Commissioner for health in Cross River Betta Edu, who is vying for the position of national woman leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says she admits some of her posts on Twitter during the #EndSARS protests may have been “impulsive”.
Edu’s statement on Tuesday followed calls for her disqualification by a group known as the Buharists Hang Out (BHO) over her tweets in solidarity with the #EndSARS movement in 2020.
Critics had recently culled up past tweets allegedly made by Edu. In one of them, she said the Lekki toll gate where #EndSARS protesters were allegedly killed by security forces be “brought down permanently.”
Reacting to the development, Edu said in a series of tweets on Tuesday that she was sympathetic to the #EndSARS movement because she had also been subjected to a “traumatic experience” at the hands of policemen.
“However, contrary to insinuations making the rounds, I did not at any point endorse the use of violence as a way to express these concerns or call the attention of the government,” she said.
“In actual fact, I have evidence of media appearances and interviews that I granted to condemn the sad and most unfortunate degeneration of the movement to widespread violence, arson, and damaging vandalism.
“I do acknowledge that a few of my spur-of-the-moment tweets and impulsive reactions to reports at the climax of the event may have been indelicate and distorted my true position on things. I am human, a mom, and thus given to emotions.”
Edu appealed to members of the party for their understanding and urged them to work with her to bring progress to the APC.
“My loyalty to the APC and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is complete and total,” she said.
