Anti-Tinubu Air Passenger Arraigned, Remanded in Custody

 

Anti-Tinubu passenger has been remanded in prison custody.

 

The passenger, Mr. Obiajulu Uja had been aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight, before an incident forced him off the flight.

 

He has been arraigned before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja and remanded in prison custody.

 

His lawyer,  Ejike Ugwu, disclosed this to The PUNCH 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.

 

“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.