Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State, has urged the people of Igbo extraction resident in Lagos State not to turn the state’s governorship election to “an ethnic issue.”
Osoba spoke to TVC on Monday during an interview.
The former governor warned Lagos residents that making the state election ethnic and tribal based could be ''destructive'' he said.
He also described Lagos as the “most liberal state in the country,” urged Igbo brothers and sisters in Lagos to sustain the cordial relationship.
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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 was 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.’’
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