Nollywood filmmaker and former Managing Director of Daar Communications, Don Pedro Obaseki, has recounted his traumatic expertise following his alleged abduction and assault on Sunday, December 28, 2025, in Benin Metropolis, Edo State.
DAILY POST reported that youths suspected to be thugs reportedly assaulted Dr Don Pedro Obaseki, a cousin of former Edo State governor Godwin Obaseki.
Explaining the encounter in element, Obaseki stated: “In the present day at about 11–11:30, whereas taking part in soccer with my soccer mates at UBA Major College in Benin, the place was attacked by assailants.
“I used to be bodily kidnapped, mainly kidnapped. A few of them had been holding weapons and a few of them had been non-folks. I’ve their names.
“They hogged me by the streets of Benin beneath the guise that that they had been despatched to come back and abduct me by the palace of the Oba of Benin.
“I begged them to indicate me some type of ID. I used to be dragged, overwhelmed severely, manhandled, and dragged by the streets as much as the place I used to be stripped bare and brought into the palace of the Oba of Benin, the place I used to be made to kneel in public.”
He additional expressed: “I’ve by no means been so humiliated as a result of I’m who I’m, due to my nativity. I’ve served my tradition. I don’t know what to say. I used to be later launched and brought to the police station, the place the Commissioner of Police got here inside two hours. He got here to see me 3 times earlier than he ordered my launch from the police station at Oba Market. From the chiefs I met on the palace, it was clear they didn’t ship these individuals on this mission.”
Obaseki additionally indicated a doable purpose for the assault, linking it to a cultural misunderstanding, saying: “I’m traumatised. And I heard that my sin was that I went to London and made a public assertion that ‘Could Edo individuals reside lengthy and prosper.’ That I ought to have stated, ‘Could the Oba reside lengthy and prosper.’ That my saying ‘could Edo individuals reside lengthy and prosper’ is a cardinal sin in Benin, for me who’ve elevated the tradition of the Benin race in my 35 to 40 years because the pioneer of the current.”
