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Ibos Will Be At Advantage In 20-30 Yrs Time In Nigeria by olabukola:

I might sound silly now but we have to face reality here. Wether we believe it or not if Nigeria still exist in the next 30 years Ibos will be at advantage in every part of Nigeria.

Now they claim to be upto 35% of Lagos, they claim to have almost half the properties in Lagos, it might not be the truth but the reality is they have many properties in Lagos and their population in Lagos is tangible at the moment. They are multiplying/increasing in population in lagos/west and other part of Nigeria yr in yr out. On a free and fair election in Lagos state any Governorship candidate that chose an Ibo Deputy will definitely win. Once such thing happens they are one feet away from becoming the Gov. of lagos state. That will not mean well for us in the west.

They are in the north(Kanu and Kaduna), i read somewhere that they have 70% of the landed property in Abuja but it will take them more than 50/100 yrs to achieve such feet in the North due to religion. We might mock them now but they are taking a bold step which might be intentional and its a gamble. Why i call it gamble is cus if nigeria seize to exist today its very likely they will lose many if not all.

On the other hand we have noting in the east/north and cannot even challenge for a cancillorship position in 30 yrs time due to the fact that we are not many there and we dont care to move out of our domian.
I see them like they are planning for the future nigeria albiet a gamble.

https://www.nairaland.com/583750/ibos-advantage-20-30-yrs-time

0lumide: FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS FROM 2009

Fasola's degree should be checked because his lawyer claims are suspect if he could be this dumb. I posted that to show you how successful one could be even with a fake law certificate.

Olabukola is a very pragmatic Yoruba guy who is on the ground seeing, time and time again, the gains being made by Igbos in SW, especially Lagos to the chagrin of the Yoruba. This supports the claim made by ACN on Igbo population and economic achievements in Lagos

Taking into account the alarming vehemence of his narrative, I support the call that Igbos should repatriate some of their wealth home, b4 it is too late.

According to Nairalander Olabukola:

Ibos Will Be At Advantage In 20-30 Yrs Time In Nigeria by olabukola: 4:29pm On Jan 11, 2011
I might sound silly now but we have to face reality here. Wether we believe it or not if Nigeria still exist in the next 30 years Ibos will be at advantage in every part of Nigeria.

Now they claim to be upto 35% of Lagos, they claim to have almost half the properties in Lagos, it might not be the truth but the reality is they have many properties in Lagos and their population in Lagos is tangible at the moment. They are multiplying/increasing in population in lagos/west and other part of Nigeria yr in yr out. On a free and fair election in Lagos state any Governorship candidate that chose an Ibo Deputy will definitely win. Once such thing happens they are one feet away from becoming the Gov. of lagos state. That will not mean well for us in the west.

They are in the north(Kanu and Kaduna), i read somewhere that they have 70% of the landed property in Abuja but it will take them more than 50/100 yrs to achieve such feet in the North due to religion. We might mock them now but they are taking a bold step which might be intentional and its a gamble. Why i call it gamble is cus if nigeria seize to exist today its very likely they will lose many if not all.

On the other hand we have noting in the east/north and cannot even challenge for a cancillorship position in 30 yrs time due to the fact that we are not many there and we dont care to move out of our domian.
I see them like they are planning for the future nigeria albiet a gamble.

https://www.nairaland.com/583750/ibos-advantage-20-30-yrs-time

hardniola: if d man makes hawking illegal ibo we still complain.what do u really want him do.

No. Igbos will not complain because most street hawkers are Yoruba. Most Igbo traders own shops, even if a small one. Street hawkers include Yoruba (50 %), Igbo (30%), Calabar, Delta, Hausa, Beninois and Togolese, ( all 20%)etc

I asked one of the boys what was happening, he said he was running because he couldn’t speak Yoruba and if they caught you, they would throw you into the van and confiscate your goods.

So ''destitutes'' who spoke Yoruba (aka Yourba indigenous hawkers) were let go and those who could not were arrested. To begin with, when did a street hawker become a destitute?
Fasola is a dumb lawyer. If he was smart, he could have controlled the hawkers by making hawking illegal in Lagos? How do you arrest a hawker when he has not flouted any hawking prohibitions?

