Stop attacking Igbo Traders over 2023, Labour party warns Tinubu and Folashade Tinubu-Ojo

The Labour Party of Nigeria (LP), has warned the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the Iyaloja General of Lagos State, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, against the harassment of Igbo youths in Lagos State.

The party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Arabambi Abayomi, accused Sanwo-Olu and Ojo of attempting to frustrate residents of Lagos from voting candidates of their choice as the nation approaches the next general elections.

The statement added that traders of Igbo extraction are now living in fear, as there seems to be a mandate to force them either to accept the APC or face the dire consequences of death.

The statement claimed that the LP is in possession of evidence of cohesion by the market leaders, where traders are allegedly forced to surrender their PVCs or have their shops locked and their goods looted.

The statement further claimed that this started when market women were forced to “stage a phantom one million march in support of their candidate and those who failed to do this were forced to part with a whooping N5,000 or have their shops locked.”

In the statement, the party also called on the Inspector General of Police to call the Lagos State Police Commissioner to order, stressing that this would be the last time such an infraction would be tolerated.

The statement reads: “A case in point is the closing down of Alaba market, heavily populated by the Igbos when evidence abounds that the foot soldiers of their candidate, the Transport Workers Union members, and the Park Management Committee, are the ones who stirred the hornet’s nest by embarking on extortion of traders under this economic hardship imposed on Nigeria by the outgoing President.”

The statement lamented that under Sanwo-Olu’s watch, legitimate businessmen are choked with various policies coupled with lack of electricity and basic infrastructure to aid the ease of doing business.

The statement thereafter warned the iyaloja general and Sanwo-Olu to rethink and never again throw the state into another season of darkness by promoting ethnicity.