The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, in next year’s general elections, Peter Obi, has alleged that there was a plan to assassinate him in April 2025, when he planned to visit Benue State
Obi made this allegation at the ongoing high-level roundtable discussion with the theme: “Nigeria in 2027 and Beyond”, organised by the European Council on Foreign Relations, ECFR, Inin Berlin, Germany.
According to the former Anambbra state governor, he cancelled a planned humanitarian outreach to Benue State after the state government issued a cautionary statement advising him against the trip.
He said he was disappointed in how the state government handled the proposed visit.
“You’re not aware that I wanted to go to Benue and the governor said I can’t come. You’re not aware that the governor said I shouldn’t come, and when I went there, there was a shootout. There were plans to assassinate me.
“What else do you need? Do you need somebody to die before you believe it? There was already a shootout when I tried to visit the place. Once they said, ‘Don’t come here.’ What else do you want me to tell you about the attempt on my life,” he asked.
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