{"id":1840,"date":"2015-04-07T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2015-04-07T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:09:38","slug":"shocker-after-oba-akiolus-outburst-to-ndigbos-in-lagosigbo-natives-fight-back-draws-battle-line-against-oba-of-lagossays-this-death-threat-against-ndi-igbo-must-not-be-taken-lightlysends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/shocker-after-oba-akiolus-outburst-to-ndigbos-in-lagosigbo-natives-fight-back-draws-battle-line-against-oba-of-lagossays-this-death-threat-against-ndi-igbo-must-not-be-taken-lightlysends\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKER: AFTER OBA AKIOLU’S OUTBURST TO NDIGBOS IN LAGOS!Igbo Natives Fight Back…Draws Battle Line against Oba of LagosSays: ‘This death threat against Ndi-Igbo must not be taken lightly’Sends: SOS letter to Jonathan, Buhari for Urgent InterventionWarns: ‘A note of warning to Oba Rilwan Akiolu, his evil agenda conspirators to desist’Lament: ‘We condemn his incitement of mass genocide against Ndi Igbo in Lagos’Riot Act: ‘Oba Akiolu should retract his threat, apologize to Ndi Igbo to avert our anger’Quote: \u201cWe cannot fold our arms and allow one ambitious traditional Ruler enjoying the dividends of god fatherism in the comfort of his domain,whose throne is still in contention at the Court till todayto relegate and rubbish the Economic contribution of hard working Ndi Igbo to the development of Lagos State.Lagos is what it is today due to the doggedness and resilience of Ndi Igbo who has invested massively on infrastructural development of Lagos State\u201d-National Executives, Igbo Ekulie"},"content":{"rendered":"
SHOCKER: AFTER OBA AKIOLU'S OUTBURST TO NDIGBOS IN LAGOS!<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nIgbo Natives Fight Back<\/b><\/span>...Draws Battle Line against  Oba of Lagos<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\nSays:<\/b> '<\/b><\/span>This death threat against Ndi-Igbo must not be taken lightly'<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nSends: SOS letter to Jonathan, Buhari for Urgent Intervention<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nWarns: 'A note of warning to Oba Rilwan Akiolu, his evil agenda conspirators to desist'<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nLament: 'We condemn his incitement of mass genocide against Ndi Igbo in Lagos'<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nRiot Act: 'Oba Akiolu should retract his threat, apologize to Ndi Igbo to avert our anger'<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nQuote: \u201cWe cannot fold our arms and allow one ambitious traditional Ruler enjoying the dividends\n of god fatherism in the comfort of his domain,whose throne is still in contention at the Court till today\n to relegate and rubbish the Economic contribution of hard working Ndi Igbo to the development of Lagos State.\n Lagos is what it is today due to the doggedness and resilience of Ndi Igbo who has invested massively\n on infrastructural development of Lagos State\u201d-National Executives, Igbo Ekulie<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nBY OKECHUKWU OGBONNA\/SPECIAL REPORTER<\/i>, LAGOS<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\n\"Oba<\/a>FOR<\/b> every action, there is an equal reaction. The inciting and threat statement allegedly made openly by Oba Rilwan Akiolu, \nOba of Lagos against the Ndi Igbo of Lagos  at his palace has continually being generating a heated debate across the length and\n breadth of Nigeria, even outside the shores of the country. National executives of Igbo Ekulie, a group of Igbo intellectuals,\n technocrats in both formal and informal sectors of the Nigeria economy ready to defend the rights of Ndi Igbo made this\n shocking revelation.<\/span><\/span>\n\nIgbo Natives Fight Back...Draws Battle Line against  Oba of Lagos<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nIn an open letter directed to outgoing  President Goodluck Jonathan and in-coming President elect, General Muhammadu \nBuhari, national executives of Igbo Ekulie led by Chief Okechukwu OC Sam Okeke and Engineer Joey. N Chuku both\n General Secretary\/President, in a joint communique, their statement read: \u201cWe wish to observe the present unhealthy\n utterances and threat to life by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu against Ndi Igbo especially on their voting pattern in the\n coming Governorship Election coming up this Saturday 11th April 2015. <\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cOba Akiolu was quoted in most of the National media today, Monday 6th<\/sup> April 2015 as directing Ndi Igbo in\n Lagos State to vote massively for his anointed and handpicked candidate, Mr. Ambode Akinwunmi of\n All Peoples Congress (APC) vowing to deal ruthlessly with Ndi Igbo residents in Lagos state if such directive\n is not strictly adhered to this coming Governorship Election. According to him, if the Igbos did not vote for his \ncandidate, all of them will perish inside the Lagoon.