Bayo Onanuga, the spokesperson for President‑elect Bola Tinubu and director of media and publicity for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, warned Igbo residents in Lagos against “interfering” in the state’s politics. Posting on his official Twitter account (@aonanuga1956) on Saturday night, he 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.”
The warning came amid reports that ethnic tensions were flaring in the days leading up to Lagos’s governorship election. Former Ogun State governor Olusegun Osoba had earlier urged people of “Igbo extract” in Lagos not to turn the election into a tribal issue. Social media platforms saw a surge in ethnic slurs directed at residents, and both the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo‑Olu, and the Labour Party’s Lagos governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes‑Vivour, were drawn into the controversy.
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