The Chairman of the Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, has called on his members and followers to beat anyone found selling Bola Tinubu’s campaign stickers to the nearest police station.
Oluomo was reacting to a report on social media that some people were selling campaign stickers bearing the image of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu to tricycle (aka keke) drivers for N500 or N1000.
The report followed a trending video showing keke drivers resisting agents forcing them to pay for the stickers.
Someone who posted the video on Twitter claimed the incident happened in the Ajah area of Lagos. He claimed the transport workers charged the drivers N500 per sticker.
However, in an Instagram post on his page, MC Oluomo said the alleged incident must have been orchestrated by opponents as he knew nothing about it.
Speaking in Yoruba, Oluomo told his members and supporters that anywhere they find anyone selling such tickets, they should apprehend him and beat him to the nearest police station as they are thieves.
He said Bola Tinubu had enough people to support him with funds to prosecute his ambition and would not levy struggling transport workers. He added that neither would he, Oluomo, levy anyone because he was not poor.
To accompany the video, he wrote the following:
“My attention has yet again been drawn to a video clip circulating online showing an altercation between two people as regards a sticker.
It came to me as a surprise seeing that people were attaching the video to me and were also quick to state that it was a campaign fee to support the election of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Naturally I would have just ignored knowing that it’s the handiwork of naysayers. Being in an election session, I also know their malicious intentions and the cheap political goal they aim to get with the video. I am however compelled for the sake of clarity to set the record straight.
I did not know anything about the said sticker, neither did I sanction the sale. I would appreciate additional information as regards the location where the incident happened so that we can conduct thorough investigation.
We are against anything that would hamper the free flow of business activities or bring hardship upon our people. May I also inform the public that the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has more than enough people willing to finance his campaign and such money would not come from me or my office.
I want to urge our people to be vigilant and remember that we are in an election period, as such, political parties would be looking for ways, both ethical and unethical, to outsmart themselves. I however implore them to leave me out of their political permutations and stop maligning my name for the sake of cheap popularity.”
