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Telling Igbos to leave Lagos is arrant nonsense and sheer stupidity – Bode George
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, has described as “arrant nonsense”, recent calls by some faceless groups asking Igbo people to leave Lagos.
“That type of campaign is ‘arrant nonsense’; it is ‘sheer stupidity,” George told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The retired army officer, who is a Lagos indigene, spoke on the sideline of an interactive session with the media on the State of the Nation, held at his office in Ikoyi.
“It is nonsense. I say it is arrant nonsense. Why should we be saying that the Igbo people should leave?
“We have grown with them here. I had known them. We played local football, local football together
“I think those who are proposing or talking about it are not Lagos indigenes themselves.
“In Lagos, we welcome traders. Bring your wares, we look at it, we buy it, you make your money, we give you land to build. That is the culture of Lagos.
“Those who are proposing this nonsense have no bearing, no family connection to Lagos.
“I am saying it as a Lagosian. It is arrant stupidity. Why would you tell them to leave? They pay their taxes,” he fumed.
Mr George, who went down memory lane, recalled that Dr Nnamdi Azikwe, who is of Igbo extraction, became the political son of his great grand uncle, Sir Herbert Macaulay.
He said that Azikwe, the first President of Nigeria, had joined Macaulay in the nationalism struggles before late Obafemi Awolowo and his group arrived from the UK
