Lagos 2027: Group Tells Seyi Tinubu To Quash Ambition, Say No Room For Non-Lagos Indigene

By Akinwale Kasali

 

Days ago, a Group under the aegis of Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders, CONYL, had endorsed Seyi Tinubu, Son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next Governor of the State. But a Youth Group under the auspices of the Coalition of Lagos Indigenous Youths has rejected the endorsement.

The Group said the dream of the younger Tinubu of becoming the Executive Governor of the Centre of Excellence is a tall ambition that cannot come to reality. He should Quash the idea, they warned him.

It stressed that Tinubu is from Osun State, but the magnanimity of Lagosians and Indigenes paved way for his Father to be a two- term Governor of Lagos State. At the moment, they said,  there is no room for a non-Lagos Indigene to be on the seat of Power in Alausa.

The coalition made this declaration in a release signed by its President, Abdul Kareem Whyte.

Part of the statement reads:

“Our attention has been drawn to the recent endorsement of Seyi Tinubu for Lagos Governor by a group known as Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL) and the group is described as the the umbrella body of all the youth groups drawn across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

“The said Coalition sat in Owerri, Imo State, and publicly issued the statement on endorsement, While we know Mr Seyi Tinubu has his democratic rights as a Nigerian, we condemn the ill-fated endorsement and describe it as anti-democracy and a deliberate move by some faceless individuals to deny indigenes of Lagos State right to govern themselves in 2027.

“As for us, there is no vacancy for non-indigenes in Lagos State in 2027. The marginalization is too much and the marginalization has led to the underdevelopment in the State.

“It’s unbelievable that since 1999, our hinterlands are not developed, no good roads, Lagos State living on debt and our traditional system distorted by successive Governments.”

The coalition, therefore, enjoined the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Osuolale Akiolu, to beware of persons who would soon seek indigeneship of Lagos State because of 2027.