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Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by oddy4real(m): 8:22am On Jul 07, 2013
It’s been ‘eebu tins’ (insult extravaganza) in the arena of political discourse and public commentary since this column decided to award itself an extended vacation five weeks ago. So massive has been the scramble for pottymouthing by critical segments of our commentariat that one was compelled to punctuate one’s vacation in favour of the occasional Facebook commentary on the matter. And the Nigerian penchant for flourish and exhaustiveness in negative matters means that we invaded the house of ‘eebu’ (insult) and appropriated all resources therein.

Name calling, bullying, catfighting, mudfighting, and roforofo became the building blocks of a colourful national orgy of insults and pottymouthing: Presidency versus Opposition; Presidency versus NGF; Presidency versus Media; Presidency versus former Facebook friends suffering from buyer’s remorse; NGF versus PDP Governors Forum; PDP versus PDP; PDP versus APC; APC versus APC; APC versus PDP; Jang versus Amaechi; Amaechi versus Jangjaweed Governors. In the middle of it all, the triumvirate of sophistry and chicanery, Doyin Okupe, Reuben Abati, and Reno Omokri, migrated their mouths from the gutter to a more scatological habitat in the pit latrine, trafficking in words unbecoming of any presidency as they engaged the Opposition while servicing the lies of a glaringly inept President Jonathan. With these three clowns throwing insults all over the place, D.O. Fagunwa would refer to Jonathan’s Aso Rock as ‘Eebudimeta’.

Sadly, the season of ‘eebu tins’ was contagious. It would have been an occasion for rejoicing had the season of national pottymouthing been restricted to the pestilential ranks of corrupt government officials and political actors for one’s heart is always gladdened when the rapists of Nigeria tear at each other while dancing naked in the public sphere.

President Jonathan fighting the NGF, Tambuwal and Wamakko clawing at Bamanga Tukur, Rotimi Amaechi and the Jangjaweed Governors pottymouthing one another are all occasions for rejoicing by the people. These are all instances of the Yoruba philosophy of ‘fun ra won ni won o ma fun ra won l’ogun je’. In other words, o ye people of Nigeria, rejoice and be merry whenever the corrupt rapists of our commonwealth feed each other poison. You do not need to inherit their cant and chicanery; their bickering; their pottymouthing; their pettiness; their irrationalities. For in the dead of night, when all doors are closed and you guys are still outside abusing each other along religious, tribal, and geopolitical fault-lines and lining up behind one political gladiator against the other, these guys close ranks, embrace, and declare aloota continua behind your backs.

There is one group of fellow citizens who, apparently, does not subscribe to the notion that we, the grass beneath the feet of the gorging elephants in the political class, do not need to tear at each other and spread the contagion of ‘eebu tins’ just because we support a particular political actor and believe that he is Junior Jesus and Deputy Mohammed combined. I am talking about the formidable armies of social media marketers of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Mohammadu Buhari who have taken on the task of marketing these two prominent figures of a very amorphous opposition to the broader Nigerian electorate. The methodology and strategies of these marketers have very serious implications for the democracy we all envisage and the Nigeria we all envision.

Asiwaju Tinubu’s claim to an oppositional/progressive patina stems from his investment in NADECO and the anti-Abacha struggle of the era, his relatively successful tenure as Lagos State Governor during which, we must admit, the foundation was laid for much of what Raji Fashola is doing today. It was also during his tenure in Lagos that the state became a model of resistance to Federal brigandage as he was largely able to resist what I call our “almajiri federalism”, which has state governors singing “asiri a bo bam bi Allah” all the way to Abuja, becoming cowering and conquered houseboys of an omnipotent President in the process. Rotimi Amaechi’s laudable resistance to Goodluck Jonathan’s arrogance of power today is nothing new. By successfully resisting Obasanjo’s crudeness, Tinubu paved the way for any Governor willing to remember that Federalism does not mean that states should become vassals of an arrogant centre with irrational powers. Is the pathetic Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa really a state governor today or Goodluck Jonathan’s palace eunuch?

Nigerians know the answer. Lagos is also where Asiwaju marshaled strategies and resources to eventually rid the southwest of the ruinous stranglehold of the PDP. He resisted Obasanjo in Abuja and also brought in new brooms to sweep away all the corrupt PDP governors that Ebora Owu had rigged into office in the southwest.