Are we sure this man is truly a lawyer? Me thinks his law certificate should be checked. It is quite possible it is forged, like that of this man:


I got my fake Ife, UI, NYSC certificates for N350,000
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Had Olusola Ogunshola come across this wise saying of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States of America, in his quest to earn a living through honest means, maybe he would have been singing a song different from the one he now sings at the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command, where he is now cooling off.

Born 51 years ago in Sagamu, Ogun State, Ogunshola said he had tried his hands on many things since he finished from Oke Ibadan Boys High School, Ibadan, in 1974. He was a petty trader, clergy, and fish farmer at different times in order to secure honest livelihood. He didn‘t have a major breakthrough, he said.

In 1987, he said he struck an idea to travel abroad to seek the proverbial greener pasture, which landed him in trouble 21 years after.

Legitimately, Ogunshola did not possess more than a school certificate, but he goes about parading himself as a lawyer and pastor to swindle unsuspecting members of the public. It will be difficult for anybody to believe that the Bachelor‘s of Law certificate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University); Master‘s of Law degree certificate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (which he ‘bagged‘ even before the university began postgraduate degree in law); the National Youth Service Corps certificate; call to Bar certificate and the identity card of the Nigeria Bar Association, found in his possession, were forged.

Not only that, the suspect confessed in an interview with our correspondent that he ”stole” the stamp and letterhead of a law firm, S. O. Alli and Co. And to complete his bogus identity, he said he purchased a lawyer‘s wig and gown, with a shirt to match in Lagos, when he finally decided to pass for a lawyer. Before he was excommunicated when his deals became known to the church authority, Ogunshola was also a ‘pastor‘ with the Global Harvest Church, where he ‘cast and bound‘ the devil and its agents for several years. The official stamp of the church, a disused locally-made gun, two international passports and some fake certificates of occupancy were also among his haul.

The Commissioner of Police at the state command, Mr. Bashiru Azeez, said that the suspect was nabbed over a N362,000 shady deal that went awry.

Azeez said, ”His cup became full when one of his victims reported that the transaction between them began on February 15, 2006 when the victim met the suspect at their church.

”The victim had told him that he needed the services of a lawyer to verify the genuineness of a property in Lagos State, which was introduced to him for purchase and to process the certificate of occupancy in respect of the property.

”To his enquiry, the suspect responded that he was a barrister and could render him the legal services. The victim was pleased at this development; that he had found a lawyer pastor in whom he could repose absolute trust.”

Pronto, the victim was said to have made available the sum charged by the ‘lawyer‘ in order not to lose the property to other interested buyers. That became his undoing. Ogunshola went to work and before you could say Babatunde Fashola, he had produced a purported C of O and other legal documents on the property, which the CP said were later discovered to be forged. Had the suspect refunded the money, probably the victim would have kept this secret, but he began to dilly-dally, as months of unfulfilled promises turned to years.

But on Thursday, Ogunshola cut the image of a pensive rogue, who having realised the gravity of his offence, would pose as a fowl beaten by the rain in his wig and robe.

Asked how he came about the certificates found in his possession, he said that it was in 1987 when he was desperate to travel out of the country that he encountered one late Ishiaku, who procured the documents for him at a fee of N350,000. Before his accomplice died in an auto accident (if he was not being economical with the truth), he said he was in the process of securing a Canadian visa with his fake certificates. Asked why he needed to go to that extent to secure a visa, he claimed that the idea was that of his late accomplice to smoothen the process. His dream however vanished with the death of Ishiaku.

His good command of English language notwithstanding, he said he could not further his education beyond secondary school due to lack of financial support from his struggling parents. His memory failed him when asked how he met the late accomplice and where.

He said the death of his partner dealt him a devastating blow that he did not know how to pick up the pieces of his life, having lost his life savings from his petty trading to the ambition.

Ogunshola insisted that he never defrauded his victim, who he identified as one Kayode Oresanya. Rather, he said that a link person that he contracted to secure the C of O from the Office of Surveyor General in Lagos ”collected the money and ran away.”

