Igbos living in Lagos were told on Sunday to vote for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, or else they will die in the lagoon.

A visibly angry Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, in an unconcealed threat, stated that he was not ready to beg the Igbos, but if they repeated what they did on March 28 when they voted for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan, then they should be ready for the consequences.

The governorship elections are scheduled to hold on Saturday, and it is believed that Igbo residents in Lagos will vote for the PDP candidate, Jimi Agbaje, just like they did during the presidential and National Assembly elections that led to the victory of PDP candidates of Igbo origin and from Delta State in three federal constituencies in Lagos.

Speaking at a meeting with Igbo leaders in the state, according to an online news medium, Freedom Online, the first class monarch, who failed to recognise the cosmopolitan nature of Lagos, said: “On Saturday, if anyone of you goes against Ambode who I picked, that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and it is not my father who gave birth to me.

“Jonathan is my son and I speak to him everyday. By the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future.

“On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos State, the person is going to die inside this water.

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This will even prompt more Igbos to vote for Agbaje.

Well said Oba.

Let the brave ones take up the challenge, afteral they claimed Lagos is a no man's land. Let it begins!

This is wrong!

Apart from being wrong, this would only make Ambode lost some of his Igbo supporters.

What a source. Monitotnaija ko, keyboardnaija ni. Fake news.

Kai this is taking it to far.

Just wrong

OBA Rilwan. I hope this threat you have made to Igbos is just an attempt to scare them into voting ambode. Otherwise it shows that you have little exposure and remain in the unfortunate realities of the past. The wedge between the Yorubas and Igbos will remain as long as the elite of Lagos continue to spread and deepen hate fueling the animosity that already exists. You use and dump the igbos hausas and Niger Deltans as you wish but continue to reap rent and revenues far more than you will ever get from your kin. You live safely in your palace while the poor kill each other. Let it be unto you the same as you have wished for the igbos, may your tears rinse the blood off the face of your first borns before June 12, 2015.

Am a deltan. Who wake up one morning and said lagos is no man's land. I laugh. Where are they when every city, place is been name by yoruba? Just has every place is been name by itsekiri in warri or is it wrong to accommodate u guys and who gives you d right to vote in lagos? U guy should go to ur village or due what the Oba says.

What oba said is rong though,but my igbo brodas can ova step boundaries,of wch no oda tribe can try it in any.igbo land

Every Nigerian has the right to vote wherever they are governed. Its like saying the Hausa community should not vote their preferred candidates.
Constantly bullying a particular ethnic group for residing in Lagos is ethnic bigotry at its highest.

The Oba will surely live to regret the day he threatened genocide against the ibos.

dROC1:
Every Nigerian has the right to vote wherever they are governed. Its like saying the Hausa community should not vote their preferred candidates.
Constantly bullying a particular ethnic group for residing in Lagos is ethnic bigotry at its highest.

The Oba will surely live to regret the day he threatened genocide against the ibos.

You are very wrong. The igbos are the ones constantly bullying everybody. Check out Facebook, Twitter and other social media to understand what am saying. TAN which is headed by igbos went on and on with hate speeches and name calling. Be ready to dance to the tune of your music. Have you checked out JK's advertisements lately? A typical igbo man believes Yorubas and Hausas are ignorant and useless, but over and over the outcomes says otherwise.

LubricatingOil:


You are very wrong. The igbos are the ones constantly bullying everybody. Check out Facebook, Twitter and other social media to understand what am saying. TAN which is headed by igbos went on and on with hate speeches and name calling. Be ready to dance to the tune of your music. Have you checked out JK's advertisements lately? A typical igbo man believes Yorubas and Hausas are ignorant and useless, but over and over the outcomes says otherwise.

hausa and yoruba can't compete with igbo in anyway. That's why you hate us

LubricatingOil:


You are very wrong. The igbos are the ones constantly bullying everybody. Check out Facebook, Twitter and other social media to understand what am saying. TAN which is headed by igbos went on and on with hate speeches and name calling. Be ready to dance to the tune of your music. Have you checked out JK's advertisements lately? A typical igbo man believes Yorubas and Hausas are ignorant and useless, but over and over the outcomes says otherwise.

You have no point.