ONITSHA, NIGERIA ¨C A Nigerian is being charged for provoking people and ¡°breach of peace¡± by naming his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari and painting the name on the pet, police said on Wednesday.
¡°The man bought a dog, named it Buhari, wrote ¡®Buhari¡¯ on both sides of the dog and paraded it¡± in front of people from the north, said Abimbola Oyeyemi, police spokesman in the southern Ogun state, where the man lives.
He was arrested after a citizen reported him to police but was released by a court on bail until his trial starts, the spokesman said, without naming the man.
¡°His action is provocative and capable of breaching the peace, as you know the volatility of Nigeria now,¡± said Oyeyemi.
Nigeria is in the middle of its worst economic crisis in decades as a slump in oil prices boosts unemployment.
Tensions sometimes erupt between northerners, who are Muslims, and people from the predominantly Christian south.
Buhari is a Muslim from the north.
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