He said, ”I was no longer making use of the certificates. The police found them in my store. I never went to court or took a brief from anybody. I acquired those things when I wanted to travel abroad. When the Canada thing failed, Ishiaku still promised to help me before he died in an accident. I inherited the old gun they found in my house from my father. Go and check it very well, it is an old useless gun.”

In a rare display of ‘honesty,‘ he said that he stole the S.O. Alli and Co. stamp and letterhead when he had an opportunity of being at the law firm when they were relocating to another office.

His countenance dropped and he almost ended the interview when asked whether he was still a pastor, to which he declared ”I will not answer that question.”

Asked why he could not venture into any neat business with N350,000 as far back as 1987, he said his ambition was to live big and do well with his family. Now he said he had put his wife and two kids in a quandary.

Querying the rationale behind his arrest for a deal that was about three-years-old, he said he had already promised to refund the money to Oresanya before he (Oresanya) decided to invite the police. The suspect said that his income from his fish farming business could barely sustain him now, which explains why he told his victim to tarry a while.

If given another opportunity, he said he would turn a new leaf now that he had realised the position of law on his activities.

Hear him, ”I feel frustrated with my life because of the serious setback I suffered when I could not travel abroad. I have repented. I regretted my action. I can‘t do it again. I was a petty trader at a point, but I thought my life will be better. Now, I know better.”


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ARRESTED IN LAGOS, DEPORTED TO ONITSHA
Our Reporter July 31, 2013 47 Comments »
ARRESTED IN LAGOS, DEPORTED TO ONITSHA

•The story of Nigerians made ‘illegal aliens’ in their country

During the General Ibrahim Babangida regime, the country was once agog, following the deportation of Professor Wilmot, a Jamaican, who taught at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The professor had lived in the country for years and married a Nigerian but following what the government perceived as his “satanic verse,” as it were, he was shipped out of the country. This is normal.

Indeed, it’s common for nations to deport citizens of other countries, if such people contravene the law but it’s seldom heard that a citizen of a country is forcefully taken from one state in the country to another, no matter the circumstance. Surprisingly, this is happening in Nigeria.

As it stands, it appears that non-indigene residents in Lagos State run the risk of being abducted by agents of the government, detained under dehumanising conditions for several months and finally deported in the wee hours to another city. It has happened before and may happen again. At two instances, Nigerians have been arrested in Lagos and ‘loaded’ in a trailer, escorted by armed policemen and taken across the Niger and dumped in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. It did not matter whether they hail from Anambra State or not but that is the most likely place you may find yourself if you are unlucky to be grabbed in the streets of Lagos by agents of the state government, hunting non-indigenes.

Recently, the Lagos State Government deported about 67 persons from Lagos to Onitsha. It was the second time, in less than one year, that officials of the state government are sneaking into Onitsha, in the ungodly hours, to dump people picked from the streets of Lagos. Specifically, the state had, on September 18, 2012, dumped over 100 citizens, made up of children, women, senior citizens and physically challenged people at about 4am under the Upper Iweka Flyover in Onitsha.

Also, during the administration of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, there was a protest about citizens of the state being dropped in the middle of the night at Ibadan, the state capital. Ogun State indigenes had as well tasted the bitter pill.

Last week’s deportation was done under the cloak of darkness. While residents of the city were sleeping, a truck loaded with ‘human cargo’ arrived at about 2.30am, accompanied by a detachment of policemen. After offloading the consignment, as it were, the truck and its escort melted into the night.

What greeted the residents at dusk was a congregation of people in dire straits. Sources disclosed that prior to their deportation last week, they had been detained in unconventional centres for about seven months. And while in the dungeon, they were poorly fed and utterly dehumanised. In the process, it was gathered, 29 of them died in the camp. As at the time the surviving ones arrived Onitsha, they had become walking corpses. Looking frail and disheveled, they painted the ugly picture of death or people, who walked through the valley of the shadow of death but survived by the skin of their teeth.

Why would Lagos State “deport” Nigerians? Why would the state government dump the people so deported at Onitsha?

In 2012, when people were first dumped in Onitsha, Governor Peter Obi had stated: “Investigations have shown that most of them (those ‘deported’ from Lagos) are not from Anambra State but were dropped here. I am going to make a report to the Federal Government that Nigerians cannot be refugees in Nigeria. It is a dangerous trend.”

