My Life Is In Danger, Says Ex-Lagos Deputy Governor, Ojikutu

Ex-Lagos deputy governor, Ojikutu has cried out that her life is in danger.

Glamtush reports that a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that her life is in danger over the position she took in the general elections.

This online newspaper learnt that she also lamented the conduct of the 2023 governorship polls in Lagos State, saying it was marred by intimidation and ethnic profiling.

Ojikutu, who is the first female deputy governor in Nigeria served from 1992 to 1993. She was the deputy governor to Michael Otedola until the military takeover of 1993.

However, addressing journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, Ojikutu said she had directed her lawyers to start working on how she would renounce Nigerian citizenship should Tinubu be sworn in as President on May 29.

She said she supports the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, adding that her life was not safe, Daily Independent reports.

She said when she “heard Tinubu was asking if I am still alive, I had to cry out”.

“I will also say that if anything happens to me, he should be held responsible,” she added.

“I said it in one of my posts and I am saying it again that if anything happens to me, Bola Tinubu and his cohorts will be held responsible.

Ojikutu said she hoped to “get the citizenship of a nation that I can be happy in because corruption is endemic in this country”.

She said she was ashamed to call herself a former public officer, adding that “people are lobbying to occupy ministerial and other appointments”.

“Nigeria is in a hopeless situation and when I heard Peter Obi speaking, I had no choice but to support him. Again, I am one of those who believe that it is time for the South-East to get the presidency. If we say we want to remain one Nigeria then we have to take equity into consideration.

“You cannot say that you are one Nigeria and you are suppressing a particular region. You don’t want them to get the presidency shot. If you don’t want them as number one, let them go. If you don’t want them to go, then give them the chance to be number one,” she said.

Ojikutu noted that the conduct of the elections and its aftermath were worrisome.

She said that “I am endangered by the current situation. I have been ostracised, I have been humiliated in places where I should be honoured. It is bothersome, it is worrisome. From the way I have been responding to issues since the election, people are calling me to take it easy, saying it is going to be dangerous.

“I am one of those who believed that it is the turn of the South-East to get the presidency. If we say we want to remain one of Nigeria, then we have to consider equity. You can’t say there is one Nigeria while suppressing a particular zone from getting to the number one shot.

“Many people know that with the records of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in eight years and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the years before; somebody who is not compromised, who is not part of the corruption, will find it difficult to vote for both parties. That is being sincere.”

Ojikutu, who decried the decline in the quality of leadership, stressed that the socio-economic status of Nigerians is uninspiring.

She said: “People are now jostling to become ministers, people are now jostling to get into the Senate and principal offices. For what? This National Assembly system is too expensive for Nigeria. All our money and the natural resources of this nation are enough for every man on the street not to be hungry if well-managed.