Ex-general, others fault Oba of Benin on ‘ownership of Lagos’

  A Lagos-based socio-political organization, De Renaissance Group, has faulted the comment by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that the Binis founded Lagos State. The group, led by a former Minister of Communication and former General Officer Commanding (GOC), Third Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Tajudeen Olanrewaju (Rtd), said the […]

 

A Lagos-based socio-political organization, De Renaissance Group, has faulted the comment by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that the Binis founded Lagos State.

The group, led by a former Minister of Communication and former General Officer Commanding (GOC), Third Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Tajudeen Olanrewaju (Rtd), said the controversies surrounding the debate of Lagos’ ownership at this crucial period in Nigeria’s history was needless.

In a statement signed by its secretary, Yomi Tokosi, the organisation urged indigenes of other states to desist from seeing Lagos as a “spoils of war,” stressing that the country’s economic nerve centre is not a no man’s land.

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“We believe that when an indigene is in place, all these sad and irrelevant stories about who owns or does not own Lagos will be laid to rest,” it said.