Lagos: “Tinubu used his political muscle to convince gullible Yoruba legislators to
vote against a Yoruba woman, Mulikat Akande, in a post that was specifically designed by the PDP as a benefit for Yoruba. He then got the same mumu Yoruba politicians to vote instead for Aminu Tambuwal; a scion of the Sokoto Caliphate with Hausa/Fulani agenda. This is something that could
never have happened the other way around. It is inconceivable that a Hausa/Fulani legislator would be persuaded to give something that has been zoned to Hausa/Fulani to a Yoruba man. To put it bluntly, the Huasa/Fulanis are not stupid” – Femi Aribisala. Hmmm! Who then are stupid? Anyway,
the above bitter truth remark
extracted from Mr. (Pastor) Femi
Aribisala’s Tuesday column in the
Vanguard Newspaper, published on
November 4,2014, under the rubric: Aminu Tambuwal is a traitor, clearly
speaks volumes about the
unbecoming political shenanigans and
grandstanding of certain Yoruba
elements – aptly described in English
as quislings – who unfortunately constitute the larger percentage of
Yoruba folks ceaselessly moaning and
groaning about how the Yoruba
nation has not been “fairly” carried
along by the PDP-led government of
President Goodluck Jonatnan in terms of representation in the allocation of
positions or offices in the executive
and legislative organs of government.
Yet, these same elements who tend to
forget or pretend to forget that they
were the architects of the same so- called “marginalization” of the Yoruba
nation vis-à-vis the composition of the
top hierarchy of the legislative arm of
government. Though aside from this
clearly self-inflicted marginalization of
the Yoruba in the national legislative scheme of things, it will be quite
unfortunate and totally misleading for
any rational mind to assert that
President Jonathan’s government has
not been excessively fair to the
Yoruba people by any standard of assessment. Anyway this is an issue
for another day. But as was hitherto and widely
reported, one of the reasons the then
leadership of the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN), led by Chief Ahmed
Bola Tinubu, and the then ACN
legislators moved against Mrs. Mulikat Akande who apparently was the
Peoples Democratic Party’s choice for
the position of the speaker of House of
Representatives at the time, was not
unconnected with the notion that she
was viewed, rightly or wrongly, to be the anointed candidate of the former
president Olusegun Obasanjo – whose
seemingly provocative political
posturing at the time never helped
matters at all. In the circumstance
therefore, it seemed convenient for people to key in to the prevailing
impression that Chief Ahmed Bola
Tinubu and his ilk had reason to view
the possible emergence of Honourable
(Mrs.) Mulikat Akande as the Speaker
of the House of Assembly as an unmistakable continuation of what
seems to be an unwanted reign of
Obasanjo and his associated
phenomena in the south-west politics.
To this end, one is thus tempted to
think that there could be little wrong on the part of Chief Tinubu and his
men to have politically acted
expediently with the sole aim of
clipping Chief Obasanjo’s developing
wings in the south-west politics at the
time – a development the eventual emergence of Aminu Tambuwal
settled forthwith.
www.nigerianews24.com

