Popular essayist and Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Nation newspaper, Sam Omatseye, has alleged that the supporters of Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, have been issuing death threat against him over his Monday’s opinion piece titled ‘Obi-tuary’.
Omatseye in a tweet on Tuesday, advised Obi to call his supporters to order. He said the former Anambra State Governor would be held responsible should anything happen to him.
He tweeted, “Mr. Peter Obi, call your supporters to order. They are calling and issuing death threats. If anything happens to me, you will be held responsible!”
Omatseye had in the said opinion piece described Obi as a shelter for miscreants.
e asserted that “Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it. This includes intellectuals who did not show mercy to him while he reigned in Anambra as a pharisaic chief executive. It is like wearing a colour beneath another colour. Obi has become a shelter for both miscreants and activists of the crowd.”
Part of the opinion piece read, “He (Obi) is therefore using religion as a bait. He is now on a weekly pilgrimage to churches. Jonathan did the same. The pastors, ever opportunistic, see him as a darling. He is visiting a sectional hue of pews. This is the man who divided the church in Anambra State in his time between Catholics and the others.”
A viral video of the reception accorded Obi last week at the Dunamis Church in Abuja had send tongues wagging on the soaring popularity of the LP candidate among the ordinary folks. He has expectedly come under vicious attacks by sympathisers of other presidential candidates.
