Leading opposition figure and Labour Party candidate at Nigeria’s last presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has doubled down on his condemnation of what he called the “distasteful comments” of a Nigerian woman living in Canada.
Posting on his confirmed X handle this afternoon, Mr. Obi insisted that he would not pander to the wish of the others who argue that Mrs. Sennberger was merely reacting to those who had sustained their negative ethnic profiling of South Easterners.
“While condemning such a level of tribal and religious division, I have received a barrage of reactions from people, many of who tried to justify their actions.
Some explained that her comments were in reaction to earlier hateful comments made by another Nigerian and reportedly directed at other Nigerians of the Igbo ethnicity which I also now condemn in the strongest terms,” he insisted.
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The former Anambra state Governor states, “As I mentioned then, and still maintain now, tribal tension and religious division must not be allowed to grow among us.”
“Such divisive and hateful comments and behaviours against one another should have no place among us,” he admonished.
It would be recalled that the last national election was marred by a lot of ethnic attacks and profiling was directed at the Igbo, Mr. Obi’s ethnicity, especially in Lagos state.
Unlike his opponent, Mr. Bola Tinubu who was a direct beneficiary of such tribal attacks, Mr. Obi vehemently opposed the divisive acts during electioneering and and now.
“We must remain one united nation, focused on solving the myriads of challenges facing us as a nation.”
We must unite against further polarisation of our nation along tribal, religious and political lines, and focus on finding lasting solutions to the challenges of high insecurity, unbearable high cost of living and leadership failure that has continued to weigh us down,” he concluded.
