Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential nominee, responded to Datti Baba-Ahmed’s remarks regarding the shooting that occurred at the Lekki toll gate during the EndSARS protest.
In an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today last week, Baba-Ahmed claimed that the term “massacre” for the Lekki shooting during the October 2020 #EndSARS protest is debatable.
Some Nigerians, particularly young people, reacted negatively to his assertion, believing it was a denial that killings occurred at the Lekki toll gate.
However, Obi, while fielding questions on the Arise Tv Morning Show programme on Monday morning, said he was hearing Datti’s statement about the Lekki shooting for the first time.
He said that so many things were done wrongly in the past and needed to be apologised for.
“I did not even listen to that; maybe I will go back and listen to everything. I must tell you, I did not listen to it; I am just hearing it for the first time. For me, there are things we need to probably open up tomorrow and look into.
“I have always said, in my reconciliation, we must go back to certain things and be able to apologise to people because things were done wrongly. There are so many things that we need to apologise for in this country”, he said.
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