Voter intimidation: MC Oluomo’ll be prosecuted if found guilty — Hamzat

The deputy governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, says the chairman of the state Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, would be prosecuted if he is found guilty of breaking the law during the 2023 general election in the state.

MC Oluomo, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, recently threatened Igbos in Lagos State if they would not vote for the party in the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections.

“We have begged them. If they don’t want to vote for us, it is not a fight. Tell them, mama Chukwudi, if you don’t want to vote for us, sit down at home. Sit down at home,” he had said while addressing supporters of the ruling APC in Lagos.

The chairman of the Parks Management Committee later denied threatening people of Igbo extraction residing in Lagos State.

However, Hamzat, while speaking in an interview with Channels Television, on Tuesday, said MC Oluomo must pay if he is found guilty of violating the law.

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The deputy governor said: “Well, I am not calling for the arrest of anybody; I am not a police officer, I am not a prosecutor, but people will look at the evidence.

“And in the case of MC Oluomo he has actually come out to say that he was referring to a woman, who also come out to say that she has known MC Oluomo for years and that he was referring to her, so I don’t know the facts.

“But people should examine the facts and if in truth he has broken the law, he must pay for it.

“But my point which I want to make is that we all diminish this country when we actually exaggerate what happens.

“We have an election where you have this number of polling units and you have less than one per cent that have a problem and we now make it look like that one per cent is more important than the 99 per cent.

“I think that it is just outrageous and we should not diminish our country by saying the election is bad. No, this was a great election. Atrocities were committed an people should pay for that,” Hamzat stated.

The Star