The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Festus Keyamo has accused the Labour Party of threatening judges.
Keyamo, during an interview on Channels TV Thursday night, said he petitioned the Department of State Services because the Labour Party had been trying to rile up Nigerians and turn them against the judiciary in case the judgement of the court did not favour them.
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, earlier filed a suit at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja, against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC as the winner by the electoral commission.
The petition marked CA/PEC/02m/2023 has Peter Obi and Labour Party as plaintiffs, while the Independent National Electoral Commission, Independent National Electoral Commission, Tinubu, and the APC are the defendants.
The LP candidate described himself as the authentic winner of the election.
But Keyamo in the interview said, “People have actually retrieved their mandate by going to court, it is only when it does not favour you and that is what the Labour Party is doing now and that’s why I have to petition them to the DSS.
“There’s a buildup to something that they are doing, the buildup they are doing is to rile the people up, pump them up and then turn them against the judiciary that if your judgement does not go in a particular way.
“That is where they are going; they are setting up scene for rebellion and they are setting up a scene to blackmail the judiciary.
“And that’s why if you go online now, I have alerted the DSS that they have housed some boys in one popular hotel in Abuja and I will give that information to the DSS where they have told them every morning to be pumping out online messages to rile up the citizens, cause fear and all of that.
“What they want to do is once the judiciary now goes another way, then the Judiciary must have sold out. That’s why they are threatening the judges, they have gone up to that point. Labour Party online touts now are threatening judges, their families, exposing them so there is a situation where they want to create fear in this country.
“During the election, they tried to threaten people to support them, they failed. During the announcements, they tried to threaten INEC. Everything about them is threat, to threaten INEC to support, they failed. Now they want to move to the judiciary.”
Keyamo said the silent majority who voted for Tinubu will not allow the citizens to be riled up to the point of having something similar to the #EndSARS protests of October 2020.
But according to Keyamo, the #EndSARS protests are different because they were about citizens against the government.”
“But now it will be citizens against citizens,” he noted.
He added that Peter Obi and his running mate in the election, Datti Baba-Ahmed will be charged with a treasonable felony for saying they don’t recognise Tinubu as the ‘President-elect’.
He also alleged that Baba-Ahmed was removed from office twice because he stole people’s mandate.
He, therefore, advised him to go through the same legal process to seek redress.
