By Richard Ibu, News/Comments
The Director, Strategic Communications & Media Obidient Movement, Nana Kazaure has said that the tendency for the President Tinubu’s administration to bury its head in the sand and play the ostrich has become one of its defining characteristics, stressing however the latest attack on Mr. Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, one of the presidential spokesman, that such attitude betrays a desperate attempt to muzzle free speech as guaranteed in 1999 Constitution (as amended).
According to Kazaure, Mr. Onanuga’s response to Mr Peter Obi’s remarks during a Colloquium, marking the 60th birthday of Emeka Ihedioha, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, where Obi had decried the increasing despotic inclination of the Bola Tinubu-led APC Federal Government, confirmed this tyrannical cast of mind by issuing a veiled threat to H.E. Peter Obi, thereby labelling Obi as a disgruntled politician.
Recall that Mr. Onanuga in his post on X (Formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday asked the former Anambra State governor to watch his mouth:
“I listened multiple times to former Governor Peter Obi’s statement in this clip, where he claims that democracy has collapsed in Nigeria. His hyperbolic remarks, suited for headlines, have been made without deep reflection and lack a solid logical foundation,”
“Only a discontented and disgruntled Peter, who benefits from the very free speech democracy provides, could perceive such a democratic downfall through his lens. If democracy had indeed collapsed, as Peter claims, and we were living under a regime antithetical to democratic principles, he would not have been able to make his comments on Monday,” “I will urge him to watch what he says and restrain himself from playing to the gallery,”
Meanwhile Nana Kazaure in a press release sent to our media stressed the need for the presidential aide to be cautious of his threat:
“As a Movement, we take serious exception to the uncouth threat by this choleric presidential spokesman whose antecedents as an instigator of intolerance and division is well known, recorded and documented.
“Having taken note of Mr. Onanuga’s threat, we ask him the question: “watch his mouth.. or what? What exactly are Onanuga’s plan for H.E. Peter Obi? Or put more directly, what sinister plans has the Tinubu administration for its critics whose ranks swell daily on account of the administration’s cluelessness, and inability to provide sound and qualitative governance for Nigerians? “
“We submit that if the Tinubu administration had invested a quarter of the energy and resources it expends in hounding and demonizing varying opinions through its intemperate spokespersons and numerous cyber Rottweilers, Nigeria would be a far more decent and conducive place to live in.”
“Unfortunately, we are stuck with a government high on talk but miserably low on action or any iota of progress.”
“As millions of Nigerians struggle to come to terms with the hardship, insecurity and dislocation foisted on the nation by ten years of APC misrule, the least that is expected of minions like Mr. Onanuga is to hide their heads in deep reflection on their pathetic complicity in bringing a once thriving country to its knees.”
“The threat issued to H.E. Peter Obi whilst completely in character, should not at all be discountenanced for as the 2023 elections showed, inciting words from highly placed APC officials including Mr. Onanuga himself helped to unleash violence, murder and destruction, as well as ethnic hatred from which Nigeria has yet to recover.”
“We are therefore putting Nigerians and the international community on strong notice that should any harm of any sort befall H.E. Peter Obi, his family or any of his associates, these culprits who have clearly identified themselves by their vitriolic speech, will be held entirely responsible.”
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