Keyamo accuses Obi of hypocrisy over Flamingos airport claim

Aviation and Aerospace Development Minister Festus Keyamo has accused Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, of hypocrisy after Obi said officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) stopped him from greeting the Flamingos at an airport.

Obi said in a post on X on Monday that he arrived at the airport around 7 a.m. to catch a flight to Enugu and saw the Under-17 women’s team, who had just returned from winning the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco. He said NFF officials asked that he not approach the players because they would lose their jobs if he did.

Reacting on his own X account the same day, Keyamo questioned why Obi, who he said often describes Nigeria as finished, was now keen to be linked with a success story of the country and the Tinubu administration. “So, why are you now so anxious to associate with a success story of the country or this government? Just for photo ops? You see the hypocrisy?” he wrote, according to The Eagle Online.

Daily Trust also reported Keyamo’s remarks. The reports did not include a response from the NFF to Obi’s account.