Loyalists of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are yet to recover from the electoral tsunami that enveloped them on the 25th of February 2023. On that day, the Nigerian presidential election was conducted and when the results were announced, Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) defeated Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in his homebase.

Even though the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that Obi won the state with 582,354 as against Tinubu’s 572,606, many analysts including leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have argued that Obi won with a wider margin given the fact that the figures announced did not tally with the number of votes cast.

Shortly after the announcement, all hell was let loose in Lagos as many APC supporters accused the Igbos in Lagos of being responsible for the electoral loss. The governorship and House of Assembly elections was to take place on the 11th of April, two weeks after the presidential election. Supporters of Tinubu, sensing that their party, may again lose the governorship election and the state to the LP began a campaign of calumny against the Igbo people living in Lagos. They accused them of wanting to impose one of their own as governor by sponsoring Gbadebo ‘Chinedu’ Rhodes-Vivour, the LP governorship candidate against the incumbent, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, the APC candidate who is seeking reelection for a second term.

Luckily for the APC, INEC moved the election forward by one week. This further gave Tinubu’s supporters the opportunity to carry out an ethnic profiling against Igbos in Lagos. They took to social media to make incisive comments against Igbos, especially the traders in Lagos.

Also, in a viral video, the Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, threatened Igbos to steer clear of the elections and stay at home if they are not ready to vote for the APC

MC Oluomo, while addressing a gathering,warned Igbo neighbours not to bother going to the polling units if they intended to vote for candidates other than the ruling party’s flag bearers.

“It is not a fight. It is not wahala (a problem). What do we want to correct it? Our PVC. And we will stand there. Yoruba should get there first and should vote first.

“When we finish voting, we’ll be watching because we have begged you and you said you have heard. If you make a mistake, you will understand. Please tell them, we have begged them. If they don’t vote for us, it is not a fight. Tell them that, Chukwudi’s mother, if you don’t for us, sit down at home. Do you understand? Sit down at home” MC Oluomo had said.

Even after the conduct of the election which was won by the APC through intimidation, snatching of ballot boxes and physical injuries to voters, leaders of the APC continue to engage in ethnic profiling, threatening the Igbos to leave Lagos and go back to their states.

Bayo Onanuga, a spokesperson for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu shortly after the elections issued a last warning to Igbos in Lagos State against interfering with politics in the state.

“Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business.”

When many Nigerians criticised for stoking ethnic hatred, Onanuga was defiant, saying he owes nobody any apology.

He tweeted “Let me make myself abundantly clear: the views I express on Twitter are my personal views. I don’t owe anyone any apology for addressing the existential threats of our people. I am after all, first of all a Yoruba, before being a Nigerian,” he added.

Onanuga’s views were also re-echoed by some other APC leaders such as Femi Fani-Kayode who described the Igbos as bad tenants and ingrates. He also asked them to leave the state if they feel they can install one of their own as governor of Lagos state.

Are Igbos really responsible for the electoral defeat suffered by Tinubu in places such as Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Eti-Osa, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Oshodi-Isolo, Ikeja, Amuwo-Odofin, Ojo, Alimosho, Kosofe and other places?. These are areas with large Yoruba voting population and many of them have boldly come out to say that they voted against the APC because they are fed up with the years of misrule by the party and wanted a breath of fresh air in the state.

Speaking on the issue, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria said ethnic profiling shouldn’t happen in a cosmopolitan city like Lagos.

He said “If you live in London, you are a Londoner, a British-Pakistan, is a Londoner. The British Prime Minister lives in London. My boss, the British foreign Secretary is clearly British-Sierra Leone and lives in London, they are Londoners,” he said

“Why is it that people who pay taxes, who work, who provide teachers, who built businesses, who create jobs, who live in Lagos, who happen to be from a different ethnicity to some other people are not Lagosians? Of course, they are. The strength of Lagos is its diversity, and if Lagos can’t be that kind of cosmopolitan melting pot of culture and language and all the things it should be, then really how is Lagos going to succeed?” he asked.
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If you add all the votes the mushroom parties received in Lagos, that's the real votes margin.

So the answer is No

helinues:
If you add all the votes the mushroom parties received in Lagos, that's the real votes margin.

So the answer is No

What makes you think McOluomo and all Yoruba Oba's threatened Igbos not to come out for governorship Election?

BurialGround:


What makes you think McOluomo and all Yoruba Oba's threatened Igbos not to come out for governorship Election?

