Lawyers seek police, DSS protection for Peter Obi ahead of 2027 elections

Lawyers operating nether the aegis of the Obidient Lawyers Forum person demanded that the Federal High Court successful Abuja should bid President Bola Tinubu to compel the Police, Department of State Services, DSS, and others to supply peculiar extortion to the statesmanlike campaigner of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr. Peter Obi, up of the 2027 election.

The ineligible practitioners informed the tribunal that their entreaty has go imperative truthful arsenic not to marque Peter Obi a unfortunate of governmental assassination earlier and during the 2027 wide electioneering process.

The petition was contained successful a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1648/2026, instituted against Tinubu, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), the Inspector-General (IG) of Police, the Director-General of the DSS, and the Governor of Edo State.

The plaintiffs successful the suit, filed connected Monday, July 27, predicated their petition connected a connection credited to Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to the effect that Obi’s beingness and information would not beryllium guaranteed successful Edo State if helium entered the authorities without gett...