Immigration Officials Detain Peter Obi In London For Hours Allege Impersonation - Politics

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Immigration Officials Detain Peter Obi In London For Hours Allege Impersonation by Antimandatethie(op): 7:40am On Apr 12, 2023

Immigration officials detain Peter
Obi in London for hours, allege
impersonation

Presidential candidate of Labour
Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi was last
Friday, allegedly detained in
London by UK immigration
officials.
Obi was said to have been
detained for hours, and
interrogated by the officials,
after his British Airways plane
landed in Heathrow Airport on
Friday morning.
Prof Chinyere Okunna, a famous
Mass Communications scholar, and
Deputy Vice Chancellor of Paul
University Awka, who is also a
confidant of Obi, revealed this on
Wednesday morning.
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.
Okunna said: “I suppose he told
me all this confidentially. My very
sincere apologies, Your Excellency,
for ‘breaking’ this confidentiality,
but History beckons and I
CANNOT KEEP QUIET.
“Obi spoke to me at the Official
Opening of the Specialist Hospital
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
(IHM) Sisters, Nkpor (on Tuesday).
He had arrived at the event after
flying in from London.
“I actually had no idea he had
travelled out of the country, until
the ovation over his presence in a
London Church went viral on the
Internet.
“He arrived at Heathrow Airport
and joined the usual queue to
pass through Immigration, and
that was when his ordeal began.
“He was stopped and questioned
for a long time and subsequently
handed a detention note and told
to wait for further interrogation
and investigation.
“This was terribly unusual for a
man who had lived honourably in
the UK for a long time.
“In the face of this harassment,
some well-meaning Nigerians,
knowing who he is, raised their
voices in protest, demanding to
know why he was being treated
that way.”
Okunna revealed that in the face
of seeming protest by some
Nigerians, the immigration officials
revealed that someone was
impersonating Obi in the country.
“The shocking revelation by the
Immigration Officer was that his
(Obi’s) identity ‘was duplicated’.
This revelation has definitely set
off alarm bells.
“For people who are
knowledgeable about such
matters, this is a very dangerous
development because the
implication is that someone is
impersonating Peter Obi.
“And that someone could
implicate Obi in all manner of
dubious and even criminal
activities, and rope him into any
number of offences; he could get
Obi framed for one criminal act or
another. The frightening scenario
of what can happen is
unimaginable!!!
“This is the height of it all for a
man who has been under sundry
intimidation and emotional
torture: Bugging of his phone and
those of his wife and children;
keeping him constantly under
surveillance; calling him names;
putting him under severe
pressure to leave (run away
from) the country; wrongly
accusing him of negative things
he knows absolutely nothing
about, etc.
“As he was telling me his
‘Heathrow tale of woe’ at Nkpor
today, I could see a man who was
in severe pain and under
unbearable stress, who many
would expect to be at the point
of despair.
“But, as he confirmed, he is ready
to suffer this pain and is as
determined as ever to pursue the
path which he has chosen to
enable him arrive at the
destination which well-meaning
people in Nigeria and far far
beyond are expecting him to
arrive at.”