“We have seen a situation where Anambrarians, working in other parts of the country are sent packing, even when they have served faithfully where they were.

“We have not been doing the same thing. In schools, we have most of them from other states. Even teachers and students, most of them are in our school system where we offer free education benefit.”

But if Obi’s threat to make a representation to the Federal Government on the issue yielded any result, it is yet to be seen. Barely 10 months after, there was a repeat of this, as 67 people were dumped overnight at Onitsha.

Last year, the Lagos State Government denied involvement in the deportation saga. Last year, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lateef Aderemi Ibirogba, had said: “We don’t query where you come from or what has brought you from wherever you come from. We always tell the people that we have the responsibility to take care of whoever is here, provided you are ready to go along with us, in terms of following our laws and in terms of the legitimate things you do and by that I mean legitimate business, without having criminal intentions. It is whoever does not have the intention of living with our laws that will have problem with the government.

“The only thing I want to emphasise is that you must subject yourself to law and order and you must do your legitimate business without being a problem to other people. You must be ready not to be selfish. We believe that where the right of one man ends is where the right of another man begins. If you do all that, we would have no reason to drive anybody anywhere.”

In the same vein, Ibirogba, last week, denied that the Lagos State Government deported 67 people from Lagos. He said: “We did not deport anybody. By the constitution of Nigeria, everybody has a right to live in any part of the country but we have been emphasising that people must live within the law. However, it is not true.”



If the Lagos State Government did not do it, who did? That is the question, agitating many minds across the country. While the Lagos State Government is denying deporting anybody from its shores, the deportees are singing a different song, a song of pains, agony and disillusionment. The deportees insist that they were bundled out of Lagos by officials of the state government.

One of them, who gave her name as Chima, stated that she was picked up on her way home. Her words: “I was on my way home to Okokomaiko in Lagos when a group of young men accosted me and took me to a place I do not know. When I got there, I met these people and over 29 some of whom died in detention.”

While Chima is Igbo and from South East, there are other deportees, who are from other states outside Igboland. Take this: Mr. John Irabor, who hails from Benin, in Edo State, among other ‘foreigners,’ was dumped in Onitsha last week, even when, according to him, he neither committed any crime nor charged to court for any crime.

“While we were in detention, they fed us only once a day and even when the food was brought, it usually tasted bad. If you look at us, you will see that we were treated badly,” Irabor lamented.

Putting the matter in perspective, the National Coordinator of Ebonyi Consultative Forum (ECF), Onowu Obini C. Obini, said Nigeria was on a dangerous bend, adding that the founding fathers of the country would be turning with anger in their graves.

“A few things could be deduced from the ugly development. One, it is a sign of failure on the part of government because they cannot provide for the citizenry in spite of the stupendous wealth of the country. The leadership is not creative but seems to be chuffed with the disheartening state of affairs. Two, it shows that human dignity has been eroded in the psyche of the people. The moral temperature of society is unhealthy, hence citizens are treated like such lowly animals as donkeys,” he stated.

Obini argued: “Population is an asset of inestimable value. Assuming that the ‘deportees’ were jobless, as alleged, it behoves the leadership to create the enabling environment so that they can achieve their full potentials, help themselves and the country at the end of the day. But by this deportation, the constitution is thoroughly breached, even as the nation’s fragile unity is further buffeted.

“Surely, Nigeria is making itself a laughing stock in the comity of nations. However, it provides Ndigbo an opportunity for introspection or self-searching. And as long as injustice is perpetrated in the land, we will continue to grope in the dark.”

But what is the position of the law on this matter? Does the Lagos State Government have the right to accost people on the streets, hold them in captivity for several months before dumping them in a place, which is not necessarily their place of origin?

Providing answers to these questions, Mr. Chukwuanugo Ejikeme averred that deportation from one part of the country to another was an aberration, stressing that Lagos erred in every material particular. He argued that such acts would make people lose faith in the polity.

