Lagos youths reject the Owerri Coalition’s endorsement of Seyi Tinubu for governor in 2027, suggesting the President’s son should consider governing Osun or…

The Coalition of Lagos Indigenous Youths has rejected the recent endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi, Lagos State governor.

The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL), an umbrella body of youth groups drawn across the six geopolitical zones, on Tuesday endorsed Seyi Tinubu for Lagos governor in 2027.

In a statement jointly issued in Owerri on Tuesday by the President General of CONYL Comrade Goodluck Ibem, Secretary Comrade Junard Abubakar, Public Relations Officer, Comrade Iniobong Sampson and Publicity Secretary Comrade Adeyemo Adewale, the body said it arrived at the resolution following a recent enlarged meeting of its leaders.

According to the coalition, Seyi Tinubu is free to go to Osun State, where Tinubu reportedly hails from or Imo State, where CONYL issued its joint statement, to become the governor. However, in a statement signed by Abdul Kareem Whyte for the Coalition of Lagos Indigenous Youths on Wednesday, the group said there is no vacancy for non-indigenes in Lagos State.

It said, “Our attention has been drawn to the recent endorsement of Seyi Tinubu for Lagos governor by a group known as Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL) and the group is described as the umbrella body of all the youth groups drawn across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

“The said Coalition sat in Owerri, Imo State and publicly issued the statement on endorsement, while we know Mr Seyi Tinubu has his democratic rights as a Nigerian, we condemn the ill-fated endorsement and described it as anti-democracy and a deliberate move by some faceless individuals to deny indigenes of Lagos State right to govern themselves in 2027.