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On Friday, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, stated that an investigation has been launched into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo.
Owohunwa stated this during an interview with TV Arise News about the upcoming governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday.
In a viral video, MC Oluomo threatened Igbo residents of Lagos not to vote if they did not support the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
"Please tell them, we have begged them," MC Oluomo said in the video. It is not a fight if they do not vote for us. Tell them that if they don't vote for us, Chukwudi's mother will sit down at home. Do you get what I'm saying? "Please take a seat at home."
We investigating MC Oluomo's threat against Igbo - Lagos CP.
According to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, an investigation into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Lagos State Parks Management Committee has been launched...
Reacting to the threat today, Lagos CP said, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms any act, statement, or an action that could be interpreted as hate speech or that could be interpreted as deepening political tension regardless of the brain that might be behind it. With regards to this specific video you mentioned, it is currently a subject of a detailed investigation.”
Owohunwa also warned all those brewing violence in the state should desist or face the full wrath of the law, adding that the law enforcement agents will not spare any lawbreaker.
“Of course, we are deploying our cyber security access to solve that. And, I can assure you that nobody is above the law. This country is regulated. Anybody that tries to use his position, or his influence on others to deepen hate, or engender political tension which could, of course, snowball into violence, it remains the responsibility and the mandate of the Nigeria Police to investigate such cases.
“This specific one you mentioned will not be in isolation. It is already a subject of review. And it will be in the interest of the actors behind it and all others that might wish to also engage in such ill-informed, indirect action to be very careful, to be firmly warned because in the fullness of time, the full law will take its course and it will be not different in this instance if established,” Owohunwa added.
Nigerians are heading to the polls tomorrow for gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections, as the second leg of the 2023 elections.
(Vanguard)