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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by PrinceKevin01: 9:14am On Jun 27, 2019 |
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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by nototribalist: 9:15am On Jun 27, 2019 |
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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by koolaid87: 9:15am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Restructuring is the only way forward. What's the essence of having the presidency that is being controlled by the northern cabals 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Nobody: 9:15am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Fight indeed 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Nobody: 9:16am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Olu Fasan is a problem too. Why Yoruba only? All Nigerians. We are one. Let every gets what he deserves. Anyone always fighting for his region only is selfish, and wants power to start dominating. Many are supporting restructuring because it is an Avenue to make them powerful. Yeah ..I support restructuring, but not these kind of people to pilot the nation into it, esp greedy afenifere. |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Bet9ja7777677: 9:17am On Jun 27, 2019 |
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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by fredoooooo: 9:18am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Wailers group of companies , How many of you support that restructure when you dey power... ori gbogbo yin ti gba concrete , e ma to wa alright later 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Mufasa27(m): 9:19am On Jun 27, 2019 |
izombie:Bros you too get sense.... If you are looking for real suffering and smiling people fela was talk about, come to SW !! 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by mubeela(m): 9:21am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Who r dey goin 2 b fighting 1 Like
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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Neoteny(m): 9:21am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Igboes need to make up their damned minds whether they want the presidency or biafra, because they certainly can't have both They also said they're not interested in politics but in their shady businesses. Also, since when is the presidency handed over on a platter of gold, especially to violent, unpatriotic secessionists who call the country a zoo, its inhabitants animals, and wish to violently destabilize it? 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by wink2015(m): 9:22am On Jun 27, 2019 |
A few weeks ago, Dr. Femi Aribisala, wrote a provocative but logically unassailable article in this newspaper, entitled “No Yoruba president in Nigeria for another 20 years” (Vanguard, May 21, 2019). He argued that when it’s the South’s turn to produce the president in 2023, it must go to Ndigbo, not the Yoruba. He posited that, having produced Nigeria’s president for eight years and vice president for another eight years, since the return to civil rule in 1999, the Yoruba shouldn’t expect to govern Nigeriaagain until 2038! Well, Dr Aribisala is right. I expressed the same view in this column. In a piece entitled, “Southwest APC’s betrayal of Yoruba cause” (Vanguard, January 24, 2019), I said: “Given that, since 1999, the Southwest has produced the president for eight years and the South-South for six years, the Southeast should provide national leadership in 2023 when power returns to the South”. But some Yoruba leaders self-interestedly disagree. Last week, a Southwest APC leader, Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former minister, said that Bola Tinubu, APC’s national leader, “is a natural successor to Buhari”, adding that “to shut out the Yoruba is undemocratic”. The idea of the Yoruba producing the president again in 2023, when the Igbo, another major ethnic group in the South, hasn’t produced any for, by then, 24 years, doesn’t strike such people as risking further endangering Nigeria’s fragile unity. Sadly, those who should rise above such ethnic jingoism also fuel it. Earlier this year, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who repeatedly said “Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable”, put ethnic sentiments above that presumed unity by urging the Yoruba to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari in order to clinch the presidency in 2023. “We are not looking at the 2019 but 2023,” he said, adding: “If we get it in 2019, Yoruba will get it in 2023”. Of course, what he meant was that if the Yoruba help re-elect Buhari, the North would, as a quid pro quo, help the Yoruba secure the presidency in 2023. It was difficult to reconcile Osinbajo’s preachiness on Nigeria’s unity with his failure to recognise that any ganging up by the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba to exclude the Igbo from providing national leadership would severely undermine that unity! According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in a true federal system, “no part of the federation should be so dominant that others have little opportunity to provide national leadership”. In other words, a true federalism doesn’t only guarantee equal opportunities and fair material treatment for all constituent polities, it ensures balance among them. But there is no balance among Nigeria’s constituent nationalities. The North is so politically dominant that it will always provide national leadership or determine which of the three Southern geo-political zones does. Given ethnic bloc voting in Nigeria, all the North needs is to speak with one voice and then align with one