The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate,
Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the viral video of the chairman of Lagos State
Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo,
threatening Igbo ahead of the governorship election on Saturday.
Atiku urged the Lagos State government and the police to
ensure that politicians and their proteges submit to the rules of democratic
fair play in the state.
In a trending video, MC Oluomo was seen threatening the Igbo
residing in Lagos State against voting for other political parties.
MC Oluomo said Igbo who would not vote for the All
Progressives Congress, APC, should sit at home.
However, Atiku urged political leaders and their proteges to
desist from promoting violence ahead of Saturday’s election.
In a series of tweets, Atiku wrote: “It is important for
political leaders across the country, especially Lagos State, to desist from
actions that promote election violence, such that can compromise peace, unity
and democracy in our country.
“I am concerned about how lackeys of political leaders in
Lagos State have unabatedly made ethnic slurs aimed at intimidating voters in
the state in tomorrow’s election.
“I have watched with profound disdain a certain video in
circulation where some persons known to be associates of the leaders of the
ruling party in Lagos State are issuing threats against other ethnic groups in
the build-up to the Governorship and State House of Assembly election in the
state tomorrow.
“I condemn this uncivilised behaviour and also condemn the
criminal silence of the security agencies and the political leadership in Lagos
State and Abuja on this development.
“It is, therefore on this note, that I specifically call on
security agencies in the country to ensure that politicians and their protégés
submit to the rules of democratic fair-play across the country, especially in
Lagos State, for the sake of decency and the promotion of peace and unity.”
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ReplyDeleteItbis just starting. When you rigg election for a man who had been promoting the criminal elements in Lagos States over the last 20 years plus and openly protect killers and thieves, what else do you expect? M.C Olueran, had been threatrning the Igbos and no single security agency has invited him...when the mother of all violence breaks out in Lagos evem all those Obas who are complicit in this criminal enterprise in Lagos will have no place to hide
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