The Special Adviser for Drainage and Water Resources to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Joel Igbokwe, says he would have been an entirely different person if he had not travelled to the state from his hometown in Aba.
Igbokwe said he would have been chasing lizards in Aba as a native doctor if not for Lagos State.
He made the comment on his Facebook page on Thursday.
He noted that Lagos State is the city where people from the Southeast are transformed from poverty to wealth.
“LAGOS, If not for Lagos, somebody like me, will be in Aba chasing lizards to use as a native doctor. LAGOS….
“You come to Lagos with a nylon bag and go back to Ibo land with Rolls Royce.
“Abeg, pray for Lagos make e no spoil o, If Lagos spoil, all of us don enter Gbege o…
“Musings of a grateful South Easterner living in Lagos,” he wrote.
Igbokwe, who hails from the Southeast, is a staunch supporter of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.