INDIGENES of Lagos State, yesterday, vowed to reject a Bill seeking the return of Nigeria to the regional government.
LAGOS—
De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, in a statement by Adelani Adeniji-Adele, said: “This bill that is being proposed or suggested spells an ominous sign to us from Lagos State. It is a further attempt to subsume our aspiration into a larger group that is antithetical to whatever we believe in as indigenes of the state.
“Generally and since Lagos and its environs became a colony, we have always maintained that we prefer a stand-alone status and not be part of any Western Region or Province. “We recall that in our history of over 100 years, Lagos indigenes in their various forms, towns and villages have never made progress and development as part of any region not to talk of the Western Region. The brief balkanization of our state to be part of the Western Region was an aberration.
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