Which one is threaten there, how can the Oba's threatening the Igbo's who are the co owners of Lagos state .

helinues:
If you add all the votes the mushroom parties received in Lagos, that's the real votes margin.

So the answer is No

Now you know that the movement isn't an Igbo movement......


Even some Yorubas are tired of the nonsense that plays out in your land.


Godfatherism and the control of agberos to intimidate people. The high taxation and many other nonsense is why the people jointly voted against APC...

But you will always attribute the lose to Igbos.

JASONjnr:


Now you know that the movement isn't an Igbo movement......


Even some Yorubas are tired of the nonsense that plays out in your land.


Godfatherism and the control of agberos to intimidate people. The high taxation and many other nonsense is why the people jointly voted against APC...

But you will always attribute the lose to Igbos.

Nothing happened in SW that did not happen in other regions. How long did Abia and Enugu state results take before it was released?

All these igbo this and Yoruba that is only taking us nowhere, there are other way to describe a person, most countries doing well had to see everyone of their citizens as the same, there similar characteristics that both igbo and Yoruba citizens may portray, until we start seeing ourselves as one Nigerians and not tribal or ethnic,yoruba,igbo,hausa we can not grow as a nation until I a south southerner but born and raised in Lagos is seen as a Yoruba man or a cross river man married a Hausa woman is seen as a Nigerian couple, Nigeria cannot grow economically or technologically or otherwise...

If they had allowed igbos to vote during governoship election in Lagos, APC would have Lost no doubt.

helinues:


Nothing happened in SW that did not happen in other regions. How long did Abia and Enugu state results take before it was released?

Because your party members tried to rig the election and the REC officers stood against it....

If this was the case during the presidential election, you know that your lord and saviour wouldn't be declared a winner.

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JASONjnr:


Because your party members tried to rig the election and the REC officers stood against it....

If this was the case during the presidential election, you know that your lord and saviour wouldn't be declared a winner.

So you agree with me that ballot snatching, intimidation, vote buying all happened across Nigeria irrespective of political party or region

Care more about how Anambra will succeed. Leave matter for martyrs!.

helinues:


So you agree with me that ballot snatching, intimidation, vote buying all happened across Nigeria irrespective of political party or region

Like I said, the people came out to vote and wanted a free and fair election.


But your party knew they'll lose, so they started the irregularities that took place in the elections.

No Obidient snatched any box because we were massively coming out to vote for change....

If not Stupidity, How on earth can you think that Only Igbos caused Tinubu's lose in Lagos? ....

The truth is that many sane Nigerians can't watch a druggie,physically and mentally unbalanced Tinupoo to rule over them....


Tinupoo was rejected in Osun state his State of Origin, Rejected in Lagos where he served as governor for 8yrs, Rejected in Abuja where he would be ruling Nigeria from...


So as you can see, Igbos are not the problem of Tinubu..... But........

Maybe

BurialGround:
If they had allowed igbos to vote during governoship election in Lagos, APC would have Lost no doubt.

So why are they terrorizing them and threatening them to leave?

helinues:
If you add all the votes the mushroom parties received in Lagos, that's the real votes margin.

So the answer is No

Yes igbos caused the loss because many of them transferred their PVCs from their stinky Anambra ghetto to Lagos. How come Obi didn’t get 25% in the 5 other Yoruba dominated states with much less Igbo populations.

The proponents of Lagos are on the deadbeat here. It was not only Igbos who voted against Tinubu. There are thousands of Yorubas and other ethnic nationals who also did.So why should the Igbos take the fall for it?

The fact is that INEC caused all these problems(when it failed to transmit the election results from it BVAS, IREV) as well as the security agencies who allowed MC Oluomo and his gangs of thugs to be molesting others.

Exactly my position. They should leave Igbos alone

Racoon:
The proponents of Lagos are on the deadbeat here. It was not only Igbos who voted against Tinubu. There are thousands of Yorubas and other ethnic nationals who also did.So why should the Igbos take the fall for it?

The fact is that INEC caused all these problems(when it failed to transmit the election results from it BVAS, IREV) as well as the security agencies who allowed MC Oluomo and his gangs of thugs to be molesting others.

Of course, Ndigbo shall always be blamed for anything progressive in the shithole called Nigeria.

They should allow Igbos go

Idiko1:
Of course, Ndigbo shall always be blamed for anything progressive in the shithole called Nigeria.