Maintaining that the action of the Lagos government smacked of impunity, Ejikeme said: “Under our constitution, no state government has the right to deport. You cannot deport somebody from one part of the country to another; deportation is from one country to another. If any Nigerian resident in any part of the country commits a crime, he ought to be tried and if found guilty, punished within the state. The action of Lagos State Government is condemnable and a complete violation of our constitution. And it gives the impression that Easterners are criminals, who are merely being tolerated in Lagos. The government ought to know that the brothers and sisters of those deported are the ones developing Lagos. If you deport a fellow Nigerian because he or she has no home or mentally sick, have you not failed as a state in assisting the needy? Why engage in segregation? How are indigenes that are in the same situation treated? This is part of the bad treatment meted to the Igbo; they are being treated like second-class citizens, to say the least. Worse still, the Federal Government has remained mute, not doing or saying anything about the ugly development.”

In the same vein, Aka Ikenga, an Igbo group, frowns at the development. In a statement issued by the president of the organisation, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, he stated: “We question the pedestal on which they were deported. Was the deportation by a court order? Was it at the whims and caprices of anybody in authority in Lagos? Some of those deported claimed they were abducted on the roads, detained in a camp and then dumped in Onitsha, Anambra State, by trailers and trucks.

“This is horrible and an aberration for a citizen to be deported from one part of the country to another. This is a democratic era and it is difficult to believe that the highly respected government of Lagos State will be suspected of involvement herein. Whatever be the case, this travesty must stop forthwith before it degenerates.”



Looking at it from the political point of view, Chief Onwudiwe of the South East, South South Professionals stated: “If it is the Lagos Sate Government is doing this, it is trying to kill ACN. About 43 per cent of ACN votes came from the Igbo and whose stake in the development and investment in the state are huge. The first time deportation happened, I was in Anambra State; I went straight to the Government House and saw the Secretary to the State Government (SSG). He told me that they got the information at about 2am that a bus came and dropped more than 100 of them at the bus stop and drove off. The SSG said the government immediately moved them to camp and first of all brought in a medical group to test them and be sure that they were okay and not a case of some people, who wanted to come and infect Anambra with diseases.

“They interviewed them and found out that about 90 per cent of them were not from Anambra. Some were Igbo-speaking and some were not. Some were from Akwa Ibom and Kogi, among other states but they dumped them there because once you are not speaking Yoruba, you are Igbo. They just crossed the Niger River and dumped them, as they perceived it’s the boundary of the Igbo nation. Is it a message that the Lagos State Government is clearing Lagos of destitute? You didn’t drive them to the borders of Lagos; you passed through Ogun, Ondo, Edo and Delta States and eventually landed in Anambra, where destitutes belong.

“I know that Governor Obi then took it up with President Goodluck Jonathan. I know that Fashola was called and he denied knowledge of it. He said he was not aware that such a thing happened. And it has happened this time again. Luckily now, the media was alert enough to have photographs, evidence that these are the people. The first time it happened, Obi tried to play politics of accommodation. He didn’t allow the media access to them but this time around, the media were on ground.

“I was listening to radio talk on the issue. It is nice that the governor of Lagos is ACN but being a lawyer, he should say what part of the constitution allows him to do this.

“I have received a lot of calls on this matter and their reactions have been that maybe, the support we have been giving to ACN is being taken for granted. Maybe we should support another political party, which will, at least, respect the constitution in that regard. Most of us are registered here and we use the people’s power to stop that rubbish.

“I know the governor of Anambra will allow it to be settled politically and as along as that happens, for the media, the governor of Lagos would continue to deny or they will say, ‘we are investigating the matter to find out who is causing it’ and for eternity we will not get to know the result. However, 2015 is coming and part of our jobs is to remind everybody that the constitution told one little truth: ‘We the people.’

“These beggars that you see on the streets of Ebute Metta and other places, who have been there for long, are not the destitute and nobody bothered to tell them to go anywhere or deport them. The destitutes are these street hawkers; these people who decided not to be robbers, who decided not to steal but carrying goods to sale. I personally saw it happen around Tejuosho area when one of the task forces in the state was pursuing the hawkers. I asked one of the boys what was happening, he said he was running because he couldn’t speak Yoruba and if they caught you, they would throw you into the van and confiscate your goods.

