Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has condemned the reported stoning of President Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy in Kano State.
Obi and his party call the action “barbaric and un-Nigerian,” and they strongly condemn it.
Diran Onifade, the Head of Media for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, said in a statement on Tuesday that the President represents the sovereignty of the Nigerian nation, and that President Muhammadu Buhari, despite his age, is a father figure, an assault on whom our culture regards as sacrilegious.
Controversy has trailed the reported attack on the President’s convoy on Monday in the Hotoro area of Kano.
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.