Veteran journalist, Sam Omatseye has called on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi to call his supporters to order.
According to Omatseye, his life had come under threats from Obi’s supporters over an opinion piece he wrote, titled “Obituary”.
The piece read in part “Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it. This includes intellectuals who did not show mercy to him while he reigned in Anambra as a pharisaic chief executive. It is like wearing a colour beneath another colour. Obi has become a shelter for both miscreants and activists of the crowd.
“Obi knows this. He is happy to be their catharsis, to be their excuse for unfurling their bile at the system, for acting like revolutionaries. He is playing to it by acting as though he is the saint of Nigerian politics. Perhaps the purists of the Biafran cause are unhappy, and they unleashed a past video clip of Kanu on social media.
“In it, Kanu lashes out at Obi as governor and stated what this essayist wrote about him over building a NEXT supermarket while still the governor of Anambra State. The video clip referred to him as a sort of sexual being on the fringe. You can imagine an Aso Rock sweltering with romps of the evil flesh. His so-called Obidients know this. But it counts for little.”
Omatseye has since come under harsh criticism from Obi’s supporters who have continued to hurl insults at the writer across social media platforms.
Reacting to the outrage, Omatseye took to his Twitter page on Tuesday and said that he would hold Obi responsible for any harm that befalls him.
“Mr. Peter Obi, call you supporters to order. They are calling and issuing death threats. If anything happens to me, you will be held responsible!!!!”
