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BREAKING: We’re probing MC Oluomo’s threat against Igbo – Lagos CP

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa has said that an investigative enquiry has been launched into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo.

Owohunwa made this known while featuring in an interview with TV Arise News on the preview of the governorship and state assembly elections slated for Saturday.
MC Oluomo, in a viral video had threatened that Igbo people living in Lagos should not bother to come to the polls if they will not for the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC).

Reacting to it, Lagos CP said: “We condemn in strongest possible terms any act, statement that could be interpreted, speech that could be interpreted deeply as political tension. With regards to this specific video, it is currently a subject of an investigation.”

March 17, 2023
Sanwo-olu, police to be held responsible over threats on Igbos in Lagos – Ohanaeze

Ahead of the forthcoming socio-cultural organization, the Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has reacted angrily to the fresh threat against the Igbo in Lagos state.

Recall that MC Oluomo, in a trending video was seen threatening that any Igbo who would not vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, should sit at home. He went further to tell the party’s supporters that they know what to do if they discover they are losing in any area. The threat has been attracting wild condemnations from across the country.

In a statement made available to journalists on Friday, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike said it was inexplicable that neither the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu nor the Nigeria police has made a single comment over the open threat.

Okwu said Ohanaeze was enraged that Ndigbo had continued to be an endangered species in Lagos State, yet the country prides itself as one Nigeria.

He said, “We are alarmed over the latest threat by an official of the Lagos State Government, MC Oluomo, who has invoked genocide against the Igbo in Lagos should they fail to vote for Sanwo-Olu.

“This is indeed a threat too many and we are not going to let it slide. The silence of the authorities including Governor Sanwo-Olu and the police show that they are giving tacit support to the political thugs who are maiming Ndigbo and burning down their properties in Lagos State.

“However, we want to sound this note of warning, we want to draw the attention of the international community that should any single Igbo man or woman be killed in Lagos State, either tomorrow or after the election, the governor should be held responsible as the Chief Security Officer of the state.

“The police hierarchy, who have not only refused to arrest MC Oluomo but have maintained silence, will also take responsibility for any ugly fate that befalls our people.”

Okwu called on Ndigbo in Lagos not to be intimated but to “come all out and vote for candidate of your choice; be ready to defend and protect yourselves. Your vote is your right and nobody should stop you from using it effectively tomorrow against enemies of peace.”

March 17, 2023
Queen Ola celebrates MC Oluomo’s birthday as he adds one today

Queen Ola, an estranged wife of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has joined Nollywood artistes to celebrate the Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages, Musiliu Akinsanya, known as MC Oluomo, on his birthday.

The estranged wife of Oba Lamidi shared a video of MC Oluomo on his Instagram page with birthday prayers and appreciation for his kindness.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that MC Oluomo was born on 14 March 1975, in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria.

He had a primary level of education and dropped out of school because of his father’s death. He absconded from home at the age of 13 and started working as a bus driver.

He became the head of a motor park in Oshodi and finally rose to become the most influential “agbero” in Oshodi before he emerged as the chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos.

At an All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign event in Lagos in 2019, MC Oluomo was stabbed by someone thought to be loyal to the then outgoing Lagos State governor, Akinwumi Ambode, whose re-election bid had been thwarted.

On 25 February 2023, in a series of videos on social media during the 2023 Nigerian presidential election in Lagos, Nigeria, MC Oluomo was accused of allegedly intimidating and preventing the Igbo people from voting Peter Obi at his polling unit. Also, for allegedly using “agbero” to disrupt the Nigerian presidential election in lagos.

March 14, 2023
Iyabo Ojo makes shocking revelations as she reveals her relationship with MC Oluomo

Nollywood actress and businesswoman, Iyabo Ojo, has reacted to the shade from her colleague, Dayo Amusa and Bimbo Akisanya, over her support for Labour Party in the presidential elections.

Amusa called out an ‘ingrate’ on Instagram for reportedly claiming someone is a “thug”.

She claimed that the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo was responsible for the sponsor of the unidentified person’s welfare.

Dayo Amusa

The actress also alleged that the thug was responsible for her other personal needs.

