shymexx: This is just shallow and intellectually deficient. What has the dichotomy of Eastern and Western Yoruba ideology got to do with electioneering, and lack of foresight by peasant who only care about crumbs, than electing the right people? Is Edo also part of Western Yoruba? - so, how come their governor is part of APC?

It has more to do with grassroots politics; telling the peasants who make up a large portion of electorates what they want to hear; the need for change; and the bigger spender. APC did itself no favours by being a party of elitists and extreme capitalists...and I believe the former governor never tried to bridge-the-gap during his tenure. He relied on the incumbent factor, and APC stronghold among Yoruba's, but ended up failing woefully.

Please, delete the thread, bro.

Aigbofa: Eastern and western Yoruba ideology? What the hell is that? Awolowo probably had his most ardent supporters in what is now Ekiti and Ondo states, how does that tally with your East/West conjecture?

Aigbofa: Eastern and western Yoruba ideology? What the hell is that? Awolowo probably had his most ardent supporters in what is now Ekiti and Ondo states, how does that tally with your East/West conjecture?

If we accept this, we are going to enthrone a kind of government that will buckle under the whims and caprices of any pressure group, however, unreasonable their position may be. This to me is worrisome.

Ikengawo:
but Awolowo was also a notorious grassroots politician as the article stated so...
it's not unusual. In Igbo land the type of candidate that will win in Imo is not the type that will win in Enugu. Every state is like this and the author pointed out why he felt the way he did very clearly. Tinubu can't use the formula for lagos in Ekiti and expect the same result.

Ayekotoo: We came into office and stayed faithful to our manifesto. We stayed faithful to our promise to our people. What we now see is an absurd conclusion that has been reached especially by the Peoples Democratic Party. The absurdity in this logic is that how do you say a governor who has performed and introduced a welfare policy, the first of its kind in Nigeria was rejected? As part of the policy of his party, he promised free and qualitative education and in the pursuit of that abolished schools fees, built new schools, paid teachers regularly but when the students were failing their exams decided to find out what was wrong. The administration introduced assessment examinations but the teachers purportedly don’t like this. If we accept this, we are going to enthrone a kind of government that will buckle under the whims and caprices of any pressure group, however, unreasonable their position may be. This to me is worrisome.-- APC

Akanbi_edu:

True but Tinubu can't be everywhere. Fayemi is closer to the Ekiti people and understand them better.


As sophisticated as Lagos looks, grassroot politics is still played by Tinubu. Left to Fashola, APC would have lost there. Fashola and Fayemi are alike in many ways.

Akanbi_edu:

True but Tinubu can't be everywhere. Fayemi is closer to the Ekiti people and understand them better.


As sophisticated as Lagos looks, grassroot politics is still played by Tinubu. Left to Fashola, APC would have lost there. Fashola and Fayemi are alike in many ways.

Ayekotoo: We came into office and stayed faithful to our manifesto. We stayed faithful to our promise to our people. What we now see is an absurd conclusion that has been reached especially by the Peoples Democratic Party. The absurdity in this logic is that how do you say a governor who has performed and introduced a welfare policy, the first of its kind in Nigeria was rejected? As part of the policy of his party, he promised free and qualitative education and in the pursuit of that abolished schools fees, built new schools, paid teachers regularly but when the students were failing their exams decided to find out what was wrong. The administration introduced assessment examinations but the teachers purportedly don’t like this. If we accept this, we are going to enthrone a kind of government that will buckle under the whims and caprices of any pressure group, however, unreasonable their position may be. This to me is worrisome.-- APC

oduastates: What dichotomy are you talking about?
The ekitis sold their future for a quarter bag of rice .
It is this same refusal to imbibe the core omoluabi values which makes the ekiti diaspora to avoid the place like a plague.
Fayemi came and made the place liveable just like amosun is doing in ogun state.This will automatically lead to more people visiting and even more investing at home.
Alas,it is not good enough. ,the former way of

1Having beer parlour on every corner,
2goats ,dogs and pigs on the residential streets ,
3 Okada drivers constituting a nuisance ,
4 useless teacher/civil servant who go to work to trade rather than render services .

Someone wrote something online and i agree .
Fayemi should handover all the schools back to the missionaries .
that way,you can start reducing the population of the stupid .


This peom is from an ekiti professor who I guess is what they refer to as ,a foreign ekitis.



professor Osundare poem captures it perfectly.

