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Oba Akiolu to Buhari: Grant Lagos a special status or forget 2019

Oba Akiolu to Buhari: Grant Lagos a special status or forget 2019


The Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu I, has declared that the only way the people of Lagos will support President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term dream is to grant the state a special status.


The monarch made the  statements while speaking yesterday, during the second quarter of 2018 Town Hall Meeting with residents, at Apapa Amusement Park, Lagos.

Akiolu while reacting  after the Senate rejected a bill to officially recognize Lagos as Nigeria’s commercial capital in 2016,blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for Lagos not being  given an extraordinary status.

Akiolu said: “During the recent visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos, I wanted to ask him that it was God and All Progressives Congress, APC, that helped to bring him to power, and that he must satisfy Lagos.


“I expected APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to ask him for special status. I wrote to National Assembly that I want to present Lagos case on the floor.”


He urged President Buhari to reconsider the special status for Lagos State for the state to deliver massive support for his second term in 2019 general poll.


In the same vein, Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi  Ambode stressed the need for residents and eligible voters to obtain Personal Voter’s Card, PVC.


Ambode said: “I want to strongly appeal to all Lagosians, this coming election is a different one. We want to define once and for all where the population of Nigeria lies. So it is not just about APC or about any other party. We want to use the PVC to send a message that the real population is in Lagos State.


“So the duty of all of us is to say that before any census, there is one census, the census of votes and that of PVC, becomes a finality that the real population is in Lagos State. That is why we must encourage each and every one of us to push ourselves if it is door-to-door or house-to-house, in our various groups and unions to ensure that they go out and get our PVC.”


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