Although Amusa did not mention or tag any name on social media, many claimed she was referring to her colleague, Iyabo Ojo.

“When he dey pay your children’s school fees, e no be thug. When he dey pay your children’s birthday party bills, he no be thug!!

When he dey pay your house rent, he no be thug!! When he dey sponsor your fight tickets, he no be thug!!

When he dey lodge you and your children for hotel for weeks when depression wan kill you, he no be thug!!

When he dey pay your new house mortgage, he no be thug!! BLOODY INGRATE!”.

Reacting to it, notable actress, Bimbo Akinsanya, who is part of Tinubu’s campaign team, joined Amusa to shade Iyabo Ojo over MC Oluomo.

Bimbo Akinsanya

Bimbo alleged that Mc Oluomo and Iyabo Ojo are sleeping together to date. She made the claim by reposting Amusa’s post on her Instagram page with the caption.

“E dey fuck Dem also ooo. Dey fuck Dem till date,” she wrote.

Following this, Iyabo Ojo took her Instagram live to address the situation, as many had already tagged her in the post.

Iyabo Ojo claimed she only shared a cordial relationship with MC Oluomo, stating their relationship was not birthed because of any party.

The mother of two also disclosed that she is friends with other party members, who have helped her more than her rival’s comprehension.

Iyabo Ojo also called out top officials from the state and entertainment scene.

February 26, 2023
Lagos police investigates video of MC Oluomo allegedly threatening Igbos to vote for APC

The Lagos State Police Command has said it is investigating to know if “it’s an old, recycled one or not”, a video circulating on social media, showing the Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Management, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, at a Polling Unit (PU) threatening Igbos to vote All Progressives Congress, APC.

This was made known on Twitter by the Public Relations Officer- Lagos State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.

“While the video will be investigated to know if it’s an old, recycled one or not, it should be noted that this is criminal and totally against the Electoral Act, 2022,” he posted.

Watch the video below:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1629452745143902213

Though the PU was not specified, commenters on the video say the incident happened somewhere in the Oshodi area where MC Oluomo holds sway.

“I repeat am again. Any Igbo wey dem born well, make him come vote for here. Shebi I dey here. If dem born dem well, make dem come vote for here,” he insisted in the 15 seconds of video as police officers try to calm him down.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that prior to the election, many non-indigenes, especially Igbos in the state, had complained of attempts to disenfranchise them with the denial of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), as well as threats of violence against them.

In another viral video, a thug suspected to be sympathetic to the APC was caught on video at a polling unit telling voters they must vote for the ruling party or they should go home without voting.

The incident reportedly happened at the Fehintola Giwa Street Aguda, Surulere, Lagos State, as voters were trying to get through with their accreditation before voting.

In the video, the thug is heard saying:

“This place na APC o. If you no wan vote for APC, make you go home o. If you no fit vote APC for here, go your house. Nobody force you to vote. If I see you vote another party, I go call Luger. This area na APC territory o.”

February 26, 2023
Intimidation, violence mar election in Lagos state

There have been reports of voter intimidation and ethnic discrimination in some Polling Units across Lagos state by some persons supporting the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), despite the presence of security officials.

Voting has largely been peaceful in the state but some videos have emerged showing pro-APC supporters insisting on the party or tribe that can be allowed to vote.

In one of the videos seen by this newspaper, the head of the Lagos state branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, could be heard threatening to resist any Igbo who attempted to vote.

“Any Igbo wen dem born well, make e come vote again; me I dey here,” Mc Oluomo said as a police officer standing by tapped him on the back as if trying to appease him as voters stood watching to see what would happen.

A second video captured a man clearly telling voters they would only be allowed to vote for the APC party.

“If you no fit vote APC for here, go your house. Nobody force you come here. I go come check am. If I see you vote another party, you go enter one chance. We no come joke for here,” the unidentified man yelled.

Political thugs supporting the ruling party also disrupted voting at Oba Yekini, Elegushi street; Ikate, Lekki; Akinyele street in Aguda, Surulere and Fadeyi areas of Lagos state, scattering ballot boxes and interfering with the election process, in the presence of security men.

