#EndBadGovernance: Lagos Monarch Makes Inciting Remark Against Non-Yoruba Residents

Like the anti-Igbo campaign witnessed during the 2023 general election, a monarch in Lagos has made an inciting remark against non-indigenous residents of Lagos ahead of the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest scheduled to start on August 1.

Oba Lukman Adebambo, the Gbadewolu of Araromi in Lagos, suggestively accused non-indigenes of destroying Lagos State infrastructure during protests while discouraging people from participating.

“Protest is not going to solve the crisis at hand. People should remember what happened during the last #EndSARS protest; many things were destroyed, and lots of companies and government properties were destroyed,” he told The Nation Newspaper. 

While acknowledging the economic hardship in the country, Oba Adebambo said, “We will, henceforth, not tolerate the destruction of infrastructure under the guise of protest.

“Whenever there is a protest, infrastructure in Lagos State bears the brunt. People should remember that Lagos State accommodates all, and indigenes should not be made to regret their accommodative gesture,” he added.

His inciting remark is similar to how monarchs and traditional rulers created ethnic tension in Lagos ahead of the 2023 general election in their desperation to prevent Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, from winning the election.

Igbos and other non-Yoruba ethnic groups were the target of the inciting, provocative and hateful speeches.

Traditional rulers and agents of the ruling All Progressive Congress amplified anti-Igbo rhetoric ahead of the election and sponsored thugs to attack Igbos and other voters suspected not to be Yoruba.

The intimidation and attack of Igbos by APC agents during the March 18 2023, governorship election were documented by the United States Government in a report titled “2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria.”

According to European Union election observers, 21 people died in the 2023 governorship election across Nigeria; many of the deaths were recorded in Lagos.

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