This is a broad summary of the achievements that have earned Asiwaju the right to become he who must be obeyed and never questioned in the world of his supporters. If these supporters were content with just sacrificing their own right to civic questioning, becoming marionettes, and letting Asiwaju take over the responsibility of thinking and deciding everything for them in the political and democratic sphere, that, I guess, would be their own kettle of fish. We must concede to every Nigerian his democratic right to be the political toilet paper of his own chosen hero among the gladiators in our public sphere. But Asiwaju’s fans are not content with worshipping their ordained orisha. They fan across social media as onward Christian soldiers, sorry, onward Asiwaju soldiers, trying to force-feed their idol intravenously into the Nigerian electorate in a manner that brooks no argument, opposition, or genuine debate.

Asiwaju, the argument goes, liberated the southwest from the PDP and his reward must be the everlasting silence of all Nigerians, even beyond the southwest. We should just all submit ourselves uncritically to his every whim, his every caprice, his every political calculus. We should just all become eternally grateful citizens of the nebulous empire that Asiwaju is building, no questions asked. To ask any question is to attract the ire of his supporters who mass in and rain insults on the critical questioner, blind as they are to the essence and meaning of democratic citizenship.

Democratic citizenship starts with my fundamental right to ask questions and probe the practices and politics of any participant in the political destiny of my country. If you are selling a political hero, democratic citizenship starts with my right to haggle, to critically examine the product you are attempting to sell to me, to ask questions about the provenance, usefulness, and durability of your product. Questions of worth and value are pertinent.

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by oddy4real(m): 8:23am On Jul 07, 2013
To put it in a popular Nigerian parlance, if you are selling Asiwaju to me, it is my right to price your market. Pricing your market in this respect means that I can raise very serious critical and ethical questions about the ruinous financial slavery of Lagos state – and increasingly the southwest – to one man today. I have the right to ask questions about tax collection processes in Lagos state. I have the right to raise an alarm over tolling at Lekki and where the money goes.

If you are selling Asiwaju to me, I have the right to wonder if you are not asking me to replace the corrupt dictatorship of the PDP at the centre with the no less corrupt one-man show of an aspiring emperor. I have the right to ask if you are asking me to replace Nigeria’s failed Federalism with Tinubu’s political empire, which is emerging somewhat parallel to and somewhat in opposition to that failed federalism at the centre. When I peep into this emergent political empire and I see things injurious to the spirit of democracy, I have the right to ask you questions if you persist in selling that product to me.

I could tell you that looking at the untidy way in which Asiwaju’s wife was imposed as a Senatorial candidate, the untidy way in which his choices are imposed as Local Government Chairmen everywhere he holds sway, the untidy way in which his choices are imposed as Governors everywhere he holds sway (until the Ondo rout), the untidy business of attempting to impose his daughter as the new Iyaloja of Lagos, the untidy way in which he and Chief Bisi Akande have privileged a rigid babacracy over internal party democracy in the political party over which they preside and, now, the absolutely horrible, undemocratic, and arrogant way in which he is trying to abort democracy in Ekiti by asking Opeyemi Bamidele to wait for his turn – I could look at all these things, all these dictatorial tendencies, the recurrence of the word ‘imposition’, and decide that the corrupt democracy of Aso Rock is better than the corrupt babacracy of Bourdillon Road. At least the pretense of democracy exists in Aso Rock whereas there is no room for even democratic pretense in Bourdillon road. Indeed, the unfolding outrage in Ekiti has confirmed my long-held suspicion that Bourdillon road is the most formidable antithesis to democracy in Nigeria now. I certainly hope that Opeyemi Bamidele will be buoyed by the precedence of Ondo and defy imposition and empire building.

When bold and patriotic compatriots raise these legitimate issues, Tinubu’s social media supporters, who have no liver for debate, resort to knee-jerk ‘eebu tins’. They rain insults and curse and curse again. They bully and intimidate the same people they are trying to persuade to adopt their orisha of Bourdillon. Yet, the very next minute, these devotees of the orisha of Bourdillon begin to hold out the southwest as an example of democracy to the rest of the country. They purport that the southwest has lessons to teach the rest of the country in democracy and its practices. I always wonder who dashed them the mouth to make such spurious submissions. Until the southwest deals with the untidy legacy of Tinubu’s impositions and his long-winding trail of subversion of democratic principles, they must understand that they have lost the mouth with which to contribute to broader national arguments about democratic ethos. The rest of the country would be justified if they told the southwest: abeg, make we hear word.