Even to put this thinking aside, there is
no gainsaying that the present political leadership in south-west Yoruba has
failed the Yoruba nation in the manner
it has been handling the intricacies
and consequences of Yoruba internal
politics. Of course taking a cue from
the past political events dating back to the days of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s
reign and stint in politics, there could
hardly be remembered a time the
political leadership of the south-west
under his watch abdicated or
compromised whatever was meant for or due to the Yoruba people as their
own share of national entitlement, and
neither was he ever disposed to trade
off the regional interest of his people
for whatever reason, let alone doing
so for personal aggrandizement. This in part helps to account for why
despite Chief MKO Abiola’s seemingly
hostile political inclination towards
Chief Obafemi Awolowo before and
during the second republic politicking,
the latter did not still act beyond the reasonable against the former and
which in turn explains why Chief
Abiola did receive unalloyed support
and solidarity from the vast majority of
Yoruba in the wake of the struggle for
the de-annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential election - annulled by
General Ibrahim Babagnida’s military
regime. Besides, as we may recall, Chief
Awolowo’s affection for protecting the
Yoruba group interest, as was earlier
witnessed in the 1950s through the
very first defection saga in the annals
of Nigeria, led him to influence and cause a mass movement of Yoruba
members of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s
NCNC into the Action Group. And no
matter how anybody still views this
landmark historical development, the
fact is that no real political leader worth his salt within his enclave would
have done otherwise. Arguably, it
stands to question if Dr Azikiwe – who
apparently felt bad about this
defection - would have stood to watch
Chief Awolowo’s Action Group make such an unprecedented in-road into
the politics of the then Eastern region,
without plotting and executing a
similar counter political offensive.
Therefore, if what we regard today as
ethnic politics is deemed to have started from Chief Awo’s political
disposition arising from issues
pertaining to the defection saga of the
1950s, it may well be because of
nothing short of his life-time strong
belief in the pursuit of Yoruba cause and/or the need to always defend and
safeguard their corporate interest
within the comity of the Nigerian
nations, at any given opportunity. Also Read:Group wants police boss sacked Surprisingly, it provokes deep
curiosity that the present day political
leadership of the same Yoruba nation
is gleefully negating and undermining
the same group interest or entitlement
of their people in desperate pursuit of political witch-hunting. In fact, it defies
rationality that the hitherto described
sophisticated and united Yoruba
politicians could today disagree and
bicker to the extent of sacrificing, for
some selfish and frivolous reasons, their larger group interest to the
advantage of other contending
regional interest in the country which
the emergence of Honourable Aminu
Tambuwal as the speaker of House of
Representatives confirms. And looking back at the facts of history, it is most
unlikely - if he were to be alive today -
that Chief Obafemi Awolowo would
have espoused or endorsed this
course of action with respect to
Yoruba’s preference for Honourable Aminu Tambuwal as the speaker of
House of Representatives to their own
Honourable Mulikat Akande. Little
wonder that the ordinary South-West
Yoruba folks and electorate seem to
have begun to register their disenchantment with the manner their
group interest is being toyed with by
the actions and inactions of the South-
west leadership of the defunct Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN), now the All
Progressive Congress, alongside with its Federal legislators in the House of
Representatives. Critically weighed,
one could hardly rule out this factor as
one of the unspoken reasons why the
APC may have lost the last
gubernatorial election in Ekiti state to the PDP – notwithstanding the
propaganda about the alleged role of
the so-called “stomach infrastructure”
in determining the outcome of the
contest . But be it as it may, it is high time the
south-west Yoruba political class
united and stood up to regain what
belongs to their people and due to the
entire Yoruba nation. Much as it is the
original and, perhaps, subsisting decision of the Peoples Democratic
Party - arising from its internal affairs -
to zone the position of the speaker of
House of Representatives to the South-
West Yoruba, it need not be
belaboured here that the entire south- west Yoruba political class should
always strive to consider the corporate
interest of the Yoruba nation above
and beyond their individual, partisan
or in-group interest. Needless to say at
this juncture that a time shall definitely come when Chief Tinubu and those
“mumu Yoruba politicians” (courtesy
of Femi Aribisala) as well as the South-
West in general would be denigrated
or ridiculed by the Hausa/Fulanis,
whose stereotyped born to rule mentality and the belief that they
know and play politics more than all
other peoples of Nigeria are being
currently massaged and reinforced by
a section of the Yoruba political class. Therefore left to the dictates of
expediency, it is imperative for Chief
Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the entire APC
leadership and followership in the
South-West to rise up and do the
needful by using this providential opportunity offered by Honourable
Aminu Tambuwal’s defection to make
amends and allow for the emergence
of a Speaker of House of
Representatives with South-West
Yoruba descent. This remains one way Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his APC
kinsmen could readily redeem
themselves for apparently
shortchanging the people of the
South-West geo-political zone. A stitch
in time saves nine.
CONCLUDED

Sophisticated Yoruba politics. That was how they sold Ilorin with a plate of Amala and Ewedu

Nonsense!

When Patricia Etteh was the Speaker, what was the benefit to the SW?

When Dimeji Bankole was the Speaker, did that make SW better of?

Oh wait! When OBJ was the President, did that make Lagos-Ibadan road any better?


Yoruba have realized that having one of your own there, does not guarantee you positive impact.