A-RICE, oh compatriots
Your stomach’s call obey
Say, A-RICE, oh compatriots
Your stomach’s call obey
Hold out your bowls for the golden grains
Pawn your pride without delay

Grab your bribe and dance in the street
To the Riceman’s drum and venal command
Yes, grab your bribe and dance in the streets
To the Riceman’s drum and venal command
Bend your back for his heavy ride
Your golden rice is your sole demand

The Riceman is here, your lord and saviour
Pawn your vote for his golden gift
Say, the Riceman is here, your lord and saviour
Pawn your vote for his golden gift
Eat your rice and belch like a bull
And give your guts the forgetful lift


The passage down the gullet
Is the fastest road to heaven
Yes, the passage down the gullet
Is the fastest road to heaven
To those held hostage by their shameless guts
There is no nirvana like the seething toilet

The people voted their stomach
And the dunghill usurped their future
Alas, the people voted their stomach
The dunghill embraced their future
The wounds from this blind affair
Defy the magic of the cleverest suture

II

The people voted their stomach
And the dunghill usurped their future
Alas, the people voted their stomach
The dunghill embraced their future
The wounds from this blind affair
Defy the magic of the cleverest suture

Cunning Riceman with bags
Full of tricks and daggers
Say, cunning Riceman with bags
Full of tricks and daggers
His first coming left us all
In ashes and fluttering rags

Brazen murders, strange disappearances:
His hands drip with unexpiated crimes
Yes, brazen murders, strange disappearances
His hands drip with unexpiated crimes
But he has an arsenal of cash and rice
Both so vital in these degenerate times


Rabble-rousing, clowning, scheming
Frightful intimations of Idi Amin’s pedigree
Yes, rabble-rousing, clowning, scheming
Frightful intimations of Idi Amin’s pedigree
Yesterday’s fruits still stir the leaves
On History’s bewildering tree


Here, once again,
The wild histrionics of a deadly actor
Say, here, once, again,
The wild histrionics of a deadly actor
Mindless applause from a captive audience
Chloroformed puppets of a wily victor

III

They sold their birth right
For a kongo* of rice
Alas, they sold their birth right
For a kongo of rice
This mindless commerce
Will come at a heavy price

Erstwhile Knowledge Fountain
Overgrown with Ignorance’s malignant weeds
Alas, erstwhile Knowledge Fountain
Overgrown with Ignorance’s malignant weeds
The Book, once robust, resurgent,
Has been voted out of our daily needs

They sold us a lemon; we emptied
Our bank of virtues to pay the price
Alas, they sold us a lemon; we emptied
Our bank of virtues to pay the price
The will powerful guns could not subdue
Now lies suborned by a spoonful of rice

Poverty so desperate, so demeaning,
It consumed our pride, our primal worth
Yes, Poverty, so desperate, so demeaning,
It consumed our pride, our primal worth
The pride we once extolled is vanishing fast
From the face of our stunned, corrupted earth

The people voted their stomach
And the dunghill usurped their future
Alas, the people voted their stomach
The dunghill embraced their future
The wounds from this blind affair
Defy the magic of the cleverest suture

*Kongo: a small tin, plastic, or calabash container used for measuring peas and grains in market sales.

IV

Too good for us, far too advanced
The reigning King is too high above our rot
Say, too good for us, far too advanced
The reigning King is too high above our rot
Too much bound to Excellence and Honour
And a public garment without a blot

He expends state funds on the road to the Future
He never paves the way to our bottomless stomach
Yes, he expends state funds on the road to the Future
He never paves the way to our bottomless stomach
Whoever doesn’t know in the eating world
That the gut is a grand, demanding monarch

We asked for rice, he gave us Reason
We asked for booty, he gave us the Book
Say, we asked for rice, he gave Reason
We asked for booty, he gave us a book
So we trooped all out to cast our lot
For the side of the dark and loaded crook

The Damaged Good has riced its way
To the top of the brand
Alas, the Damaged Good has riced its way
Right to the top of the brand
Our feet stand askew
On our dark and traitored land

Come again soon, oh brief Renaissance
This interlude forebodes a trembling twilight
I say, come again, brief Renaissance
This interlude forebodes a trembling twilight
Sow rainbow stars in our darkening sky
Divine another Dawn, new and bright

mandarin: While I wish governor elect, Fayose well in delivering on ,his electioneering promises, I wish to see Ekiti that is focused and progressive.Before I conclude,let me state that the civil servants/teachers were the undoing of Fayemi who wanted to bring change by thinking outside the box but was too un-tactical to throw the box to his competitor!!! He wanted change but could not satiate the ever selfish political class and civil servants. Fayose should balance the two.I wish him the best.

Aigbofa: Eastern and western Yoruba ideology? What the hell is that? Awolowo probably had his most ardent supporters in what is now Ekiti and Ondo states, how does that tally with your East/West conjecture?

honeric01: How much does it cost to lay an Ekiti woman for 4 years? 4 derica of rice be it married or single

How much is the total value of an Ekiti man for 4 years? 4 derica of rice

I didn't say this, the election result/incident said so!

mandarin:

It goes beyond rice. However it throws light on the likely destitution in our society which is fast eroding our value system.This had ,made many go into prostitution, some into importing fake drugs etc. its appalling!

