The Oasis Reporters

March 16, 2023

Thuggish attitudes, unexplainable hatred, despicable lies, arson and murder against innocent people and their investments seem to have led to a backlash that has made Lagosians more determined to vote who they would vote for, no matter what was done, at an unprecedented rally led by Abdulkareem at the Lagos State Secretariat on Monday, ahead of the March 18, 2023 election for the next governor of Lagos.

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It is ours, let's Take It.#ourlagos #itsPOssible pic.twitter.com/qkyaWb2iyI

— Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (@GRVlagos) March 15, 2023

This is our Lagos, says Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour, a true son of the soil, one whose ancestors endured and SurVived human trafficking across the Atlantic, and returned only for them to become second class citizens on their own homeland.

His campaign team was in Epe, a Lagos traditional suburb of indigenous Eko people, fused into a one Nigeria colour.

More excerpts from the GRV rally in Epe.
Vote Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour @GRVlagos for Lagos State Governor ✅
Vote Labour Party in all levels ✅ pic.twitter.com/gHmYbzmXcg

— JT Atta Thaddeus (@_JtAttah) March 14, 2023

LP candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour has addressed the Northern community in Lagos.

I just concluded a meeting with the Arewa Community where I reiterated my commitment to building OUR LAGOS for everyone.

Lagos is a cosmopolitan city & thrives on being hospitable, we will bring back its lost glory.

Vote LP 🗳, You can do it, We can do it.

Èkó E dìde!!

~ GRV pic.twitter.com/s2MkQ7GQGF

— Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (@GRVlagos) March 14, 2023

The power to choose who they want is now in the hands of the people, not that of self styled godfathers.

The power to be governed is in the hands of the people, not a godfather and his cronies.
Lagosians if elected I will serve YOU the people with all my heart and might and surround myself with only the best.

Vote LP 🗳, You can do it, We can do it.

Èkó E dìde!! pic.twitter.com/LwLM9i5nDV

— Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (@GRVlagos) March 15, 2023

People want a Lagos that will work for all, not only for a few families.

While other cities around the world are growing with fast pace, Lagos is doing foniku, fola dide.

The wealth of a wealthy state is being controlled and spent by few families. We can't keep going this way. We need a Lagos that will work for all. A Lagos with GRV.#TakeBackLagos pic.twitter.com/wAfAOobmzA

— Lola Okunrin (@lollypeezle) March 14, 2023

THE BATTLE FOR LAGOS:

The Battle For Lagos Is Between The Real Omo Ekos And The Intruders/Criminal Gang That Assassinated Funsho Williams To tighten their Grip Over The State.

“Let’s be very clear here; the Igbos are not running for Governorship election in Lagos state. The Igbos are not in the struggle for ownership of any land, as am yet to meet that Igbo man that wish to be buried in Ikoyi Or Akpan cemetery. The Igbos will always go home.



But one thing they will not do is to cut and run and abandon their hard earned investments and run away just because someone is making video tapes, shouting and threatening people that withstood thirty months of global blockade and genocidal civil war. The Igbos are in Lagos just as they are in Houston, Texas or even Togo here. They see opportunities they create and add values as long as that place remains viable and profitable.




Just go to London. Peckham and very many surrounding areas. Or Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire. Even try Funtua in Katsina state or Kurna Asabe in Kano, those are places amongst many others where you could learn fluent Yoruba on the streets. Yorubas also inhabit in other lands owned by other people.


Cuba, Brazil, name it! Yorubas are welcome everywhere.




“Go to Maiduguru, Yola and a few other places that the Igbos have dis-invested and you can only find a desolate and depressed, but once vibrant cities.



So let me say here that the power struggle in Lagos has nothing to do with the Igbos resident in Lagos. It has more to do with the struggle for political power amongst the Yorubas. It is between the real educated, liberal and very accommodating indigenous people of Lagos, and the other Yorubas who are not original Omo Ekos, but have become Lagosians by the virtue of birth or residency and dialect.



Infact, you can count the real biological Omo Ekos dating back to centuries, the family blocks of Indigenous people of Lagos from Ikorodu to Epe , Lagos Island etc. You can do that Just standing because they are not that many and we know them.




Power shifted away from them following the assassination of Funsho Williams that ran for Governorship of Lagos state.


It is that power that Jimi Agbaje and the rest of others have struggled and tried albeit with little success to wrestle back from the current ACN/APC clique.



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These are a lot of serious under currents in the battle for Lagos, yet the Igbos as usual used as scapegoats.



I suspect that the Igbos have become the tie breakers because of their block vote in this power struggle between these two sets of the Yoruba brethren in the battle for Lagos.

Ironically one side believed that they can use blackmail, the whipping of tribal sentiments and hate, intimidation, harassment and voter suppression to hold on to power in perpetuity.



The attempt to discourage the Igbo alignment with the real Omo Ekos to reclaim back their indigenous home of Lagos from those who took it from them and relegated them just like many others in Lagos.



While they use force, and deploy certain characters and others to unleash propaganda, divisive politics of acrimony, the real liberal Lagosians preach peace, mutual co existence, tolerance, inclusiveness and mutual respect for all the residents of Lagos just like it is obtainable in New York, London and all other world class urban centers.


Yet, people wonder why the Igbos and other residents of Lagos choose to align with those who have treated them with dignity and mutual respect.



So some of these desperate actions we see today are not only laughable but a great insult to the many great and intelligent Yoruba men and women who truly understand the truth. Therefore it is insulting for some desperate characters be they Igbos or others that are basically earning their living by conning the officials of APC with the impression that they matter in Igbo affairs. Or that their utterances merits even a pause by serious minded people across the world.



For these people to concoct all these mumbo jumbo self serving disjointed statements riddled with all manners of stereotypical nuances just to appease their paymasters is just simply absurd.



One thing with tricksters and sycophants is that they do not know when to stop. That’s their trade.



But I am confident that our brethren from the SouthWest who stand not with Political parties or any particular individual, but stand in solidarity with the truth, justice and equity are not buoyed or persuaded by all these absurdities.



The Igbo position is consistent with the rest of other Nigerians who are sick and tired of the impunity and steady drift towards abyss. Go towards the SouthEast and see how the quiet revolution is shaping things up. Lagos is no exception to the wind of change blowing across this country, and shouldn’t be.

Thank you.
C.O.M.”


Consider this:

Since the dawn of the third republic on May 29, 1999, under listed have been governors in Lagos.


His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (the current president-elect)

Barr. Raji Fashola

Akinwunmi Ambode

Babajide Sanwaolu.

None of the above listed is an indigene of Lagos. They are from Osun, Ekiti, Ondo etc.


Is there anything wrong in a true freeborn of Lagos, governing in his own home state?



This is actually the true heartfelt cry of indigenous Lagosians. Rulership in Lagos has been one imposed by just one man in over two decades. With BVAS and the current momentum of change in place this season, indigenous Lagosians are saying it is their turn to be in charge of their own homeland that would accommodate everyone, for the prosperity of all, not just a few selfish families from other states.

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