A former member of the House of Representatives and aspirant for the position of the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Baba, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to shift the operational base of Nigerian seaports from Lagos to Port Harcourt.

The former lawmaker, in a letter dated October 22, also copied the offices of the Vice President and the minister of transportation.

He based his reason on the wanton destruction of properties recently by hoodlums which led to the burning of the Nigerian Ports Authority office in Lagos.

“Already, there are two major seaports in Rivers State – the Rivers ports and the Onne port – that can successfully execute all the international shipping businesses that have been going on in Lagos,” said Mr Baba.

“And may I also advise that similar ports in Calabar, Cross Rivers State and elsewhere be enhanced, and completion works on the Baro port in Niger State should be expedited so that the country can have various alternative means of facilitating local and international trade. This will also help free the nation from possible threats and blackmails by gangsters who could destroy or hijack a particular port in order to sabotage the nation’s economy.”

PREMIUM TIMES reported how hoodlums, following the shooting of unarmed protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on Wednesday, set ablaze the NPA building, among other government properties, in Lagos.

The shooting at the Lekki Tollgate also led to an escalation of violence with reported attacks on private properties and businesses.

Prominent amongst properties destroyed by the hoodlums were the BRT station with buses, TV Continental (TVC), Adekunle police station, Herbert Macaulay Yaba and Lagos City Mall amongst others.

Asides Lagos, properties were also looted and destroyed in Ondo, Jos, Kano and Abuja.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/422833-endsars-apc-chieftain-writes-buhari-wants-seaports-operations-moved-from-lagos-to-port-harcourt.html

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This is a blessing in disguise if actually executed.

Hmmm...If that's what he wants. I see nothing wrong in it remaining in Lagos and then another one can operate from Port Harcourt. This way, people will have options as to which seaport they would like to use.

Hypermyopic reasoning, so when they bomb it in Portharcourt, they should move it to Calabar.

After another challenge in Calabar, it should be move to Igbokoda.

Government should just do the right thing and be peaceful with its citizens. Then National Assets would be protected.

So now we know who attacked the Ports Authority and Tinubus properties

APC would not want to take such a risk, but the Lekki massacre would definitely play a negative role in 2023 for the APC.

this man stupid. wicked politics. come 2023, non of u will have a chance. shit is getting real

okay...

Could the port possibly face destruction and uneasiness? Yes.

But that's not a good reason why it should be moved. Even a shift is needed, it should be considered at a neutral time. Not because of the leverage created by #endSARS.

LegendHero:
This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.

And would you please stop this gibberish?

I'm not Yoruba, but if you think I will always sniff for every opportunity to trigger more hatred against you guys, that means I'd be trading my reasoning and sanity.

Let me read more comments.

The major issue I see is Northerners still running those ports. We southerners say no.
Southerners should run their infrastructures. If not so, we need to separate. Our Mumu don do.
Lagos port should be run by Yorubas and not northerners. Same as other ports.

LegendHero:
This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.

U need to calm down a bit. U are taking this too personal

After porthacourt
They will move it to kebbi

Philistine:

U need to calm down a bit. U are taking this too personal

Because it is the truth.

Nothing personal here, I’m just voicing out my opinion on how I see the world.

If you have superior argument, you can please engage me.

My advice is to allow all seaports to be functional but we need to make the existing one which is lagos port to be functional too..

Cos building new seaport is not cheap.

Like Port Harcourt is his father's land. Useless parasites. I don't blame him, it is the docile politicians we have in the south I blame.

LegendHero:
This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.

Stop embarrassing ur tribe.

No sugar coated lies cant break the spirit and unity of the modern Nigerian youth.

LegendHero:
This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.

forget Nnamdi Kanu, listen to the Igbo masses, majority of Igbos don't care about Nnamdi Kanu but you Yoruba Muslims don't want to take this.

How can Nnamdi Kanu order IPOB to kill sanwo-olu in Lagos Is he that powerful You guys and the satanic man in Aso Rock are the ones making Nnamdi Kanu popular and powerful, Nnamdi Kanu is a foolish nobody.



As for Awkuzu SARS Igbos are more than disappointed with Obiano and co.


Why it seems Igbos don't like Tinubu is because of his roles in helping to install Buhari in 2015 and his sponsoring thugs through MC Oluomo to attack Igbo voters in Lagos in 2015 and 2019, that's the beginning of the hatred some Igbos have for Tinubu, before those incidents nobody cared about Thief Bola Ahmed Tinubu and whatever he was, he brought the enmity on himself. He is too greedy and desperate to become President which made him mistreat Igbos in Lagos and the reason for the dislike.


But no matter how much Igbos hate a person, they will never attack you physically or burn your properties unless you attack them first. They can only voice out their anger against you without fear and fight back furiously if you attack them.


Igbos are major stakeholders in the development of Lagos state, so there is no way they can be happy with destruction of Lagos.


I personally own 2 properties in Lagos and won't be happy to see Lagos go down.