The advocacy now is to vote altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government, regardless of religion and ethnicity.

ONE ANSWER TO THE CALL "YORUBA RONU" BY LATE OGUNDE!

Pa Awo will be rolling in his grave with the bad blood and division Tinubu brought to his region

Ethnicity bigotry! Sh'i't, Bull Shi'i't!!!

What is all this long epistle for?..Another bigotry thread. We have hear. Just check my personal message that is my reply to ur thread

........Yoruba have realized that having one of your own there, does not guarantee you positive impact.

The advocacy now is to vote altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government, regardless of religion and ethnicity.

Actually, they have always played second fiddle since the days of Afonja (and to as recent as Oladipo Diya) to their altruistic, pragmatic and competent superiors. Que sera, sera!

fyneguy:
Nonsense!

When Patricia Etteh was the Speaker, what was the benefit to the SW?

When Dimeji Bankole was the Speaker, did that make SW better of?

Oh wait! When OBJ was the President, did that make Lagos-Ibadan road any better?


Yoruba have realized that having one of your own there, does not guarantee you positive impact.

The advocacy now is to vote altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government, regardless of religion and ethnicity.

You should also vote out your LG Chairmen and Governors and put Hausa/ Fulani who are ''altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government'' . If this guy knows the mind of a typical hausa/fulani man when it comes to politics, he will not vomit the trash. What stops the SW from voting out their incapable leader and voting in another SW?

ashe o ti ndun yin eyin tan oloorun..e e ti ri nkankan..omolanke ni won ma fi ru eyin ati badluck yin lole leyin ibo odun to on bo.:p:p

What problem do you people have with Yoruba self, writing this meaningless, nonsense and endless article all in the name of getting us to vote for Jonathan. Sorry to inform you, it won't work..... What kindof people do you think we are self? Do you bother to examine our culture and history @all? My advise for you is this, try and understand the ideology of the yorubas then you will understand what made us thick.
We are sophisticated to understand cheap blackmail and whitemail if there anything like that, we know how to play self politically, we see people for who they are, or you think we don't know that Tinubu is a thief? But his also a safer option compared to Obasanjo and believe me, we know Buhari is no saint either but he's still mines better than Jonathan. My advice for you is vote for who you want and we will vote for who we desire.

what is femi aribisala

There is nothing like Yoruba, Igbo, hausa ............its called UnitedNigeria... Tribedogs like femi aribisala can go to Sudan to practice backward Tribalism

Brilliant article.

sademola:
Ethnicity bigotry! Sh'i't, Bull Shi'i't!!!

My dear, I think "ethnicity" and "bigotry" are nouns and nouns can not qualify a noun rather adjective

Preferred can be " ethnic bigotry"
We are all here to learn

Thanks

Well written

fyneguy:
Nonsense!

When Patricia Etteh was the Speaker, what was the benefit to the SW?

When Dimeji Bankole was the Speaker, did that make SW better of?

Oh wait! When OBJ was the President, did that make Lagos-Ibadan road any better?


Yoruba have realized that having one of your own there, does not guarantee you positive impact.

The advocacy now is to vote altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government, regardless of religion and ethnicity.

u aint better than a dog! Cursed sonofabiitch!

angelsing:
What is all this long epistle for?..Another bigotry thread. We have hear. Just check my personal message that is my reply to ur thread

another shameless dog..

jamace:
You should also vote out your LG Chairmen and Governors and put Hausa/ Fulani who are ''altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government'' . If this guy knows the mind of a typical hausa/fulani man when it comes to politics, he will not vomit the trash. What stops the SW from voting out their incapable leader and voting in another SW?

it beats me hollow..no apologies but some of these people are so shameless,disgusting and extremely stuppid!

AdekunleBalogun:
What problem do you people have with Yoruba self, writing this meaningless, nonsense and endless article all in the name of getting us to vote for Jonathan. Sorry to inform you, it won't work..... What kindof people do you think we are self? Do you bother to examine our culture and history @all? My advise for you is this, try and understand the ideology of the yorubas then you will understand what made us thick.
We are sophisticated to understand cheap blackmail and whitemail if there anything like that, we know how to play self politically, we see people for who they are, or you think we don't know that Tinubu is a thief? But his also a safer option compared to Obasanjo and believe me, we know Buhari is no saint either but he's still mines better than Jonathan. My advice for you is vote for who you want and we will vote for who we desire.

smh....

