The Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has said contrary to reports his mobile phones were not stolen at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Tuesday.
Obi's media aide, Tai Obasi, told PUNCH correspondent that the phones in question were actually in the custody of his aide.
It would be recalled that a video of the former Anambra State governor searching for his phones at the tribunal trended online, leading to speculations that it was stolen at the court premises.
Obasi while dismissing the report of the phones being stolen, said it is normal for one to look for an item, especially when one has the notion that it is misplaced.
“To start with, he never lost his phone. What happened is that one of his aides, who usually goes around with him, was with me in the court. Usually, he keeps his phone on the table in front of him. So when his aide noticed that a lot of people were coming to greet him and his mind was off the phone, he took it for safekeeping.
“Unfortunately, the aide wasn’t with him when he started looking for the phone. So he didn’t really know it was the aide that kept it.
“The whole drama didn’t take up to two minutes before the aide, who went to urinate, came back with the phone. But before, Obi’s anxiety over the missing phone became noticeable. I believe that was when whoever took the video came into the picture. The videographer, journalist, or whoever took the viral clip only captured the part where he was looking for the phone and started trending with it. They were circulating the report long before we left the court,” he said.
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