We’ll Will Pass New Property, Business Ownership Laws Favouring Lagos Indigenes, Lagos belongs to Yorubas – Speaker Obasa

Following a vow by its speaker Mudashiru Obasa to “reverse all the reversible,” the Lagos State House of Assembly is preparing a proclamation that may threaten the ownership of land and property by non-indigenous people in the state, particularly Igbos.

The tenacious and hardworking Igbos, who originated in South-East Nigeria, were subjected to a number of nasty verbal and physical assaults by Yoruba leaders and their adherents. Many Igbos supported the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the most recent presidential and governorship elections. They were held accountable for the APC and then-candidate Bola Tinubu’s loss in Lagos on February 25.

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“Lagos is a Yoruba land as against the assertions of some people that it is a no man’s land,” Mr Obasa declared. “Therefore, part of our legislative agenda is to ensure the translation of laws passed by this House to the Yoruba language.”

In his acceptance speech for a third term as speaker of the Lagos parliament and the swearing-in of the 10th Lagos assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Obasa, a steadfast member of the establishment and a longtime ally of Mr. Tinubu, said that the plans by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pass new land and property laws would only benefit natives.

The Lagos speaker exposed the APC-controlled state legislature’s scheme to utilize “all legislative instruments” to favor locals at the expense of other tribes.

“We also aim at achieving our collective goals of creating a robust legislative framework that protects the interest of our people. Going forward in this wise, we are going to employ all legislative instruments for the support of the indigenes of Lagos,” the speaker of the Lagos parliament declared.

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Mr Obasa further asserted, “There would be laws and resolutions in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles, and we will reverse all that are reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes.”

Igbos were pitted against Yoruba leaders in the APC, and their hordes were pitted against Igbos and the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential and governorship elections. Because of his Igbo origin, the latter’s governorship candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour was singled out and de-marketed.

Following the March 18 governor’s election, the US issued a statement denouncing the APC-led suppression of Igbo voting in Lagos and announced new immigration prohibitions on those responsible. Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, a known Lagos thug, threatened Igbos who would not vote for the APC to remain home just days before the governorship election.

Following a serious scare in the race for Lagos governor (the APC’s victory is being challenged at the tribunal), Bayo Onanuga, another key APC figure, pushed for the outright exclusion of Nigerians of Igbo descent from the Lagos political power, escalating the ethnic tensions that surrounded the election.

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A few months after the election, Nigeria’s then-works and housing minister, Babatunde Fashola, said that identity politics is now a global trend and that he saw no issues with the ethnic tension that plagued the elections in Lagos.

 

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