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Festus Keyamo (SAN), the spokesperson of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has submitted a petition to the Department of State Services (DSS) over inciting comments made by Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) after the February 25 presidential election.
In the petition, Keyamo demanded for the arrest and prosecution of Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, for “incitement and treasonable felony.”
The petition addressed to the director-general (DG) of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi, and dated Thursday, March 23, reads, “The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, few days ago stated that there is a need to soothe frayed nerves, lower the temperature and begin the healing process.
“However, it appears that the president and vice-presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed, are not prepared to go through this conciliatory path for the sake of peace and national cohesion, whilst exercising their rights to pursue duly laid down constitutional means of addressing their grievances.
“I also have it on good authority that Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed have camped some youths in a popular hotel in Abuja with the sole aim of instructing them to push out inciting messages everyday on social media in order to cause panic and fear within the federation and to incite people to riot and social unrest.
“It is noteworthy that Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed have submitted election petition to the court for adjudication, but their conducts and utterances amount to a subversion of the processes they have instituted in court.
“These conducts and utterances are a build-up to something more sinister and it is important you rein them in now.”
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on March 1, declared Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Obi, who secured 6,101,533 votes during the election.
However, Atiku and Obi, want the tribunal to nullify Tinubu’s victory and withdraw the certificate of return issued to him by INEC.
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