The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, to restrain the thugs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), led by Musiliu Akinsanya, otherwise called MC Oluomo, from causing a war between Yoruba and Igbo in Lagos State.
Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Mr. Okechukwu Isiguzoro, made the plea while condemning the unprovoked attacks on the Igbo in Lagos State.
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Mr. Isiguzoro said the attacks on the Igbo in Lagos State seemed to have other motives other than winning elections.
Recall that in the past few weeks, markets largely populated by Igbo traders had been razed by ‘mysterious fires’.
On Thursday morning, another fire razed the Olowu spare parts market in the metropolis.
This happened three weeks after Akere Spare Parts Market on Kirikiri Road, Olodi-Apapa in Ajegunle went up in flames.
Mr. Isiguzoro lamented that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has been helpless in resolving the attacks on the Igbo.
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A statement by Mr. Isiguzoro read in part, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo, therefore, calls on Iba Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of the Yoruba nation to kindly use his revered office in bringing the situation to a halt.
“Already, it is becoming a Herculean task to hold Ndigbo back from retaliation in the face of the sustained “genocide and crimes against humanity” being perpetrated against Ndigbo in Lagos by some ‘APC thugs’ under the command of MC Oluomo with the State Government and security agencies watching the ‘horror movie’.
“We are, however, consoled by the patriotic position of Afenifere under the valiant leadership of Pa Ayo Adebanjo and urge Ndigbo to remain law-abiding but “vigilant and on guard.”