Obafemi Hamzat: We Won’t Allow Faceless People, Ethnic Bigotry Divide Us

The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, has reiterated that the Lagos State authorities volition not let faceless radical connected societal media to beforehand taste bigotry to disagreement the radical of Lagos State.

Hamzat said this successful an interrogation with ARISE NEWS connected Tuesday, wherever helium discussed a viral station connected societal media X (formerly Twitter), which had had threatened a monolithic protestation from August 20th to 30th, 2024, nether the hashtag #IgboMustGo, to which helium responded, “It’s conscionable nonsense, and we volition not let it.”

The Deputy Governor said, “The contented of the Igbos, I think, is 1 of the hazards of Social Media. These faceless radical conscionable came up and said Igbos indispensable leave, implicit nonsense. And that’s wherefore you could spot what the politician said, the politician instantly denounced it. The Lagos, that’s not who we are, that’s conscionable not who we are. Since we’re each children, we’ve each lived unneurotic successful the state, and determination is nary request for radical to go taste bigots. But again, similar we said, immoderate radical volition effort to bash immoderate to disagreement us, but we volition ne'er let that.”

Speaking connected what helium believed led to these issues, Hamzat said, “For me, nationalist commentary is simply a occupation successful this country, and we mightiness not each agree, but nationalist commentary is simply a problem, and I volition archer you why. How is it that the astir important origin is not what we code successful our land?”

“We each did economics, and we said onshore is simply a origin of production. When you effort to negociate land, we ethnicise it successful this land. So, that is 1 happening that is- immoderate you privation to do, everything you’re building, a location here, it’s connected land. So, however is it that we don’t negociate our land? When you privation to negociate land, carnal readying is the occupation of West Africa, bottommost line. We volition ne'er beryllium affluent if we don’t program our land. But if we privation to program it, what happens? Oh, you bash this due to the fact that he’s Hausa, oregon he’s Igbo, rubbish! So, the bottommost enactment is fto america absorption connected the existent issues,” helium added.

Still successful the treatment of taste bigotry and prejudice, Hamzat’s attraction was drawn to a tweet by Special Adviser to the President, Bayo Onanuga tweet from the 18^th of March 2023, wherever Onanuga said, “Let 2023 beryllium the past clip of Igbo interference successful Lagos politics.”

Hamzat said helium didn’t spot the post, explaining, “Like I said, I didn’t spot it, and I mean it, I ne'er saw it. And I cognize him personally, truthful it’s thing I could person called him and said, Egbon, what are you doing?

“I volition telephone him due to the fact that it’s wrong, it’s conscionable wrong… It’s implicit nonsense. It’s just- that shouldn’t happen. And you know, similar I said, we each request to beryllium precise careful, due to the fact that words bash person consequences, and arsenic such, radical should not accidental things similar that.”

Hamzat was past asked of measures that were being enactment successful spot to guarantee that perpetrators of this question are arrested, to which helium responded, “What is going connected successful presumption of sportfishing retired the people, it’s not thing I tin discuss, but I tin guarantee you, successful the adjacent fewer days, you volition spot what volition happen.”

He went connected to say, “People conscionable fell nether immoderate and conscionable enactment thing connected societal media. I tin guarantee you, everybody, similar we’ve said, the politician has condemned it, adjacent successful the code of the president, helium condemned taste bigotry. So, the world is that radical are conscionable societal media tigers, fto them keep- but similar I said, SSS is moving connected it, hopefully they volition food them retired precise soon, and you know, they volition person their time successful court, past the tribunal volition determine what is to happen.”

“The probe is going on, hopefully, this protestation volition not last, the constabulary are each focused connected each these things, but hopefully the SSS, the information apparatus volition bash what they request to bash and get this guy, due to the fact that you see, sometimes, immoderate of these radical are not adjacent successful Nigeria. You don’t cognize wherever they are, but fto them bash their investigations”

Hamzat past called for calm successful Lagos State, saying, “Let america each chill nationalist commentary, the mode we each talk, fto america each chill things down. You know, erstwhile actions, each enactment that you take, is weaponised, it becomes a problem. We are indirectly encouraging radical to bash the incorrect things. So, that’s wherever I commencement from. Let’s each calm things down.”

Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi

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