Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi was Friday, April 7, 2023, allegedly detained in London by UK immigration officials.
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 Tuesday night, April 11, 2023, in a long Facebook post.
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According to her, Obi was detained for hours and interrogated by the officials, after his British Airways plane landed at Heathrow Airport on Friday 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 erudite professor also noted Peter Obi’s phone and those of his wife and children were under surveillance, stressing that it was a very dangerous development for the LP candidate due to the damaging implications such act could do to his reputation.
