Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday finally opened up to having committed an offence in the wake of his detention in the United Kingdom.
Obi, in a tweet, startled most of his followers when he openly admitted to breaking laws.
The tweet has since shed more light on his arrest by the UK immigration office at the Heathrow airport in London after his Easter holiday despite attempts by the Labour Party to conceal and water down the now-apparent wrongdoing of the former Anambra state governor that has since seen the UK government go discreet on his detention.
It was gathered from a well-placed source that Obi’s confession of his wrongdoing was a hurried attempt to preempt an impending official confirmation of his offense.
It was also aimed as a two-pronged shot to convince his followers that his wrongdoing was informed by an ignorance of the law and not a deliberate attempt to abuse the system.
‘Knowing how damaged his reputation would be when the truth finally gets revealed, he had to come out, on the counsel of his lawyers, to convince his followers in a roundabout way that his offence in the UK was inadvertent,” the source said.
Obi’s ‘incriminating’ revelation has continued to generate reactions on the internet with many calling out the Labour Party flagbearer to come out clean and divulge what exactly was the law he broke.