“This is a kind of subtle discrimination. I don’t want to believe that Fashola could have given instruction for that kind of thing. I don’t believe that he would ever do it. But let me use this opportunity to thank the Lagos State Government that what they have done was to deport because our brothers in the North might not have deported.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/arrested-in-lagos-deported-to-onitsha/

alj harem:

My friend, let me be honest with you and this IS THE REAL TRUTH.

Lagosians are not panicking.

Lagosians are tired of igbos constituting as nuisance in our state

Lagosians are at their happiest during Christmas and new year when you all go to your villages

Lagosians have no problem with others especially Calabar people but have a lot with Igbos.

That is the truth from an indigene of Lagos. If you think I am lying push this Ladipo issue further and watch what will happen.

You can form your own country so that you will have the legal rights and conditions to deport, or even murder, all Igbos in Lagos and take their properties. Don't be a coward, go ahead and secede from Naija.

mekaboy: I did not want to comment of this deportation issue because I am not a fan of tribal bashing, I am a global thinker.

I just have 3 things to say.

1, Taking pple who are not indigens, homeless and have no business in lagos is a security measure. 99% of kidnapping cases in lagos are non-lagosians.

2, I think it is wrong for the pple to be held against their will for 6months if that is the case, and dropping them at night at the head bridge, is wrong. The state govt should be sues for that and made to pay compensation to them for violating their right. Irrespective of which part of Nigeria.

3, I blame the likes of Orji Uzokalu, who failed to present a comfortable environment for the igbos. If he had used the funds allocated to him during his time as governor, for the interest of igbos, we won't have igbos roaming streets of lagos without having anything doing. So coming out today to pretend he has the interest of igbos is a big lie.

I always say the greatest problem of igbos are igbos themselves.

Alaigbo is blessed with all sorts of resources, but greed will not let our leaders put the pple first.

If I was a governor in alaigbo, and heard that igbos where deported from another state for not having anything doing, I would bow my head in shame, knowing that I have failed my pple.

When you catch a criminal operating in his own country (and indeed elsewhere), you take them to court, try them, find them guilty and jail them, or punish him accordingly, including death penalty, if warranted. You do not lock them up in private detention centers and deport them in the middle of the night from one part of their own country to another. Fasola is a lawyer, isn't he? What specific crimes did the deported people commit?

This is a lie. Show us another report of this when it happened. ACN pack of liars.

If SW people were deported from anywhere, they would have gone to press before now. This is a big fat lie

Bournvitanisha: An ibo man says that Ibos in Lagos are 45% without any verified data collection, and of course a Nairaland ibo tribalist would believe it.

Duh, tell us sth new

Igbo man working and speaking for Tinubu and Fasola (conc Yoruba men)

Bournvitanisha: Read again

ACN says Igbos in Lagos are 45%. Not news, as we know this already.

bobthebuilder99: PDP is scared that Fashola might run as the APC candidate, so they are trying to make the Igbo believe that he hates them.

All for 2015.

It is in the best interest of PDP that ACN (APC) fields Fasola. The deportees and their kins will remember.

Bournvitanisha: Look bush person, did Fashola or Tinubu write the speech? As a spokesperson, it's his job......ibokwe's job to present his organization to the public.

An ibo man saying that Ibos are 45% of Lagos surprises no one, ESP when the data has no fact behind it.

Wasn't it last year when y'all claimed a 60-99% population?

Pub Secs don't speak for themselves. They speak after getting clearance from the chairman/president/leader. You are a complete mor/on.

plaindealer: Didn't know a well known acn official is also the head of NSB and he don conduct his own census in lagos state..


Do you people have brains at all?

ACN Publicity Secretary (Joe Igbokwe) speaking for party leaders (Fasola and Tinubu): Igbos are 45% of Lagos.

Bournvitanisha: Spokesmen for Fashola meaning what?

Did Fashola write his speech?

Or did Igbokwe just make up any data? How was it collected?

Last year, it was 99-69%......

Tinubu is ACN national Party leader
Fasola is ACN state Party leader
Both of these fellows are from Lagos State
Joe Igbokwe is Party Publicity Secretary for Lagos State and lives in Lagos
If you know anything about organizations, ranking and responsibilities, you would have known that a publicity secretary is only a messanger, bearing the message from the head. Just like Reuben Abati does for GEJ

You appear to be a bush person with no sense of how things work in organized settings.

bobthebuilder99: Fash won over 80% of the vote in 2011, so if there are more Igbos in Lagos than the entire SE, Jonathan's chances for 2015 are non existent.

