CHUDE, AN OBI SUPPORTER, WAS ARRESTED AFTER SAYING TINUBU CALLED EMEKA OFFOR

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail in the sum of N10 million to Chude Nnamdi, a strong supporter of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi.

Chude got himself into problems after making a remark regarding All Progressives Congress (APC) President-elect Bola Tinubu.

According to the youth, Tinubu called business mogul Emeka Offor and begged Obi, a former Anambra governor, to accept the election outcome he described as "manipulated."

"So @officialBAT called Emeka Offor to beg Peter Obi to accept the rigged result," he wrote on Twitter last month.

"If he is sure the people voted for APC and he won the election, why is he running around pleading with everyone to help beg Peter Obi to accept the result?"

Chude, who has over 200,000 followers, was charged before Justice Gladys Olotu on Thursday. He entered a not guilty plea to one count of cyberstalking.

Justice Olotu further ordered him to present one surety, who must be a level 14 civil servant or a landed property owner in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the judge postponed the trial to May 17, 2023.

The complainant, the Inspector-General of Police, filed the FHC/ABJ/CR/130/2023 complaint against Chude as the lone defendant.

According to the charge filed on April 17, he willfully published a tweet under his Twitter account "Chude" via computer system and network on March 13.

"...For the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to the person of Dr. Emeka Offor," it reads.

The police claimed Chude, who was arrested in Anambra, engaged in cyberstalking, which is criminal under Section 24 (1)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, and Punishment) Act, 2015.