1. Thinking, believing and making everybody to believe that Lagos elections is a fight between the Yoruba and Igbo.
2. Assuming that anybody that is not Yoruba in Lagos must be Igbo.
They didn't understand these basic sets of people who are against them.
1. The Aworis & Yorubas who are indigenous Lagosians.
2. Danfo drivers & conductors.
3. Car owners in Lagos irrespective of where they come from especially those that have been scammed by LASTMA and VIO.
4. Graduates who are working as Uber drivers, Keke drivers, Danfo and Korope drivers and as Conductors.
5. Anybody who has ever lived in any Western Country before for a period of up to a year and above but now live in badly administered Lagos.
6. Aworis and Lagos indigenes who are doing agbero work.
7. Graduates who are doing agbero work.
8. Some members of other tribes apart from Igbo and Yoruba who live and do business in Lagos.
9. People who do business in markets but have allocated spaces outside under the sun that they are forced to pay for daily instead of shops.
10. People who do business in the markets with their own shops (this is where 90% of Igbos belong).
11. People have their shops on the streets that local government will lock and charge ₦25k or more to open once they notice their name is neither Yoruba or Islamic, while collecting ₦3k from those with Yoruba names. (IGBO and other tribes belong to this category).
12. Okada riders (up to 70% of this category are Northerners and muslims).
13. The youth who were shot at at the Lekki Toll Gate on 20th October, 2020 during #EndSARSProtest.
14. People who lost family and friends at the Lekki Toll Gate on 20th October, 2020.
15. People who have bought properties in Lagos for donkey years and paid for everything requested of them but cannot get C of O to the property because their names are neither Yoruba names nor Islamic.
16. I forgot to even add educated and polished Yorubas who may not even be Lagosians.
And those whose vehicles was impounded and sold at auctions while they begged to buy back these vehicles and the government refused.
17. Lest I forget, some Igbo, couldn't care less if a gorilla is the governor as long as they do their business during the day and hit the joints at night. Unless they fall into any of the categories above.
18. People of all ethnicities who're tired of the control of the state for the past 24 years by one individual & his overfed cronies. People who desire for a change of governance style after nearly 2 & half decades of financial opaqueness & rampant kleptocracy of this group.
Unfortunately APC lumped the whole 18 categories together as Igbo and every election year you'll start hearing threats and accusations against the Igbo.
We no send because we already know that it's all mouth with zero action and that irrespective of who we vote, you'll plant in your stooge.
Until now.
This is why on 18/03, IGBOS AND THE REST OF THE ABOVE 18 CATEGORIES, will come out enmasse and vote out APC because this time our votes MUST count. We will vote LP everywhere & after, APC will start threatening Igbos again, as usual. But this time, with an expiry date in sight.
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