Osita Okechukwu, the director-general of Voice of Nigeria,
VON, has said Femi Fani-Kayode and Bayo Onanuga are not speaking for
president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to Okechukwu, the inciting and tribal sentiments
being shared by these people does not reflect the position of Tinubu, who he,
[Osita] claimed to know very well.
Following the conclusion of Saturday’s Governorship election
in Lagos State, Onanuga warned Igbos against “interfering” with politics in the
state.
According to him, ”2023 should be the last time Igbos interfere
in Lagos politics”, adding that the state belongs to Yoruba.
Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister has also been very
active on social media making offensive comments and ethnic profiling which
have even come to the knowledge of the British High Commission in Nigeria.
Appearing on Arise TV on Tuesday, Okechukwu condemned the
comments by the spokespersons of Tinubu and APC, saying that he has lived in
the South West for twenty-nine years without encountering any issues with the
Yorubas.
“For somebody like myself, I lived 35 years in the North and
29 years in the South East and five years in the South West. Will I today start
condensing a Northerner? The paper that brought me to Abuja was signed by a
Yoruba man.
“So I’ll now castigate the Yorubas? Or the Hausa people who
are my close friends? It’s condemnable that instead of telling people what our
government has achieved…they don’t even know what we’ve achieved. Instead of
canvassing it they’re engaging in premodal sentiments. It’s very unfortunate.
“I can’t support that. Yesterday, Obama went to Ghana and
today Kamala Harris has gone to Ghana. Let’s begin to look back, why are we
being spurned? If you spurn yourself you are about to be spurned. So I’ll never
encourage the rascality. The president-elect that I know does not reflect such
statements.
“I don’t think that’s what they’re saying…after all if you
know my friend Fani-Kayode he came from the PDP. So, these are some of those
people who transferred[from the PDP to APC]. So, I don’t think his statements
reflect Asiwaju’s own position.”
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