Anti-Tinubu’s Lone Protester Handcuffed, Dragged Off Passenger Plane Amid Shout Of ‘Obidients’

A yet-to-be identified air traveller who protested against President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu being sworn in come May 29, was evacuated from a flight amidst heavy resistance while calling on ‘Obidients’ to rescue him.

BIGPEN NIGERIA (www.bigpenngr.com) reports that the man believed to be one of the supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi was a lone protester of the outcome of the February 25, 2023 election in Nigeria, won by Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate.

He was evacuated from the Ibom Air flight for shouting inside the aircraft that the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must not be inaugurated despite that he has been declared as president elect.

In the video obtained, which has gone viral, the traveller was shouting at the top of his voice, demanding to know if others will allow Tinubu to be inaugurated.

This put fears in some passengers who then demanded for him to be removed from the flight.

A lady obviously travelling with her family expressed fears that things could go awry if the man is allowed to fly with them.

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In the video, the man was heard saying, “Tinubu cannot be sworn in”. Then in another clip where he is being taken out, he’s heard shouting “Obidients you’re here. They are doing this to me. Obidients you’re here, I am naked. Obidients you’re here, I am going naked.”

His action delayed the 6 PM flight, from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, for an extra hour, and took the effort of over five airport security officers to remove him.

The thirty- six state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum had on Friday asked the Department of State Services, DSS to immediately arrest and prosecute those it has identified to be planning to install an interim government rather than issuing statements and heating up the polity.

The governors who condemned any unconstitutional means of regime change, however, vowed to resist such move, just as they assured their commitment to continue in the defence of Nigeria’s democracy as elected leaders.

The DSS had earlier in a statement said that the agency had identified some key players in the plot for an Interim Government in Nigeria but did not give the names of the masterminds.

The agency had said that the planners of the interim government had already held several meetings, during which they weighed many options to actualize their plot including sponsoring endless mass protests across Nigerian cities, securing a warrant to declare a state of emergency or a court injunction to stop the inauguration of the executive and the legislature at the federal and state levels.

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(BIGPEN NIGERIA, additional reporting from Vanguard, The Eagle Online)