By Mr. Obiajulu Uja, an anti-Tinubu traveler on an Abuja-Lagos flight, has been charged before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court in Abuja and held in custody.
Uja (Anti-Tinubu) was removed from a Lagos-Abuja aircraft on Friday night after he began a solitary protest asking that Bola Tinubu never be inaugurated as president on May 29.
In the viral video that went viral on Saturday, it took no fewer than six airport security officers’ efforts to evacuate him after he had delayed the plane for more than an hour as of 7 pm.
According to a copy of the charge sheet seen by our correspondent, Uja was accused of “behavior likely to create a breach of peace pursuant to sections 396, 267, 188, 172, and 144 of the Criminal Code Law,” as well as “public disturbance, resistance to a legitimate arrest, threatening violence, and behavior.”
The attorney stated, “They misled us because yesterday he was transported to Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, Area 11 Abuja, and he was arraigned at the Zuba Magistrates’ Court as a result.”
The attorney, who talked exclusively to our correspondent in Abuja, said that his client had been admitted to the Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, but that neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist was available to evaluate him there.
The attorney, who talked exclusively to our correspondent in Abuja, said that his client had been admitted to the Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, but that neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist was available to evaluate him there.
However, he claimed that although a physician from Abuja’s National Hospital had been requested to check Uja, the effort had sadly been in vain.
“About 3 pm when we were there, they informed us that they intended to charge him in Zuba Magistrates’ Court.
“We informed the court that the same police had invited the doctor to check him and that the same police had swiftly charged him to court rather than waiting for the doctors to examine him.
“Even with the test we conducted, we spent about N40,000 at the Police clinic; we abandoned all of their tests, and they did not give any medication.
“The way the police are handling it makes it seem as though they have an interest in the case since you brought someone to a police clinic and now you’re going to court to inform the judge that you want the individual held in custody so that the investigation can continue.
They hurriedly whisked him out of the hospital, so as of right now we do not know the outcome of the test that was done there, the attorney claimed.
Ugwu added that the hearing for his client’s bail application was scheduled for Thursday.
