Atiku Abubakar Urges Arrest of MC Oluomo Before Reconciliation Talks with Tinubu

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has strongly criticized Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, for his call for national healing following the violent election. Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, described Tinubu’s statement as hypocritical and an afterthought. Shaibu further noted that Tinubu had failed to condemn the physical and verbal assaults committed against voters during the election, and had instead protected transport hooligans, politicians, and traditional leaders in Lagos who were seen on video threatening non-indigenes. Shaibu commended the United States Government for condemning the violent and ethnically charged election in Lagos State, but argued that the US ought to have gone further by mentioning the names of those found culpable and exposing the identities of those it will hit with visa restrictions. He also maintained that there could be no reconciliation without restitution and that Tinubu had shown from his electioneering that he had no plan to unite Nigeria but was only after one thing – power and the resources of Nigeria.