Ikengawo:
APC is stronger in Osun than Ekiti and I think they'll win that state. Aregbesola plays the type of politics that could even see him succeed Tinubu in leadership of the region

Ayekotoo: The logical consequence of this kind of thing is that in the future, governors might not even bother providing infrastructure, building capacity or improving the education system. If all he needs for re-election is to satisfy a vocal minority and put money in the pockets of a few people. This is what is most painful to us.
However, I think we’ve been able to convince Nigerians that for us, politics is not a do-or-die affair; for us the will of the people is supreme. What this means again is that democracy might not necessarily be a contest for good governance-- APC

They have propounded a new definition for infrastructure. They call it the infrastructure of the stomach or “stomachstructure”.


By this, they assert that although the incumbent has built schools, hospitals, markets, tourist complexes and other infrastructure that provide a system for organising the economic development and affairs of Ekiti, to create direct and consequential jobs for construction workers, architects, quantity surveyors, school teachers, doctors, and even employees of banks that lend money to finance these projects; the party of the governor elect would rather not do that.

They say, by their own methods, these things do not matter in any gubernatorial tenure.

Do nothing, gather money, buy rice, stop at a few local pubs to show you are ordinary (maybe without shoes) and distribute money and rice to the “grassroots”, and you are sure to get to Government House; and this is the plan for the whole of the South-west and the presidency.

This ideology will quieten those who ask why there is no electricity or why we can’t find the Chibok girls or indeed why audit reports on $20 billion or $10 billion should not matter.

It should quieten the rich and the poor who now live in fear of insecurity.
Indeed all those who are looking for employment and those who have died in the process should simply tarry a while. The money and rice are on their way.

If you still do not see the ideological difference on economic issues, let me spell it out in other words.

The party of the governor elect appear to agree with the party of the incumbent governor, that the poor matter and that indeed something should be done for them. What they disagree about, is what should be done.

The party of the incumbent governor argues that through new schools, new roads, new hospitals, tourism development and physical infrastructure renewal, the fortunes of Ekiti people will get better economically and developmentally; because, skills will be created and honed, services will be offered, jobs would be delivered on a sustainable basis.

On the contrary, the party of the governor elect argues that a once-in-four-year fix of dash, cash and inducement is what the people prefer. The people of Ekiti seem to have chosen this economic ideology by the “votes” of June 21, 2014


It may well be that the party of the governor elect may be right in their assessment of what the people of Ekiti and by extension Nigerians want, this would make any inquiry appropriate because; it may compel a change of strategy for many political parties.

It should make governance a lot easier if they were right. Do nothing, put money together, share it a few weeks to election, strut to Government House, and why should you bother about agriculture, electricity, housing, security, healthcare and more?

After all, everybody has been paid in advance to go and fix these problems by themselves. They will not matter, we will see them in another four years and rule again for the next 60 years, or indeed for eternity.

Article written By Babatunde Fashola, the governor of Lagos State and Culled from Thisday Newspaper..

mandarin:

I've taken a look at the socio- psychological marks across the land and it doesn't take anything away that Ekiti is pro-Yoruba stronghold. But why on earth was it shaken?

emmatok:

EKITI are still 100% pro Yoruba, but Ekiti is similar to ONDO and IJEBUs.
They find it difficult to accept TINUBU as Yoruba Leader.
Remember most APC guys were busy insulting AFENIFERE and AWOLOWO family, attracting the anger of most Yorubas.
Summary,
Ekiti did not reject Fayemi or APC.
Ekitis rejected TINUBU.

Ilekere: [size=14pt]I was in Ekiti during this election time period and NO ONE gave any indication that Awolowo and Anifere influenced their decision. You guys, Ibos and Yorubas alike, put too much emphasis on tribal sentiments when electing and choosing a leader. Many Ekitis voted based on who they thought had "BETTER" credentials to LEAD (not RULE) them into development.

Let's sway ourselves away from tribal sentiments when picking leaders. Let's think about merit and qualifications.[/size]

Ikengawo:


i also think it's foolish that we're acting like Fayose's victory was some type of fluke or political miscalculation, or worst a mark of something being 'wrong' with ekiti people. this is democracy, both guys had 1 term to show themselves prior so ekiti's people were in an excellent position to compare, contrast and chose. No candidate was a stranger to the electorate and has equal chance to shine prior. if there has been a clear and balanced election in nigeria it was this one.

aresa:

We've read a lot about the elections and we've heard from the people of Ekiti detailing the reasons why they voted against Fayemi and Tinubu's name didn't surface, not once.


I don't even know what Ijebu and Ondo people got to do with Ekiti people's need for stomach infrastructures and crumbs?


You people give Tinubu too much credit...