THE Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the call for his arrest and prosecution for admonishing Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable.
The minister stated this on Wednesday in London while reacting to the call by Elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, that he should be arrested and prosecuted for spreading “fake news” about Obi.
Mohammed said he stood by his admonition of Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, insisting that his advice was never premised on falsehood.
“What will be my offence? Is it by chiding vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party who said on live television that if the President-elect Bola Tinubu is sworn-in on May 29 that that would be the end of democracy in Nigeria?
“Is it for chiding him for saying that swearing-in Tinubu in May 29 is like swearing-in the military?
“What is the fake news in that?” the minister queried.
He said Baba-Ahmed had never denied his statement made on the live television.
Mohammed also said that Obi had also not publicly called his running mate to order over the treasonable utterances.
“The position of the law is clear that anybody who is aggrieved over election results should go to court
“It is not to start threatening Nigerians and heating up the polity simply because you lost an election,” he said.
Mohammed stressed that the APC won the presidential election “fair and square” and INEC was right in declaring Tinubu the winner.
He reassured Nigerians and the international community that the president- elect would be sworn-in on May 29.
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WHAT MAKES Edwin Clark AN ELDER STATESMAN?
The liar senile spent force has long lost it with disingenuous posture and a partisan hack stand.
I ASK AGAIN WHAT MAKES HIM AND THE Otta BRUTE WITH Ayo Adebanjo STATESMEN? DO STATESMEN CAMPAIGNS FOR A CANDIDATE IN A GENERAL ELECTION IN A GEOPOLITICL SPACE AS OURS.
Do they openly demonstrate endorse and voice support for one amongst all candidates in a presidential election in a country like Nigeria.
THE MOMENT THEY ENGAGED IN THE ABOVE NARRATIVE, THEY LOST ALL GARBS AND DEFINITION OF STATESMANSHIP.
Let me go further by establishing their UNWHOLESOME nonsense as a HATEFUL rustic mentality of same goons that got us this far where we are as a retarding nation.
YOU WANT TO ASK WHAT HAS THEIR INTERVENTIONS BROUGHT TO THE SOCIOPOLITICL LIFE OF NIGERIA BUT SUFFERINGS WOES AND MISERIES.
These people are not leaders, rather MISLEADERS of monumental RUBBISH. They should just fade away in their ignoble sleeves.
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