lee007: Fact remains that if the Nigerian oil, the only leverage the south-south has, (which is not giving us anything per say) should dry up, then we all must in trouble for the following reasons.

1. South-south is largely uneducated; I mean the present generation of south-south youths with the exception for those in other parts of the country where they have better chance of decent and sound education and career, they will become a huge burden.
2. The current sophistication of crime and banditry in Nigeria was as a result of the activity of militants in the creeks and now spread all over the SE and SW part of the country
3. South-south leaders are practically incapable to talking to their people because they are not respected as a lot of them have been involved in the illegal oil bunkering going on in the region for a while
4. At the national level the SS people have not been able to partner successfully with any power block due to arrogance over ownership of the oil wealth of the nation.
5. The SE is more self reliant compared to the SS despite the presence of oil SE is more economically active than the SS
6. Without oil SS will be worse than the North, at least the north has learnt to survive and have political power to their advantage oil or no oil, the SS is presently burning all bridges for a man who doesn’t really care about anybody.
Instead of the people of SS to sit down with Prof WS and find out how to move the country forward and put the president’s wife in place, they are busy raining abuses on him. We will see who laughs last!

ALTRUTH:

Are you mad? Who is wole soyinka that the presidency will regret anything because of him You yorubas are really living in a false sense of importance. You will wake up from your slumber soon!

abysirius: ...say that to ur fellow fools!

Ola Johnson:
The man dies in they that keep silent in the face of tyranny - WS.

ALTRUTH:
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See this malnourished vulture. I have told you the truth, if you don't like it you can go and mix alabukun with otapipia and drink. Real ogbomoso drink!

nitrogen:
Please, what is it with you and Ogbomoso? I hope it is not what I am thinking o. Meanwhile, don't claim SS, claim your SE cos these guys will deny you when you are in trouble o.

Ps. You should know the 'trouble' I am talking about.

cute shade: u're d one that is mad and seems there are cockroaches in your brain, yabaleft awaits you.

Olaolufred:

I love this Hero.

Remember seeing him in MMA departure in 2009.

Epitome of wisdom. One of the best Nigeria ever had.

He is actually super-normal.

Except that your reasoning is too low to catch up.

No problem, that is why you see pupils taking last in a classroom.

We are not evenly endowed. Soyinka is far beyond your reasoning level.

Sorry o, but truth told already.

Creative mind: I ponder; if logic and reasoning are employed in every prose written by akpomeme. If they are, then he might be a potential tool of change for himself and people around him. On plethora of instances, my mind got troubled with doubts as to whether certain people could be healed of their voracious appetite for social media relevance and rapacious struggle for a social stand. Well, you cannot give what you do not have. As a matter of fact, expecting a castle built of intelligence from Akpomeme is like searching for an honest man with a stolen lantern. One cannot but die searching till eternity. Though, i feel a little shame to stoop so low to reply the beautiful alphabets you rendered useless by your narrow-minded coinage and rape of ethics. I know you must be smiling now for getting those few likes and comments since those are the attention you have longed for with the most productive part of your life. That's always the case with people of your caliber (pigs); they enjoy dragging you to the mud to wrestle. But do not forget that when a stubborn fly perches on the elder's scrotum, there is need to treat it with a broom. I am neither myopic nor am I tribally bias and that is what placed me some level above you. However, your infantile behaviour and immaturity does not restrain you from being an agent of change. After all, even lower animals are considered capable of making the world a better place but that is when they bark at the right time, crow in the morning or roar when need be. Not shying away from the truth ought to be the wheel driving journalism and writing but this fact has suffered a great blow in the jaw in the hand of pen-brandishing nincompoops and relevance-hungry youthpopotamus. My concession about life is that people like you are ready to do anything to get attention and build an empire of folly whenever you think the truth hits hard no you. God forbid a time i will celebrate ignorance, colossal insipience or deviate from spotting on red-carpeted idiocy all in the name of dignified silence. You elicited a bout of thundering laughter from me when you asked about the amiable professor's wives. Do you know a well-trained child whose mum wasn't chased out by the father won't coin such a malicious piece against an elder? Even so, i was consoled by your lack of discipline when it comes to defending political thieves and clueless masters by the social truism that "not all head harbours intelligence". Gone were the days when writers write right and thinkers were unprejudiced. Nowadays, every sect has been immersed in a cesspool of ignorance and desperate yearn for a say in our national issue. If foolishness warrants a certificate, you should have the highest number of laurels to show for your lack of thought and common knowledge. This is one of the faults that lies in nairaland: animal's section are not provided for your calibre. Brother, "agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt- by doing, by consulting well, things yield prosperous". Do not smir mud at people without facts and analogy. When the professor was already doing this nation proud, God was still considering whether to let you into the world or not. Now that you are here, must you make it obvious that you are a goat in human skin?

nitrogen:
Please, what is it with you and Ogbomoso? I hope it is not what I am thinking o. Meanwhile, don't claim SS, claim your SE cos these guys will deny you when you are in trouble o.

