Soaked Slice Of Bread To Ndigbo From Tinubu Is Insult Taken Too Far – SERG

The offer of a soaked slice of bread from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to Enugu stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC is taking hatred for Ndigbo too far, a coalition of pan-Igbo sociopolitical pressure organisations, the South East Revival Group (SERG) has said.

GWG.ng had reported how Tinubu while charging Enugu APC stakeholders to work for his success to become president cautioned that they would be left with a soaked slice of bread should they fail to deliver.

“But nobody will give you any credit, you are working hard, you’re sweating now. We want you to sweat well now for this party until you deliver victory.

“Until Bola Tinubu becomes the president of Nigeria, we will not give you but a soaked sliced bread,” Tinubu had said last Wednesday at the Enugu rally of the APC.

Reacting to the comment, President and National Coordinator of the SERG, Chief Willy Ezugwu, said Tinubu’s statement was an insult beyond belief.

He said “the insinuation that Igbos will languish in longer marginalisation unless Tinubu becomes President is an acknowledgement that he APC deliberately schemed the South East region since 2015.

“Tinubu’s comments represent refreshed version of President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment that he would not treat the South East equally with the Northern region that voted for him.”

The SERG said: “It is taking his disregard for the South East too far.

“When his anointed Governor, Babajide Raji Fashola deported Igbos from Lagos State and dumped them at the Onitsha Bridge Head in the middle of the night, where was Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

“When his ally and the Oba of Lagos threatened Igbos to drown in the lagoon if they voted against his preferred candidate, where was Tinubu’s voice as a democrat?

“A Tinubu presidency will be a disaster as he has continued to exhibit the distinguishing characteristics of not only a civilian dictator but also a religious bigot masquerading as a liberal Muslim.

“His choice of a Muslim running is a deliberate expression his real self as having no regard for Christians and now he blew the final whistle that signalled the climax of his hatred for the South East region.

“We also monited a report indicating that the Tinubu’s hatred for the South East also robbed off on the traditional institution as some highly embarrassed Enugu traditional rulers led by the State Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Lawrence Agubuzo were snubbed, disrespected and insulted by the APC Presidential candidate after waiting for several hours for his arrival.

“Can Tinubu openly snub an Oba in the South West or an Emir in the North?”

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