Foreign Affairs Minister Speaks on Being Suspended for Rejecting APC Request to Blackmail Peter Obi

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has denied reports making the rounds of social media that he was suspended by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for rejecting an order to blackmail the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the February 25th election, Peter Obi, in the United States.

News broke earlier this week that Geoffrey Onyeama was sent to the US to blackmail the former governor of Anambra State.

However, the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francisca Omayuli, in a statement on Saturday, described the allegations as mischievous and untrue.

She urged the general public to disregard the allegation.

The statement read, “The attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to a story circulating on social media that the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Geoffrey Onyeama, has been suspended by his party, the All Progressives Congress because as alleged, ‘he was sent to the United States to blackmail Peter Obi, and he declined the request’.

“The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs states that there is no iota of truth to the mischievous allegations.

“The general public is, therefore, called upon to disregard the story.”