By Alade Rotimi-John
There is on-going, an uneasy fearful sensation regarding a noticeable change in the demographics and in the property ownership profile of Lagos. Many reasoned and unscientific or irrational excuses are being conversely bandied as reasons for the happening of what ordinarily should be explained as an unstoppable sociological dynamics of a rapidly-growing sub-national entity.
Many commentaries about the place of the indigenous
population of Lagos are mischievously choreographed in sneers and jeers as if
to suggest that claimants to Lagos indigenship are interlopers or, at best,
pretenders to the crown of Pontifex.
The contest for the governorship seat of Lagos this season has unfortunately rejuvenated the contrived animosity in the subject matter of the status of Lagos and of the natural or ordained claim to its ownership. Truly, there are people whose heritage is Lagos; whose entitlement is geo-social and steeped in the demographic history of Lagos.
