₦airaland Forum

Indigenes of Lagos State have vowed to reject a Bill seeking the return of Nigeria to regional government.

Speaking under the aegis of De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, the Lagos Indigenes, in a statement by its Media Office, revealed that a proposed Bill seeking approval of the National Assembly to return Nigeria to regional system is set to be considered but insisted that Lagos State people will not be part of the Western Region.

But De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, in a statement by Adelani Adeniji-Adele said: “This bill that is being proposed or suggested spells an ominous sign to us from Lagos State. It is a further attempt to subsume our aspiration into a larger group that is antithesis to whatever we believe in as indigenes of the state.

“The first most important is that vast consultations were not held on the matter to find out if being submerged into another subgroup is a thing we desire. It cannot be generally assumed.

“Generally and since Lagos and its environs became a colony, we have always maintained that we prefer a stand alone status and not be part of any Western Region or Province.

“In recent times, our various indigenous groups had always maintained that we as indigenes of Lagos had always been having a raw deal from our neighbours in the South West, who see nothing good in us as they are only for project to marginalize us and see our state as ‘spoils of war’.

“We recall that in our history of over 100 years, Lagos indigenes in their various forms, towns and villages have never made progress and development as part of any region not to talk of the Western Region. The brief balkanization of our state to be part of the Western Region was an aberration.

“Nothing should be assumed especially from the contents of this proposed bill, especially if it has the inclusion of Lagos State as part of any region. We demand a referendum to actually reflect the wishes of the people.

“We, the indigenes of Lagos State, do not wish to be part of the regional state as being proposed in the Bill returning Nigeria to regional government. Our leaders and traditional rulers opposed it in 1953 and we gained respite in 1967. We, offspring of our heroes’ past, will not accept it.

“We enjoin our representatives in the National Assembly to consult with the elders statesmen and stakeholders before taking any action on the Bill. This is beyond the ruling party and state government affairs. Lagos State cannot be brought into nothingness through the South West Region proposal by this Bill surreptitiously.

SpatialKing:
Why must you force them

ALCOHOLKILLS:
You guys must be part of oduduwa region either you like it or not, Lagos wealths must spread across the six state of Ekiti Oyo Ogun Osun and Kwara respectively 😒

Ungrateful people, other Yoruba have been fighting for you and now you want to enjoy your wealth alone

Impossible 😡😡

ALCOHOLKILLS:
You guys must be part of oduduwa region either you like it or not, Lagos wealths must spread across the six state of Ekiti Oyo Ogun Osun and Kwara respectively 😒

Ungrateful people, other Yoruba have been fighting for you and now you want to enjoy your wealth alone

Impossible 😡😡

Mille:
Instead of worrying about Lagos, worry about the fate of your people who are cowards. 4m people forced to sit at home every Monday by a ragtag group with less than 1,000 members.

Worry about a landlocked country filled with drug dealers and baby factories. Btw, I don't know what Delta people will do but this is a pictorial evidence of how Ore will look one week after regionalism. Our Itsekiri and Edo brothers will be the only ones allowed free movement.

proeast:
Now the indigenous people of Lagos are talking. I used to wonder how they allowed abobakus to invade them from their rusted slum settlements and took over their state.

Lagos and Abuja will definitely be independent regions on their own, for the regionalism to work. Some parasites can’t reap where they didn’t sow.

SpatialKing:
Why must you force them

kettykin:
The is where the issue will come , the aim of regional government is to covet assets of Lagos into western region . If lagosians want to be on their own, then the southwest region will technically be North South west region because there will be no difference between it and the north central or northwest

Ogonimilitant:
Lagos is not a Yoruba land