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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, was detained by the United Kingdom’s immigration authorities during the Easter break over offences believed to have been committed by an imposter, the party’s Presidential Campaign Council said on Wednesday.

The LP PCCC, in a statement by Diran Onifade, the Head of the Obi-Datti media team, said Obi was detained for questioning on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, when he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria.

The statement added that he was later let go after Nigerians, who witnessed the incident, raised an uproar.

The statement read in part, “The LP Presidential candidate in the February 25 Presidential poll arrived the Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, and joined the queue for the necessary Airport protocols when he was accosted by immigration officials who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside. He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.

“Since Obi’s face was already an international frame, especially for Nigerians, Africans home, and in the Diaspora who are likely to be Obidients, the people quickly raised their voices wondering why he was being delayed.

“The immigration officials who were also taken aback at the reaction of the people were forced to reveal that Obi was being questioned for a duplication offense, meaning that someone has been impersonating him in London.

“The high implication of the offense is that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.”

The PUNCH reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Obi third in the February 25 presidential election after polling 6,101,533 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party came second with 6,984,520 votes and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress was declared winner of the poll with 8,794,726 votes.

He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required, to meet the requirement.

Obi and the Labour Party have since challenged the results at the tribunal.

https://punchng.com/uk-immigration-detains-questions-peter-obi-for-impostors-crimes/

UK immigrations chase obi while attempting to escape arresting

"The immigration officials who were also taken aback at the reaction of the people were forced to reveal that Obi was being questioned for a duplication offense, meaning that someone has been impersonating him in London."

A blatant lie, immigration officials will pull you into a private room to discuss whatever concerns they have.

Secondly, in that airport as with most western ones, immigration officials have incredible powers, not a hope in hell will a Naija mob "take them aback" or make them reveal why a person is being questioned.

I was once pulled into an immigration office for questioning in a US airport. The woman that interviewed me told me point blank that I was the last person she will be speaking to before she ended her shift and she had sent every single person she spoke to back to their various countries.

You could see her immense dissapointment when she handed me back my passport and told me to "enjoy my stay".

APC,Tinublu, buhari and urchinated miscreants are so desperate. Seems Obi is giving them sleepless night.

yarimo:
UK immigrations chase obi while attempting to escape arresting

Does Islam teach you to lie while fasting?

What you are doing, is it fasting or hunger strike?

Why was Obi detained?

Has he committed a crime?

What kind of crime was it?

Could it be drugs as rumoured?

These are the questions people are asking.

Baba Ahmed

Tinubu went to Obama inauguration. obi go do campaign after election for UK dem grab am like thief!

Who is fooling whom?

Obi has multiple personalties.
Obi the Presidential candidate/ Obi Governor of Ananbra
Obi that used Chinenye Ezewuzie as drug mule to Peru
Obi whose father got implicated in drug deal

Naim, de same person.

Hold am well.