It is disheartening as an indigene of Lagos State to know that one of the original ethnic groups that made up Lagos State of today, The Aworis , have no representation at all levels of the government . Generally , the same issue is affecting all the other indigenous communities of Lagos State.
Recently , Some Awori indigenes stormed the Lagos residence of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to protest what they described as the marginalisation of their people in the appointment of public officials. The protesters said none of the Awori indigenes from their communities had been appointed into public office in the last 16 years, despite their support for the Lagos State Government and Tinubu.
Who are the indigenes of Lagos State?. The indigenous peoples of Lagos State are the Yoruba subgroups of the Aworis in Ikeja, the Eguns in Badagry area, the ljebus in Ikorodu and Epe, while Lagos Island consists of an admixture of Benin and Eko Aworis as well as repatriated Yorubas and other immigrants. Our people have been silently marginalised and politically castrated by one man called Bola Tinubu .
Who is Bola Tinubu?. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a native of Iragbiji in Osun State and he could bear any name from his weird past, such as Yekini Amoda Ogunlere , Hameed Sangodele , Yekini Amoda or even Bobo Chicago.
Ever since his inglorious eight year rule as Governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2007 on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), to date, he has more or less served as the chief looter who has unleashed the most egregious corruption and reckless looting of the treasury of Lagos State. Even as he hides under the guise of championing democratic principles, various frauds, including financial crimes have been linked to him such that he can only be summed up as a perpetrator of diabolical deeds
There is no doubt that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has become a personification of Lagos. Just as his word is law, he can do and undo. What started out like an act of drama at the beginning of the current democratic dispensation in 1999 has left Nigeria’s premier state, Lagos, as a mere fiefdom of Tinubu who bears the titular toga of the “Lion of Bourdillon.” Though there is nothing democratic about his bearing, he is, in fact, an Emperor.
And there is no escaping the damning reality that Lagos is being plundered by a group of political usurpers who wear the cloak of democratic emancipators in an apparent case of parading immunity as impunity.
Since 1999 when Bola Tinubu became the Governor of Lagos State, our political representation in Lagos has drastically diminished . The indigenes of Lagos no longer have a voice in the running of the state affairs . Economically, our people are suffering, they are living in abject poverty .
The indigenes of Lagos State have been silently marginalised and politically castrated by Bola Tinubu . Our people are being oppressed and suppress by Bola Tinubu .
It is pitiful that our people will now be parading themselves to Bola Tinubu residence to beg for what belongs to them, that is, their Birthright.
So far, as Bola Tinubu holds his Political and economical grip on Lagos State , the political and economical development of the indigenous people will never materialise and therefore our people will be backward and remain in his bondage .
The time is now ripe for the indigenes of Lagos State to REVOLT against Bola Tinubu . We want to break away from the BONDAGE and SLAVERY imposed on the people of Lagos State.
FREEDOM
No one can continue to suppress and oppress the indigenous people of Lagos State forever . The spirit of ALLAH will eventually break the jinx. Now, we are determined to free our people from the shackles of SLAVERY imposed on us by Bola Tinubu .
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
FREEDOM FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF LAGOS STATE!, WE WANT TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE BONDAGE OF SLAVERY IMPOSED ON US BY BOLA TINUBU .
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http://www.punchng.com/politics/awori-indigenes-storm-tinubus-residence-in-protest/
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