{"id":101183,"date":"2022-11-09T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101183"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:42:17","slug":"presidency-come-clean-on-alleged-us-conviction-or-quit-obi-datti-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/presidency-come-clean-on-alleged-us-conviction-or-quit-obi-datti-tells-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency: Come clean on alleged US conviction or quit, Obi-Datti tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media office of the Labour Party\u2019s (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to clear himself of the allegation that he was convicted on drug and money laundering related offences in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The media office in a statement Wednesday, noted that there is a column in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) nomination form to candidates, seeking to know if they had ever been convicted by any court of law anywhere in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt added that withholding such information breaches the Electoral Act, 2022 (as amended).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the fresh facts arising from the US court document, Nigerians expect the electoral commission to demand a convincing response from the APC presidential candidate and to act on it accordingly without let or hindrance,\u201d the statement added.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIt noted that with successive failure of governance in the country over the years, INEC and indeed, the Nigerian public should show more than passing interest in the backgrounds of all those aspiring to rule this country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media office of the Labour Party\u2019s (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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