LAGOS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION: DESPITE XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS, POLICE ONLY DETAINED ONE IGBO GUY - SOWORE

Omoyele Sowore

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, has criticized Nigerian security agencies for their conduct in the 2023 gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections.

During the February 25 and March 18 elections, the police and other security agencies were accused of working against the voters.

Sowore questioned why those who stormed polling stations and voters, and even threatened Igbos, were not imprisoned in video footage that circulated on social media.

The threat given to non-indigenes of Lagos by the State's Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, commonly known as MC Oluomo, was even labeled as a joke by the police.

Sowore stated that instead of arresting individuals inciting the Yoruba against the Igbo, the only person detained was an Anambra State social media influencer.

The gubernatorial election in Lagos State in 2023 was plagued by a high level of violence and intimidation.

Some of the attacks on voters and electoral materials occurred in full view of security officials.

Thugs were deployed before and during the elections to threaten, instill fear, and coerce locals to vote for a specific political party or not vote at all.

He said, "After all the xenophobic attacks on Igbos in Lagos during last weekend's charade called 'elections' isn't it funny that the only person in @PoliceNG custody is a young guy, a social media influencer, @chude_ from Anambra accused of cybercrime?

"Not a single person in Lagos arrested for attempted murder, conduct likely to breach public peace, vote-buying, election rigging, arson, affray...not even any reported arrest for two- fighting? #Revolutionnow."