Reacting to threats and attacks on Igbo people in Lagos ahead of the 2023 general elections, Ejimakor described it as a mini-genocide, saying that the silence of the Yoruba leaders makes them complicit in the tribalism against Igbo people in Lagos.
Aloy Ejimakor, the lawyer representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has called on Yoruba leaders in Southwest Nigeria to immediately stop the ethnic profiling against the people of the Southeast region – Igbo people living in Lagos State.
Reacting to threats and attacks on Igbo people in Lagos ahead of the 2023 general elections, Ejimakor described it as a mini-genocide, saying that the silence of the Yoruba leaders makes them complicit in the tribalism against Igbo people in Lagos.
Ejimakor on his Twitter page on Sunday evening said, “Dear Yoruba leaders: I demand that you immediately halt the anti-Igbo violence raging in LAGOS. It’s a mini-GENOCIDE & your silence makes you complicit when time for reckoning comes. I’m not an Igbo leader but I’m sure the 70 million Igbos worldwide are with me on this.”
There have been several reports and recorded evidence of ethnic profiling and racial attacks against Igbo people in Lagos following allegations that they are trying to take over the state.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, said he owed nobody an apology for warning Lagos State residents from the Southeast or Igbo people never to interfere in the Lagos State politics.
Onanuga on Saturday night warned that 2023 should be the last time Igbo people in Lagos would interfere in the political process of the state, saying the state is not a federal capital territory but a Yorubaland.
The APC PCC media director warned Igbo people in the state to mind their business and never repeat their political activities in Lagos State in 2027 as seen this year - 2023.