‘There was plan to assassinate me’ – Peter Obi

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.

‘There was plan to assassinate me’ – Peter Obi