Charly Boy Sparks Debate: “Lagos Isn’t Owned by Anyone, Like NYC”

Charles Oputa, better known as Charly Boy, is a seasoned entertainer and the founder of the Our Mumu Don Do movement. He has supported the idea that Lagos State is not part of any specific Nigerian tribe.

According to the well-known adage, “Lagos is a no man’s land,” Charly Boy compared the seaside city to New York City in the US.

In an interview with News Central TV, Charly Boy voiced his disapproval of the recent renaming of a well-known bus stop from his name to Olamide Baddo, named after well-known hip-hop artist Olamide Adedeji by the Bariga Local Council Development Area, LCDA, in Lagos State.

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, who is known as Area Fada, criticised the Lagos State Government for “being jittery” and “acting out tribal politics.”