Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, has condemned the attack on Lamidi Apapa, a factional national chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that Lamidi was greeted with boos and jeers by members of the party in the camp of the National Chairman, Julius Abure, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday in Abuja.
The incident occurred outside the Tribunal’s Appeal Court.
Apapa was then escorted out of the premises by police officers, amid boos from party members.
In response to the incident, Omokri argued that such aggressiveness would continue to undermine the country’s call for democracy.
He maintained that judges are less likely to be sympathetic to individuals who behave in this manner.
Omokri lamented that while Nigerians frequently complain about police brutality if given the same power as the police, they would behave even worse.
Speaking further, the political analyst stated that most people have a Seun Kuti inside them, ready to show up at the slightest provocation.
He wrote;
Guys, aggressiveness will not win this struggle for democracy. Instead, it will undermine it. Let’s be strategic. The PEPC judges are less likely to give judgment to people capable of jungle justice and more likely to side with people who comport themselves in an orderly and civilised manner over the matter before them.
Almost daily, Nigerians come on social media to complain about police brutality. But look at what Nigerians did to Lamidi Apapa, a factional national chairman of the Labour Party at the PEPC today.
If many of us are given the power the police have, we will do far worse than their complained behaviour. There is a Seun Kuti in most of us. It would have even been better to have ignored Lamidi Apapa if you disagree with him. Treat him like a pariah. But to mob him in front of a court? Very undemocratic