The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi,
has reacted to the statement made by his Vice Presidential candidate, Datti
Baba-Ahmed, about the Lekki toll gate shooting during the EndSARS protest.
Recall that Baba-Ahmed, while featuring in an interview
session on the Channels TV programme, Politics Today, last week, claimed the
use of the word ‘massacre’ for the Lekki shooting during the October 2020
#EndSARS protest is debatable.
The assertion attracted negative comments from some
Nigerians, especially the youths, who believed his statement was a denial that
killings took place at the Lekki toll gate.
However, Obi, while fielding questions on the Arise Tv
Morning Show programme on Monday morning, said he was hearing Datti’s statement
about the Lekki shooting for the first time.
He said that so many things were done wrongly in the past
and needed to be apologised for.
“I did not even listen to that; maybe I will go back and
listen to everything. I must tell you, I did not listen to it; I am just
hearing it for the first time. For me, there are things we need to probably
open up tomorrow and look into.
“I have always said, in my reconciliation, we must go back
to certain things and be able to apologise to people because things were done
wrongly. There are so many things that we need to apologise for in this
country”, he said.
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