THE NATION
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has opened up on his experience with immigration officers at the Heathrow international airport, London.
Obi said he was never arrested or detained by officials of the British government.
He insisted that what went down at Heathrow International Airport was a case of carrying out a routine immigration check because his identity had been alleged to have been compromised.
The Nation reports on April 12, LP announced that Obi was harassed and detained at Heathrow Airport in London over alleged impersonation.
The party said Obi was questioned for a “long time” and it took the intervention of Nigerians for him to be released.
But in an interview with Arise TV monitored by The Nation, the former Anambra Governor narrated his experience.
Obi said he was stopped for routine immigration checks while contradicting his party’s claim that he was questioned for a long time.
He said: “I was never arrested, I was never detained. And I did not commit any offence. I was stopped for a routine immigration check because there appeared to be a duplication of my identity and all this lasted for a maximum of 20 minutes.
