Ahead of the governorship election, a former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, has asked the people of Igbo extraction in the state not to turn the forthcoming election into an ethnic issue.
Speaking in a television interview, Osoba warned Lagos residents that making the state election ethnic and tribal-based could be destructive.
Osoba described Lagos as the most liberal state in this country and urged Igbo brothers and sisters in the state to sustain the cordial relationship.
He said, “I appeal to my Igbo brothers and sisters, don’t let us make this an ethnic issue. Anywhere in the world where ethnicity has become an issue, it becomes destructive,” the former governor said.
“I will plead that the youth, our religious people, and our Igbo brothers and sisters in Lagos should think of the past. Nnamdi Azikwe, the father figure of Igbo land… all his political life in Lagos.
“The first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, went to Methodist Boys High School and King’s College; he had his education in Lagos.
“We have been working together. Let us sustain the relationship. Lagos is the most liberal state in this country. Lagos has given so much to all of us, let us pay back by showing gratitude to a governor who I believe has done his best.”
