12th April, 2023
Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi was on Good Friday detained and questioned at the Heathrow Airport, London by UK immigration services due to someone impersonating him.
Diran Onifade, Head of the Obi-Datti media team, in a statement on Wednesday, said the LP Presidential candidate arrived the Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, and joined the queue for the necessary Airport protocols when he was accosted by immigration officials who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside.
Onifade said Obi was questioned for a long time and that it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.
He said since Obi’s face was already an international frame, especially for Nigerians, Africans home, and in the Diaspora who are likely to be Obidients, the people quickly raised their voices wondering why he was being delayed.
Onifade stated that the immigration officials who were also taken aback at the reaction of the people were forced to reveal that Obi was being questioned for a duplication offense, meaning that someone has been impersonating him in London.
He explained that the high implication of the offense was that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and that it would be recorded in Obi’s name.