Rexxie:

u aint better than a dog! Cursed sonofabiitch!

May God bless you for writing that to me.

leadership is not by tribe but competency and credibility!

fyneguy:


May God bless you for writing that to me.

i see u crying now but u know what?


4ck u!

fyneguy:
Nonsense!
When Patricia Etteh was the Speaker, what was the benefit to the SW?
When Dimeji Bankole was the Speaker, did that make SW better of?
Oh wait! When OBJ was the President, did that make Lagos-Ibadan road any better?
Yoruba have realized that having one of your own there, does not guarantee you positive impact.
The advocacy now is to vote altruistic, pragmatic, and competent individuals in government, regardless of religion and ethnicity.

You are one of the iddiots we have in Yoruba nation.

Ok now that Tambuwal was the speaker what did he do for us ? Eh mumu ode

Or better still is what has Tambuaal done for a single Yoruba soul.


Such stu.pid thinking from stu.paid people

Rexxie:

i see u crying now but u know what?


Bleep u!

The dude is a day light lunatic

I doubt if he is Yoruba

excellent write-up!
Yoruba r'onu!

Ayus34:
leadership is not by tribe but competency and credibility!

If this is the case why did we zone the APC ticket to the North(hausa/Fulani).

Coming from accursed Femi Aribisala,it might even have come from Femi Fani Kayode but the fact remains that Tinubu's political sagacity can not be understood by lowlifers and children of hate across the Niger who wants to help the bereaved cry more than themselves

To the political lilliputs and infants on NL.........in the past political blocs or alliance amongst the regions and zones have always been the basis of how political parties gets votes

The North+The SE+SS have always been political bed fellows........while the SW+NC have always gone together.......that was why Pa Awolowo couldn't become the President because the Igbos have always aligned with the Hausa they insult today to edged Awolowo out knowing fully well that they too cant deliver the Presidency to any of their sons like Azikiwe

Awolowo in 1979 didnt even mind nominating a VP candidate or becoming one to Azikiwe in order for the SE and SW to merge politically despite the fact that Awo's AG or UPN always have more votes and seats in the parliament than Ziks party yet out of shear political rivalry Zik refused to accede to Awo's proposal to even play the 2nd fiddle to him but went into alliance with the North( severally from the 60s.......yet they pretend we dont know history or probably have forgotten)

Those who have read history will know where the concept of 'Being the beautiful bride' of Nigerian politics comes from or who said so

The Northerners were pulling Zik and his party on one hand while Awo/UPN was also asking for an alliance between both parties in order to confine the "core North into political irrelevance" but Zik shunned Awo and allegedly even leaked the letter Awo wrote to him detailing the schematics of the working agreement he was proposing to the press

The SW political gladiators like Tinubu having read history very well and discovered where Baba Awo couldn't succeed knew that in order for the SW to play Nationally away from the perennial opposition tag we had always carried all these years. Possible outcomes that can make such aspiration possible is to Form a political alliance with one of the 2 major ethnic group (1) Igbos (2) Hausas as no major tribe can single handedly deliver the Presidency unto itself

As things stands,the perennial rivalry of the Igbos with the Yorubas wont make them forge an allianace with the SW whereas the North is pragmatic,open-minded and very astute when it comes into forming political alliance




Tinubu's master-stroke of shooting down Mulikat Akande's PDP aspiration( which ACN is not hell-bound to go along with) has healed whatever old wound existing between the North and the SW........whereas the SE have simply replace the SW in the war of ego with the North.....who they used to be in bed with politically before but now insult because GEJ is now the President( i wonder what they will do when GEJ finishes his tenure in 2015 worst 2019( i even heard them saying GEJ should hand over to them) as if GEJ will point a gun at the heads of the SWners and Hausas they insult and deride to vote for their candidate

That is why people like me have been preaching politics of bridge-building and not ethnoreligious bigotry especially being championed by the people across the Niger knowing fully well that our political paths might cross in the near future but it seems some dont even care if the future dont come hence they are trying to turn everyone into enemies



