Mohammed also said that Obi had also not publicly called his running mate to order over the alleged treasonable utterances.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that calls for his arrest and prosecution are baseless.
Elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Edwin Clark, had said Mohammed should be arrested and prosecuted for spreading “fake news” about the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 poll, Peter Obi.
Speaking on Wednesday in London, Mohammed said he stood by his admonition of Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, insisting that his advice was never premised on falsehood.
“What will be my offence? Is it by chiding vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party who said on live television that if the President-elect Bola Tinubu is sworn-in on May 29 that that would be the end of democracy in Nigeria?
“Is it for chiding him for saying that swearing-in Tinubu in May 29 is like swearing-in the military?
“What is the fake news in that?” the minister queried.
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He said Baba-Ahmed had never denied his statement made on live television.
Mohammed also said that Obi had also not publicly called his running mate to order over the alleged treasonable utterances.
“The position of the law is clear that anybody who is aggrieved over election results should go to court
“It is not to start threatening Nigerians and heating up the polity simply because you lost an election,” he said.
Mohammed stressed that the APC won the presidential election “fair and square” and INEC was right in declaring Tinubu the winner.
He reassured Nigerians and the international community that the president-elect would be sworn-in on May 29.