Southern geopolitical zone. For instance, in 1979, Shehu Shagari became President without the votes of the Southeast or the Southwest; in 2015 and, indeed, this year, Buhari won without the Southeast and the South-South. So, if, for instance, the core North continues to align with the Southwest, the Southeast may never produce the president. But that will fan the flames of disintegration. For instance, the agitation for Scottish independence in the UK stemmed largely from the fact that the Scottish people felt their votes didn’t count because, for nearly 20 years, in the 1980s and 1990s, the Conservative Party won successive general elections and controlled Westminster by relying only on English and Welsh votes, without winning a single seat in Scotland. This was seen as an affront to Scottish sensibilities and led to a feeling of alienation and then agitation for independence. Truth is, in a multi-ethnic nation, concerns about how power is shared and exercised can create real tensions and schisms. Nigeria’s sensible solution to that problem is an informal power-sharing arrangement to rotate the presidency between the North and the South. It was in recognition that the presidency must return to the South in 2023 that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, PDP’s presidential candidate in this year’s election, vowed to serve for only one term, if elected. So strongly did Atiku feel he must reassure the South of his intention that he said: “If there is an iron-clad legal document that binds me, I am willing to publicly commit to it”. Some questioned whether Atiku would have kept the vow. But that’s hypothetical; the fact is that he recognised the imperative. In the same spirit of the politically imperative power-sharing, no one, except the self-interested ethnic jingoist, would say that once the presidency returns to the South in 2023, it shouldn’t go to the Southeast; it should! But where does that leave the Yoruba? Well, their future lies in a properly restructured and decentralised Nigeria. Think of it: if the presidency is rotated among the six geopolitical zones and each does eight years, it means that it would take 40 years before a zone gets the presidency again! Forty years? Well, that’s partly why Nigeria must be restructured along regional lines, so that each region can develop at its own pace. That has long been the priority of the Yoruba: to develop at their own pace. Which is why they must fight for a properly restructured Nigeria and not a divisive contest for a symbolic presidency in 2023 https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/06/yoruba-must-fight-for-restructuring-not-2023-presidency/ I HOPE AFENIFERE AND YORUBA LEADERS OF THOUGHT ACROSS THE YORUBA STATES WILL TAKE UP THIS SUGGESTIONS. But if they are so greedy they will get A SHOCKER from the AREWA POLITICAL LEADERSHIP headed by President Buhari. NIGERIA MUST BE RESTRUCTURED THAT IS THE NATIONAL QUESTION THAT WE ALL GOT TO ANSWER. WE MUST TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY FROM THOSE WHO WANT TO STEAL OUR FREEDOM FROM US. 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Spallanzani: 9:31am On Jun 27, 2019 |
goodnessme1:But you all were licking Atiku's ass to become the President, throwing Biafra into the bin. Most of you even cursed kanu for initially declaring sit at home on election day. Double standard everywhere 4 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by ken6488(m): 9:38am On Jun 27, 2019 |
I know Nigeria is a major scam 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Elan83(m): 9:40am On Jun 27, 2019 |
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Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by ken6488(m): 9:40am On Jun 27, 2019 |
[[s]quote author=Spallanzani post=79710733] But you all were licking Atiku's ass to become the President, throwing Biafra into the bin. Most of you even cursed kanu for initially declaring sit at home on election day. Double standard everywhere [/quote][/s] Trash.... Even I am not igbo It is very unfair Kastina has produced 2 president While a whole region none And you think God will not help the suppressed Most of the bad news in this country is a sign that Nigeria will not last long again I swear 3 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by phizzle017(m): 9:43am On Jun 27, 2019 |
Fight for which yeye restructuring? Get the Presidency then you can then clamour for restructuring mumu man |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Urchman200: 9:43am On Jun 27, 2019 |
goodnessme1:shocking to believe but is nothing but the truth u just nailed it .most of us that was stupidly supporting restructuring because of what they were telling us, today we suprised by the sudden silence by the same yoruba people. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by zinizta: 9:48am On Jun 27, 2019 |
niyisky: good analysis!!! are you on twitter? 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Lubumbashi: 9:53am On Jun 27, 2019 |
1) Privatise Nepa and light will become steady. 2)Restructure Nigeria and things will get better. Sound familiar? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by MyGeneration(m): 9:54am On Jun 27, 2019 |
What the core north fails to understand is that this world is changing. They dont want to change anything they dont want to do the right thing they just want to keep cheating others. If nigeria does not change its going to continue being a problem to the world until the world powers come in to either intervene or dissolve the union. Same thing happened in the former ussr. 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Must Fight For Restructuring, Not 2023 Presidency By Olu Fasan by Benekruku(m): 9:56am On Jun 27, 2019 |
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