Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Sunday condemned in the strongest terms the political violence visited on Nigerians of Ndigbo extraction in Lagos State during the Presidential and National Assembly elections that took place on Saturday. “Afenifere condemns in the strongest terms the political violence visited on Nigerians of Ndigbo extraction in Lagos during the Saturday Presidential elections. “Dirty political merchants and their band of thugs apart from engineering political disenfranchisement of Ndigbo, went ahead to visit violence on them and burning their votes en masse. ALSO READ: #NigeriaDecides2019 | Ambode loses ward to PDP READ: “We frown seriously at the failure of the security agencies to give adequate cover to Ndigbo in the affected communities as these thugs went berserk carrying out the instructions of their sinking political godfathers. “The political vandals they used were said to have been calling themselves OPC but our checks with the genuine leaders of the group have shown that the deranged elements had no affiliation with the OPC known by Afenifere,” Afenifere said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 24, 2019 14:03 UTC