2023 Elections: I’m Sad, Pained By Electoral Violence, Ethnic Profiling – Tinubu

President-elect Bola Tinubu has expressed regret over the electoral violence and divisive racial slurs that plagued the recently concluded Governorship and Houses of Assembly elections across the country.

“I’m saddened by the reported isolated infractions during the elections and its aftermath in some states,” the president-elect said in a statement on Tuesday.

Mr Tinubu claimed he was firmly condemning the violence while failing to mention his key buddy and notorious Lagos thug, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, and his top assistant, Bayo Onanuga, whose anti-Igbo racial remarks sparked violence against Igbos in Lagos.

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“Also, the report of arson after the announcement of governorship results in one state did not represent who we truly are: peace-loving people,” he added.

He further added that, “The physical and verbal assaults committed are unacceptable and antithetical to democratic ethos. I am particularly pained by cases of ethnic slurs, which are capable of creating needless mis-characterisation reported in some locations.”

Mr Tinubu’s declaration comes after gubernatorial and Houses of Assembly elections in 28 states ended on March 18, which were plagued by violence and voter intimidation in Lagos and other areas of the country.

The United States stated on Tuesday that it was alarmed by extensive examples of racially motivated voting suppression in Lagos during the March 18 governorship election, and that such behavior would not go unpunished.

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In Lagos, gangs of APC thugs roamed the streets, telling anyone who would not vote for their party to stay at home.

Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, a renowned Lagos and APC thug, had already threatened Igbos in the state to remain home if they did not vote for the APC in the gubernatorial race.

On Sunday, Peoples Gazette claimed that Bayo Onanuga, Mr Tinubu’s top assistant who is likely to play a crucial role in the incoming administration, used Twitter to spread vile anti-Igbo ethnic stereotypes.

“Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics,” Mr Onanuga said, tweeting a photo of Peter Obi, an Igbo from Anambra, who backed Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a Yoruba from Lagos, in the Saturday’s election. “Let there be no repeat in 2027.”

Mr Onanuga’s toxic ethnic slurs against Igbos were condemned, and he dug down on his position, calling Igbos as “existential threats to Yorubas.”

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Contrary to Mr Onanuga’s assertion, Igbos and Yorubas have coexisted peacefully in Lagos and throughout the country, with members of both tribe voting against the APC in the recently concluded 2023 general election.

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