Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe wrote this beautiful piece, read and learn. Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria. It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade. The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after ...
The Senate had, last week, approved the transfer of the conduct of local government polls from the SIEC to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic has faulted the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, for objecting to the proposal to scrap states’ independent electoral commission as part of the ongoing constitution amendment by the National Assembly. The Senate had, last week, approved the transfer of the conduct of local government polls from the SIEC to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Oshiomhole had, in an interview, described the decision of the Senate as another step in the bid of the National Assembly to withhold devolution of powers to the states. He had questioned the business of the Federal Government in the conduct of council elections. “When our people are in a position to make changes, they tend to abandon them for other issues. In the US, they call lo...
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