Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has read the riot
act to Igbo leaders and monarchs in Lagos
State, warning that he will make life unbearable
for them if they sabotage efforts being made
to ensure that the governorship candidate of
All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode, emerges as the next governor of the
state.
The monarch, who summoned all the Eze-Ndigbo
in the state to his palace, said the support of
their kensmen for the opposition party in the
state could frustrate current efforts being made
in all quarters to ensure that Lagos was no
longer in opposition with the Federal
Government.
He said: "On Saturday, if anyone of you goes
against Ambode, who I picked, that is your end.
If it does not happen within seven days, just
know that I am a bastard and it is not my father
who gave birth to me.
"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.
"For the Igbo and others in Lagos, they should
go where the Oba of Lagos heads to. When they
were coming to the state, they did not come
with all their houses. But now, they have
properties in the state. So they must do my
bidding. And that is the bidding of the ances
tors of Lagos and God.
"I am not ready to beg you. Nobody knew how I
picked Ambode. Jimi is my blood relation and I
told him that he could never be governor in
Lagos for now. The future belongs to God. I am
not begging anybody, but what you people
cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere you
cannot do it here ."
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