USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ethnic War Loading in Nigeria's Commercial Capital Lagos as Ruling Party APC Lagos Wing Struggles to Negate Igbo Voting Power through Intimidation and Calls for Igbo Expulsion

Politicians will fail to provide such basics as water or electricity and yet they will try to turn suffering people agst each other.

 1. In the last elections, APC thugs attacked perceived PDP strongholds, particularly Igbo dominated areas, threatening and scattering voters, destroying ballot boxes and compelling people to vote APC. Igbo shops in Oshodi were later prevented from opening by the same thug group. 

2. Some Yoruba commentators on Facebook identified with the motives behind the attacks-disenfranchising Igbos.

 3. These developments are further inflamed by Oba Akiolu's threat to Igbos in 2015 elections to throw them into the Lagos lagoon if they threatened, through their votes, the possibility of his candidate becoming governor of Lagos and the claim of a veiled threat to Igbos in this election by Bola Tinubu, described as the most powerful figure in Lagos state politics. 

4. Central Yoruba cultural organisations OPC and Afenifere have spoken out agst intimidation of Igbos but some Facebook Yoruba commentators and the prominent hardcore pro-Yoruba, anti-Igbo Facebook writer Adeyinka Grandson persist in their stance. 

4. An Igbo man with a Biafra flag in the background- Biafra being the centrally Igbo secessionist state of which attempts to subdue were at the centre of the extremely brutal 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War and which some Igbo groups have been trying to reactivate- has released a video threatening to kill Adeyinka Grandson and declaring Igbo's readiness to fight as necessary agst any further attacks.

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