The POSN, in a statement issued on Friday, April 14, and signed by FCC Onwuasoanya Jones of its Directorate of Strategic Communications, expressed shock at the extent the APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to neutralise the influence of Obi, whom it sees as a nightmare and the main threat to its stolen presidential mandate.

According to the statement, “From spending billions of naira paying lobbyists and sponsoring propaganda teams to the USA and UK, the Buhari-led APC government has now graduated to sponsoring a clone of Peter Obi in the UK in its desperation to demonise a man widely recognised as the conscience of the nation.”

The POSN stated that the passport with which the fake Peter Obi obtained UK Visa, must have been issued by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), adding: “It is instructive that the Nigerian government has remained silent on Obi’s unwarranted Heathrow Airport ordeal, one full week after the regrettable incident”.

POSN said that though unfortunate, Obi’s underserved humiliation at Heathrow Airport has its positive sides. “It provided Nigerians at the airport an opportunity to rise in defence of their hero and they did so – for which we’ll eternally be grateful. It also has exposed the dirty anti-Obi schemes of the APC Government as the whole world now knows that whatever crime is committed by the fake Peter Obi has nothing to do with the one and only Peter Gregory Obi, who is universally known and respected for his unimpeachable integrity,” POSN said.

The Peter Obi Support Network also urged the federal government and the APC to stop wasting scarce resources seeking Obi’s downfall, adding: “Rather than be discouraged, this can only make Obi more resolute in recovering his stolen mandate through the judicial process and in rededicating himself to the crucial task on helping to birth a new Nigeria, which, of course, is very much POssible.”

It will be recalled that after the ordeal at the airport, Peter Obi has since returned to Nigeria and has been going on with his mission to reclaim his stolen mandate peacefully.

No Apology yet from UK

Meanwhile, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, had earlier denied receiving any letter of apology from the British government over his detention by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London.

Obi made the rebuttal through the Head, Media and Communications of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade.

A statement by Onifade reads, “We have been receiving enquiries with regards to a so called apology, purportedly issued by the British Government or any of its agencies, to our Principal Mr Peter Obi, in respect of a routine Immigration engagement with him, as he arrived London, for a brief visit, last Friday, the 7th of April.

“We would like to state emphatically that we are not aware of any such apology, and have not issued any statement whatsoever, in that regard.