Lagos guber election: MC Oluomo Igbo threat a joke – Police

The Nigeria Police Force has responded to the threats made against Igbos in the state by the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo.

Adejobi Olumuyiwa, a spokesman for the force, called MC Oluomo’s threat against Igbos a joke.

A video had surfaced online of MC Oluomo threatening Igbos in Lagos State against voting for another political party.

MC Oluomo advised Igbos who would not support the All-Progressives Congress, APC, to stay at home.

Responding to this, the Force Public Relations Officer said nobody has the right to prohibit the people of Lagos from voting for the candidate of their choice.

Olumuyiwa told viewers watching Channels Television that the Lagos State Police Command has launched an inquiry into MC Oluomo’s inciting remarks.

He said: “I saw a video of MC Oluomo with one mama Chidinma – an Igbo woman debunking that threat, that it’s not true, it’s just a joke he was making with a particular woman. So, let us take it as a joke, like he said.

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“But, nobody has the right and audacity to tell Nigerians not to come out and vote; it’s not allowed and not proper. MC Oluomo has come out to debunk it, so let’s leave it that it’s not true.

“The Commissioner of Police in Lagos had debunked it, and MC Oluomo himself has done the same, so Lagosians should go out and vote for the candidate of their choice.”