Airport Harassment: British Gov’t Yet To Apologise To Obi — LP

 

                                Peter Obi

( https://muckrack.com/kingsley-benneth/articles )


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Thursday through the Head of the Obi-Datti Media, Diran Onifade, dismissed ru­mours surrounding his ordeal with immigration officials in Heathrow Airport, London, saying that contrary to reports the British government is yet to apologize to him.

He stressed that he was yet to receive any letter of apology from the British government over his airport harassment in the UK.

Daily Independent reported that Obi was detained in London on April 7 over alleged imper­sonation.

However, on Thursday re­ports started circulating in a sec­tion of the media that the British authorities have apologised.

But in a swift reaction to the development, the Head, Obi-Dat­ti Media, said, “We have been re­ceiving enquiries with regards to a so called apology, purport­edly issued by the British gov­ernment or any of its agencies, to our principal, Mr. Peter Obi, in respect of a routine Immigra­tion engagement with him, as he arrived London, for a brief visit, last Friday, the 7th of April.

“We would like to state em­phatically that we are not aware of any such apology, and have not issued any statement what­soever, in that regard.

“While we continue to ex­amine any dubious or political motive, on the part of the perpe­trators of the identity theft, we have every confidence in the ability of the British authori­ties to resolve the matter to its conclusion”.

According to him, Obi has since moved on from the inci­dent and continues to be totally focused, on the legal processes before the Election Petition Tri­bunal towards the recovery of their mandate, which they are convinced, was overwhelmingly expressed by voters in the presi­dential election of February 25.

 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How Peace, Terrorism Affects National GDP, Personal Income

Image
  BENNETH JOSHUA KINGSLEY Peace has been a fundamental requirement for society's stability, development, and continuity at every stage in history. It is unarguable that this component is needed if commerce, sports, marriages, and bilateral or even unilateral engagements must take place anywhere, or at any time. This accounts for why governments at any tier hope, and practically undertake endeavors to promote peaceful coexistence among community members. In fact, modern systems for managing communities of people (whether democracy, monarchy, or any other system which the people agree to be their modus operandi for social interaction), hinge their successes on the operationalization of this all-important element- Peace. But it is everybody's responsibility, not only to embrace but to ensure that it comes through in its pure, sincere, and fair state. Peace is indeed an illusion where insincerity, injustice, and unfair treatment of component units in society are allowed to thrive. ...
Read more

Labour Party Expels Abayomi, Ratifies Suspension Of Apapa, Akali, Five Others

Image
              Abayomi Arabambi ( https://muckrack.com/kingsley-benneth/articles ) The Labour Party’s (LP) National Executive Council (NEC) on Tuesday sacked its former National Publicity Secretary, Arabambi Abayomi, and upheld the suspension of six other National Working Committee (NWC) members for anti-party activities in what political analysts see as house cleansing. At the meeting, which was attend­ed by the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, and representa­tives from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), LP state chairmen, federal legislators-elect and INEC, those suspended include Lamidi Apapa, Salem Lawal, Favour Reuben, Gbenga Daramola, Samuel Akingbade and Mohammed Akali. ­ It also considered the report of a disciplinary committee which recommended the sus­pension of the former National Youth Leader, Anslem Eragbe. Following this, it suspended him indefinitely and recom­mended Eragbe to the nex...
Read more

Terrorism/Counter-Insurgency Economy: Citizens-Centric Component In Peace Building

Image
                    A Nigerian Soldier On Counter-Insurgency Effort BENNETH JOSHUA KINGSLEY Modern militarized conflicts are open cheques that draw inspiration from faucets of ideas. They're no longer a one-street shop where operators, be they state actors or otherwise, focus on just one approach to achieving their aims. By this, it is implied that conflicts like Terrorism require not only military-combat-centric solutions to deal with. They also call for intelligence gathering where citizens play pivotal roles as discreet intelligence agents. It is worthy of note that throughout history the world has been plagued by insurgencies. Though the underlying causes of each new insurgency have been different, they are all similar in certain areas.  It is also worthy of note that insurgencies are flexible and to defeat them the counterinsurgency must be equally flexible if not more flexible.  This flexibility is where intelli...
Read more