Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general election Peter Obi has hit out at the Minister of Information Lai Muhammed calling him a rascal for accusing him of treason during his last visit to the United Kingdom.
Obi, in an interview on Arise TV, said Muhammed behaved rascally for recriminating him and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, for accusing the Independent Electoral Commission of conniving with the ruling All Progressives Congress to rig the 2023 election.
“We have many places where children don’t even have desks or classrooms to go to school. Instead of using money to do it, he (Lai Mohammed) used the money to go to Washington to announce the treason of somebody who is in Onitsha.
“These are the reasons we want a new Nigeria. From there, he went to London, announcing the same thing. How did we gain here?”
Mr. Mohammed had chided the Labour Party presidential flag bearer for failing to rein Mr. Baba-Ahmed regarding his utterances.
“What will be my offence? Is it by chiding the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party who said on live television that if President-elect Bola Tinubu is sworn in on May 29, that would be the end of democracy in Nigeria? the minister had said. “Is it for chiding him for saying that swearing in Tinubu on May 29 is like swearing in the military?”
He stressed that Mr. Datti Baba-Ahmed had not denied his “treasonable” statement, and Mr. Obi failed to publicly condemn Mr. Baba-Ahmed’s objectionable utterance.
“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,” the minister had insisted.
