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, thatis your end. If it does not happen withinseven 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 tothe 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 in side 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 ancestors 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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