Peter Obi: Why Keyamo Should Be Placed on Terror List? Labour Party Gives Reasons

Peter Obi: Why Keyamo Should Be Placed on Terror List? Labour Party Gives Reasons

  • The Labour party has called on the FG to place Festus Keyamo on terror list over his statement on Peter Obi
  • Recall that Keyamo claimed that Peter Obi was planning to fake an assassination attempt by hiring hoodlums
  • Specifically, the party said Keyamo should be placed on watch list for unlawful and treasonable activities

In what will be a big blow to the ruling All Progressives Congress, security agencies have been asked to arrest Festus Keyamo.

The call was made by the Labour Party against the spokesperson of the APC presidential campaign council.

Specifically, the party asked security agencies to place Keyamo on security watch list.

Labour party blasts Festus Keyamo
Labour party says Festus Keyamo should be placed on watch list. Photo credit: Festus Keyamo
Source: UGC

The party was responding to Keyamo’s allegation that Peter Obi, the standard bearer of Labour Party, was planning to fake an assassination attempt by hiring hoodlums donning APC caps and T-shirts to attack his party offices, The Cable reports.

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Keyamo had also accused the former governor of Anambra of stoking ethnic tensions and divisions in a viral video showing him saying that people have been asked not to vote for him in the south-west to malign Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC.

In a statement, Abayomi Arabambi, spokesperson of the Labour Party, said:

“President Muhammadu Buhari must now as a matter of urgency directs the service chiefs to place Festus Keyamo and other APC presidential Campaign members and supporters on a security watch list as they are now a threat to democracy ahead of the 2023 general elections” the statement reads.

“I called on the Inspector General of Police to urgently commence a comprehensive investigation into Mr Festus Keyamo unlawful and treasonable activities.
“His conducts are likely to cause a breach of peace and anarchy in our country if this ugly trend is not nipped in the bud and Keyamo be made to face possible prosecution in a court of Law.”

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Meanwhile, Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labour and employment and spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council is currently in war of words with an American, a retired mental health counselor Dr. Jeffrey Guterman who is an ardent supporter of Peter Obi for the 2023 presidency in Nigeria.

Recall that Keyamo had recently claimed that Obi was planning to fake an assassination attempt by hiring hoodlums donning APC caps and T-shirts to attack his party offices.

The exchange started when Dr. Jeffrey Guterman solicited help from his followers on Twitter.

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