ANTI-TINUBU AIRLINE PASSENGER WAS CHARGED AND PLACED UNDER ARREST

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.

This was revealed to The Newsmen on Monday by his attorney, Ejike Ugwu.

Uja was removed from a Lagos-Abuja aircraft on Friday night after he began a solitary protest asking that Bola Tinubu never be inaugurated in 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 7pm.

According to a copy of the charge sheet that our journalist saw, Uja was accused of "public nuisance, resistance to a lawful arrest, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace contrary to sections 396, 267,188,172 and 144 of the Penal Code Law."

The lawyer said, "He was arraigned at the Zuba Magistrates' Court after they deceived us because yesterday he was taken to Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, Area 11 Abuja."

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.

"While we were there, it was around 3pm they told us that they wanted to arraign him in Zuba Magistrates' Court.

"We reminded the court that the same police invited the doctor to examine him, and the same police instead of waiting for the doctors to examine him hurriedly charged him to court.

"Even with the test we did, we spent almost N40,000 at the Police clinic, all the tests they conducted we abandoned all of them; they have not prescribed any medicine.

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.