What goes for Tinubu’s supporters also goes for a vast majority of General Buhari’s supporters. Indeed, General Buhari’s avowed online loyalists make Tinubu’s supporters look like kindergarten pupils in the department of ‘eebu tins’. Unlike Tinubu’s supporters who are trying to sell a political orisha because their principal is trying to consolidate an empire rather than openly jostling for an elective office, General Buhari’s supporters are trying to sell a political candidate jostling for the office of President. They insist on the General’s personal capital: simplicity, integrity, leadership, zero-tolerance of corruption, sound moral and ethical stock. According to this narrative, corrupt politicians would scamper out of Nigeria were General Buhari ever to be elected President for he would not spare them.

So far so good. Things get a bit more complicated for General Buhari and his loyalists the moment you move beyond the General’s impeccable personal capital to other things you need to be acceptable to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe and creed. General Buhari’s loyalists are quick to insist that he is a pan-Nigerian statesman. His statements and actions suggest otherwise and when concerned Nigerians insist on raising that significant issue, the General’s loyalists, like Tinubu’s supporters, recourse to ‘eebu tins’ to sell their product. They curse and curse and curse. They rain insult upon insult on Nigerians for being simpletons who just can’t understand the General. One wrote an article in Sahara Reporters advising the General to withdraw from politics because he is too good for Nigeria or Nigerians aren’t good enough for him. The stupidity of claiming that 160 million of us are not good enough for or are undeserving of one of us was not apparent to this Buhari loyalist. I’ve encountered more bellicose variants of that insult coming from General Buhari’s army of online loyalists. Nigeria, they insist, is not ready for him because Nigeria is not good enough for him.

But the Nigerians who are being insulted by Buhari’s loyalists are not the people responsible for the persistent question mark on the General’s pan-Nigerian credentials. The General is and the blame must be placed firmly and unequivocally at his doorstep. General Buhari has done more in the last two decades or so to forge an image of himself as a closet geopolitical irredentist and very little to encourage perceptions of himself as a pan-Nigerian statesman. This is not limited to his healthy syllabus of northern and Islamic irredentist statements – his supporters are ever ready to insult us that we are just not intelligent enough to understand those statements – but also to his inaction. I will explain the bit about inaction presently.

Suffice it to say for now that the insults and curses rained on Nigerians daily by Buhari’s supporters are far worse than the treatment we get from Tinubu’s supporters. My stomach churns whenever I encounter pro-Buhari statements starting with such illogicalities as “Buhari is the only living Nigerian capable of this and that”. Really? Please! There are 160 million of us. There must be limits to hyperbole. And there is no greater insult than saying that 160 million of us are either too mischievous or too unintelligent to understand the repeated careless statements of your hero. Personally, I’m loath to have a President of Nigeria who constantly needs the service of the extra-talented geniuses in his core support base to explain his constant stream of misstatements and misspeaks to 160 million unintelligent simpletons. We must ask the question again: why is it that only fundamentalist loyalists have found the key to understanding General Buhari’s statements?

Now to Buhari’s inaction. We must ask his supporters: exactly where is Buhari’s national presence, say, since 2011? His statements, careless or reasonable, mostly get to the south of the river Niger whenever local journalists are lucky enough to monitor an interview he granted the Hausa service of BBC or VOA from his Kaduna base. I know that he was at my friend, Nasir El Rufai’s book launch in Lagos and was, also, recently at the funeral of Asiwaju’s mother in Lagos. There may be other unreported low-profile ventures outside of the north by the General. However, if I were in Buhari’s shoes, I would have been all over the Nigerian map physically since 2011. My social and political calendar across Nigeria would have been very busy and active. I would have been attending well-publicized events all over the country, delivering speeches on critical national issues in Universities all over Igboland, all over the south-south. I would even have ‘invaded’ Professor Bolaji Aluko’s fief in the Federal University, Otuoke, by delivering a significant lecture on critical national issues from that pregnant location. I would have been all over the southwest, the MiddleBelt – everywhere - engaging people and issues, strategizing about the way forward with critical stakeholders. Newspapers would be reporting that some of my national statements and interviews were monitored in Isanlu, Kabba, Amawbia, Nnobi, Calabar, Nsukka, Enugu, Okene, Owerri, Osogbo, Ore, Ibadan, Abakaliki, Ogwashi-Uku, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Ijebu Ode, Akure, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Warri, etc.

