Vote Ambode Or Perish Inside Lagoon, Akinolu Tells Igbos In Lagos

Here’s how ThisDay reports
it;

Igbos living in Lagos were
told on Sunday to vote for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, or else they will die in the lagoon.

A visibly angry Oba of
Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, in an unconcealed threat, stated that he was not ready to
beg the Igbos, but if they repeated what they did on March 28 when they voted
for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President
Goodluck Jonathan, then they should be ready for the consequences.

The governorship elections
are scheduled to hold on Saturday, and it is believed that Igbo residents in
Lagos will vote for the PDP candidate, Jimi Agbaje, just like they did during
the presidential and National Assembly elections that led to the victory of PDP
candidates of Igbo origin and from Delta State in three federal constituencies
in Lagos.

The victory of the
non-indigenes of Lagos, ThisDay gathered, has not gone down well with the Lagos
chapter of the APC.

Speaking at a meeting with
Igbo leaders in the state, according to an online news medium, Freedom Online,
the first class monarch, who failed to recognise the cosmopolitan nature of
Lagos, said: “On Saturday, if anyone of you goes against Ambode who I picked,
that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a
bastard and it is not my father who gave birth to me.

“Jonathan is my son and I
speak to him everyday. 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.

“I’m not ready to beg you.
Nobody knew how I picked Ambode. Jimi (Agbaje) is my blood relation and I told
him that he cannot 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, don’t do it here.

“If you do what I want,
Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you. If you go against my wish, you
will perish in the water.”

The monarch said anybody
against Ambode did not wish the state well, adding, “I am for the progress,
growth and development of Lagos. Ambode is highly cerebral, he’s a symbol and
he is going to deliver the message which I, the Oba of Lagos, have said. And he
will govern the state for another eight years.