Barely 24 hours after his controversial tweet on ‘OBIdients’, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Kingsley Moghalu has apologised for his remark on the supporters of Peter Obi.
Moghalu had in a tweet on Thursday called out
those criticising Prof. Wole Soyinka over the latter’s remarks on LP Vice
Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, as “unlettered and uncultured
people”.
Moghalu’s statement, however, received
backlash from a number of Twitter users, especially ‘OBIdients’ who dragged the
politician to the mud.
In a new twist, Moghalu in a series of tweets
on Friday said his statements could be misinterpreted as a harsh judgement on
citizens who are hurting from the outcome of the elections, and he noted that
was not his intention.
“In my tweet yesterday on Prof. Wole
Soyinka’s comment on Datti Baba Ahmed’s own comments about the 2023 presidential
election,I said WS is a principled fighter for justice and a phenomenon “that
unlettered and uncultured people may not fully understand in an age of lazy
social.
“These voices are not illegitimate simply
because we disagree with them or they do not agree either with our political
preferences or with whatever manner in which we choose to express our views,”
Moghalu said.
“This applies across the board to the supporters of all the leading candidates. This is a difficult time for our country, but I hope we can still be civil and measured even as we may disagree,” he added
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