Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Lagos, Chief Olabode George has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to order for allegedly sponsoring thugs to attack Igbo traders in Lagos.
In a Wednesday statement, George said the practice of using thugs and street urchins to unleash terror on Igbo traders for voting against the APC was against the spirit of Lagos, describing the act as “reprehensible, condemnable, sickening and very dangerous.”
He said Buhari needed to call Tinubu, who was Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, to order before his alleged actions plunge the nation into another civil war.
The statement read in part, “This clearly ill-advised jungle justice on fellow Nigerians whose offense is basically the fact that they voted according to their conscience is capable of provoking a reprisal attack and a greater cataclysm that may graduate into a fury that no one would be able to control.
“Since yesterday I have been talking to various stakeholders from the South East to be restrained and calm and not to let the unfortunate incident widen into another violent scenario that may consume the nation itself.
“I am appealing to President Buhari to call Bola Tinubu to order lest his reckless penchant of mobilizing thugs against all perceived enemies does not ricochet into the tragedies of 1962 and 1963 which eventually triggered the Nigerian Civil war.
“Lagos is a mini Nigeria. It is the most accommodating and the most friendly entity in the Nigerian space. We welcome everyone with vivid embrace and with sincerity of purpose. We are the Nigerian melting pot, encouraging traders and various merchants to bring their gods for sale. We do not discriminate.
“If we had discriminated against Tinubu himself, he could never have risen to the level of relevance which he has achieved today in our Lagos.
“We need peace in Lagos. We do not need hired hands sponsored to disrupt business activities of fellow Nigerians.”
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