By Akinwale Kasali
Weeks after the Governorship Election in Lagos State, and following calls for the arrest of Musiliu Akinsaya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, Chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association over alleged threat and assault against electorates of other ethnic Group who did not vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Police has asked anybody with evidence against him to go to Court.
The Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in reaction said. “Anyone with evidence against MC Oluomo should file a case against him and sue him”, he said.
Adejobi said this in a tweet in response to a Twitter user on Tuesday morning.
The tweep, AjammaS, claimed Adejobi and the police failed to protect voters during the election after he asked people to take MC Oluomo’s remark about Igbo in a viral video as a joke and assured them of safety during the election.
AjammaS wrote, “Sir, you are also guilty, if I may say. This is what you said in the TV interview, and I quote. ‘MC Oluomo threat is a joke, let’s take it as a joke until he perfected [sic] the threat. I urge everyone to go out and cast their votes.”
“Now Nigerians heeded to your calls and went out to cast their votes and unfortunately you failed to protect them as you promised. They were attacked by MC Oluomo and his boys, some were murdered, brutalised, blinded, some are currently receiving treatment in different hospitals.”
Adejobi responded by asking the tweep to file an attack case against Oluomo if he had evidence of attacks against him, adding that Oluomo lacks immunity.
He said, “You can take the case of attack up with MC if you have a case or evidence of attacks against him. Many people and lawyers, even the deputy gov of Lagos, have said it severally. He has no immunity, so if you have a case of attack against him, take it up.”
When the video of his threat (MC Oluomo) went viral, the Police FPRO had described the threat by MC Oluomo against Igbo as a joke.
Reacting to the video on Channels TV, Adejobi said, “I saw a video of MC Oluomo with one Mama Chidinma – an Igbo woman – debunking that threat; that it’s not true, it’s just a joke he was making with a particular woman. So, let us take it as a joke, like he said.
“But, nobody has the right and audacity to tell Nigerians not to come out and vote; it’s not allowed and not proper. MC Oluomo has come out to debunk it, so let’s leave it that it’s not true. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos has debunked it and MC Oluomo himself has done the same, so Lagosians should go out and vote for the candidate of their choice.”
