Ali Modu Sheriff’s diatribe against Peter Obi assaults national reconciliation and unity
By PAUL NWOSU Any South-Easterner, or indeed anyone from the old Biafra enclave in the South-East and South-South, who watched Ali Modu Sheriff on Channels Television’s Politics Today would have been alarmed by the depth of the hateful tirade unleashed against Peter Obi from a man whom many Nigerians, despite his repeated denials, still associate with the religious sect that helped to nurture the cancerous insecurity which has gradually but relentlessly brought this country to its knees.
Seun Okinbaloye simply asked Sheriff to react to Obi’s call for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to resign over unfulfilled campaign promises and the country’s worsening economic and security conditions; a perfectly legitimate and common opposition rhetoric.
If Peter Obi, who was barely six years old when the Nigerian Civil War began, can today be held responsible for events that occurred nearly six decades ago, then what hope is there for the future unity of this country?
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