when the anger in us will come out. They should stop that rubbish.

“If not for the case in court that has calmed Obidients, by now ‘EndSARS promax’ would have started”.

When contacted, the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunnanya declined to comment on the matter.

https://dailypost.ng/2023/03/26/presidential-election-tension-over-alleged-move-to-arrest-peter-obi-running-mate/

It will be the most unintelligent thing to do should APC led government arrest either or both of messrs Peter Obi & Yusuf Datti in this electioneering season..

The protest that will erupt afterwards will be much greater that #EndSars.

The person suggesting this to Tinibu's camp doesn't mean well for them.

Which tension is brewing?
Caption should have been Keyamo requesting for the arrest.
It's all about democracy every opposition has his right of claim in every election.
Nothing strange here.
People should stop heating up the polity.
An arrest might lead to uproar against the ruling government.
No need to start trouble.
Let's continue true legal means
What will be , will be.

Lets get the show started already

The only tension we see, is inside Escobar household. The hangers on who wants to install the deadwood and use his senility to loot the country are jittery about their plans failing.

The arrest of Peter Obi will turn Nigeria upside-down. DSS et al make una no do nonsense o. If half of our politicians had Obi's decency, we would have gone far as a nation. MC Olomu, Festus and FFK have been threatening people brazenly but you want to arrest a man who simply went to court as advised? Very wrong move.

Which tension? The only tension I see is in tinubu's camp because they have hit a dead end and now grasping at straws.

Nigerians are fed up, any opportunity to make a scabe goat out of any politician they will do it, Obi or not Obi, tinubu or atiku, because what the face on the streets and for example the price of fuel, transportation, electricity, school fees, house rent, medical bills, price of foodstuffs is more challenging than an end SARS pro max...... NIGERIA IS ALREADY BURNING PLEASE IF POSSIBLE REDUCE THE PRICE OF PASSPORTS

ImmaculateJOE:
It will be the most unintelligent thing to do should APC led government arrest either or both of messrs Peter Obi & Yusuf Datti in this electioneering season..

The protest that will erupt afterwards will be much greater that #EndSars.

The person suggesting this to Tinibu's camp doesn't mean well for them.

Nothing go xup, sit-at-home addict..

What do gorillas and ur kind have in common, they beat chest...

If Peter Obi and his running mate keeps hearing up the polity, he should be arrested and jailed.
I swear with my life, nothing will happen and if Obidients try anything stupid, I will not let the cat out of the bag on what will happen.
Obidients, warn your stupid lord an saviour to stop the nonsense he is doing. A word is enough for the wise

There is no attempt to arrest anyone especially Peter Obi and Datti. Stop testing the microphone when the occasion have started. I repeat, there's no attempt to arrest anyone especially Obi

Nobody is above the law. Datti should be invited by the DSS to clarify the treasonable comment he made on ChannelsTv some days ago.

Those 2 nonentities can be picked and heaven won't fall.

The worst is for SE to continue burning which we care less.

Dodo e o ni je

This was my post, calling for Obi's arrest many weeks ago. I don't know what DSS is waiting for.

Spirit04:
It's now you are compiling results yet you went on TV to declare you won an election you don't have its results? It's high time the federal government declared Peter Obi a terrorist just like his mentor Nnamdi Kanu who are both bent on discrediting and setting the country on fire. It's been over one week since the conclusion of election, you have not been able to put a case together, you don't even know what to do, you didn't even have a situation room to monitor and collate your own results like every other sane and serious political party yet you believed you won because native doctors from your village saw visions for you.

He has bamboozled and distracted INEC, hindered them from conducting governorship because INEC couldn't reconfigure their BVAS in time for gubernatorial election. If you don't arrest Peter Obi right now he will stop at nothing till the country is set ablaze

Peter Obi should have been arrested long ago. Someone who couldn't even count his own results but went on live TV to claim he won and tried to rubbish inec is a threat to National security and should be used as a scapegoat to prevent other irresponsible politicians from doing the same thing in future

doublewisdom:
The arrest of Peter Obi will turn Nigeria upside-down. DSS et al make una no do nonsense o. If half of our politicians had Obi's decency, we would have gone far as a nation. MC Olomu, Festus and FFK have been threatening people brazenly but you want to arrest a man who simply went to court as advised? Very wrong move.

the call for Biafra will become louder. Nothing more. There will be no protests. Maybe a few disturbances here and there but it will be easily doused. Kanu was far more popular, more dangerous and commanded far more radical and brave followers than Obi. He's cooling off in a dungeon and people have largely moved on

nothing will happen

The insistence on arresting Obi is a propaganda, a distraction aimed at taking the eyes of Nigerians from the drug allegations against tulumbu.

Tinubuwins2023e:
If Peter Obi and his running mate keeps hearing up the polity, he should be arrested and jailed.
I swear with my life, nothing will happen and if Obidients try anything stupid, I will not let the cat out of the bag on what will happen.
Obidients, warn your stupid lord an saviour to stop the nonsense he is doing. A word is enough for the wise

You guys will just be dragging our ethnicity to ridicle

The person that boasted to Ibos that even if they give him 500m , he wont sell land to them. Next minute he was begging for money for food on twitter

You sound just like him

Are you the same person?

I honestly don't understand why Yorubas are complaining, threatening, ranting and raving. Tinubu is your god in SW not Nigeria. He's not above the law and if found guilty of the allegations against him, he won't be president of Nigeria.

Obi and Datti are deliberately making inflammatory statements to draw the ire of the authorities to facilitate their arrest, and give their battle-ready zombies an opportunity to start a violent protest. The DSS shouldn't play into their hands, they should be ignored

The. Useless tiny voice IPOB leader is just trying to safe his face by making his Zombipigs to believe that he won


How could someone who only met 25% in 16 state claims he won general election ?

Obituary is a disaster