OBA RILWAN AKIOLU'S "YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DONT VOTE FOR AMBODE" DIRECTIVE TO IGBOS IN LAGOS ATTRACT CRITICISMS ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA

Oba Rilwan Akiolu's comment that Igbos in Lagos must vote for APC guber candidate Akinwunmi Ambode or he'll make life miserable for them in the state have continue to attract sharp criticism on the social media.

It was reported as published this morning in the print media that the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, held a secret meeting with Igbo leaders over the coming Gubernatorial elections in Lagos. According to the Daily Independent. ThisDay and others, the Oba threatened the leaders to have their people vote for Ambode, the governorship candidate of the APC or die. His comment is reproduced as thus:

“On Saturday, if any one of you goes against Ambode who I picked, that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and its not my father who gave birth to me. By  the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future. On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos state, the person is going to die inside this water. For the Igbos and others in Lagos, they should go where the Oba of Lagos heads to. When they were coming to the state, they didn’t come with all their houses. But now they have properties in the state. So they must do my bidding. And that is the bidding of the ancestors of Lagos and God. I am not ready to beg you.

The statement have since caused an uproar on the social media with a lot of differing opinions on the matter with APC supporters saying the news cannot be true and some Igbos threatening war.