LAGOS POLITICS: Obanikoro Makes U Turn, Promises To Work With Jimi Agbaje

The immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has said he will work with the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress. Obanikoro had been engaged in a war of words with Agbaje and a leader of the PDP in the state, Chief Bode George, over the party’s controversial governorship primary.Obanikoro had also sued the party for not attending to a petition he wrote over the party’s conduct of the primary which he described as a sham.

INSIDE LAGOS: Lagos State Government Deports 70 Beggars To Northern Nigeria

The Lagos State government has deported 70 northerners, found publicly begging, whichhas been banned in the state.The deportees are presently in Kano State after being bundled out of Lagos, where they were

stationed.Some of the returnees, according a local Hausa radio program monitored in Kano, complained that they were held for months and exposed to hardship before they were brought to Kano.