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Atiku warns ‘tribal bigots’ Fani-Kayode, Onanuga against ‘inciting’ hate speech against Ndigbo
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned the spokesmen for Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga and Femi Fani-Kayode against inciting speeches against the Igbo in Lagos
The former vice president in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, said their statements were a reflection of their principal who two days after the elections, had failed to condemn the violence.
Atiku stated that the Nigerian constitution permits anyone in every part of the country to vote and be voted for regardless of religion, gender and tribe.
He said what Tinubu had done was to return and reverse some of the democratic gains that Nigeria had made.
He said: “Bayo Onanuga, a hitherto respected journalist who claimed to have contributed to the fight against dictatorship, is now supporting injustice and attacks on the Igbo for daring to vote in Lagos. This is what happens when you associate yourself with Bola Tinubu. Your mind and soul get corrupted.
“For Fani-Kayode, a man who was Nnamdi Kanu’s handbag, he has suddenly become an ethnic supremacist, encouraging the suppression of the Igbo people in Lagos all in a bid to impress his paymaster We never expected much from this Jekyll and Hyde.
“What the tribal bigots like Bayo Onanuga and Fani-Kayode will not tell you is that Ireti Kingibe, a Yoruba woman, has just been elected into the Senate to represent the FCT.
Atiku also lambasted Tinubu’s campaign for calling on the National Broadcasting Commission to fine TV and radio stations that continue to invite Peter Obi of the Labour Party for interviews challenging Tinubu’s legitimacy.
Atiku commended rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), for asking a Federal High Court to bar the NBC from suspending the licence of broadcast stations
He said: “Tinubu’s campaign team has already given us a glimpse of what his administration will look like. It will be about the suppression of voters’ rights, unimaginable corruption, repression of freedom of speech, and a total compromise of government agencies.
“For a man who rose to power over the claim that he led the struggle for the actualization of the June 12 mandate, this is another Nigerian tragedy.”
mickykarim
March 21, 2023 at 1:27 pm
Atiku ASSOCIATED HIMSELF WITH Tinubu WHEN HE BEGGED THE LATER FOR A PLATFORM FOR HIS ENDLESS UNENDING PERENIAL MORIBUN INORDINATE PRESIDENIAL CHASE. Tinubu WAS NOT A TRIBAL BIGOT THEN AND WORTHY TO BE HIS ASSOCIATE AT HIS CONVENIENT TIME.
Atiku has been DEAF and DUMB to the wrongful claim of the biafraudulent people over Lagos and guess what, that is not HATE speech.
CLAIMING AND SAYING WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU, BELONGS TO NOBODY SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOURS. LAGOS IS Yoruba LAND AND YOU CAN TAKE A JUMP INTO THE NEAREST LAKE.
The question to ask the bad sour sore perennial loser presidency chaser remains if a Yoruba man or any other ethnic nationality in Nigeria could possibly go contest political and elective offices in the East in ipob biafraud land.
CAN ANY MEMBER OF OTHER NATIONALITY ASIDE FROM THE ROGUE Igbo STOCK CONTEST FOR POLITICAL OFFICES IN Anambra Imo and or any part of the biafraud enclaves and or clans?
THE ABOVE BEGS FOR AN ANSWER FROM A MYOPIC ILL WISHER Atiku.
Maybe a biafraud element can contest and aspire for both elective and political office in Adamawa where Atiku is from.
THE HYPOCRITE UNFIT UNWORTHY Atiku SHOULD SHUT HIS TRAP, PLEASE.