*The Identity Duplication: British Authorities have Questions to Answer.*

POEM Insists...

In the writing world, Frederick Forsyth stands out as a thriller and espionage maestro, who masterfully blends facts with fiction. Most of his works are fiction but in them, he teaches well-researched facts that the reader tends to feel the stories are real. One of such novels is The Day Of The Jackal, a bestseller published in 1971 and adapted into the blockbuster movie released two years later.

Reading any work of the British literary legend underscores the professional precision of a seasoned investigative journalist, who lived and still lives a writer's life - obeying the oracle in him. The oracle that stands firmly for what is just without bending, however intense the pressure. That oracle prevented him from reporting the Nigerian Civil War the way his government sent him to. He rather reported facts and earned his integrity as a man who lived and still lives above board.

In The Day Of The Jackal, published 10 years before the internet, Forsyth took readers to the journey of the extra mile required in getting a British passport that can pass immigrations across Europe and America. It was impossible to get a fake British passport that could fool the computers at Heathrow, Gatwick or any other international airport in the Queen's enclave. This was over 50 years ago. Today, in the world of internet, GSM and biometrics, it has become far more difficult.

So, whoever doubled as HE Peter Obi couldn't have obtained a British passport. If he did, then the British Immigration authorities would know about it and possibly collaborated. And if anybody was cloning the identity of the most popular presidential candidate of an election held as recently as February 25, arrests should have been made and the real person notified of attempts to defraud him via impersonation or any other sinister move.

If the impersonator was using a Nigerian passport, well, part of corruption in Nigeria is that anybody can allegedly obtain a Nigerian passport in any name once the right money is paid. Even the biometric data processing as is being done presently has not prevented this anomaly from becoming a daily occurrence.

However, to impersonate Obi in the United Kingdom, the impersonator would require a British visa. British High Commission in Abuja and Lagos issue visas for entry from Nigeria into Britain. Now, how could the embassy in Nigeria have issued visa to a man holding a passport in the name of a man like the Labour Party presidential candidate without raising eyebrows? When was the visa application made? What address? When was the visa issued? When did same impersonator leave Nigeria? If the Directorate of State Services, DSS are truly interested in arresting anybody since February 25, this is the time to make some harvests.

Whichever way one looks at it, the British Authorities are involved. OBIdients and well-meaning Nigerians need answers. Why they voted in the contentious election is to sweep away this drug-style level of corrupt and criminal manipulation in our society and they will not take kindly to any complicity from any department of our colonial masters. The British High Commissioner in Nigeria should better start explaining and fast.

This is POEM.

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Taofeeki Olaniyi

Photoshop is way above your pay grade.