In Igbos solidarity with Lagos and the Yorubas on the Lekki massacre, Igbos also destroyed government properties in Southeast to show their anger with Nigerian government for what happened in Lekki, something Yorubas will never do for Igbos yet you gullible Yorubas are listening to one mad boy in London trying to instigate you guys against Igbos that stood by you in a protest started by Yorubas in Lagos, it's a shame to Yoruba youths of today that I thought have finally liberated from tribal hatred of Igbos

humilitypays:
forget Nnamdi Kanu, listen to the Igbo masses, majority of Igbos don't care about Nnamdi Kanu but you Yoruba Muslims don't want to take this.

How can Nnamdi Kanu order IPOB to kill sanwo-olu in Lagos Is he that powerful You guys and the satanic man in Aso Rock are the ones making Nnamdi Kanu popular and powerful, Nnamdi Kanu is a foolish nobody.



As for Awkuzu SARS Igbos are more than disappointed with Obiano and co.


Why it seems Igbos don't like Tinubu is because of his roles in helping to install Buhari in 2015 and his sponsoring thugs through MC Oluomo to attack Igbo voters in Lagos in 2015 and 2019, that's the beginning of the hatred some Igbos have for Tinubu, before those incidents nobody cared about Thief Bola Ahmed Tinubu and whatever he was, he brought the enmity on himself. He is too greedy and desperate to become President which made him mistreat Igbos in Lagos and the reason for the dislike.


But no matter how much Igbos hate a person, they will never attack you physically or burn your properties unless you attack them first. They can only voice out their anger against you without fear and fight back furiously if you attack them.


Igbos are major stakeholders in the development of Lagos state, so there is no way they can be happy with destruction of Lagos.


I personally own 2 properties in Lagos and won't be happy to see Lagos go down.


In Igbos solidarity with Lagos and the Yorubas on the Lekki massacre, Igbos also destroyed government properties in Southeast to show their anger with Nigerian government for what happened in Lekki, something Yorubas will never do for Igbos yet you gullible Yorubas are listening to one mad boy in London trying to instigate you guys against Igbos that stood by you in a protest started by Yorubas in Lagos, it's a shame to Yoruba youths of today that I thought have finally liberated from tribal hatred of Igbos

And who cares about what you think tho?

Even in the rubbish you just typed, you still can’t hide the disdain for the Yorubas and you still try to bring Yoruba Muslim sentiment into this.

It’s not a surprise, Igbo by nature have a problem of religious intolerance and you can’t give what you don’t have.

We don’t need your solidarity or love so keep it for your people.

Go ahead now and burn down Peter Obi ancestral home and all his business coz he masterminded the Akwuzu massacre.

Stop professing fake love to the Yorubas, we don’t need it!

LegendHero:


And who cares about what you think tho?

Even in the rubbish you just typed, you still can’t hide the disdain for the Yorubas and you still try to bring Yoruba Muslim sentiment into this.

It’s not a surprise, Igbo by nature have a problem of religious intolerance and you can’t give what you don’t have.

We don’t need your solidarity or love so keep it for your people.

Go ahead now and burn down Peter Obi ancestral home and all his business coz he masterminded the Akwuzu massacre.

Stop professing fake love to the Yorubas, we don’t need it!

Hilarious

That was their aim of burning NPA office, it wouldn't work, IPOB has failed woefully

No! Let restructure Nigeria & let all the regions control their ports.

This LegendHero, are you sure you're sound at all? So instead of you to channel your grievances against the northerner who wrote to Buhari to move the ports to the SS, you're instead pushing it to Igbo? Is that how fearful you are of Hausa Fulani oligarchy?

LegendHero:
This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.

You might even be a Northerner, one of El Rufai boys.

Lol... these ones are fools. Non entity.

LegendHero:
[s]This have always been the plan by non-Yorubas and all they want is to cripple the financial power of Lagos.

The guy that said this is a Northerner and they also share the same mindset as the Easterners too who have always clamored for the same thing under a different pretext.

They have the right to opinion and we shouldn’t be bothered about that because I personally also want Other ports to be In a good state to lessen the burden on Lagos.

However, check the pattern of play. Northerners through Arewa first accused Tinubu of sponsoring the EndSARS protest, then they sent soldiers to Lagos thereby strategically blaming Tinubu for the Lekki shooting. But when Soldiers shot in Rivers and Abuja, it’s Buhari that sent them. But in Lagos, Tinubu is the one controlling the soldiers so they say!

Easterners on their own want Tinubu to come down and Kanu want you to burn and kill Sanwoolu together. They don’t care about Peter Obi and the Akwuzu massacre by burning Obi house.

They are just playing the Yorubas against one another while they come in to lord over you after you’ve successfully ended one another. When two brothers fight like they say, an outsider inherit their properties. Simple.

Now this has shown that an outsider CANNOT love you more than your own people. This is a wake up call to the Yorubas that have been psychological twisted to always run down our own simply because others told you to.[/s]

Cry me a river! At what point did you realize that gambaris are no longer on the same page with you?! I thought you claimed they're your best friends, so why are you crying and pouring spittle everywhere??

Save us the sob story please, no one cares, after all other cities like Calabar, P.H, Warri and Onitsha are all in Nigeria too, if your Northern masters decide to move the operational base to safer areas, I don't think it's bad.

I feel your frustration sha