Igbos criticising their kinsmen for supporting Tinubu are monkeys: Yul Edochie
Nollywood actor turned politician, Yul Edochie, has said that Igbos criticising their kinsmen for supporting President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid are “monkeys and cowards.”
Mr Edochie, in a post on X on Saturday, said, “Any Igbo man that is dragging his fellow Igbo man for supporting President TINUBU, that person is a monkey and a coward.”
He said critics of Tinubu’s supporters from the South-East ignore others supporting the president from other regions, while criticising their kinsmen doing the same.
“Show me a video of you dragging Yorubas who are supporting TINUBU. Show me a video of you dragging Northerners who are supporting Tinubu. Show me a video of you dragging all the past leaders who couldn’t fix Nigeria. Show me a video of you dragging Northern celebrities that support Tinubu. None,” Mr Edochie said.
Mr Edochie’s comment comes a few weeks after a Catholic priest serving at Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish in Dunukofia, Anambra State, Chibuzo Obimma, popularly known as Ebube Muonso, described supporters of Tinubu from the South-East as “city fools.”
Berating supporters of Mr Tinubu’s City Boy Movement in the South-East, he said, “You see Igbo boys claiming to be city boys, those are city fools who could not see beyond their physical needs.”
Mr Tinubu’s City Boy campaign has commenced mobilisation across the six geopolitical zones of the country, with some Igbo figures such as Obi Cubana leading the campaign in the South-East.
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