The spokesperson for Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Daniel Bwala, who gave the advice on Friday said that Obi should ask the court to compel the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government to provide the impersonator whom the Nigerian immigration issued Obi’s passport and other details.
The presidential campaign council for Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has advised the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, to sue the Nigerian government over his impersonation by an unknown person.
The spokesperson for Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Daniel Bwala, who gave the advice on Friday said that Obi should ask the court to compel the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government to provide the impersonator whom the Nigerian immigration issued Obi’s passport and other details.
According to Bwala, fact remains that the impersonator was issued Obi’s passport by the Nigerian immigration as they have his bio data and details, hence, the onus is on the government to smoke out the impersonator and whoever is using him for the criminal act.
“One fact is clear, the impersonator was issued the passport by the Nigerian Immigration. They have his bio data and details about him. Peter Obi should sue the Nigerian government in court and compel them to smoke the man out and whoever may be using him for the smear campaign,” Bwala wrote on his Twitter handle.
Recall that Obi was last Friday April 7th said to have been detained for hours and questioned at Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom, by some immigration officials, over a case of “duplicate identity.”
Obi’s former aide, Prof Chinyere Okunna, a Mass Communications scholar, and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Paul University Awka, revealed Obi’s ordeal in a Facebook post 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.
The incident has since its disclosure generated controversies across the country with many members of opposition political parties saying that the incident depicts Obi as a liar while his political party - the Labour Party and supporters insist it is the handiwork of mischief makers from the opposition parties.
However, a week after the incident happened, the UK government is yet to issue a statement either to apologise to Obi or acknowledge approval for the incident.