Olisah Metuh, a former national publicity secretary for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), responded to remarks made by Reno Omokri, a former presidential advisor, that were directed at the Igbo people.
This comes after Omokri advised Igbos to leave Lagos in a series of social media posts after they decided to back Peter Obi over Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the upcoming 2023 presidential election.
Omokri had said in a Facebook post: “You rage against Tinubu. You insult his ethnicity (who are the most accommodating people in Nigeria and perhaps Africa). You accuse him of using MC Oluomo. You say Obi is far better than Tinubu. You say Obi will turn Nigeria into paradise. Yet, you remain in Lagos and refuse to leave Lagos for the paradise that Obi created in Anambra! The only reason I am against Tinubu is because as a drug lord, he can be blackmailed by foreign intelligence services. Otherwise, he performed as Lagos Governor. If you maintain that Obi did better than Tinubu, prove it by packing your kaya and relocate to Anambra!”
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In response to the statement, the PDP leader emphasized that if Omokri is not restrained, his comments and other similar tweets he shares will be misconstrued as the party’s official stance.
Furthermore, he insisted that the former Goodluck Jonathan assistant is not a part of the PDP presidential campaign committee and has instead been using his connections to the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to spew hate speech and disparage Igbo people.
“The time has come for the Peoples Democratic Party to issue a disclaimer to Reno Omokri’s posts. Whilst he is not a member of the Presidential Campaign team, his closeness to the Presidential candidate and his open support for the party may mislead people to believe his posts as representating (sic) the views of the Party.
“There is no way any responsible or respectable democrat can condone such insensitivity. We did not join politics to mock or disparage any set of individuals, least of all a whole tribe. The founding fathers of the PDP had noble ideals and its ideals and values should not be desecrated by any individual, on the altar of a false strategy to engineer hatred against any tribe or stroke an ethnic contest. We all should insist on an issue based campaign,” Metuh wrote in a Facebook post.
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Since Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra state, left the PDP to run for president on the platform of the Labour party, Anaedoonline.ng learns that Omokri has regularly targeted Peter Obi and his followers on social media.
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