The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded presidential election, Peter Obi has opened up on his reported arrest in London.
According to him, he was only stopped for a routine immigration check and not arrested.
He disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television.
He said:
“I was stopped for a routine immigration check and all these lasted for a maximum of 20 minutes. I was treated with all due respect. I was never arrested nor detained,” the former governor clarified.
Going further, he revealed that he once lived in the UK and was at no time questioned or arrested for any crime in any country.
He added:
“I lived in the UK in the 90s from 1993 to 2005. From that time till now is a period of 30 years and I have never been questioned, arrested or detained in any country in the world.
“I have never been arrested or questioned in any manner. I have never committed any offence. So, what happened was a routine immigration check and that happened not less than 20 minutes and I was given all due respect by the authorities.”
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Meanwhile, Obi who spoke on the internal crisis within the Labour Party, Obi insisted that there were no issues in the party.
He said: “In the Labour party, we have no issue. Abure is our chairman and those things you’re seeing are just the handiwork of paid agents who are trying to create confusion,” he said.
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