Popular social media influencer and former aide to
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has condemned the attack on Labour
Party’s factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa, at the Presidential Petition
Tribunal.
Omokri on Wednesday disclosed this through his verified
Twitter handle.
Recall that Apapa was attacked by supporters of his rival,
Julius Abure, shortly after the duo had an altercation over a sitting position
at the tribunal.
Omokri, reacting to the development, said it would have been
better to ignore Apapa than to attack him over political differences.
He stressed that the action has shown that some Nigerians
are not different from some officials in the Nigeria Police Force in the habit
of dehumanizing citizens.
“Almost daily, Nigerians come on social media to complain
about police brutality. But look at what Nigerians did to Lamidi Apapa, a
factional national chairman of the Labour Party at the PEPC today. If many of
us are given the power the police have, we will do far worse than their
complained behaviour. There is a Seun Kuti in most of us. It would have even
been better to have ignored Lamidi Apapa if you disagreed with him. Treat him
like a pariah. But to mob him in front of a court? Very undemocratic,” he
wrote.
On Wednesday, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal
resumed hearing in a suit of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate
challenging the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 25th February election.
Meanwhile, the hearing was adjourned until Friday.
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