By Pascal Oparada
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Lagos took a swipe at his opponent, Jimi Agbaje, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also in Lagos for ‘playing the ethnic card’ in his tweet.
Agbaje had tweeted about the threats issued the Igbo by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu in 2015 should they vote Agbaje in the election.
“On Lagos and the Igbos: The narrative that Lagos dislikes the Igbos is extremely false. Oh yes, Lagos does not dislike the Igbos, your political establishment does. The royal utterance of 2015 is still fresh on the mind of the entire electorate,” Agbaje tweeted.
On Lagos and the Igbos: The narrative that Lagos dislikes the Igbos is extremely false.
Oh yes, Lagos does not dislike the Igbos, your political establishment does. The royal utterance of 2015 is still fresh on the mind of the entire electorate.
— Jimi Agbaje (@jimiagbaje) December 11, 2018
“My initial reaction was to ignore him. In this campaign season,it behoves on anyone seeking to be governor of Lagos to have an elevated mind. As leaders,we should place a high premium on civility and imbibe a high level of decorum in a period like this as example to our followers,” Sanwo-Olu said.
Fellow Lagosians, my opponent, Mr. Jimi Agbaje had a tweet storm yesterday night where he attempted, though in a very poor manner, to join issues with me on my appearance on TVC yesterday morning.
— Babajide Sanwo-Olu (@jidesanwoolu) December 12, 2018
According to him, the election should be about issues and that affects the lives of the people and what each candidate is bringing to the table instead of playing politics with ethnicity.
He said as an elder, there is a level of decency expected of Agbaje.
“I still expect my opponent to hold on to those higher values we should see of elders as we progress in this campaign,” he said.
