Abure: ‘Rein in your followers,’ DMI tells Obi

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA – The Labour Party’s Directorate of Mobilisation and Integration (DMI) has urged the party’s 2023 statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, to restrain members of the Obidient Movement pursuing an incidental involving the party’s nationalist chairman, Julius Abure, astatine Benin Airport.

In a connection signed by Audu Caleb connected behalf of the group’s Director-General, the DMI said the confrontation was unacceptable and stressed that governmental figures should not beryllium subjected to harassment successful nationalist spaces.

“We condemn this onslaught connected Barrister Julius Abure successful the strongest terms. Such actions person nary spot successful a antiauthoritarian society,” the connection read.

Witnesses said Abure was confronted aft arriving from Abuja by a pistillate who filmed the brushwood connected her phone, starring to a disruption earlier information unit intervened.

The DMI appealed to governmental actors to workout restraint and called connected Obi, arsenic person of the Obidient Movement, to assistance support subject wrong the ranks of his supporters.

The radical besides criticised Yunusa Tanko, described arsenic an appointed person of the Obidient Movement, for publically calling for mobilisation successful enactment of the pistillate involved. It warned that specified remarks could heighten tensions.

“Such rhetoric is irresponsible and could provoke wider unrest. Leaders indispensable acceptable an illustration of restraint, not telephone for mob action,” the connection said.

The organisation urged the constabulary and different information agencies to analyse the substance and instrumentality due action, noting that nonaccomplishment to respond could promote akin incidents successful the future.

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