Social media posts poke fun at Agbaje, Bode George

Sunday, April 12, 2015 12:35 pm

The governorship election in Lagos State has gone, with victory swinging to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Akinwunmi Ambode.

In an election that was filled with drama and ethnic tension, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and his major backers are now the butt of jokes in the social media.

We share some of them here:

Agbaje: One post describes him in disparaging terms

A cartoon to mock PDP leader, Bode George who has vowed to go on exile in case of APC victory

Election turns boxing bout: Agbaje on the floor after an upper cut by Ambode

This for Igbo residents of Lagos, threatened with drowning in lagoon if Ambode loses. This photo now urges them not to entertain any fear as Ambode has won

Some people already feel that the PDP which has vowed to govern Nigeria for 60 years, is dead and buried 16 years after it took over power in Nigeria

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ode says:

April 13, 2015 at 8:00 am

Just unfortunate that Agbaje is now tainted as an Igbo ethnic politician! Imagine him promising to make an Eze Igbo a First Class Chief in Lagos. Except he was deceiving the Igbo he should know that The Igbo are a fiercely Republican and autonomous people who will not accept the overlordship of a single person as Eze all over Lagos Igbo- confusion will ensue! Just wondering how much of Igbo he can speak – in case he needs to try making a run for Governorship in any of the eastern states!
Shame to the apostles of ethnic politics playing us against one another! Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa et al are Nigerians who deserve to vote and be voted for ANYWHERE in the country.
It remains to be said however that it is an unreasonable and unfair thing to do to hit your host community under the belt by playing the ethnic card in election time when you have not been discriminated against in enjoying the dividend of democracy! The obvious attempt by Igbos at doing so in this elections is unfortunate and will only serve a notice on the Yoruba to be wary of the Igbo as a people nursing an agenda to take over their host community. The Igbo must consciously set out to put the Yoruba (their hosts in Lagos) at ease by correcting that impression fast.

ode says:

April 12, 2015 at 11:25 pm

Heard JK called AA to congratulate him. I’m not taken! Na condition make crayfish bend! This is the irresistible conclusion one is likely to arrive at given a recap of his campaign strategy which largely consisted of character assasssination, violence -his party engineered the OPC mindless Fun of violence and destruction visited on Lagosians with the police standing by-, terrible waste of the nation’s forex with which the spectating President Jonathan recklessly bribed the citizenry in vain though and the unfortunate ethnic politics he played using Oba Akiolu’s unguarded statement about the Igbos promising to make their Eze a “first class chief IN LAGOS!(A most unwise thing to say!) A wise politician could have said something like ” oh, but that statement by the revered Oba is his own opinion – Lagos belongs to us all. Vote for me and I’ll ensure you are protected”! Instead, he, out of an obviously mindless desperation to be Governor of Lagos attacked the Oba of Lagos in the process lumping him up with the APC. That was poor strategy on classic display as no true African (even the Igbo) will stand idly by and tolerate the denigration of the traditional stool no matter what. Who does so incurs the disfavour of the subject of the Oba in question. This contrasts sharply with the APC response which simply isolated the party from the Oba’s remarks while taking care not to attack the Oba in the process. That should show us as between JK and AA whose cranium is best suited to think progressive policy for Lagos in the next four years. Fingers got burnt and lessons learnt. Thank God JK ethnic politics didn’t set Lagos ablaze!!! JK was Just Kidding!