Folashade Ojo. |
Daughter
of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress APC and Permanent
chairman Lagos State Markets Board Mrs. Folashade Tinubu Ojo has ordered the
closure of the market on the expansive grounds of the Lagos International Trade
Fair complex.
Tinubu
Ojo who succeeded her grandmother Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji as the Iyaloja General
of Nigeria, is set to take over the administration of all public and private
own markets in the city state of Lagos.
Traders
in the trade Fair complex most of whom are Igbos had the authorisation of the
Federal Government of Nigeria, to set their stalls there, but with the coming
to power of APC at the federal level, Tinubu Ojo has gained the control of all
markets operating in federal spaces in Lagos.
Traders
in their thousands on Monday 18th March were shocked, as fierce looking
policemen cordoned off the market, enquiry revealed it was on the order of
Tinubu Ojo, who directed the market union leaders to report to her Ikeja Office
for required modalities that will lead to the reopening of the market.
Report
made available to this medium reveals that markets unions in the state, who
hitherto were not under Tinubu Ojo’s control are preparing to go and conference
with her to avoid the fate that befell “trader fair” traders.
Report
has it that markets mostly dominated by the Igbos and other none natives in
Lagos will undergo relocation especially Ladipo and Computer Village markets
immediately to forestall the deployment of the electoral strength of the Igbo
traders in future elections in Lagos State.
Tinubu
Ojo a card carrying member of APC takeover of markets is a fall out of the
general elections. Most Igbo businessmen in Lagos are sympathetic toward the
main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and her candidates.
Despite the carrot and stick approach made by the APC Lagos State chapter to
court the Igbos, they stood firm with PDP.
APC
thugs were captured on video snatching ballot boxes, burning ballot papers,
threatening the Igbo residents, sternly warning them not to dabble into
politics in Lagos, or risk economic clamp down, during the presidential and
national assembly elections. So massive was this attack that the Independent
National Electoral Commission INEC had to conduct reruns in these areas.
This
move however scared the Igbo stock resident in the state, who collectively
agreed to abandon their civic rights in subsequent elections in Lagos State,
due to xenophobic attacks on them in the two window, between the presidential
and gubernatorial elections.
The
Senator representing Lagos Central Remi Toritsheju Tinubu, the wife of the
National Leader and Folashade Tinubu Ojo’s step mother was captured on video
telling a disabled Igbo man who beged for a handout that she and her family no
longer trust the Igbos, since they know they do not vote APC.
Now
that Tinubu Ojo has bared her fang, how it will play out remains to be seen as
the Igbo merchants in Lagos contributes 75 percent of the state gross domestic
product.
However
the Igbo Mandate Union has vowed to mitigate all steps to neutralise Igbo
interests in Lagos and has ordered her members to stop buying lands in Lagos
and Ogun State. All manufacturing concerns of the Igbos in Lagos will be moved
gradually to the South East states.
All
businesses of the Igbos must have branches also in the South East among other
back home strategies to be explored.
Source:247Ureports
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