Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwa-Olu, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said he had wanted to talk to President Muhammadu Buhari following the Lekki incident which left the State in chaos following waves of reprisal attacks by mobs on targeted areas in the state.
The governor who disclosed this on Thursday while speaking with Arise TV in Lagos, said he however, received a call from the Chief of Defense Staff, Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin on behalf of the president.
He said, “I made phone calls to the president throughout this week, twice yesterday first time he hadn't come to the office and the second time I was at the FEC meeting so I did, I haven’t spoken to him directly but I actually did call to want to speak to him but like I said he was at FEC meeting and probably had his briefing.
“He was the one that asked the Chief of Defence Staff to call me and I think it was when he got my message. He (CDS) said to me, that it was the President that asked him to call. I don’t have a report to say. We haven’t spoken.”
Meanwhile, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana has said the only guilty party in acts of arson and looting by hoodlums in the ongoing #EndSARS protest across the country, is the Federal Government under who's instructions, the security agencies to use force on peaceful unarmed protesters.
Falana while condemning the heinous kiIling of peaceful protesters in across the country, also demanded that those responsible for the attacks on unarmed peaceful protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State, on Wednesday, October 20, 2020, be brought to book without any further delay.
He said, “Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) unequivocally commends the young people who have been protesting peacefully all over Nigeria without engaging in any destructive activity.
“ASCAB observes that very surprisingly, since yesterday, gangs of hoodlums have been allowed to unleash mayhem on innocent people and set fire on targeted buildings.
“To our utter dismay, the hoodlums have been allowed to operate without any restraint from security forces.
“Curiously, the advice of the ASCAB leadership for deployment of adequate security personnel to dislodge the hoodlums was ignored.
“Even the detachment of the Nigerian Army that recklessly at**cked unarmed protesters yesterday have not routed out the hoodlums in spite of the so-called operation Crocodile Smile VI,” he said.
He called for the arrest and prosecution of all persons who commit arson and wilful destruction of properties.