A Lagos based lawyer, Mr. Malcolm Omoirhobo Esq. on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, added his voice to the controversy of the ownership and indigeneship of Lagos State, saying that any Yoruba from any of the other five South West states, who got to the former Federal Capital to hustle, should not claim or struggle the ownership of the State with the constitutional owners.
Omoirhobo explained that this was owing to the fact that people from such Yoruba states namely; Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti states are like other Nigerians, who got to hustle in the state.
He therefore advised Yoruba from the other five South West, whose villages are located in their respective states of origin, to go back there and lay a claim.
He specifically said that there is no place he claimed that Igbo own or want to take over Lagos, adding however that leaving Yoruba holding on to such claims against Igbo was akin to picking stories from unverified social media accounts of fake posters.
In the words of Omoirhobo; “If you are a Yoruba from Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti States and you leave your goddamned village to hustle in Lagos, you cannot claim ownership of Lagos with the Aworis because you are like other Nigerians who came to hustle in Lagos. Go back to your village to claim your inheritance,” he posted in his Twitter handle on Wednesday.
Omoirhobo, spoke against the backdrop of some indigenes of South West state of Ogun, who tried to justify their claim to Lagos ownership by saying that General Yakubu Gowon administration’s Decree 51 merged two Ijebus divisions of Epe and Ibeju-Lekki with Lagos colony which according to them meant that Lagos is owned by Ijebus like the Aworis.
