Bayo Onanuga, spokesman to President-elect Bola Tinubu, has said that 2023 must be the last time Igbo people interfere in the political affairs in Lagos State.
Onanuga, who is an indigene of Ogun State, said this in a tweet on Sunday.
Alongside the tweet, the journalist-cum-politician shared a photo of the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who is an Igbo man from Anambra State.
Onanuga wrote, “Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business.”
Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business. pic.twitter.com/8LO6QNq6cb
— Bayo onanuga (@aonanuga1956) March 18, 2023
Videos and photos circulating on the internet indicated that electoral brigandage characterised by attacks on voters and other acts of voter suppression occurred during the gubernatorial and state house of assembly polls in Lagos.
Ahead of the polls, loyalists of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including the controversial MC Oluomo, threatened voters from a particular section of the country, not to vote against the APC or risk consequences.
Although MC Oluomo later recanted, video evidence suggests thugs scared off non-indigenes of Lagos from voting in some areas.