Former governor of Ogun state, Olusegun Osoba has appealed to Lagos residents of Igbo extraction not to make the state’s gubernatorial election “an ethnic issue”.
Osoba spoke in an interview with TVC on Monday.
Since Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), defeated Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos during the presidential election, the heat of ethnic nationalism has increased between some of the state’s Yoruba and Igbo residents.
Social media has been awash with ethnic slurs as residents count down to the governorship election billed for March 11.
Speaking on the situation, Osoba warned Lagos residents that making the election about ethnicity could be “destructive”.
He described Lagos as the “most liberal state in this country” and appealed to “our Igbo brothers and sisters in Lagos” to sustain the relationship.