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\u201cSpeaking at a meeting with Igbo Leaders in the state, the First class Monarch who fails to recognize the\n metropolitan nature of Lagos purportedly said \u201cOn Saturday, if any one of you goes against Ambode whom \nI picked, that is your end. If it doesn\u2019t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and is not my\n father who gave birth to me. If any one of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode\n will be the next Governor of Lagos State, the person is going to die inside the water. The future belongs to God.\n I am not begging anybody, but what you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere, don\u2019t do it here. \nIf you do what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you, if you go against my wish, you will perish\n in the water.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\n\nIgbo Ekulie Position against Oba of Lagos<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nTheir statement reads: \u201cThis death threat must not be taken lightly. It must be seen for what it is:\n A dangerous threat and plot calculated to pain Ndi Igbo black to scheme them out of Political relevance. \nSuch threat by an influential first class Yoruba traditional Ruler cannot be accepted by Ndi Igbo. \nWe are sounding a note of warning to Oba Rilwan Akiolu and his conspirators behind this evil agenda to \ndesist from it because if their plan succeeds, the Igbo nation will rise up and fight for their right and\n self determination in this country which make the Political and Economic future of Nigeria very uncertain\n and precarious. We have the right to self determination and we will invoke it again this time<\/span><\/span>\nand successfully too.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cWe cannot fold our arms and allow one ambitious traditional Rulerb enjoying the dividends of god fatherism in the comfort of his domain and whose throne is still in contention at the Court till today to<\/span><\/span>\nrelegate and rubbish the Economic contribution of hard working Ndi Igbo to the development of Lagos State. Lagos is what it is today due to the doggedness and resilience of Ndi Igbo who has invested<\/span><\/span>\nmassively to the infrastructural development of Lagos State.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cWe totally condemn Oba Akiolu for his incitement of a mass genocide against Ndi Igbo. For a first class traditional\n ruler in Nigeria he should not say he does not know the implication of his statement.<\/span><\/span>Traditional rulers are the\n custodians of our culture. They are respected due to their immense contribution to peace and unity of Nigeria.\n They are not to be seen as being Partisan as Oba Akiolu is <\/span><\/span>now behaving.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cWe have handed over Oba Akiolu the fate and lives of Ndi Igbo residing in his domain. If anything happens to\n them before, during and after this coming election, he will be held responsible because of his call for anarchy,\n chaos and bloodletting should his anointed candidate fail the Governorship elections comes April 11th 2015.\n He should be reminded that only God gives and takes life and not mortals like us. In spite of this, Ndi Igbo \nwill not accept any death threat, mishap on any of its citizen by anybody no matter how highly placed before,\n during and after the coming Governorship election anywhere in the country.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cWe call on President Goodluck  Ebele Jonathan and President-Elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari \nto call Oba Akiolu to order before he will destroy the calm and peace presently being enjoyed throughout\n the country after the smooth conduct of Presidential election. He should be cautioned to stop heating the\n polity with his political utterance. Our calm and love for peace should not be construed as an act of \ncowardice as every ethnic group in Nigeria knows the Igbo man fighting spirit any time.<\/span><\/span>\n\n\u201cOba Akiolu should be made to retract his statement, apologize to Ndi  Igbo for this threat if he does not \nwant to invoke the wrath of Ndi Igbo in Lagos. He should be made to sign an undertaken that if<\/span><\/span>\nanything happens to Ndi Igbo during the coming Governorship election, he must be held responsible.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\nIGBO EKULIE PRESS STATEMENT!