The Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has lashed out at the reported stoning of President Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy in Kano State, condemning the act by the hoodlums.
Obi and his party regard the action as ‘barbaric and un-Nigerian’ and condemn it in the strongest terms.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Head of Media of LP Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade said the President represents the sovereignty of the Nigerian Nation, and President Muhammadu Buhari particularly, his age considered, is a father figure, an assault on whom, our culture regards as sacrilegious.
Africa Today News, New York controversy has trailed the reported attack on the President’s convoy on Monday in the Hotoro area of Kano.
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Though there are viral videos of the said incident but a spokesperson for the APC presidential campaign council, Bayo Onanuga dismissed the claim of the attack as ‘imaginary’.
In its statement on Tuesday, the Labour Party ‘sympathised’ with the President, and urge law enforcement agencies to rise to the occasion, by appropriately investigating and bringing these violent perpetrators, and their instigators, before the law”.
‘Our future depends on a peaceful and stable polity, and we urge our supporters, and the good people of Nigeria, to remain steadfast and determined in expressing their electoral choice and participating in this process, but never to lose their calm and discretion,’ the statement added.
In another report, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to order the investigations into the attack on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that last Monday, Obi’s convoy was attacked by hoodlums in Katsina on his way to the airport.
The incident has since been condemned by Nigerians and the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council.
According to the campaign team, the said attack occurred after Obi had met with women in a town hall and then held a rally at the Muhammad Dikko Stadium.
SERAP in a statement on Sunday by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, called on President Buhari to direct the Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba, to properly investigate the incident.