PDP inciting Igbo against Yoruba in Lagos –Group

A pan-Igbo group, Association for the Defence of Igbo Interest in Lagos, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of pitting the Igbo against Yoruba so as to gain political advantage.

The group said this during a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday.

The Chairman of ADIIL, Prof. Chris Nwaokobia, said the PDP had labelled the All Progressives Congress as an anti-Igbo party, thereby causing disunity in the state.

He, however, maintained that Igbo people were never discriminated against in the state as they had benefitted from appointments more than any other non-indigenous ethnic group in the state.

He said, “Don’t be deceived by the party of liars called the PDP. There is no discrimination against the Igbo in Lagos. When we go to the general hospitals, we are treated without discrimination. When we seek employment for employment in the state civil service, we are given equal opportunities.

“More than 500 Igbo are working in Lagos State ministries and local governments in various capacities including the powerful office of Commissioner for Budget and Planning. So, if we talk of those who are ‘Lagosians’, we are no less of ‘Lagosians’.”

“But this is the same PDP-led Federal Government that is frantically inciting the Ndigbo to fight their hosts, the Yoruba, and endanger all we have laboured to build in Lagos and the South-West for the selfish interests of Jonathan and the PDP.”

The group urged all Igbo in Lagos to vote for the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Saturday, adding that only Buhari could bring the needed change.

It said, “We must vote change and support the change movement sweeping through the land for the good of our beloved country and for the protection of Igbo interest in the South-West and in defence of Igbo across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria.”

Meanwhile Kwara indigenes in Lagos State have appealed to their kinsmen to vote for the APC at all levels.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the coordinator of Kwara Indigenes in Lagos, Ahmed Ajikobi, said they were supporting the APC because of the party’s performance in Lagos and Kwara states.