Rally In Lagos: APC Warns Pro-Biafra Activists

The Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) has issued a warning to those activists planning to
organize mass demonstration in Lagos under the aegis of
the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of
Biafra and the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB).

Biafra protesters
PM News reports that the warning was contained in a
statement made by Joe Igbokwe, the Lagos state
publicity secretary of the APC.
Igbokwe stressed that the state would not allow
politically sponsored hoodlums masquerading as pro-
Biafran protesters or any other group to plunge Lagos into
crisis.
Appealing to those behind the plot, Igbokwe noted that
the security agencies led by the Lagos state
commissioner of police, Fatai Owoseni, vowed to deal
ruthlessly with anybody found to be involved in such
protests.

“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 elections, 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,” the APC said.
The party urged market leaders to desist from any plot
and not allow their markets to be used for such
dangerous activities; otherwise, the state would not
hesitate to show such market leaders the exit.
The APC also called on Lagosians to be law abiding and
inform security agencies about the masterminds of such
evil plots that endanger the security of lives and
properties in Lagos.