The Federal Government on Tuesday said the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, risked being prosecuted for treason over some of their utterances on the February 25 presidential election.
“If you are wrong, you must be called to order regardless of your position in society. If it means getting the security agencies to invite him, it should be done.
On its part, the New Nigeria People’s Party noted that Obi had the right to freedom of expression even as it challenged the Federal Government to charge him to court if they had sufficient evidence to support their allegation. The House also warned “aggrieved parties to desist from heating the polity and believe in the rule of law while awaiting the outcome of litigation before the court of law.”The resolutions were sequel to the unanimous adoption of the motion titled ‘An Urgent Need to Condemn the Call for Interim Government in Nigeria.’
Idem recalled how the Department of State Services on March 29 issued a warning about some individuals who were allegedly plotting to install an interim government. Ogun partly said, “I think the security agencies should do their work. If you are asking for a different government not known to the law, it is a treasonable felony. Year in, and year out in this House we budget billions of naira to the Office of the National Security Adviser and other security arms.
Abubakar said, “It is on record that one of the vice-presidential candidates was on the air, asking that the president-elect should not be inaugurated. So, if we have this kind of character in this country calling for the non-inauguration of the validly elected president of this country, I don’t know how somebody will come and say that it is mere speculation. It is never a speculation.
‘’Who would have thought that somebody who had the benefit of a free and fair election would not allow for due process? He should have allowed the process to be concluded. It ends with litigation, which ends at the Supreme Court.’’ Reacting to the treason allegation against the LP standard bearer, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba , said the statement was wrong.Agbakoba argued that Obi and Baba-Ahmed had the right to express their opinion, as they were just saying what they thought.
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