Read What Igbos In Lagos Told Jimi Agbaje On Sunday

Latest reports inform that some dissatisfied Igbos in Lagos state, under the aegis of Aka Ikenga, the umbrella group of Igbos in Lagos, met with the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos state, Jimi Agbaje on Sunday.

According to Thisday newspaper report published online, while expressing their unfair lot in the hands of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government in Lagos State, the dissatisfied Igbos extracted commitment of a fair bargain from Agbaje during the meeting which took place in the Victoria Island home of Ambassador Greg Mbadiwe.

It was disclosed that the president of the Aka Ikenga, Mr Goddy Uwazurike, stated that the forth coming election will be a contest in which the Igbos will have to battle for freedom from certain individuals who have so-to-say, annexed Lagos state.

While speaking at the occasion, Agbaje ran through the prisms of his campaign programme and promised fair and equal treatment to Igbos, in terms of appointment, employment and business.

Jimi Agbaje

The PDP governorship candidate promised that he will attend to all the needs of traders at the Ladipo Market where he will build a pedestrian bridge across the Oshodi-Apapa expressway to “save our people who are daily dying on that road”.


Agbaje emphasised that the talk about the fight for freedom is not only by non-indigenes, but also by indigenes, “because we have a situation in Lagos where there is so much vested interest where one or two people have had to hold all of us in bondage. And we have to fight to be liberated from it”.

He condemned the practice of government appointing “Babaloja” (market leader) from outside, stressing that “in all these things we are in the struggle together”
Meanwhile, the Co-ordinator of Goodluck Jonathan Campaign in the entire southern states, Mr Peter Obi, told the gathering that Jonathan is their best bet given that Buhari has no economic blue print and has become old and ineffective.
Obi stressed that the issue of corruption was not peculiar with the Jonathan administration, pointing out that it is a society’s problem as people are too keen on celebrating  suddenly rich people without bothering to check what they do.

Peter Obi

The group however expressed disappointment at the unfulfilled promises of the Jonathan administration noting that Jonathan administration’s failure to build or maintain roads in the South-east axis of the country was a great disservice to the people of the region.

“We feel very disappointed that more than four years after, we cannot drive from Enugu to Port Harcourt, or from Onitsha to Enugu”, one or the members complained.

Only three days ago, the umbrella body of the Igbo nation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo (Lagos State chapter), denied reports that they endorsed the presidential aspiration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

According to the group’s president, Chief Fabian Onwughalu, the reported endorsement was not by the group but by an aggrieved faction of the socio-cultural body which left the group to pursue their own selfish interests.

Onwughalu also disclosed that the defaulting members will be sanctioned soon for their actions. He stressed that the national body of the group had officially endorsed the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and so there is no way that the state chapters will be at variance with its headquarters.

He opined that other state chapters had also endorsed Jonathan so the Lagos chapter cannot be an exception.