Lagos like New York Is no Man’s land – Charly Boy Says

By Adetayo Omotoyosi Adeolu

Veteran musician and actor, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, said that he believes in the concept that Lagos is a no man’s land. Aligning with the popular phrase that “Lagos is a no man’s land”, Charly Boy likened the coastal city to New York City in the United States.

The convener of the “Our Mumu Don Do” movement expressed displeasure at the recent renaming of a popular bus stop from his name to Olamide Baddo, named after renowned hip-hop artist Olamide Adedeji, by the Bariga Local Council Development Area, LCDA, in Lagos State. He made this statement during an interview on the television station, News Central TV.

He said, “This is our first capital, so it has people from different ethnic groups who make Lagos really bubble. If you are looking at it from that perspective, yes it feels like America, the melting pot of lots of immigrant people and look at how Donald Trump is messing the whole thing up, everything up.

“From that perspective, in terms of people coming together, it is really a no man’s land, it’s like New York. Lagos is like New York of Nigeria.”

Charly Boy also criticised the Lagos State Government for “being jittery” and “acting out tribal politics.”