Top APC Deputy Governor Renounces Nigerian Citizenship? New Development Emerges

• The Lagos State deputy governor, Obafemi Hamzat, has dismissed the report in circulation that he renounced his Nigerian citizenship at a point in time
• According to the media office of the deputy governor, what is being circulated that Hamzat renounced his citizenship was misleading and misinformation
• Hamzat was reacting to the claim of a US-based immigration lawyer, Olubusayo Fasidi, that the deputy governor took an oath of allegiance in the US and renounced Nigerian citizenship

Ikeja, Lagos - Obafemi Hamzat, the deputy governor of Lagos State, has denied the claim that he denounced his citizenship as a Nigerian.

Channels TV reported that the denial was made in a statement from the media office of the deputy governor, describing the claim that Hamzat renounced his Nigerian citizenship as “misleading and inaccurate”.

Recall that on Thursday, a United States-based immigration lawyer, Olubusayo Fasidi, said before the Lagos State Governorship election petition tribunal that the deputy governor took an oath of allegiance to the US and renounce his Nigerian citizenship.

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Lagos deputy governor, Hamzat, opens up on renouncing his Nigerian citizenship in US

But Hamzat's media office disclosed that the reports making rounds are not a true reflection of the reality that took place at the tribunal.

According to the deputy governor, the witness tendered two documents, which are a blank form of application for US naturalization and a blank oath of US allegiance document (known as forms 8CFR/337) and N400 respectively. They were admitted and marked as exhibits.

The statement reads in part:

“When the witness was confronted with the fact that the only two documents, she was basing her claims on, were merely downloaded blank documents, the witness stated that she had downloaded the blank documents from the official website of the US Embassy.”

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Lagos: Anxiety as Naval rating is gunned down

Legit.ng earlier reported that a Lagos community has been thrown into fresh tension as a naval rating is gunned down by some suspected gunmen.

The Naval officer, who was reportedly on his own, was shot by the suspected gunmen in the Ajegunle in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA of the state.

Some residents in the community are already panicking over the claim that some naval officers had promised to avenge the death of their colleague but the Naval authority had warned them against such a move.

Source: Legit.ng