The African Action Congress (AAC) has said that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu cannot exonerate himself from the attacks by soldiers on unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate.
The party, in a statement issued by its Lagos State chapter on Wednesday, maintained that the governor was deeply involved with the soldiers’ attacks which led to the death of protesters as well as shootings in other parts of the state like Badagry, Mushin, Berger, Ketu, Abule Egba, Ikotun, Igando and several other areas.
AAC in the statement signed by Mr. Kunle Wizeman Ajayi, the party’s state chairman, stressed that from available evidence, it was Sanwo-Olu that invited the military as well as some members of the disbanded SARS, in the case of Lekki and Surulere, and the police.
AAC stated that the governor had always told half truths to the public, stressing that Sanwo-Olu misled the people several times by first denying the Lekki shootings and then blaming it only the Army.
The party stated also that Sanwo-Olu once told the people that no one was killed during the Lekki attack, but later confessed that he saw only two bodies in the morgues.
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The party alleged that the governor was at the Lekki scene by 3 a.m, according to eyewitnesses, accompanied by the Maroko Police Division Police Officer (DPO) and that both of them saw several dead bodies.
“The Maroko DPO and his team then attacked the medical team as well as the survivors fatally. These inconsistent and conscious efforts at militarising against real democratic engagements like protests show that Governor Sanwo-Olu is a despot and has no place in modern democracy. He should therefore step aside now!
“Revelations have also shown that the Governor Sanwo-Olu was in the know of the removal of CCTV cameras as well as the switching off of all the lights. It is therefore clear that this genocide happened same way at most parts of Lagos in quite a premeditated manner.
“Lagos AAC uses this opportunity to call on all activists and peaceful people of Rivers State to rise and protest against the #Oyigbomassacre still ongoing.
“How can Governor Wike and the military claim to be maintaining peace by condoning off a whole society and its environs and you start maiming, killing, and destroying?
“Finally, we call on all Lagosians to rise and ask Governor Sanwo-Olu and his cronies to step down. The weight of such massacre, widespread violence and brutal repressions caused by the state government’s premeditated and organised fatal attacks on the #EndSARS Movement for peacefully and legitimately ignoring an ill-advised, immoral, and undemocratic curfew.
“AAC therefore calls on the Lagos Panel of Inquiry to maintain its honour by excusing itself from cases of Lekki and the Lagos massacre. An independent and unbiased Truth Commission is what is moral and judicial.
“Another Lagos without this use of tyrannical engagements is very possible. AAC believes that all oppressed must unite and concretely demand for a new Nigeria nay world.
“The #EndSARS movement has shown the correctness of our party and movement’s positions that the ruling parties are consciously imposing poverty and hardship, as the discoveries of hoarded covid-19 palliatives show.
“Sanwo-Olu must toe the path of honour by stepping aside and surrendering to the International Crimes Commission (ICC) at The Hague for inflicting such fatal attacks on peaceful and legitimate protesters.”
