Peter Obi detained by UK immigration, questioned about “impostor’s crimes.”

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, was held by British immigration authorities over the Easter break for offenses that were allegedly committed by an imposter, the party’s Presidential Campaign Council announced on Wednesday.

In a statement issued by Diran Onifade, the head of the Obi-Datti media team, the LP PCCC said that Obi was detained for questioning on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, when he landed in London from Nigeria at Heathrow Airport.

The statement further said that he was later fired after Nigerians who saw the incident stirred great controversy.

The partly read, “The LP Presidential candidate in the February 25 Presidential poll 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. He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country.

“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.

“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.

“The high implication of the offense is that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.”