Ileke-IdI:

YORUBA; Wonderful people, Great nation.

olas2u:

There will never be another chance for IBB ,Its pay back time.

EzeUche22:

Ileke-IdI:

If you need to get tribal, don't quote. I don't hve the time of day for that.

Ileke-IdI:

As long as he has our vote, ko si wahala.   baba ti wole tan ni yen


YORUBA; Wonderful people, Great nation.

supereagle:

Good Talk Ileke-Idi, one good thing about Yoruba Nation is that they always tread on the path of justice, truth and equity.  Their conscience always guide them not Ghana must go.   A tribe in Nigeria like ghana must go .Other tribes should start emulating that.

EzeUche22:

When did   mean to get tribal?

EzeUche22:

No one wants to emulate you Yoruba.

Truth and justice my arse!

Backstabbing & Betrayal is the accurate words to describe the Yoruba nation.

supereagle:

Eze Uche22, please help tell Ohaneze Ndi Igbo to follow the path of Yoruba. ojukwu is the arrow head of IBB in the south east now.
God has zoned the power to the South south, let it remain there.

excanny:

When OBJ ruled undisturbed for 8 years there was nothing like 'Yoruba stands for justice' crap.

I dont get it. You know it's a northern tenure. Why do you people want to thwart justice.

Honestly, i dont understand Yoruba's system of politics.

Gbawe:

Correction; it is a Northern tenure for the PDP Party . That arrangement is not binding on the entire Yoruba ethnic group. Don't start insulting Yoruba people because of some article written on fraudulent premises that speaks falsely on behalf of Yoruba people. All these stories of the "backing" Jonathan enjoys are based on the supports of State Governors . With 4 PDP Governors in the SW , all controlled more or less by OBJ , it would seem as if "Yorubas back Uncle Joe" but we will see what will happen when the candidates declare and start campaigning. Don't forget that the Yoruba people [b]unanimously rejected OBJ in 1999 !!! [/b] We remain his biggest ctirc today. He is no hero in our region. How can he be when , with all he has done in the past , he used his last Presidency to leave a legacy of imposing ruinous criminals everywhere?

I believe the Yorubas are ready to defend their votes because the region has particularly suffered from the impositions of OBJ. Jonathan wants to be a PDP President. The PDP has done nada in the SW in terms of Governance. All PDP Governors in the region are extremely poor. How can the Yorubas back Jonathan when all candidates have not declared their intentions and campaigning has not even started? It is articles like these that make me realise that the political establishment in Nigeria is entirely comfortable with rigging. In free and fair elections, PDP Governors in the SW cannot deliver their State for Jonathan especially because those Governors are the epitome of corruption, indolence and misrule.

A popular Nigerian Presidential candidate , planning to depose the PDP, will find it easy to get the region behind him because of how , coupled with a fair degree of political awareness, the Yoruba people are totally fed up of the PDP. It is commonsense that they will listen to voices like those of Governor Fashola and other respected Yoruba leaders. It is only Ekiti-style rigging that will 'win' the SW States for Jonathan.

na_so:

Gbawe and his bunch of half-truths. Ok tell me what happened in 2003 between OBJ and yorubas?

Gbawe:

Even as he was initially unwanted, OBJ consolidated power enough to gain the support of regressive Yoruba elements. If you are then attempting to state that the Yorubas were unanimously behind him in 2003 then you are wrong. Don't forget that the likes of Falana, Fawehinmi, Soyinka et al never became OBJ supporters. It was Gangsters like Adedibu who were solidly behing OBJ. They helped him to rig in ruinous hands everywhere to the chagrin of most Yoruba folks in 2003 ad 2007.

Jonathan will only 'win in the SW region, against better choices , through rigging. When the only Governor performing superlatively in the SW is from the AC Party , while the other Governors are PDP Governors who have run their State into the ground, we are to believe that "Yorubas back Uncle Joe"? Ekiti is a taste of what is to come . The Yorubas are fed up of the PDP period !!! I hope Jonathan does not set Nigeria on fire by letting himself to be used by callous election riggers (OBJ, Anenih, et al) who always 'damn the consequences' of their unjust actions because of the inordinate greed for money and power.

Yoruba:

This is a barefaced grand deceit being propagated by GEJ's camp. . . . Even a lay man knows that ACN, and not PDP, will sweep the SouthWest in the upcoming general election.

olas2u:

There will never be another chance for IBB ,Its pay back time.

