Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, the first elected Deputy Governor in Lagos State, has raised an alarm that her life is endangered following the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria.

Ojikutu, who served as Lagos State Deputy Governor under Sir Michael Otedola between 1992 to 1993 also declared that she had commenced the process of renouncing her Nigerian citizenship as she had promised to do if Alhaji BolaTinubu emerged the President.

She made these declarations today while speaking with journalists at her residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

She also said her problem with Tinubu started over 20 years ago when she opposed his governorship ambition in Lagos. According to her, since then, all efforts to reach a truce with him has proved abortive.

She said, “I came out before the election to say that if former Governor Bola Tinubu won the election, I, Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu, will renounce the citizenship of this nation and I have my reasons.

“When he won, people called me and said he had won, that he would not do anything bad to me but I know this man and I have known him for over 20 years now, I know what he has done to me personally.

“So calling this press conference is also to show that I am personally endangered by the current situation. I am endangered, I have been ostracized, humiliated in places where I should be honoured because of his (Tinubu) not being at peace with me.

“The last thing before the election was when it came to me that he was saying that am I still alive? When somebody mentioned my issue to him, I understand, he said, ‘Is she still around?’ What does that mean?

“What does he mean? I am alive, hale and hearty. Have they planned my death? Why should anybody be asking if I am still alive? Up till today since I raised that issue since January, none of his associates I have talked to has gotten back to me and this is giving me a personal concern. Am I safe? And there are many people like that in my category.’

“People have been saying that people do not like former Governor Bola Tinubu but nobody has bothered to ask what of the people that Bola Tinubu does not like? It is a two-way thing,” she said.

Ojikutu also alleged that she once challenged Tinubu about how Lagos indigenes were being marginalised in his appointment, adding that three months after the challenge, Tinubu revoked the certificate of occupancy of her land at Victoria Island.

According to the former Deputy Governor, she supported the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, because of her conviction that it was the turn of the South-East to produce the next President and because she saw in Obi the needed capacity and passion to rescue Nigeria.

On the ongoing Presidential Election Petition, Ojikutu pleaded with the judiciary, especially the Chief Justice of Nigeria, to “

have the fear of God in adjudicating in the disputes arising from the Presidential election of February 25, 2023.

As at the time of filing this report to NewsOrient Network newsdesk, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu media team were yet to respond to Alhaja Ojikutu’s allegations. (NewsOrient)