The Labour Party(LP) has warned that the desperation by the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to grab power at all cost in 2023 may trigger widespread violence in the country.
Chief Spokesperson of the LP, presidential campaign council, Yunusa Tanko in a statement on Thursday cautioned that Tinubu’s speech in a London restaurant is capable of propelling massive violence in the 2023 general elections.
It said that the APC presidential candidate made the assertion in a London restaurant while addressing his supporters in the diaspora and the video is in the public domain.
Tanko made this disclosure in an interview with journalists in Abuja after carefully examining Tinubu’s speech where he declared that political power should be “grabbed and you run away with it.”
The LP Chief Spokesman said “this coming from a presidential candidate is too unpresidential gentlemen of the press, how can a man who wants to govern over 200 million Nigerians use such words.”
“I don’t think it’s appropriate to go to a civilised clime and start talking about power grabbing in a UK restaurant for that matter and I very much doubt whether the APC presidential candidate has even bothered to sign the peace accord for 2003 polls.
“If he has done it, then his vituperations on grabbing power come what may is uncalled for because this is capable of making his supporters have that mind-set on using violence to deliver votes.
“Elections must be conducted in a violence-free environment and Tinubu saying things like this is really unpalatable barely three months to the presidential election.