The Obidient Motion on Friday known as on President Bola Tinubu, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, the Division of State Companies, DSS, and different safety companies to arrest and prosecute the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Highway Transport Employees, NURTW, Adekunle Mustapha aka Sego.
It stated Sego must be arrested and prosecuted for threatening to kill anyone who votes towards the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State in 2027.
Reacting to a video displaying Sego issuing the menace, the motion stated Sego’s motion is components of determined makes an attempt engineered by the APC as a result of the celebration doesn’t have the voting energy nor fashionable assist to win free and honest elections in Lagos State.
The assertion signed by the Motion’s Nationwide Coordinator, Tanko Yunusa, learn: “The eye of the Obidient Motion has been drawn to feedback, properly captured on video, by the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Highway Transport Employees Adekunle Mustapha aka Sego.
“In abstract, the stated Sego, who masquerades as a Labour Union chief, threatened to kill anybody who votes towards the APC in Lagos, in the course of the subsequent elections, scheduled for 2027.
“The Obidient Motion remembers with grief and unhappiness, the violence unleashed by this identical NURTW members and different thugs, in the course of the 2023 elections, on Nigerian voters in Lagos, notably members of the Obidient Motion and supporters of Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Social gathering, ensuing within the recorded killing and maiming of so many.
“There is no such thing as a doubt by any means that these threats and acts of homicide and brigandage are determined makes an attempt engineered by the APC, realizing that they don’t have the voting energy nor fashionable assist to win any elections, free and honest in Lagos, as with usually throughout the nation, having didn’t ship good governance arising from their questionable mandate within the 2023 elections.
“Through the years, actions of homicide, thuggery, political violence, extortion and different felony acts have continued to be related and even accepted as a part of the operation of the NURTW in Lagos.
“We’re by this assertion calling the eye of President Bola Tinubu, who bears statutory and historic accountability for this growth, the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Police, DSS, Navy and all different safety companies to instantly impact the arrest, detention and prosecution of this NURTW Chairman, and all others who’ve been lengthy concerned within the perpetration of those threats, murders and politically associated felony acts.”
Yunusa additionally known as the eye of the worldwide group to Sego’s threats.
“We’re additionally placing the Worldwide Group on discover, of those crimes towards humanity and threats to peace in Nigeria, and people legally accountable, by their actions and inactions,” he added.
