Former Charly Boy Bus Stop: Here is the untold story

Group urges Lagos to rename Ozumba, Mbadiwe, Ahmadu Bello Streets

By Omolade Adegbuyi

The Lagos City Council has been urged to rename the Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, located in Victoria Island. The Pan Yoruba group also asked the Lagos Island Local Government to rename Ahmadu Bello way saying the streets represents the worst form of internal imperialism in Yoruba indigenous territories.

The group also commended the the Bariga Local Council Development Authority, (LCDA) the recent naming of former Pedro Bus Stop to Badoo Bus Stop-.

In a statement on Monday and made available to Irohioodua, a Yoruba self-determination group Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) said Mbadiwe and Bello were arch enemies of Yoruba people adding that Ahmadu Bello way leads to the Atlantic Ocean, is the longest street in Lagos and was named to signify the wish of Fulani to conqure Yorubaland to the sea as pronounced by Uthman Dan Fodio adding that the two streets are threats to Yoruba spiritual strength, civilisation and heritage.

The group in the released obtained by Irohinoodua dismissed reports that Charly Boy donated 2,500 Okada to people in Lagos.

AOKOYA said the reports are figments of imaginations and a dust of lies.
Here is the real story: In the year 2010, Bhajah Motorcycles was making inroads into Nigeria. The group made Charly Boy its Ambassador in order to reach a lot of customers. Charly Boy was given N4million by Bhajah and 100 Okada as gifts. The next thing Charly Boy did was to hand over the 100 Okada to Okada Riders in Lagos majority of the beneficiaries were Igbo. The beneficiaries were asked to pay back five times the amount back to Charly Boy.

He gave them as hire purchase. The name of the company used was called Code-Red which can be confirmed by any serious and truth searching journalist.
AOKOYA said no authority ever gave Charly Boy any Bus Stop, so the question of Charly Boy Bus Stop does not arise. ‘The name of the Bust Stop was called Second Pedro. Each time, Charly Boy would pull down the signpost and out his own.

‘Charly boy also did not rent the house initially. The house was rented by the late Justice Charles Oputa who lived in the house after his retirement and any time he was in Lagos. Charly Boy stayed in the House with his father who was a very responsible tenant.

After Chief Oputa left the house, Charly Boy retained the house. He lived in the house without paying any rent for 17 years. He was eventually ejected through a Court Order. The woman who owned the land had to quickly sell the land but the trauma from the 17-year engagement with Charly Boy led to her death.’
AOKOYA urged the Lagos State Councils to focus on defending and promoting the heritage of the people of Lagos and not to listen to saboteurs and enemies of Lagos who believe that Lagos is a land that belongs to no one.
AOKOYA said the Lagos State Councils need to correct historic injustice in Lagos.

The group said it was inappropriate to name one of the longest streets in Lagos State after Mbadiwe who spent the larger part of his life assaulting and destroying Yoruba legacy.
‘Yoruba states need to employ the philosophy of minimum tolerance and the diplomacy of proportional response in dealing with a string of historical injustice perpetrated against the indigenous people of Lagos spanning decades’, Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) said in the statement signed by its Lagos coordinator, Mrs Medinat Ojora. The group rejected a situation where monuments in Lagos were named after the arch enemies of the Lagos indigenous people.

Charly Boy is a nuisance who goes nude on the internet, spent most of his time promoting drugs and anti-social behaviour in Lagos all through the time he lived in the city. He constituted a threat to the younger generation that live in the environment. He was a bad influence.’

AOKOYA said his presence in the Bariga area led to the flourishing of violent cultists which today remains a major source of social instability in the whole of Bariga
AOKOYA recalled that Mbadiwe was the former Minister of Lands and National Resources following the alliance between the National Council for Nigerian Citizens, (NCNC) and the Northern Peoples Congress, (NPC) which led to the isolation of the Action Group, (AG) led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

AOKOYA said during this period, indigenous land and territories were misappropriated by the ruling party while Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was the President of Nigeria and Tafawa Balewa the Prime Minister. Mbadiwe later became Special Adviser to Balewa and was one of those who insisted that Chief Awolowo be tried for treason. ‘There is no justification for naming one of the longest streets in Lagos after such Igbo extremist,’ AOKOYA said.
Chief Awolowo had said about Azikiwe and Mbadiwe ‘It seemed clear to me that Azikiwe’s policy is to corrode the self-respect of the Yoruba people as a group; to build up the Ibos as a master race; to magnify his own vaunted contribution to the nationalist struggles to dwarf and misrepresent the achievement of his contemporaries and to discount and nullify the humble but sterling quota which older politicians had made to the country’s progress’-Coleman, Background to Nigerian Background to nationalism-page 265.

It said Mbadiwe was responsible for the naming of the longest streets in Lagos after Ahmadu Bello and himself being a Federal Minister inspite of the opposition fro Egbe Omo Oduduwa which kicked against the decision.

AOKOYA said Mbadiwe and Azikiwe set up Yoruba Federal Union to rival Egbe Omo Yoruba set up by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and launched in Lagos in 1947.

Zik and Mbadiwe held a meeting of the Yoruba Federal Union on June, 1948 at Glover Hall under the Chairmanship of one Reverend J.O Lucas, a Yoruba man being used by Igbo. Glory be to God that Egbe Omo Yoruba outshined the Federal Union which died in few years that followed.
AOKOYA accused those supporting Charly Boy of ignorance and playing into the gallery.

‘These set of people are themselves fascists who wish to suppress the Yoruba people in our own land and impose their own civilisation. We ask Femi Falana, El Rufai Oseni and one Farotimi to show us their own Igbo equivalent in Igboland who defend Yoruba interests. The only justification is that their actions are not motivated by human rights but by personal gains.’

It is any irony that Ubani, the Lagos lawyer who condemned the Lagos chane of name has never for one day condemned IPOB or their violent activities extended to Yoruba territories.
There is no Igboman that would behave the way these people do to because the Igbos are more conscious and determined in their desperation to conquer and subdue Yorubaland which they already reflect in their Biafra Map which includes some parts of Ondo State and the whole of Itsekiri and Edoland.
‘These people supporting Charly Boy lack any sense of history and that is why their genes should be investigated as we had Jews who supported the persecution of fellow Jews by Adolf Hitler.’