If , rather than cultivate this broad national praxis in the service of my presidential ambition, I cocoon myself mostly in Kaduna, releasing northern and Islamic irredentist statements to the rest of the country in interviews granted the Hausa service of BBC and VOA, going as far as to carelessly equate a legitimate clamp down on Boko Haram with a war against the North, I should be prepared to accept responsibility for a certain perception of myself and work very hard to address the issue. Genuine supporters of General Buhari have serious work to do. I know many of them, patriotic compatriots working tirelessly for Nigeria, convinced that General Buhari is a far better option than the disgrace currently residing in Aso Rock. They are not into the business of insulting Nigerians to sell their product.

They are my friends: Adebayo Adeneye-Adejuwon, Marian Iyabode Awolowo, Kizito Agba-Injo. One of them, Tunde Asaju, is my cousin. What these believers in the Buhari project must understand is that their genuine efforts to sell Buhari online is largely crowded out by the ill-reflected strategies of the more fundamentalist Buhari supporters who believe that the best way to sell their product is to constantly insult and bully Nigerians. Adebayo Adejuwon and co must understand that they have their work cut out for them. Not only must they continue to try to sell their product using the time-tested strategies of democratic debate and superior argument, they must also work harder to convince those who are trying to sell the General via insults that they are damaging Buhari’s brand – to borrow a way of speaking made popular by my sister Bamidele Ademola-Olateju. And unless they believe that General Buhari is infallible, they must be prepared to reach out to their hero, engage him, and see how he could work on the statesman and de-emphasize the northern irredentist. Accusing those asking questions of ill-will or inability to understand the General will not cut it.

Personally, I’m not on the Buhari train because I am not convinced me that we cannot find a Nigerian in the age bracket of 40-55 among 160 million people who fits the bill for 2015. As a friend of mine, Kemi Sisi Eko, once observed, there is something fundamentally wrong with you if you are a Nigerian in your 20s, 30s, or 40s and you insist that a septuagenarian is the singular and the only answer to your problem in the age of Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Harper, and Hollande. If I raise this issue, it is your responsibility as a Buhari loyalist to engage or confront me with superior logic and try to persuade me. Don’t come hurling insults at me, avoiding serious issues by claiming that I harbor some undefined animus against the General. That is the lazy strategy that General Buhari’s loyalists often deploy to kill genuine debate.

Building democracy is not just about the struggle to rid our country of a corrupt, comatose, and visionless leadership such as we currently have in Goodluck Jonathan; it is not just about the struggle to build credible and genuine institutions; it is also mostly about the need to forge, inform, and instruct a critical and civic-minded followership. A democracy without a followership that questions is doomed. And questioning does not mean criticizing Jonathan endlessly while being intolerant of any criticism of your own political orisha. By resorting ever so often to ‘eebu tins’ in the marketing of their heroes, too many supporters of Asiwaju Tinubu and General Buhari are endangering democracy. They are part of the problem. They are tolerating democracy only to the extent that their respective heroes shall neither be critiqued, questioned, nor engaged. Those of us whose singular premise is Nigeria – and not sacrosanct heroes – shall not allow this to happen. We shall continue to question, to critique, to engage.

Perish the thought that we shall ever allow the emergence of a Nigeria in which it would be possible for some citizens to crown political orishas that are deemed too good for some undeserving 160 million people. If you belong in the group of workers for Nigeria who are not beholden to any political orisha, then by all means continue to raise very pertinent and critical issues whenever and wherever the loyalists of Tinubu and Buhari sell their heroes on social media. That is the stuff, the essence of democracy. Followers must be able to ask legitimate questions of other followers without being intimidated or insulted. That is the Nigeria we envisage and envision.

