bermuda1:

@ Lagbaja20 et al

You guys continue to exhibit the basic structural failures that have enveloped the Yorubas politically. That is the erroneous belief that you are right and everybody else is wrong. That is why Awo was a political liability and that is why those who continue to continue the political doctrine of Awo will glorified local champions.

Awo and his disciples will always win a free and fair election in Yoruba land (including Edo) hands down. Awo and his disciples would never win even a councillorship election anywhere outside Yorubaland (including Edo).

The problem of Yorubaland is that anybody who even tries to integrate into the mainstream of Nigerian politics is tagged a saboteur, betrayer etc. in their life time people like Akintola, Adelabu, Abiola, Akinloye, Akinjide, Obasanjo, Bola Ige, Jakande, Babatope etc have been labelled thus.

Yoruba politics is characterised by a Herd mentality where the belief is that we all have to follow the progressive party and all be like egbe omo oduduwa. Guys, its almost 2011 that style would not work, you will be doomed into a period of perpetual opposition and irrelevance.

To answer Lagbaja's question on development. The Yoruba states have no real basis for comparison. They all voted Action Group, UPN and SDP and AD. All these are progressive parties. PDP came in 2003 in all states but Lagos. A case can be made that the PDP governors of 2003 did no worse than the AD governors of 1999.

There are some real stand out governors from the Awo school of politics. Awo himself, Lateef Jakande and now Raji Fashola. This however does not give the Awoists exclusivity in producing good governors. Tatari Ali, Sam Mbakwe and Rotimi Amechi can equally hold their own anywhere.

tpia@:

dont think too many people take dayokanu seriously any more.

he singlehandedly destroyed his own credibility.

watch this space.

Ileke-IdI:

Dayo, pardon my ignorance, but what/who is/are an Aare Ona kakanfo

What are they supposed to do? Or are they the same thing as "Oba" of Yorubaland?

Ystranger:


You and DK, forever together.

tpia@:

dont think too many people take dayokanu seriously any more.

he singlehandedly destroyed his own credibility.

watch this space.

dayokanu:

ekt_bear,

If you had been in Akintolas shoes, What would you have done?

dayokanu:

Almost everyone I have asked the same question claimed they would have done exactly the same thing Akintola did yet they blamed Akintola for doing what they would have done.

Actually I think Akintola was the one who liberated Yorubas for the Ibo domination.

As you read it was Akintolas party that challenged the East for Southern posts that were given to Awolowo. It was the frustration that led Ibo soldiers to plan the coup and kill the ones obstructing them from total domination of Nigeria

If Akintola hadnt done that Balewa/Bello/Zik would have screwed the SW far more than we bargained fr when the VC's of UI, UNILAG were Ibo men until Akintola came.

Probably would have declared a State of Emergency in the West and made an Ibo man to be Premier to achieve what Zik had in mind ab initio before the cross carpeting and what Ojukwu intended to do with his Biafra troops that were stopped at ore

dayokanu:

Do you want to argue with facts?

Who was VC of UNILAG before Akintola NNDP came to power?

It was on record that Akintola sought redress in court for every decision like its done in a sane environment. Now who were the Wetie proponents?

seanet02:

Sir, the fact remains Akintola refused to Respect the DECISION OF THE HIGHEST COURT IN NIGERIA WHICH AUTHENTICATED HIS REMOVAL! Sir, yes or no in a single word.

dayokanu:

Akintola contested every decision in court YES or NO?

Dede1:

Deokuta is an irresponsible dingbat. I am happy to read from the forum at the instance where even seannet02 was teaching dumbass a lesson on Akintola's defeats.

Deokuta, the junkyard dog, had the effrontery to publicize a Tribune front page Aare Ona kakanfo such as Akintola on this forum. I guess Deokuta is a drooling dunce and believes everyone that navigates to this forum is in the same class with him and ikebe of Ekiti.

In my book, the real Aare Ona kanafos were Basorun of Ibadan and Kumrunmi of Ijaye. Afonja of Ilorin should also be mentioned except for his bonehead deal with Alimi.   

T9ksy:


Bonehead deal? wasn't that the same "bonehead" deal ojukwu had with Banjo? Except this time, the yorubas didn't fall for it hence your deep rooted animosity towards the yorubas.

Akolawole:

@Dayo


Boy! When did you launch this?  Please shoot me an email anytime topics of first, 2nd and 3rd republic crops up. I love those days.

Can i suggest something? Can you ammend the title to '' Samuel Ladoke Akintola: Hero or Villian '' and request it to be on home page.

This will attract so much people to the thread and to Nairaland.

1) Are you from ogbomosho?

This is a very controversial topic in yoruba history.  Both Awolowo and Akintola made mistakes at that time. I am an Awoist, my father was an action grouper(a position holder in that 'group' at that time). My pregnant mother was nearly killed in 1966 during that problem but over the years, i tried to listen to both sides and draw my own conclusion.

To have a balanced reasoning on the subject, it is ideal to listen to Chief Omololu Olunloyo(SLA group) and Chief Ebenezer Babatope (OA group).