Besides, there are no ethnic census figures. So PDP better hope this na lie.

Igbos in Lagos are not more than the entire SE. They are more than each individual SE states.

Bournvitanisha: Did anyone also realize that the spokesman is Igbo?

How did Joe Igbokwe come to this figure?

Lol who are these ppl kidding?

Joe Igbokwe is a well known ACN official in Lagos. Are you ignorant?

bobthebuilder99: THE TRUTH COMES OUT!

He is a spokesman, speaking for Fasola and Tinubu. He does not speak for himself.

pandriod: Just like the way igbos are 40% of kano? Heck, after using them for election figures what happened? many started coming back in poly bags.

You do not use people without population advantage ''for election figures''. So invariably you confirm that claim that Igbos are highly populated outside Igboland. As for killing Igbos, if it makes you happy to be a murderer na ur wahala be that.

Abagworo: whether true or not that statement is symbolic and might backfire in the long run. The implications are

1) Whatever the population of Lagos is inflated to will reflect an increased population of Igbos. Eg those saying 17million means there are 8million Igbos in Lagos.

2) In 2015 election GEJ is sure of 45% of Lagos votes and will rig it to that level or more using ACN's statement as evidence.

3) Their are more Igbos in Lagos than all Southeastern States respectively.

4) Igbos in Lagos are more in population than population of 28 States.

The stuff in bold is a fact.

pandriod: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/jonathan-buhari-in-
crossfire-over-jos-campaign-deaths/88314/

The same pattern PDP used in rigging elections? This Joe Igbo kwe really understood how to massage the egos of his Igbo brothers. APC is learning very fast from PDP.

ACN Lagos led by Fasola and Tinubu confirms what every Nigerian already knows: Igbos are 45% of Lagos.

[quote author=Yeske!]Woww, 45%?? Never knew it was that high.[/quote]Means you have not been to Lagos. On an average Lagos street you will find more Igbos than Yoruba.

Except in Ketu and Agege

asha 80: i find that line about lagos destitutes moved back to lagos from akwa ibom.....how remotely true is that?

It was not reported anywhere else. ACN is lying pants down.

lagerwhenindoubt: I am still trying to understand get rid of social miscreants who are not indigienes? what about the bloody indigenous b#@stards who smoke weed all day and harass, r.ape and kill Nigerians regularly .. oh my bad, they are Lagos miscreants, they have no where to go but Lagos.. that figures

Lagos indigenous miscreants - and they are in the majority- should be locked up for life in Fasola's nazi camp.

antartica: I am surprise too he hasn't spoken about the atrocities yet.His voice might give urgency to the horrors.It will make it clear to the primitive tribalists,especially the ones on this forum that what is going on is totally unacceptable,unexplainable and unjustifiable.

He has been pretending he does not know. I will send him a personal message to that effect.

dayokanu: So you dont realize when they are clowning you?

So if someone says you are the next president of US now, or you own 75% of NYSE, You would go throw a party?

Clowning your head you mean. Tell that to Baba Ijebu

Aigbofa: Tax money. The tap must be kept flowing.

Not a problem; we will pay as we always have. We are not poor like you who can't afford ordinary Shoprite bread.

Something good has finally come out of the deportation of people from Lagos. The threat by Igbos have forced ACN to begin to tell the truth. Next census must have ethnic data or no census at all.

“Lagos ACN wants to let Nigerians know that Igbos constitute over 45 per cent of the population of Lagos and they dominate key sectors of the Lagos economy.

Something good has finally come out of the deportation of people from Lagos. The threat by Igbos have forced ACN to begin to tell the truth. Next census must have ethnic data or no census at all.

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has lashed out at those who are playing cheap and dirty politics by the decision of the Lagos State government to move some homeless, indigent citizens to their home states for rehabilitation.

The party said that no sane government would be blackmailed into allowing homeless Nigerians to continue to inflict security and environmental problems on its state just to please those that readily play lousy and retrogressive politics with issues for their selfish and ulterior interests.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party said it is particularly irked by the decision of some professional chance takers and political opportunists to take advantage of the recent movement of some indigent, homeless and social miscreants to Onitsha for the purpose of re-connecting with their families when they have no tangible business in Lagos.