<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nAN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBEL JONATHAN (GCFR)  AND<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nPRESIDENT \u2013ELECT, MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI (GCFR)<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nCALL OBA OF LAGOS,   ALH. RILWAN AKIOLU TO ORDER<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\n\nIgbo Ekulie is a grouping of Igbo intellectuals and technocrats in<\/span><\/span>\nboth formal and informal sectors of the Nigeria economy which was set<\/span><\/span>\nup to defend and protect Igbo interests in a united Nigeria. We have<\/span><\/span>\nfollowed with considerable interest the recent outburst and threat to<\/span><\/span>\nlife of Ndi Igbo in Lagos according to their voting pattern in the<\/span><\/span>\nrecent concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections in<\/span><\/span>\nNigeria and wish to make the following Statement.<\/span><\/span>\n\nOBSERVATION<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nWe wish to observe the present unhealthy utterances and threat to life<\/span><\/span>\nby Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu against Ndi Igbo especially on their<\/span><\/span>\nvoting pattern in the coming Governorship Election coming up this<\/span><\/span>\nSaturday 11th April 2015.<\/span><\/span>\nOba Akilu was quoted in most of the National media today, Monday 6th<\/span><\/span>\nApril 2015 as directing Ndi Igbo in Lagos State to vote massively for<\/span><\/span>\nhis anointed and handpicked candidate, Mr. Ambode Akinwunmi of All<\/span><\/span>\nPeoples Congress (APC) vowing to deal ruthlessly with Ndi Igbo<\/span><\/span>\nresidents in Lagos state if such directive is not strictly adhered to<\/span><\/span>\nthis coming Governorship Election. According to him, if the Igbos did<\/span><\/span>\nnot vote for his candidate, all of them will perish inside the Lagoon.<\/span><\/span>\n\nSpeaking at a meeting with Igbo Leaders in the state, the First class<\/span><\/span>\nMonarch who fails to recognize the metropolitan nature of Lagos<\/span><\/span>\npurportedly said \u201cOn Saturday, if any one of you goes against Ambode<\/span><\/span>\nwho I picked, that is your end. If it doesn\u2019t happen within seven<\/span><\/span>\ndays, just know that I am a bastard and is not my father who gave<\/span><\/span>\nbirth to me.\u201d  On Saturday, he continued, \u201cIf any one of you, I swear<\/span><\/span>\nin the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next<\/span><\/span>\nGovernor of Lagos State, the person is going to die inside the water.<\/span><\/span>\nThe future belongs to God. I am not begging anybody, but what you<\/span><\/span>\npeople cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere, don\u2019t do it here. If you<\/span><\/span>\ndo what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you, if you<\/span><\/span>\ngo against my wish, you will perish in the water\u201d<\/span><\/span>\n\nOba Rilwan Akiolu was quoted in an unconcealed threat that he was not<\/span><\/span>\nready to beg the Igbos in Lagos to vote for Mr. Ambode vowing that if<\/span><\/span>\nthey repeated what they did on March 28th when they voted for<\/span><\/span>\nPresidential Candidate of PDP, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and<\/span><\/span>\nthen the Igbos should be ready for the consequences.<\/span><\/span>\n\nTHE ISSUES<\/b><\/span><\/span>\nWe see this directive and threat as a dangerous drawback to the<\/span><\/span>\nPolitical development of this country days after a n Internationally<\/span><\/span>\nacclaimed free and fair election was conducted in Nigeria where the<\/span><\/span>\nOpposition successfully won the Presidential election conducted by<\/span><\/span>\nINEC.<\/span><\/span>\n\nThe use of this dangerous ethnic and traditional tool to threaten ,<\/span><\/span>\ncoarse, and force Ndi Igbo living in Lagos to vote for the  Obas<\/span><\/span>\nanointed candidate no, and by implication foisting a Governor on them<\/span><\/span>\nsimply because they are Non-indigenes is condemnable, desecreable and<\/span><\/span>\nunacceptable to Ndi Igbo. These further points to a devious plot by<\/span><\/span>\nsome Powerful forces within Lagos State to portray Ndi Igbo as enemies<\/span><\/span>\nof the project called Nigeria. They tend to put the Igbo Nation at<\/span><\/span>\ncross road and war with the incoming administration of Major General<\/span><\/span>\nMuhammadu Buhari even when he has not been sworn into office.<\/span><\/span>\n\nOn Population front, Oba Akiolu should be reminded that Ndi Igbo<\/span><\/span>\nconstitutes more than 40% of the state population and therefore must<\/span><\/span>\nbe treated with utmost respect by canvassing for their vote peacefully<\/span><\/span>\nbecause of the electoral value they have instead of empty threats. In<\/span><\/span>\na democratic setting like ours, people freely choose whom to vote for<\/span><\/span>\nirrespective of ethnic or Political affiliation. Ndi Igbo should be<\/span><\/span>\nleft to enjoy that right where ever they registered to vote in<\/span><\/span>\nNigeria.