Whatever anybody may say Tinubu has strengthened the respect SWners used to have politically.......the role he is likely to play in who will get the APC ticket is apt as the zone remains the single strongest unified region in the APC



Yoruba folks should not let charlatans like Femi Aribisala obfuscate issues that are clear to us based on historical antecedents of all political regions and ethnic groups

olabukola:
If this is the case why did we zone the APC ticket to the North(hausa/Fulani).

oga,do do u see it aanywhere that I'm.a politician?better u direct ur question to a politician like urself and moreover why did PDP also restricted other candidates from contesting and solely zoned it to the south in the person of GEJ......are u saying there is no northerners who are far better than.Jonathan In PDP? lastly I'm not a party man .....u can look for one like urself to answer ur illogical question! !!

soroptimist:
Coming from accursed Femi Aribisala,it might even have come from Femi Fani Kayode but the fact remains that Tinubu's political sagacity can not be understood by lowlifers and children of hate across the Niger who wants to help the bereaved cry more than themselves

To the political lilliputs and infants on NL.........in the past political blocs or alliance amongst the regions and zones have always been the basis of how political parties gets votes

The North+The SE+SS have always been political bed fellows........while the SW+NC have always gone together.......that was why Pa Awolowo couldn't become the President because the Igbos have always aligned with the Hausa they insult today to edged Awolowo out knowing fully well that they too cant deliver the Presidency to any of their sons like Azikiwe

Awolowo in 1979 didnt even mind nominating a VP candidate or becoming one to Azikiwe in order for the SE and SW to merge politically despite the fact that Awo's AG or UPN always have more votes and seats in the parliament than Ziks party yet out of shear political rivalry Zik refused to accede to Awo's proposal to even play the 2nd fiddle to him but went into alliance with the North( severally from the 60s.......yet they pretend we dont know history or probably have forgotten)

Those who have read history will know where the concept of 'Being the beautiful bride' of Nigerian politics comes from or who said so

The Northerners were pulling Zik and his party on one hand while Awo/UPN was also asking for an alliance between both parties in order to confine the "core North into political irrelevance" but Zik shunned Awo and allegedly even leaked the letter Awo wrote to him detailing the schematics of the working agreement he was proposing to the press

The SW political gladiators like Tinubu having read history very well and discovered where Baba Awo couldn't succeed knew that in order for the SW to play Nationally away from the perennial opposition tag we had always carried all these years. Possible outcomes that can make such aspiration possible is to Form a political alliance with one of the 2 major ethnic group (1) Igbos (2) Hausas as no major tribe can single handedly deliver the Presidency unto itself

As things stands,the perennial rivalry of the Igbos with the Yorubas wont make them forge an allianace with the SW whereas the North is pragmatic,open-minded and very astute when it comes into forming political alliance




Tinubu's master-stroke of shooting down Mulikat Akande's PDP aspiration( which ACN is not hell-bound to go along with) has healed whatever old wound existing between the North and the SW........whereas the SE have simply replace the SW in the war of ego with the North.....who they used to be in bed with politically before but now insult because GEJ is now the President( i wonder what they will do when GEJ finishes his tenure in 2015 worst 2019( i even heard them saying GEJ should hand over to them) as if GEJ will point a gun at the heads of the SWners and Hausas they insult and deride to vote for their candidate

That is why people like me have been preaching politics of bridge-building and not ethnoreligious bigotry especially being championed by the people across the Niger knowing fully well that our political paths might cross in the near future but it seems some dont even care if the future dont come hence they are trying to turn everyone into enemies



Whatever anybody may say Tinubu has strengthened the respect SWners used to have politically.......the role he is likely to play in who will get the APC ticket is apt as the zone remains the single strongest unified region in the APC



Yoruba folks should not let charlatans like Femi Aribisala obfuscate issues that are clear to us based on historical antecedents of all political regions and ethnic groups

classic!!!

Rexxie:

another shameless dog..

..I won't come down low and start exchanging banters with u.. Did I insult anybody with my comment?..Have never insulted anybody over their thought and believe. Your statement is on called for..peace