“I collected a couple of slaps for fighting back before I got pulled from the melee, into a house for my safety. Now I have to be smuggled out of the voting area because I have been marked,” a journalist and CEO of Afrobeats Intelligence Joey Akan said.

The NewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that as of press time, RRS had arrived at Oba Elegushi after residents staged a protest chanting “we must vote” and with improved military presence, voting has resumed in the area.

February 25, 2023
Court sustains order forbidding INEC from engaging MC Oluomo for elections service

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday, February 24, granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from employing the services of the Chairman of Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute 2023 election materials in the state.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Justice Aneke gave the order in a suit filed by Labour Party’s governorship candidate in the state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and four others. The other applicants in the suit are: African Democratic Congress, Boot Party, and their governorship candidates, Funsho Doherty, and Wale Oluwo respectively.

Recall that the court had on Monday, February 20, granted an interim order on the issue before adjourning to hear the substantive case. A hearing in the substantive case came up on Wednesday after which the court adjourned till Friday (today) for its judgment.

The applicants through their lawyer, Abass Ibrahim, in a motion on notice filed before the court, had asked for the following reliefs;

“A declaration that the appointment, partnership, or contracting of Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee by INEC to distribute 2023 election materials and personnel in Lagos State violates Section 26 and 27 of the Electoral Act 2022 and consequently unlawful, null and void.

A declaration that the appointment, partnership, or contracting of Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee (established by Governor Babajide SanwoOlu, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State) and any of its members and/or drivers by INEC to distribute election materials and personnels in Lagos State will give room for election sabotage, manipulation, and rigging in favour of the APC and consequently unlawful and illegal.

A declaration that the appointment, partnership, or contracting of Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its members and/or drivers by INEC to distribute 2023 election materials and personnels in Lagos State is unlawful, wrongful, unjust and/or unreasonable and should be immediately stopped.

An order setting aside any partnership, undertaking, contract and/or MOU of any form or nature executed by Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, the Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its members and/or drivers with INEC to distribute election materials and personnels in Lagos State.

An order of perpetual injunction restraining INEC and/or their privies or any persons acting under their directions from contracting, partnering of appointing Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its members and/or drivers to distribute 2023 election materials and personnels in Lagos State.”

The reliefs were listed as ‘reliefs one to five.

At the hearing on Friday, INEC did not file any response to the suit, nor was it represented by any lawyer, despite being served with all the processes in the suit as ordered by the court.

February 24, 2023
Court forbids INEC from engaging MC Oluomo in elections

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) from engaging the services of the chairman of Lagos Parks and Garages, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, in distributing materials for the 2023 general elections.

The injunction was granted by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke following an application filed by the Labour Party, LP, its gubernatorial candidate in Lagos state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and four others.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that INEC was absent at the proceedings. However, a lawyer for the Labour Party told the court that the commission was served with the court papers.

The order of interlocutory injunction granted restrains the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, (defendant/respondent), whether by itself or by its officers, affiliates, servants, privies or agents or any person acting or purporting to act for and on behalf howsoever from taking any steps or further steps whatsoever in furtherance of the engagement or appointment or consummating the appointment of Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its commercial bus drivers to distribute 2023 election materials and personnel in Lagos State pending the hearing and determination the substantive suit.”

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that INEC in Lagos State had reacted to a backlash following a letter written by MC Oluomo asking the electoral umpire to contract the distribution of materials to him, saying it (INEC) was engaging parks managers in the state and not MC Oluomo.

The Residential Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje, had said, ”“On the issue of MC Oluomo, the commission is not concerned with Oluomo. We are concerned with the issue of motor park administration in Lagos.

“For the past two years, the Lagos State government has banned the operations of the NURTW and RTEAN in the state. They had problems and the state government banned them.

““So we are left with Lagos State Park and Garages and the National Association of Road Transport Owners,” adding that NARTO, which, according to him, the commission was already working with, “is not able to meet up with the 40 per cent needs of the commission for this election,” hence the commission’s consideration of engaging the MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks and Garages.

“We are not dealing with MC Oluomo,” Agbaje had said, adding that “we are dealing with park managers. They are individual persons that have vehicles that we are going to use for the elections.

