Trader arrested for naming pet dog 'Buhari'

A trader who named his pet dog Alhaji Buhari
has been arrested by the police in Ogun State
and would soon be charged to court.
 Vanguard reports that Chinakwe was arrested
after the neighbour made a complaint at the
Sango-Ota Division that his neighbour named his
dog after his father who is called Alhaji Buhari.
According to reports, efforts by the police to
also 'arrest' the dog which they intended using
as evidence in charging Chinakwe to court, was
thwarted after the suspect directed his friends
to kill the dog in order to avoid being implicated.
And for his cleverness, the trader has been
transferred to State Police Command
headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, where he
is being detained and bail has been denied, just
as plans are being made to charge him to court
for treason for giving his dog the same name
that the president of Nigeria bears, seeing it as
treasonable felony.
But relatives of Chinakwe believe their brother
is just being persecuted for no just cause as he
has committed no offence.
One of such relatives, Chiedozie , spoke on
behalf of the family:
“Chinakwe is a lover of dogs and he names them
after things that tickle him. He bought this dog a
year ago and named it Buhari.
Unfortunately, some Northerners who dominate
the vicinity where he resides, misconstrued his
intention and connived to take him up.
 Confirming Chinakwe's arrest, the State Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola
Oyeyemi , said:
“He didn't only name the dog Buhari, but boldly
wrote Buhari on the body of both sides of the dog
and was seen parading the neighbourhood
dominated by Northerners with it.
We are charging him to court for conduct likely
to cause a breach of peace. » You know an
average Northerner will feel bad over such a
thing.
It can cause serious ethnic crisis or religious
confrontation because when you are relegating
such a name to a certain person, you are
indirectly insulting him.”