#ProtectPeterObi: Tweeps drag Festus Keyamo over fake assassination claim

What Festus Keyamo said: In a statement issued on Monday, September 12, 2022, Keyamo raised the alarm that Obi had plans to cast aspersions on the ruling party by hiring some supporters dressed in the APC caps and T-shirts to attack some of Labour party’s offices.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment accused the former Anambra governor of circulating a hate-filled video online to disparage the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The statement read in part: “Our attention has been drawn to an offensive, hate-filled video made and circulated by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, in which he accused an amorphous and non-existent “Tinubu’s Group” of spreading a WhatsApp message calling on the Yoruba people not to vote for him. The purported message, according to Mr. Obi, forewarned the Yoruba that a vote for Obi would be a vote for a seaport in South-South and South-East.

“We are also aware that plans are afoot by Mr. Peter Obi to fake an assassination attempt on himself and hire Labour Party boys dressed in the APC caps and T-shirts to attack some Labour Party offices. It is all part of the “US Plan”. It is the first in a series of incendiary actions planned by this ill-prepared but desperate candidate.

“Again, we note that Mr. OBJ’s latest stunt is consistent with what is now widely perceived as his adoption of hate as campaign strategy, having consistently failed to rein in his known and identifiable supporters, mostly domiciled on social media, threatening political opponents with violence and death.

“We call on all well-meaning Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic origins or political divides, to rise up and condemn this tactless tactics and cheap maneuver by a desperate non-starter of a presidential candidate who has decided to resort to crude revisionism, ethnic jingoism and crass insensitivity with a view to whipping up undeserved sentiment to fuel his faltering ambition that is nothing but a flash in a pan. Our advice to Mr. Peter Obi is to quit the race if he has nothing more to tell Nigerians.”

#ArrestFestusKeyamo trends: With the trending hashtag, many supporters of Peter Obi, popularly known as Obidients, are calling for thorough investigations into the Keyamo’s claim and how he came about it.

#ProtectPeterObi trends: As a continuation of the campaign to #ArrestFestusKeyamo, obidients call for the protection of Peter Obi's life against any possible threats by opposition parties and candidates.