If Buhari’s or Tinubu’s loyalists insult you for asking questions, shrug your shoulders and tell them that insults do not grow on the forehead of the insulted or, as the Yoruba would put it, “eebu o so”.

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by ckkris: 9:45am On Jul 07, 2013
Nigerians ronu
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by kaze4blues(m): 10:30am On Jul 07, 2013
Joblesness
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by oddy4real(m): 10:52am On Jul 07, 2013
kaze4blues: Joblesness
who is jobless?

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by Moves: 12:03pm On Jul 07, 2013
Bravo.....there is hope for Nigeria

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by taharqa2: 3:19pm On Jul 07, 2013
I dey laugh...
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by Nobody: 4:29pm On Jul 07, 2013
Confusion in the camp of vultures
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by ckkris: 4:42pm On Jul 07, 2013
taharqa2: I dey laugh...
A P C will not be able to present strong challenge to President Jonathan in 2015.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by bankoleben(m): 6:45pm On Jul 07, 2013
So many pretenders masquerading as democrats these days. True progressives must come together under an umbrella to salvage this country.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by lateef4me(m): 9:40pm On Jul 07, 2013
Where is Gbawe,Dayokanu,eko ile and seanet2 ? This abuse by Pius must not go unattended to jare....
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by bloggernaija: 10:00pm On Jul 07, 2013
This is the first time I will personally disagree with Pius
Just like in Egypt where the progressives were busy fighting amongst each other letting the conservative Muslim brotherhood to carry and run away with the torch.
Buhari may not be the best candidate and tinubu is definitely fallible considering the number of goofs he has made of recent.
However , you have to look at the problem as a whole.
Tinubu is not universally liked and worshipped in the southwest. He is merely tolerated as the alternative (PDP) is a living nightmare for the southwest.
Tinubu romance with APC should be viewed as playing offense in order to play defense. Winning ASO ROCK is not the ultimate goal of ACN but being able to dictate policy and holding the line as regard to the interest of the SW .in order words , we do not want to be tied to the apron strings of Abuja regardless of the occupier neither do we want our future to be determined by an outsider
Example:
The southwest is capable of self funding via internally generated revenue from the economic activities going on in the state. The revenues from the ports,agriculture ,VAT,levied,oil and bitumen and potential from tourism is enough.remitance from overseas will take care of the foriegn currency needs
The southwest want to be removed from the apron string of Abuja in terms of power supply and critical infrastructure and internal security.LAGOS,Ibadan and OGUN pay more than 80% of the gas and electricity bills.
The ideal candidate for the president is fashola. However, nigeria as it is presently constituted will not allow the emergence of such a person.
Between buhari and the present occupier who is a confirmed tribalist, buhari get my vote because of his values and not surrounding himself with sycophants/ praise singer
Also his knowledge of the core problem -corruption,lack of accountability and the size of the federal government is in sharp constrast with the present occupier who find it difficult to locate his bedroom.
You can see a desperation from the north who believe their future depends on being able to control the centre , the south south /south east-it is our turn ,the vultures in the southwest PDP conservatives-whose political future and fundamental existence depend on grovelling to anybody in power and the middle belt which blow wherever the wind blows
This alone is enough.

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by bloggernaija: 10:00pm On Jul 07, 2013
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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by nwabobo: 10:50pm On Jul 07, 2013
bloggernaija: This is the first time I will personally disagree with Pius
Just like in Egypt where the progressives were busy fighting amongst each other letting the conservative Muslim brotherhood to carry and run away with the torch.
Buhari may not be the best candidate and tinubu is definitely fallible considering the number of goofs he has made of recent.
However , you have to look at the problem as a whole.
Tinubu is not universally liked and worshipped in the southwest. He is merely tolerated as the alternative (PDP) is a living nightmare for the southwest.
Tinubu romance with APC should be viewed as playing offense in order to play defense. Winning ASO ROCK is not the ultimate goal of ACN but being able to dictate policy and holding the line as regard to the interest of the SW .in order words , we do not want to be tied to the apron strings of Abuja regardless of the occupier neither do we want our future to be determined by an outsider
Example:
The southwest is capable of self funding via internally generated revenue from the economic activities going on in the state. The revenues from the ports,agriculture ,VAT,levied,oil and bitumen and potential from tourism is enough.remitance from overseas will take care of the foriegn currency needs
The southwest want to be removed from the apron string of Abuja in terms of power supply and critical infrastructure and internal security.LAGOS,Ibadan and OGUN pay more than 80% of the gas and electricity bills.
The ideal candidate for the president is fashola. However, nigeria as it is presently constituted will not allow the emergence of such a person.
Between buhari and the present occupier who is a confirmed tribalist, buhari get my vote because of his values and not surrounding himself with sycophants/ praise singer
Also his knowledge of the core problem -corruption,lack of accountability and the size of the federal government is in sharp constrast with the present occupier who find it difficult to locate his bedroom.
You can see a desperation from the north who believe their future depends on being able to control the centre , the south south /south east-it is our turn ,the vultures in the southwest PDP conservatives-whose political future and fundamental existence depend on grovelling to anybody in power and the middle belt which blow wherever the wind blows
This alone is enough.

