Peter Obi, Datti Ahmed fingered in call for military coup
Peter Obi and Datti-Baba Ahmed, Labour Party’s presidential and vice presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential poll in Nigeria, have been fingered as one of the enablers of call for military insurrection in the country.
Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesperson for the ruling party’s presidential campaign, tweeted this on Thursday. The former opposition politician cited Ahmed’s declaration on national television that he had no faith in the judiciary.
He said, “It is obvious that these young ones that are calling for military intervention are being encouraged, sponsored and used by elements in the opposition.
“When one couples these calls … with the words of Dati Baba Ahmed, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, …that the swearing-in of President-elect Tinubu as President would be an invitation to a military coup …one gets the message and can connect the dots of this great conspiracy.”
Fani-Kayode similarly accused the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign of making incendiary comments suggestive of support for unconstitutional takeover of government.
“The Atiku group through their numerous spokespersons have said equally disturbing things including consistently calling the President-elect a “Pablo Escobar-like drug baron” in order to incite the people, the international community, the civil society, the people of Nigeria and the Nigerian Armed Forces against him,” he said.
The former minister urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to deal with “these subversive and destabilising elements”.
He added, “They should arrest those that appear to be behind this evil plot including Peter Obi, Dati Baba Ahmed, Atiku Abubakar, Ifeanyi Okowa and their numerous spokesmen, associates and foreign collaborators.”
