Anti-Tinubu air passenger arraigned, remanded in custody

Anti-Tinubu passenger aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight, Mr
Obiajulu Uja,  has been arraigned before
the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja and remanded in prison custody.

His lawyer,  Ejike
Ugwu, disclosed this to on Monday.

Uja was on Friday evening carried off a Lagos-Abuja flight,
after he started a lone protest, demanding that the President-elect, Bola
Tinubu, must never be sworn in as president on May 29.

In the viral video that made the rounds on Saturday, it took
the efforts of no fewer than six airport security officers to evacuate him
after holding up the aircraft for more than an hour, as the 6pm flight had yet
to move as of 7pm.

A copy of the charge sheet sighted by our correspondent
showed that  Uja was charged with “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.”

The lawyer, who exclusively spoke to our correspondent in
Abuja noted that his client, was admitted at the Muhammadu Buhari Police
Hospital, adding that the hospital did not have a psychiatrist doctor and
psychologist that to examine him.

He, however, said a doctor was invited from National
Hospital, Abuja to examine Uja but the efforts unfortunately was futile.

 “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.

“The way the police are handling it is as if they have an
interest in the matter because you took somebody to a police clinic, you are
coming to court to tell the court you want the person to be remanded in prison
because you want to continue the investigation.

“Until now we do not know the result of the test that was
conducted in the hospital because they hurriedly took him away from the
hospital,” the lawyer said,

Ugwu further noted that his client’s bail application was
coming up on Thursday.