AN anti-Tinubu traveler on an Abuja-Lagos flight, Obiajulu Uja, has been charged before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court in Abuja and remanded in custody.
This was revealed yesterday by Ejike Ugwu, his lawyer.
Uja was removed from a Lagos-Abuja flight on Friday night after he began a solitary protest demanding that Bola Tinubu never be sworn in as president on May 29.
In the video that went viral on Saturday, it took no fewer than six airport security officers’ efforts to evacuate him after he had delayed the plane for more than an hour as of 7pm.
A copy of the charge sheet showed that Uja was charged with “public nuisance, resistance to a lawful arrest, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace contrary to sections 396, 267,188,172 and 144 of the Penal Code Law.”
The lawyer said, “He was arraigned at the Zuba Magistrates’ Court after they deceived us because yesterday he was taken to Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, Area 11 Abuja.”
The lawyer, who spoke in Abuja, said that his client had been admitted at the Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, but that neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist were present to examine him there.
However, he added that although a physician from Abuja’s National Hospital had been requested to examine Uja, the effort had sadly been in vain.