Ps. You should know the 'trouble' I am talking about.

akpomeme: It is laughable for Prof. Wole Soyinka; a well-respected Statesman to demystify the grandeur of his personality on the basis of “standing on the side of truth” one too many times, on utterly whimsical state of affairs in Rivers state.

It is astonishing that such a man with seeming repute for knowledge and wisdom in socio-political affairs of Nigeria can no longer differentiate between personal attacks and elderly advice to our nation state.

Personal attacks in the sense that in a frail where Patience seems to be one of too many male players in the Rivers state crisis, Prof. Soyinka singled out the first lady to trash. Amaechi, who ordered the violent maiming of another Honourable member is yet berated by our selective elder statesman “Wole Soyinka”.

More so, as an elder statesman, his advice should have played a key role towards uniting warring factions than dividing Nigerians who may or may not have qualms with the utterances of the “Mad Old Professor -MOP” (Tweet by Dictator’s Daughter,July, 2013). Without remorse, the MOP went ahead to reiterate his earlier statement which brought about criticism of his perceived chauvinistic statement against the Girl Child and the Nigerian Woman.

In the MOP’s own words “People said I call her a domestic appendage, what’s the problem with that? What’s the problem with Madam Shepopotamus? The questions yet unanswered are: Who were Wole Soyinka’s wives? What were their experience as wives and mothers whilst being a domestic appendage to the MOP. Why do they all share a common history of being married and divorced to the “Mad Old Professor”?

The deliberate attempt by the MOP to do the cleaning of dirty politics played through his demeaning conjectural use of words against the first lady is very unbecoming of statesman. Indeed, the fickleness is worrisome. In an already divided entity such as ours, where ethnicity, religion and regions play a huge role in our political views, the MOP has added a new twist of sexism and thoughtless fancy utterances in order to satisfy his benefactors.

In my opinion, his lend voice so far, has been more entertaining than making any positive impact on the society. The correlation between the first lady’s actions and her physical attributes are two different issues but in the quest for buzzy headlines and less about being a father to warring factions, the MOP has demonstrated that he cannot be taken more seriously than the words associated to him. It takes a He-popotamus to know a She-popotamus.

ALTRUTH:


I dare you ewedu gulping cowards to bring it on, we are waiting for you guys. How I drop on my knees each day and pray for this 'gbege' to start so that we can annex Lagos and drive you guys into cotonou just like the fulanis have annexed Ilorin.

Bring it on so that we can know the real mean once and for all.

COWARDS!!!

abysirius: Stop being stupid!Achebe with all that he was chased Nobel Laureate Price to his grave. Olaolufred isn't d only 1 that admires WS. The whole world does. Ask ur village head I'm sure he will tutor u that Nobel Laureate Prize is not for fools but gr8 minds. Left to me, apart from PEG being the worst first lady ever with his non-performing shoeless husband as the president, she is a non-issue and shouldn't matter.

ALTRUTH:

Did you smoke dried ewedu or craze dey worry you. When did I tell you I'm from SS. I AM CORRECT IGBO TO THE CORE!!!!

ALTRUTH:

You stop being silly! Achebe did not get the Nobel prize because he did not recognize 'White Master' in his works and not because Soyinka is better than him. Achebe was a 'Nobel' material. For your information, Achebe is internationally more popular than Soyinka in literature.

ALTRUTH:


And you are still crying over this soyinka thing? Keep popping champagne and living in a self-created false sense of importance. Soyinka is not better than Achebe in any way. Take it or leave it. Until you stop all these ogbomoso talk, then you start reasoning well.

ALTRUTH:


I dare you ewedu gulping cowards to bring it on, we are waiting for you guys. How I drop on my knees each day and pray for this 'gbege' to start so that we can annex Lagos and drive you guys into cotonou just like the fulanis have annexed Ilorin.

Bring it on so that we can know the real mean once and for all.

COWARDS!!!

ifeness:

If you think Papa wole is mad, it is now my dream to be as crazy as him. He is a shinning example to all those who have functioning brains.

akpomeme:
Go on son. Good luck and God bless. At least we know some people have been convinced in the past to go through the path of self destruction. You will not be the first and it is equally a subjective sign of your mental situation at the moment. Go on son, run mad.

ALTRUTH:


I dare you ewedu gulping cowards to bring it on, we are waiting for you guys. How I drop on my knees each day and pray for this 'gbege' to start so that we can annex Lagos and drive you guys into cotonou just like the fulanis have annexed Ilorin.

Bring it on so that we can know the real mean once and for all.

COWARDS!!!

nitrogen:
I beg you in Achebe's name, don't dare us, meanwhile I need to ask you this 'do you know how it is like to be subtle and wise?' No need of bullets, it will be a constructive agenda. Trust the yorubas now.