Yes we are for Jonathan oooooo, OLE IBB, OLE IBB, THIEF IBB, THIEF  IBB, Baba Jonathan Jeun Soke Joooo, Chop up!!

na_so:

I think your aversion to GEJ presidency is not enough reason to conjure up tales. You are being too desperate here I must confess.
So when asked to bring up names of yoruba politicians and elders that direct the course of yorubas politically, the names that come to your prejudiced mind are  Falana,soyinka and Gani?

Did tinubu,Abraham adesanya and all other notable Afenifere and YCE leaders that opposed OBJ in 1999 support him in 2003? Just answer abeg

At the beginning of January 2000, the new millenium, Obasanjo, worried and restless, had to write Tinubu a personal note regarding the "rapidly deteriorating security situation" in Lagos State where he (Tinubu) is the governor, and that Tinubu could not afford to let the entire state be overrun by hoodlums led by Adams' OPC faction which is being seen as a threat to the state and national security.

Adams' deadly gang had turned "hubs" like Ketu, Ajegunle, Mushin, Lagos Island and its environs with what one Tunde A. Olowu in a Tell magazine advertorial had called "theatres of war."

Obasanjo, in his threat to use executive powers with "due consultation" of the National Assembly to shut Lagos State's democratic fabric down by declaring an emergency rule, had no idea what was about to happen. He had presumed his threat would move Tinubu to swiftly act.

Tinubu threw back, though, warning OBJ to stop playing nasty politics with OPC, that OPC was not the problem of political instability in the state, and that he should shut up and "get real" with politics of the day. It was a brutal "power show" which eventually had Tinubu smoking with in-your-face attitude to OBJ, that the Yoruba nation would stand behind Adams deadly squad, no matter what.

Before any form of political tussle could erupt, OBJ had already been concerned about what was unfolding and in the event his presidency declares a state of emergency in Lagos or anywhere in the West, that the Yoruba nation would rise to the occasion and bid goodbye to the entrapment called Nigeria.

MR Money £:

[size=21pt]Yes we are for Jonathan oooooo, OLE IBB, OLE IBB, THIEF IBB, THIEF IBB, Baba Jonathan Jeun Soke Joooo, Chop up!! [/size]

na_so:

^^^^^^^^
Story, story. I am asking you about 2003 and you are posting a 2000 report. Did lagos vote for OBJ in 2003? or was it just rigged in his favour? if so who did lagosians vote for in the presidential elections of 2003? why did AD not field a presidential candidate in 2003?

U DON DEY MAKE ME VEX SMALL, SMALL

Williams takes on Tinubu over comments on Obasanjo
Kemi Obasola

A former gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Chief Funso Williams, has taken on Governor Bola Tinubu for describing President Olusegun Obasanjo as an ingrate.
 
According to Tinubu, “Rather than Obasanjo pay good for good in respect of efforts made by AD governors of the South West, he was now paying good with ingratitude,” by alleging that the AD rigged the 2003 elections in the state.
Williams said Tinubu could not describe Obasanjo as an ingrate under any circumstances.

He described Tinubu as “the worst ingrate having demonstrated that trait to the Afenifere patriarchs who upturned the 1998 AD primaries to his favour and were later paid back with treachery, taking over the party they founded and later factionalising it to the point of destruction occasioning the search for a new party.”

But the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, said Tinubu was a critical player in the events that shaped the electoral fortunes of Obasanjo.

According to a statement, it was Tinubu who appealed to Lagosians to vote for the President following Obasanjo’s plea to the South-West governors and the entire Yoruba to save him from rejection in the 2003 elections.

The statement said Tinubu appealed to Lagosians to vote for Obasanjo “following the President’s spirited plea to the South-West governors and indeed the entire Yoruba race to save him from another rejection in the 2003 elections?”

“Where was Femi Fani-Kayode when Tinubu promised the President up to five million votes of Lagosians when the Lagos State Government hosted the President to a reception at the National Stadium in December 2002?”

sjeezy8:

^^ Im not a Jonathan or PDP supporter, im just realistic

TINUBU is more popular in the SW BUT Tinubu isnt contesting as president and his party doesnt even have a CLEAR flag bearer, if anything this 2011 election is a give away to Jonathan, but I know this wont happen in the future.

I mean- Who is going to be the flag bearer for acn in 2011? and Dont say Ribadu because he hasnt even accepted and if he does who will be his vice? all the people the SW will vote for as Vice- Oshiomole and Fashola said they are not contesting in 2011.

So that Only leaves Jonathan to vote for-