The party said there should be an end to opportunistic politics and cheap ethnic and tribal politics as are being played out over the issue. The party said that transporting indigent, homeless miscreants to their home states is not a new idea and not limited to Igbos.

“We expect that the opposition in Lagos and its array of frustrated politicians in Lagos will certainly seek to play politics with the decision of the Lagos State government to move some people that have no tangible business staying in Lagos to their home states. We expected that the professional ethnic agitators who have wasted public offices in Igboland, pillaging resources that would have served the interests of the people are now cashing further from the plights of their vicious approach to governance on this issue. We however want to state that it is a shame to the opposition that it is seeking cheap political capital from the plight of the hapless victims of its free loading approach to governance and has drawn the support of ethnic irredentists whose failure on governance left the Igbo people so poor that they have become homeless refugees in Lagos and other parts of the country. It is a huge irony that the PDP, which has purloined the country in fourteen years of vicious corrupt governance, is the one now seeking to make political capital from the plight of its victims and says so much of the dominant politics of deception, corruption and greed which had hallmarked the unfortunate PDP governance of the country since 1999.

“To put the records straight, the Lagos State government, with its commitment to the interests of Lagosians and in its effort to build a functional modern mega city, had long embarked on the decision to pick up the many derelicts, the homeless, beggars and social miscreants that inhabit all parts of Lagos.”

Clean them up, find means of livelihood for those that are employable and send those it cannot manage to their respective states. We are all aware that this scheme has seen the practical reduction in the number of the beggars, street urchins and social miscreants that used to constitute real danger to life in Lagos and has seen such people moved back to various states, mainly in the North.

“We should note also that other states in the South, including South West states have received such people and the Lagos State Government has been careful to ensure that the number of people involved in such periodic movements are minimal and are only people who do not have where to stay in Lagos, who don’t have any real engagement in Lagos and who constitute nuisance to other Lagosians. We also put the nation on notice that before the latest movement of some people to Onitsha, we notified the Anambra State government, which neither responded nor took action on our complaint. We also want the public to note that the Lagos State government was involved in similar deal with the Akwa Ibom State government when some indigent Lagosians were moved back from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos. We want Nigerians to note that such movements are common with nearly all states in Nigeria and is becoming an issue just because selfish politicians and ethnic reapers who were prominent in the despoliation of the country see it as new and worth cashing in on.”

ACN added: “We want to throw a frontal challenge to the PDP and the ethnic chance takers now making undue issue over the present case to let Nigerians know any one of those sent back to their states who has a home, job or business in Lagos. We want them to go further to tell us any of those deported with any fixed address or legitimate means of livelihood. We are peeved that selfish politicians and their ethnic soulmates who have relentlessly pursued the pauperization of Nigerians even in their home states are the ones seeking cheap political ends from the plight of their victims and this is condemnable.

“Lagos ACN wants to let Nigerians know that Igbos constitute over 45 per cent of the population of Lagos and they dominate key sectors of the Lagos economy. Is there any case where any of the millions of Igbo with one legitimate business or the other in Lagos is involved in the recent movement? Igbos find Lagos a safe haven for their legitimate productive activities and the present government has sustained good and cordial efforts to ensure this prevails. We want to state that Lagos hosts the largest population of Igbo in any single state outside Igboland, how is it that the movement of about 60 Igbo miscreants to their home state has now become an issue political and ethnic reapers want to cash in to destroy this priceless relationship?

“We want to warn Ndigbo and Lagosians to beware of the leaven of the PDP and their ethnic collaborators who have spared nothing to deepen poverty and want in Nigeria and always turn round to cash in on the fate of the victims of these deadly politics. We want to assure Ndigbo in Lagos that nothing will be done to hurt and injure their interests and equally let those whose stay in Lagos constitutes threat to others that the Lagos State government will do everything within its rights to protect the lives, interests and well being of the over 20 million Lagosians who are law abiding and find legitimate reasons to stay in Lagos.”

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/07/31/lagos-is-safe-for-igbo-says-acn/