Nigeria is bleeding – APC chieftain Babafemi Ojudu reacts to 'assault' on Tinubu's convoy

Former presidential media aide and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has condemned the alleged assault on President Bola Tinubu’s convoy by some Muslim youths in Abuja.

Reports emerged on Friday night time that some worshippers on the newly renovated Shehu Shagari Central Mosque in Abuja allegedly threw stones on the president’s convoy shortly after Friday prayers.

A video exhibiting some youths booing Tinubu and chanting rejection slogans as his convoy departed the mosque has since gone viral on social media, regardless of makes an attempt by the Presidency to dismiss reviews of an assault.

Reacting in an announcement issued on Saturday, Ojudu condemned the rising wave of political violence throughout the nation, warning that Nigeria was bleeding.

Ojudu additionally expressed concern over the assault on supporters of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, throughout a political gathering in Lagos on Thursday.

He mentioned the incidents, although totally different of their circumstances, mirrored a harmful development that required pressing nationwide consideration.

The assertion partly reads: “Nigeria is bleeding. At a time of hardship, insecurity and deepening public frustration, our politics is becoming dangerously combustible. Political meetings are attacked, campaign vehicles burnt, billboards destroyed, and citizens threatened for their choices.

“Every incident invitations one other grievance, one other accusation, one other promise of retaliation. We should act earlier than the scattered fires turn into a nationwide conflagration.

“Reports that stones were thrown at the convoy have been disputed by presidential aides, notwithstanding several video clips circulating. This requires transparent investigation.

“Let us be clear: residents have the proper to reject a president politically, voice their grievances, and marketing campaign towards his re-election. Peaceful dissent is a democratic proper.

“Throwing stones at anyone, including the President, is violence. Equally, citizens attending an opposition meeting are exercising a constitutional freedom. Attacking them is an assault on that freedom. Neither public anger nor party loyalty confers a licence to injure.

“The President should be secure among the many folks he governs. The folks should be secure once they disagree with him.

“That is the democratic standard we must defend together.”