Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Communication and Culture, has stated that the call for his arrest and punishment for admonishing Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi for inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable.
The minister announced this on Wednesday in London in response to elder statesman and Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, leader Chief Edwin Clark’s plea for him to be detained and prosecuted for disseminating “false news” about Obi.
Mohammed claimed he stood by his advise to Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, and insisted that it was never based on lie.
“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 claimed Baba-Ahmed never denied his live televised statement.
Mohammed further said that Obi had not publicly held his running mate to account for his treasonous remarks.
“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.
The APC won the presidential election “fair and square,” according to Mohammed, and INEC was correct in proclaiming Tinubu the winner.
He assuaged Nigerians and the foreign community by stating that the president-elect would be sworn in on May 29.
Source: NAN
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