High rent: Doherty faults Hamzat’s advice to Lagos youth
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- Lagos reactions continued after Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat advised young workers struggling with high rents to live with parents or relatives.
- Activist Doherty criticized the advice, while another activist backed Hamzat and described it as bitter truth.
Advice that young Lagos workers struggling with high rents should consider living with their parents or relatives has drawn opposing reactions.
The advice came from Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, who is also the All Progressives Congress candidate for governor in the 2027 election.
Activist Doherty faulted Hamzat's position, while another activist supported the deputy governor and called the counsel a bitter truth.
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