This is too extreme and not supposed to happen at all, i do not know why he wants Ambode on the seat so bad, but threatening voters is way out of line especially for someone of his calibre. SMH. Guess we'll have to take it with a pinch of salt and wait for him to make a statement, because it's undignifying. So here's the story :
Apparently livid over the thin victory of the All
Progressives Congress in the last national assembly election in Lagos pen
ultimate Saturday, the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has warned Ndigbo in Lagos
to be ready to end up in lagoon if they fail to vote for the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode.
The king said he was not ready to beg the Igbos, but if they
repeated what they did on March 28 when they voted for the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan,
then they should be ready for the consequences.
Speaking at a meeting with Igbo leaders in the state,
according to an online news medium, Freedom Online, the first class monarch,
who failed to recognise the cosmopolitan nature of Lagos, said:
“On Saturday,
if anyone of you goes against Ambode who I picked, that is your end. If it
doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and it is not
my father who gave birth to me.
“Jonathan is my son and I speak to him everyday. By the
grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided
chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future.
“On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God,
goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos State, the
person is going to die inside this water.
“I’m not ready to beg you. Nobody knew how I picked Ambode.
Jimi (Agbaje) is my blood relation and I told him that he cannot be governor in
Lagos for now. The future belongs to God. I am not begging anybody, but what
you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere, don’t do it here.
“If you do what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous
for you. If you go against my wish, you will perish in the water.”
The monarch said anybody against Ambode did not wish the
state well, adding, “I am for the progress, growth and development of Lagos.
Ambode is highly cerebral, he’s a symbol and he is going to deliver the message
which I, the Oba of Lagos, have said. And he will govern the state for another
eight years.
“He is going on a mission and God will give him the wisdom
and knowledge to fulfill that mission. Almost a year ago, I declared that
Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos and it will not change.
“From time immemorial, the previous occupiers of this house
will say what they wanted after consultations with other people. And this
hasn’t changed and it will not change at this time,” he said.
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