2027: Obidients call for vigilance after NURTW leader’s death threat

By John Alechenu, Abuja

Supporters of the Labour Party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, nether the aegis of the Obidient Movement, person urged members and Nigerians astatine ample to stay vigilant up of the 2027 wide elections.

The telephone followed an alleged menace by the Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Adekunle Mustapha, popularly known arsenic Sego, to “kill” anyone who votes against the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Lagos during the 2027 elections.

National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, made this known successful a connection issued successful Abuja connected Friday. He stressed that the threat, which was captured connected video, indispensable not beryllium taken lightly, fixed the antecedents of immoderate NURTW leaders and their alleged links to convulsive attacks during the 2023 elections.

Tanko recalled however Labour Party supporters, particularly successful Lagos, were attacked, maimed, and successful immoderate cases killed, during the 2023 polls. He warned that specified threats could trigger a repetition of electoral unit if unchecked.

“The NURTW is expected to beryllium a registered commercialized union, but implicit the years it has go associated with governmental violence, extortion, and thuggery. Its usage arsenic a governmental instrumentality for corrupt and failed politicians indispensable travel to an end,” helium said.

The Obidient Movement called connected President Bola Tinubu, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Police, DSS, Military, and different information agencies to instantly apprehension and prosecute the NURTW president and others progressive successful politically motivated violence.

Tanko besides appealed to the planetary assemblage to clasp Nigerian authorities accountable and to guarantee that the 2027 elections are free, fair, transparent, and credible.

He warned that if instrumentality enforcement agencies neglect to act, citizens mightiness beryllium forced to edifice to self-defense, which could plunge the federation into anarchy.

“The Obidient Movement urges Nigerians to stay calm but alert, and to study immoderate threats oregon incidents to the authorities. For the avoidance of doubt, successful accordance with the Constitution and Electoral laws, the 2027 elections indispensable person zero tolerance for rigging, manipulation, oregon governmental violence,” Tanko said.

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