Former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has said no tribe owns Lagos, contrary to history and facts that the city belongs to the Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria.

Sowore made this claim while defending veteran entertainer, Charly Boy, whose name was stripped off a bus stop in Lagos.

The decision was taken by the Bariga Local Council Development Area to honour Yoruba heroes, an action Sowore claims was an attack on Charly Boy.

"The attack on @AreaFada1 is still the typical strategy to criminalise creative dissent and try to silence those who challenge authoritarianism," he shared on X.

"The truth remains that Lagos is NOT a kingdom; it is a city of the people. The Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Hausa, Ibibio, Brazilian returnees, the Saros-Sierra Leoneans, and many others built Lagos City’s greatness. No tribe owns Lagos more than those who live in it and make it breathe. They make you feel like they care about the indigenes of Lagos, yet they are the first to dislodge them from their natural habitats with bulldozers when "non-indigenes" crave pricey landed property/ies."

ASA