<\/span><\/span>\n\nOUR STAND AND POSITION<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n\nThis death threat must not be taken lightly. It must be seen for what<\/span><\/span>\nit is: A dangerous threat and plot calculated to pain Ndi Igbo black<\/span><\/span>\nto scheme them out of Political relevance. Such threat by an<\/span><\/span>\ninfluential first class Yoruba traditional Ruler cannot be accepted by<\/span><\/span>\nNdi Igbo.<\/span><\/span>\n\nWe are sounding a note of warning to Oba Rilwan Akiolu and his<\/span><\/span>\nconspirators behind this evil agenda to desist from it because if<\/span><\/span>\ntheir plan succeeds, the Igbo nation will rise up and fight for their<\/span><\/span>\nright and self determination in this country which make the Political<\/span><\/span>\nand Economic future of Nigeria very uncertain and precarious. We have<\/span><\/span>\nthe right to self determination and we will invoke it again this time<\/span><\/span>\nand successfully too.<\/span><\/span>\n\nWe cannot fold our arms and allow one ambitious traditional Ruler<\/span><\/span>\nenjoying the dividends of god fatherism in the comfort of his domain<\/span><\/span>\nand whose throne is still in contention at the Court till today to<\/span><\/span>\nrelegate and rubbish the Economic contribution of hard working Ndi<\/span><\/span>\nIgbo to the development of Lagos State. Lagos is what it is today due<\/span><\/span>\nto the doggedness and resilience of Ndi Igbo who has invested<\/span><\/span>\nmassively to the infrastructural development of Lagos State.<\/span><\/span>\n\nWe totally condemn Oba Akiolu for his incitement of a mass genocide<\/span><\/span>\nagainst Ndi Igbo. For a first class traditional ruler in Nigeria he<\/span><\/span>\nshould not say he does not know the implication of his statement.<\/span><\/span>\nTraditional rulers are the custodians of our culture. They are<\/span><\/span>\nrespected due to their immense contribution to peace and unity of<\/span><\/span>\nNigeria. They are not to be seen as being Partisan as Oba Akiolu is<\/span><\/span>\nnow behaving.<\/span><\/span>\n\nWe have handed over Oba Akiolu the fate and lives of Ndi Igbo residing<\/span><\/span>\nin his domain. If anything happens to them before, during and after<\/span><\/span>\nthis coming election, he will be held responsible because of his call<\/span><\/span>\nfor anarchy, chaos and bloodletting should his anointed candidate fail<\/span><\/span>\nthe Governorship elections comes April 11th 2015. He should be<\/span><\/span>\nreminded that only God gives and takes life and not mortals like us.<\/span><\/span>\n\nIn spite of this, Ndi Igbo will not accept any death threat, mishap on<\/span><\/span>\nany of its citizen by anybody no matter how highly placed before,<\/span><\/span>\nduring and after the coming Governorship election anywhere in the<\/span><\/span>\ncountry.<\/span><\/span>\n\nWe call on President Goodluck  Ebele Jonathan and President-Elect,<\/span><\/span>\nMajor General Muhammadu Buhari to call Oba Akiolu to order before he<\/span><\/span>\nwill destroy the calm and peace presently being enjoyed  throughout<\/span><\/span>\nthe country after the smooth conduct of Presidential election. He<\/span><\/span>\nshould be cautioned to stop heating the polity with his political<\/span><\/span>\nutterance. Our calm and love for peace should not be construed as an<\/span><\/span>\nact of cowardice as every ethnic group in Nigeria knows the Igbo man<\/span><\/span>\nfighting spirit any time.<\/span><\/span>\n\nOba Akiolu should be made to retract his statement, apologize to Ndi<\/span><\/span>\nIgbo for this threat if he does not want to invoke the wrath of Ndi<\/span><\/span>\nIgbo in Lagos. He should be made to sign an undertaken that if<\/span><\/span>\nanything happens to Ndi Igbo during the coming Governorship election,<\/span><\/span>\nhe must be held responsible.<\/span><\/span>\n\nNigeria is a democratic nation with Free association and movement.<\/span><\/span>\nElections are not a do or die affair. Let nobody destroy the Peace we<\/span><\/span>\nare enjoying in Nigeria now. The massive deportation of Igbos from<\/span><\/span>\nLagos by Governor Fashola should be seen as a mistake, we cannot take<\/span><\/span>\nit again.<\/span><\/span>\nThanks<\/span><\/span>\n\n\nChief Okechukwu OC Sam Okeke & Engr. Joey. N Chuku<\/span><\/span>\n(General Secretary)\/President<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SHOCKER: AFTER OBA AKIOLU’S OUTBURST TO NDIGBOS IN LAGOS! Igbo Natives Fight Back…Draws Battle Line against Oba of Lagos Says: ‘This death threat against Ndi-Igbo must not be taken lightly’ Sends: SOS letter to Jonathan, Buhari for Urgent Intervention Warns: ‘A note of warning to Oba Rilwan Akiolu, his evil agenda conspirators to desist’ Lament: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}