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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Senator Musiliu Obanikro, has berated the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, over the monarch’s comment on the Igbo living in Lagos.

A statement by Obanikoro, on Wednesday, said the threat issued against the Igbo was not in line with the character and spirit of Lagosians.

He described the traditional ruler’s statement as a premeditated and needless hostility capable of causing division within the state.

An enraged Akiolu had said that Igbo living in Lagos, who do not vote for the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, will perish in the lagoon.

Obanikoro said, “These people have not only become arrogant with power, they are gradually becoming despots. If an individual lays claim to not only handpicking a governorship candidate but alluded to also owning Lagos as it were, the Igbos should know what such a statement portends for them as a people sinisterly regarded as strangers.

“This was the same manner some Igbos were packed like spare parts and dumped somewhere in Anambra State about a year ago by the APC government regardless of where each person came from.
http://www.punchng.com/politics/obanikoro-flays-akiolu-over-comment/

Minister for 1 more month

eh? even Koro sef dey talk? people wey run GEJ down.
Though I still love you, Koro but sincerely speaking, you've lost your 'respectable say' in public matters as far as the Nigerian polity is concerned at least, for the next foreseeable future.
So just please hold your horses.
And on a lighter note, he's making sense though, just that his reputation is so battered for now.

Dis Oba really goofed. For d likes of Koro 2 b running his smelly mouth.... D oba's statement gave relevance 2 minions who are hitherto nonentities. My 50 cents

Oba vs Obanikoro

Which Oba will win?

Obanikoro is just using the Igbo race as a political tool. He's an opportunist.....a Yoruba politician is a green snake in a green grass. They're politically smart.

How can you dribble a whole Igbo race to to score a point? choii

I still think his comments were misintepreted.
It's just out of place that a monarch with his bearing and experience would make such caustic comments even when emotional.
Has he been in the newspages for the wrong reasons before now?

So much has gone down in Lagos in the last
16 years that they want to cover up at all
costs! Ambode is needed for this cover up. A former British colony occupied first occupied by the afonjas that migrated from ilorin.

Fairgodwin:
eh? even Koro sef dey talk? people wey run GEJ down.
Though I still love you, Koro but sincerely speaking, you've lost your 'respectable say' in public matters as far as the Nigerian polity is concerned at least, for the next foreseeable future.
So just please hold your horses.
And on a lighter note, he's making sense though, just that his reputation is so battered for now.

I am not sure of this, but I will rather referred to him as a member of those who held President Jonathan hostage.

Even Obanikoro too can talk?

Can you believe, what happened after loosing the PDP Governorship primaries?

An "ordinary Koro" dictating ministrial appointment reinstatement to the President when it was less that 4 months to the end the tenure?

And all was done to for it be?

I really thank God for President Jonathan rescue. GMB victory is not for ordinary Nigerians, but equally for people like our President Jonathan and the likes that are held hostage by some political hulks.


God Bless Nigeria