“The law has already banned the NURTW from operating in the state so we cannot violate the law by patronising them.

“It will be we working against the law if we have to be working with the banned associations. So it cannot work.”

February 20, 2023
Lagos REC will not be redeployed – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will not redeploy the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Lagos State, Mr Segun Agbaje over unfounded allegations.

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja urged those demanding Agbaje’s redeployment to perish the thought.

There have been demands for Agbaje’s removal over alleged mismanagement of Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) collection in some parts of Lagos and engagement of Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo)- led Lagos State Parks Management Committee to convey election materials.

Oyekanmi implored the two political parties calling for Agbaje’s redeployment to respect the boundaries of the relationship between the commission and all political parties.

He dismissed the allegations against the REC, describing it as deliberate misinformation and distortion of facts.

“Let me make one thing clear upfront. Mr Agbaje will not be removed as the REC for Lagos over unfounded allegations.

“He will not only conduct the Presidential/National Assembly election scheduled for Feb. 25, he will also superintend over the Governorship/State House of Assembly election holding on 11th March.

“He is a conscientious, honest, dependable and hardworking REC. His integrity speaks for him in all the places where he had served.

“Let me break this down for you. During the recent Continuous Voter Registration that took place between June 2021 and July 2022, Lagos State under Agbaje registered the highest number of voters in the country – 585,629.

“On Jan. 27 this year, we announced that out of the 940,200 PVCs delivered to Lagos State as of that date, 839,720 PVCs representing 89.3 percent had been collected.

“This debunks the allegation that the Lagos REC deliberately withheld the PVCs belonging to persons from a particular region of the country.”

On the movement of election materials in Lagos state, Oyekanmi said that INEC was engaging individual vehicle owners.

He said “the unions don’t have vehicles and even if they have some, they cannot possibly provide the number of vehicles that the commission requires to conduct the general election.

“Rather, the unions are made up of individuals that own vehicles.

“You then have to negotiate with the vehicle owners and join the unions as witnesses and for accountability purposes.”

Oyekanmi reminded Nigerians that INEC had been conducting elections successfully in Lagos using individuals that own vehicles that met its specification.

He assured Lagosians and those who intend to vote in Lagos state that their votes will count.

February 16, 2023
Our contract is with individual drivers, not MC Oluomo – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its contract for logistics delivery for the forthcoming general elections in Lagos State is with individual drivers and not with Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo.

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the clarification in an interview with NAN on Friday in Abuja.

Okoye was reacting to the raised concerns and controversies on plan by INEC to engage Lagos Park Management Committee under MC Oluomo leadership for transportation of election materials and personnel in the forthcoming elections in the state.

He said the role of road transport union was to assist the commission to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with commission and the drivers to be engaged for election duty.

He urged Nigerians to stop linking INEC with an individual, saying the commission’s commitment was to the individual drivers.

“This commission has contract with individual drivers. The National Union of Road Transport Workers has no vehicles. So, we signed individual contract with all the persons who are going to provide vehicles for us.

“For this election we are going to hire at least 138,000 vehicles. We are going to hire over 4,000 boats and we are going to hire over 8,000 motorcycles.

“We are going to sign individual contract with all these people. The only thing the road transport union workers does for us is that we have what we call a Memorandum of Understanding with them, so that if for instance any of the members goes AWOL, they will help us track the person down.

“If somebody does not report on time, they will help us find out why the person has not reported on time. But our contract is with individual drivers,” he said.

Okoye urged Nigerians to stop linking INEC with an individual, saying the commission’s commitment was to the individual drivers.

“The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State has never said that we are going to work with individual you have mentioned.

“What he said was that if there’s no NURTW in Lagos, but Park Management Committee, that we are going to work with the committee, because we cannot be seen to be breaking the law.

“So, that is the issue. People should banish this whole idea of linking the commission to an individual.

“Our commitment is to the individual drivers that are going to sign a contract with and we are also going to take oath of neutrality and oath of allegiance to the commission, and that is where we stand on the matter,” he said.

Several individual and groups, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have raised concern on the use of the Park Management Committee in Lagos by INEC

February 10, 2023