Dude, each time you open your mouth, you vomit nonsense. I have every cause to believe you've never been to anywhere outside the SW all your life.

How old are you if I may ask?

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by tomakint: 4:25am On Jul 08, 2013
A worthy piece and kudos to you oddy4real for that brilliant write-up from you as usual! wink
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by bloggernaija: 5:54am On Jul 08, 2013
nwabobo: Dude, each time you open your mouth, you vomit nonsense. I have every cause to believe you've never been to anywhere outside the SW all your life.

How old are you if I may ask?
Silly you.i was at one time or the other a resident of all the region apart from the northwest .
Of recent ,I have visited for 4 out of 6 regions with each visit ,lasting at least one week,5 african countries and 19 non- african countries .i reside in one .i am not affected by the mismanagement going on in nigeria but family members are.

I can definitely assure you that a typical nigerian on a good day is as hospitable as your own family member and their views are in no way similar to those expressed on nairaland.
I can also assure you that I am from the school of aregbesola .
I am a yoruba nationalist , a pragmatic socialist who believe nigeria is still salvageable if the uniqueness and interest of her constituent nations are respected .
I am not an ACN member neither am I from their stables.
I have no time for mediocre people and policies , hence my admiration for fashola and my severe opposition to GEJ.
My joy derives from the fact that serious debates are currently going on in my region.the sort of debates and standards that will ensure that mediocre people , otherwise known as PDP ,will never smell the corridors of power over here again
Also, the SW has started sticking the fingers to oil and Abuja .
For that , I am happy.
NOW TELL ME ,WHAT US YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION APART FROM THE AD HOMINEM

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by tomakint: 6:22am On Jul 08, 2013
bloggernaija:
Silly you.i was at one time or the other a resident of all the region apart from the northwest .
Of recent ,I have visited for 4 out of 6 regions with each visit ,lasting at least one week,5 african countries and 19 non- african countries .i reside in one .i am not affected by the mismanagement going on in nigeria but family members are.

I can definitely assure you that a typical nigerian on a good day is as hospitable as your own family member and their views are in no way similar to those expressed on nairaland.
I can also assure you that I am from the school of aregbesola .
I am a yoruba nationalist , a pragmatic socialist who believe nigeria is still salvageable if the uniqueness and interest of her constituent nations are respected .
I am not an ACN member neither am I from their stables.
I have no time for mediocre people and policies , hence my admiration for fashola and my severe opposition to GEJ.
My joy derives from the fact that serious debates are currently going on in my region.the sort of debates and standards that will ensure that mediocre people , otherwise known as PDP ,will never smell the corridors of power over here again
Also, the SW has started sticking the fingers to oil and Abuja .
For that , I am happy.
NOW TELL ME ,WHAT US YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION APART FROM THE AD HOMINEM



Be rest assured that two States (Ekiti and Oyo) apart from Ondo may definitely go the way of PDP! It is crystal clear with the way Tinubu is handling the affairs of SW politics, ACN is gradually losing its grip in this region! You can quote me cool

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by Akanbiedu(m): 9:33am On Jul 08, 2013
"katsumoto tins"
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by Gbawe: 9:37am On Jul 08, 2013
bloggernaija:
Silly you.i was at one time or the other a resident of all the region apart from the northwest .
Of recent ,I have visited for 4 out of 6 regions with each visit ,lasting at least one week,5 african countries and 19 non- african countries .i reside in one .i am not affected by the mismanagement going on in nigeria but family members are.

