Steer clear of Lagos State – APC warns Biafra protesters



The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos
State has warned members of the Movement for
the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra,
MASSOB, and the Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, who are clamouring for the creation of Biafra
to stay away from the state.
The party, while calling on the pro-Biafra
agitators to “discontinue such attempt to
plunge Lagos into crisis,” stressed that with
the heightened security challenges facing the
state it would not allow any group to hide
under the guise of protest to compromise the
security of the state.
Disclosing this in a statement by its
spokesman, Joe Igbokwe, the party warned
that it would not fold its arms and allow
“politically sponsored hoodlums,
masquerading as Pro-Biafran protesters” to
compromise the security of the state.”
It also reminded the pro-Biafra agitators that
the state commissioner of police, Fatai
Owoseni, had vowed to deal “ruthlessly with
anybody or group found to be involved in such
protests.”
The statement reads, “We hope the will of the
law enforcement agencies in Lagos will not be
tested at a time like this.
“As a party that governs Lagos, it will be
derelict of us to watch a group of politically-
sponsored hoodlums tamper with the tight
security system that has been effortlessly put
in place by the state government to combat
increasing crime rates in the state.
“We cannot allow these hoodlums, sponsored
by politicians that failed woefully in the last
general election, to unleash mayhem on
peace loving Lagosians so as to achieve dark
political aims that run parallel to the interests
of Lagosians.
“It is obvious that the sponsors of the planned
protest want to throw the state into needless
mayhem by their act but the state will be
ready to mete out to them the appropriate
antidotes for such folly.
“Knowing full well that whatever they purport
to represent is alien to Lagos and Lagosians,
we wonder what the evil masterminds of
these purported protests want to achieve in
Lagos if not to plunge the state into
unmitigated disruption and crisis and we state
that Lagos will not allow such plans.
“Knowing full well that hoodlums are meant to
capitalize on any so-called protests to
unleash mayhem on Lagosians and
compromise its tight security, we have no
doubt that the brains behind the protest have
very sinister intents the state will not allow.
“Lagos APC wants to use this opportunity to
warn market leaders that are involved in this
plot or allow their markets to be used for such
dangerous activities that the state will not
hesitate to not only show such market leaders
the exit from such markets but will take
measures to ensure that such markets are
not used as hatcheries for dangerous
activities.
“We urge Lagosians to be law abiding and
report the masterminds of such evil plots that
endanger the security of lives and property in
Lagos to appropriate security agencies.”