Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate for president, cannot be held responsible for the killing of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate in 2020, according to Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, the chairman of the management committee for Lagos State Parks and Garages.
Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, Tinubu’s rivals in the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, respectively, were playing a political game, according to Oluomo.
The transport manager pointed out that it was unlikely that demonstrators would be killed, the bodies would remain hidden, and the relatives of the victims would not come forward to ask for their loved ones.
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his candidate, Bola Tinubu, were the two individuals he supported during the rally he organized in Lagos on Sunday.
“Where are the bodies and where are they buried?” questioned Oluomo. Have they got family in Nigeria? Has Nigeria paid off the mothers of the demonstrators who died? Why don’t their siblings look for them anywhere—not even on social media? Or will Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President or Chief of Army Staff, order the execution of demonstrators at the (Lekki) Tollgate?
“Everyone should come out. They’re lying to us and trying to discredit the Yorubas. This is a game of politics. Atiku and Obi were the ones who hatched their scheme at the time.
In October 2020, thousands of youths trooped out to the streets in Nigeria and the diaspora, protesting extra-judicial killing by the police, particularly by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Following the shooting at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020, a Judicial Panel was set up by the state government to investigate petitions on police brutality in the state.
The panel submitted two reports — one on police brutality cases and another on the Lekki incident investigation.
The panel listed 10 fatalities arising from the shooting by the Nigerian Military at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020. It also recommended the redeployment and prosecution of the Divisional Police Officer of Maroko Police Station, for the arbitrary shooting and killing of protesters.
Meanwhile, the report had since being a subject of controversy, especially with the Federal Government rejecting the panel report for inconsistencies.
