BREAKING: Peter Obi escapes assassination as thugs shoot Obidient Movement members in Edo

The National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, YunusaTanko, on Tuesday, raised alarm over an attack on former presidential candidate,Peter Obi, and its members in Benin, Edo State. Tanko disclosed that armed thugs had shot at Obi and membersof the movement during the formal dedefection of Olumide Akpata into theAfrican Democratic Congress, ADC, in Benin City. In a terse statement he signed tagged: “Breaking Red Alertin Benin, Edo State,” Tanko said: “PO and the leadership of the ADC are undersiege and attack in Benin, Edo State. “At the formal declaration of Olumide Akpata into theAfrican Democratic Congress, armed individuals followed us from the ADCSecretariat to the residence of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. “They shot at the gate and destroyed several vehicles inwhat appears to be a survived assassination attempt on our lives. Democracy isin danger.”

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