Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The Department of State Services (DSS) has nabbed the person that attacked the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), now an African Democratic Congress (ADC) member, Peter Obi, in Benin.
Recall that Obi, a former governor of Edo State, John Oyegun, other chieftains and members of the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC), on February 24, escaped attack in Benin.
Truth Live News Media reports that Chief John Odigie Oyegun earlier expressed doubt on the ability of the security agenecies to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to book.
Shortly after the attack, Udeme Monday Stephen, posted on his X account @stevetom788, claiming to be responsible for the attack and threatened further attacks on Obi.
Stephen allegedly stated online that Obi was lucky to have escaped in Benin, and vowed that the former presidential candidate wouldn’t be that lucky next time.
“We warned Obi against his entrance into Edo State, but he mistook our resolve for his Obidiots online noise. Thank his stars he (Obi) survived this one…
“I learnt he’s going to my Rivers State… Na my men go handle that one and dem no dey miss target… Speak no peace to a bastard and wish him no long life, for he’s destined to die,” posted Udeme.”
A top security source disclosed that, no sooner had Stephen issued the threat than DSS operatives began covert investigation, deploying forensic analysis to track and arrest him.
The source disclosed that the suspect, Udeme Monday Stephen, 26, teaches at Jessica High School in Eliozu, Rivers State, in Umuehere Community, in Obio-Akpor LGA of the state.
“I strongly believe that the outcome of the agency’s forensic investigations implicated the suspect,” the source stressed
“You know that, as a responsible security organisation saddled with the task of counter-espionage, VIP protection, among other asset protection duties, the DSS is always alive to its responsibility of investigating credible intelligence, irrespective of tribe or religion.
“They swiftly deployed operatives and the man who threatened Peter Obi was nabbed and is in custody,” the source declared, adding that Stephen would soon be charged to court”.
