*Says Peter Obi incident remoted case
A human rights activist and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress has dismissed current claims of insecurity in Calabar by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a product of gossip removed from actuality.
Speaking on a nationwide tv station, Obono-Obla was emphatic that the Cross River State Capital has no safety difficulty.
According to him, “Calabar is one of the safest cities anybody would want to live in Nigeria,” and lauded Governor Bassey Otu for offering efficient and environment friendly safety measures in the state.
In his phrases: “The governor has addressed security in Calabar. Before the governor came into office, I was very familiar with the security situation. University lecturers and doctors were being kidnapped almost every day. But as soon as he came into office, he appointed a retired Major General as state security adviser.
“The governor has also provided significant security support, including government police officers and other security agencies.”
While accusing Atiku of counting on gossip, he mentioned “it is very petty for somebody who was a former Vice President of this country to descend to that level and begin talking about security in Calabar.”
On the incident involving the marketing campaign convoy of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, the previous presidential aide mentioned stone-throwing throughout campaigns, even in superior democracies just like the United States, was commonplace.
While describing the incident as an remoted case, he questioned if the incident was not because the end result of inside disaffection inside Obi’s personal occasion.
