Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said his call for unity and condemnation of a Canada-based Igbo woman’s threat against some tribes in Nigeria cannot change.
Peter Obi said though he has been made to understand that Amaka Sunnberg, the Canada-based Igbo woman, made the threat to Yoruba and Benin people as an angry reaction to hate speeches and threats against the Igbo nation by so many other people, he prefers a united country where unity leads.
In his statement on Wednesday, Peter Obi advised Nigerians not to allow tribal tension and religious division to grow in the country.
“Following my recent comment on the Nigerian woman living in Canada, who made very distasteful comments against her fellow Nigerians in Canada. While condemning such a level of tribal and religious division, I have received a barrage of reactions from people, many of who tried to justify their actions.
“Some explained that her comments were in reaction to earlier hateful comments made by another Nigerian and reportedly directed at other Nigerians of the Igbo ethnicity which I also now condemn in the strongest terms.
“As I mentioned then, and still maintain now, tribal tension and religious division must not be allowed to grow among us. Such divisive and hateful comments and behaviours against one another should have no place among us,” Obi said.
The former governor of Anambra State called on Nigerians to unite together and focus on solving the myriads of challenges facing the nation.
“We must remain one united nation, focused on solving the myriads of challenges facing us as a nation. We must unite against the further polarisation of our nation along tribal, religious and political lines, and focus on finding lasting solutions to the challenges of high insecurity, unbearable high cost of living and leadership failure that has continued to weigh us down.
“With faith in our nation, may we embrace unity and peace, so that we can achieve true progress, growth and development in our nation,” he added.
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