I can definitely assure you that a typical nigerian on a good day is as hospitable as your own family member and their views are in no way similar to those expressed on nairaland.
I can also assure you that I am from the school of aregbesola .
I am a yoruba nationalist , a pragmatic socialist who believe nigeria is still salvageable if the uniqueness and interest of her constituent nations are respected .
I am not an ACN member neither am I from their stables.
I have no time for mediocre people and policies , hence my admiration for fashola and my severe opposition to GEJ.
My joy derives from the fact that serious debates are currently going on in my region.the sort of debates and standards that will ensure that mediocre people , otherwise known as PDP ,will never smell the corridors of power over here again
Also, the SW has started sticking the fingers to oil and Abuja .
For that , I am happy.
NOW TELL ME ,WHAT US YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION APART FROM THE AD HOMINEM




Impressive categorisation I believe aptly defines many of us here. You are right also in concluding that, for the better, mediocrity has been banished from SW leadership arena.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by anonimi: 1:10pm On Jul 08, 2013
oddy4real:
If Buhari’s or Tinubu’s loyalists insult you for asking questions, shrug your shoulders and tell them that insults do not grow on the forehead of the insulted or, as the Yoruba would put it, “eebu o so”.

This brings back some childhood memories of the song:

Maa bu mi, eebu o so - Continue dey abuse me, abuse nor dey grow for head.
Abiwaju sogolo bi ona Mokola- You sef wey get shapeless head like Mokola road

grin grin grin

tomakint: A worthy piece and kudos to you oddy4real for that brilliant write-up from you as usual! wink

Is oddy4real the same person as Pius Adesanmi?
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by Katsumoto: 11:27pm On Jul 08, 2013
Fantastic write-up
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by birdman(m): 2:39am On Jul 09, 2013
Sir Pius and his roundabout articles. Anyone notice he never gives his own solution to the issue at hand? WHy hasn't he named who he thinks would be a better candidate? He reminds me of Abati back in the day. Both these guys get carried away by the pen. Their wise sound bites die the moment you try to put them in practice. Thankfully their are a few realistic columnists like Okey Ndibe who can criticize and be practical at the same time. And no, I am not a Tinubu fan
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by plaindealer: 3:18am On Jul 09, 2013
This is why it's always very hard to take a great portion of Nigerian writers seriously, they write like zombies, they write with zero imagination and lousy sense of subject matter.

The so called insults the writer moaned and cried about was started and spearheaded by the other side and the ring leader that kicked it off was the President himself when he rode to Yorubaland and dished out insults to the whole region and their leaders and after that, his aids aka Abati and Okupe took the insult baton from him, they insult and call Nigerians on the other side of our political spectrum names with every write up on behalf of the same president and to my understanding, the resident is yet to denounce their insults or call them to order. The president attack dogs responds to everything with insults and name calling.

They've insulted highly respected Nigerians including Prof Achebe just because he turned down their National Award. Say good morning to them and they'll insult you accordingly if they don't like you.

There's a boat load of articles detailing all the insults and crude disrespect of Nigerians perpetrated by this president and his men.

The quote below was the opposition's response to many of the president's insults..


The ACN said using such words as ‘ethically-challenged’, ‘hypocrite’, ‘medieval-era ignoramus’, ‘habitual indolence and brainlessness’, ‘descent into moral abyss’, ‘mental indolence’, ‘bootlicking’, ‘hideous and second-rate characters’, and ‘foolish’ to describe the critics of the President is rude, crude, uncouth, unconscionable and uncalled for, and that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.




I think this writer is another Abati wannabe and I hope they find a space for him inside Aso Rock..
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by dayokanu(m): 4:55am On Jul 09, 2013
Tinubu has not forced anyone to join his party, Anyone not satisfied with him and his practice is free to join other parties or platforms. Fight no dey

When Mimiko wasnt satisfied with PDP he went to Labour Party.

ACN already made clear their parties method of not conducting primaries. Anyone who doesn't like it can report them to INEC or move to a party that practices what he likes.

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by tsalam: 6:31am On Jul 09, 2013
the ebu was started by gej himself when he came to the south west to call all our leaders rascals. now the heat is getting so hot in the kitchen the low lifes are now calling for a truce. pius should save his epistle for abati and okupe its seems this dude is looking for his own share of the nation cake.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by anonimi: 9:17am On Jul 09, 2013
tsalam: the ebu was started by gej himself when he came to the south west to call all our leaders rascals. now the heat is getting so hot in the kitchen the low lifes are now calling for a truce. pius should save his epistle for abati and okupe its seems this dude is looking for his own share of the nation cake.

What Jonathan said at Mapo Hall, Ibadan was that:

the Sout West is TOO IMPORTANT to be left in the hands of RASCALS.

What I see there is good advice from a concerned president for an integral part of his national constituency and not abuse or insult.
Obviously we have different ways of understanding words used.
Moreover with the recent happening in yoruba land, GEJ's pronouncement in Ibadan would appear very prophetic.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by tsalam: 10:50am On Jul 09, 2013
anonimi:

What Jonathan said at Mapo Hall, Ibadan was that:



What I see there is good advice from a concerned president for an integral part of his national constituency and not abuse or insult.
Obviously we have different ways of understanding words used.
Moreover with the recent happening in yoruba land, GEJ's pronouncement in Ibadan would appear very prophetic.


this dude is confuse who is he referring to as rascal isn't the guys at the helms of affairs in the southwest. the statement make him look like a dumbass with the excellent performance of south west governors.
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by birdman(m): 11:08am On Jul 09, 2013
dayokanu: Tinubu has not forced anyone to join his party, Anyone not satisfied with him and his practice is free to join other parties or platforms. Fight no dey

When Mimiko wasnt satisfied with PDP he went to Labour Party.

ACN already made clear their parties method of not conducting primaries. Anyone who doesn't like it can report them to INEC or move to a party that practices what he likes.


Abeg tell dem o
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by thelastPope(m): 11:36am On Jul 09, 2013
dayokanu: Tinubu has not forced anyone to join his party, Anyone not satisfied with him and his practice is free to join other parties or platforms. Fight no dey

When Mimiko wasnt satisfied with PDP he went to Labour Party.

ACN already made clear their parties method of not conducting primaries. Anyone who doesn't like it can report them to INEC or move to a party that practices what he likes.


Your post as usual is full of hypocrisy because you lot always come out to accuse PDP of these same things. Why dont you apply your advise to yourself and keep shut over what PDP does? Why do you react and make statements and throw unprintable insults when you read news about PDP? You are the one that needs your advise the most. The funny part of the whole saga is that ACN are the most guilty of what they always accuse PDP of. They are undemocratic, they have godfathers, they do not conduct primaries, and their governors are all failures. Absolute failures who always play to the gallery by showcasing irrelevant projects are hyping it to high heavens as performance. A typical example is the failure in Ogun, who commisioned a flyover when all of Ogun is totally useless. You can hardly find any good road in Ogun state. The whole of Iju, Sango, Lambe, Akute, Alagbole, Ajuwon are in a terrible state. Complete chaos. Yet the man is commisioning a flyover and telling everyone he is performing. People are waiting to stone him with pure water when he visits some of these places. Just watch!

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Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by taharqa2: 6:41pm On Jul 10, 2013
dayokanu: Tinubu has not forced anyone to join his party, Anyone not satisfied with him and his practice is free to join other parties or platforms. Fight no dey

When Mimiko wasnt satisfied with PDP he went to Labour Party.

ACN already made clear their parties method of not conducting primaries. Anyone who doesn't like it can report them to INEC or move to a party that practices what he likes.

Blaadin HYPOCRITE.....though, no surprises here
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by dayokanu(m): 7:19pm On Jul 10, 2013
taharqa2: Blaadin HYPOCRITE.....though, no surprises here

Can you point out the hypocrisy?
Re: Eebu O So: Tinubu, Buhari, And Their Supporters By Pius Adesanmi by taharqa2: 10:24am On Jul 14, 2013
bankoleben: So many pretenders masquerading as democrats these days. True progressives must come together under an umbrella to salvage this country.
Power Mongers more like it...

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