dadicvila: ask him oO!when people air views contrary to what he feels is right he threatens them with ban,when his people were insulting ojukwu and raining insults on Mr President and all his Nairaland supporters he never deemed it fit to call them to order,na tribalism go kill us 4 dis country,tufiakwa

OAM4J:

1. I have a problem debating with people who join issues. If you have a problem with my moderating duties/actions you should have addressed it separately rather than joining it with my post on this topic. There is a complaint thread where you can present your allegation of my bias with facts.

2. I am the last person to be drawn into tribal debates, or have you ever found me join in the debate of which ethnic is better or worse, even before I become a moderator? I am a progressive, I do not care about the ethnicity of whosoever is in government, if he does well he gets my praise and if he doesn't he get my condemnation even if he is a member of my family. When GEJ does a good thing he gets my praise when he is unable to address what he should he gets my condemnation. Like I supported his appointment of the current Police IG, even when many were condemning it, because I briefly witnessed the IG performance while he was the Commissioner of Police in Lagos. Is M.D Abubarka from my ethnic group?

3. I am not a member of any party. I am for the right candidate and not for a party. During the last election I supported Buhari for president, Fashola for Lagos state, Ameachi for Rivers and Chime for Enugu(You can check my post history if you have the time). How does that make me a confused ACN operative or have disdain for anything not my own?

4.You my friend has just shown you are biased, you listed posters only from one side of the coin and failed to list the other posters from the other side as if they are the only ones guilty of tribalism. Well for your information the people you listed including others have bee banned many times this year. I do not check for people's ethnicity before recommending them for a ban when they break the rules.

5. There will always be ethnocentric threads for as long as you people enjoy creating and discussing them. I have no power to stop that. I am tired of reading them cos you people kept saying the same thing I have read from the very 1st month I joined NL. So don't blame the moderators for what you guys enjoy doing. Many of these threads wouldn't have existed or seen the light of the day if you guys don't create them or if you ignore them. You kept telling Seun and the moderators to stop tribalism while in you actions you prove it is what you love doing. How many serious/'intellectual' threads do you people seriously debate on like you do on 'tribal' threads? You don't need Seun or the moderators to stop tribalism. If you don't like it stop it or ignore the threads.

6. Yes GEJ should resign if he is not competent and able to address the situation. I do not care who takes over from him whether his name is Emeka or Sule or Bonyface or Seun as long as he is competent. Unlike you I do not support people because they are from my region or ethnic. I support people I believe are competent and honest. For instance, I will campaign for Chime, Ameachi, Duke, Akpabio and campaign against the likes of Gbenga Daniel and Akala.

naijaking1:

You know what they say, by their fruit we shall know them. It's true, you may actually think that you're doing such a marvelous job as a moderator, but a cursory look at this section will reveal an escalated incidents of tribal bigotry since you assumed office. Not that i blame you directly, but your passive aggressive take on tribal issues makes everything worse.
You just can't be the referee and the captain of the opposing team at the same time. I can imagine that's why moderating a political section wouldn't be easy. It's not a job for everybody.

OAM4J:

True there is an increase of 'tribal' threads, but like I said don't blame the mods or Seun, blame the people. When I became the mod, if you were around you would have noticed we actually halted the growing 'tribalsm' trend, but shortly after that the section became 'too quiet' cos many posters were not so interested in discussing other non tribal topics which is bad for a forum, so came a policy change to allow people discuss what they want to discuss. Now if you people like screaming the same thing over and over again in hundreds of threads, be our guests, just don't break the rules while at it.

No, I am not a captain, nor a player, not even a spectator. Prove me wrong if you have contrary facts.

Kobojunkie:

That one na lie. You moderators barely filtered this place a week,before you decided to allow the tribal slurs back in. Same goes for the insults. Heck, I had to start taking matters into my own hands after realizing that Nairaland didn't really care as much as it claimed.

I still do not, for the life of me understand how you moderators can decide that it is OK to allow this stu_pidity continue in a board where it does not even follow. What is political about all that trash? NOTHING, yet you continue to allow it remain in the politics board, why? No rational reason, not even the one you attempt above with the claim that it helps ratings. I mean tribalism can as well have it's own main board out there to garner all the ratings you need it to for you, but keep it away from politics, at least.

When a known tribalist like that one there continue to tell you that you are not doing a good job filtering out tribal posts, I say you may want to thing a bit seriously of what is being said.

OAM4J:

True there is an increase of 'tribal' threads, but like I said don't blame the mods or Seun, blame the people. When I became the mod, if you were around you would have noticed we actually halted the growing 'tribalsm' trend, but shortly after that the section became 'too quiet' cos many posters were not so interested in discussing other non tribal topics which is bad for a forum, so came a policy change to allow people discuss what they want to discuss. Now if you people like screaming the same thing over and over again in hundreds of threads, be our guests, just don't break the rules while at it.

No, I am not a captain, nor a player, not even a spectator. Prove me wrong if you have contrary facts.

naijaking1:

How does openly tribal bashing threads make it to the front page if the moderator is not so compromised?
Why is it easy to allow the few tribal zealots to drown out the voice of the majority? (I know the zealots are a minority because in reality Nigerians, whether Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa, etc largely tolorate each others, not here on N/L)

Mai-suya:
Who authorised the mission- Britain
There were British soldiers involved
British lives involved.
Yet the British PM has not directly claimed responsibility, infact they do not really agree that the failure of the mission was due to them (even though it might be implied) but trust our presido, who should be tactfully dodging such question taking responsibility of a British authirized mission, ONLY OUR LEADERS CAN BE THIS UNDIPLOMATIC.

Mai-suya:
Who authorised the mission- Britain
There were British soldiers involved
British lives involved.
Yet the British PM has not directly claimed responsibility, infact they do not really agree that the failure of the mission was due to them (even though it might be implied) but trust our presido, who should be tactfully dodging such question taking responsibility of a British authirized mission, ONLY OUR LEADERS CAN BE THIS UNDIPLOMATIC.

Tul kafia:

Ideaology cannever be killed by the gun.

Paherps, they are politcal gurus, but only an idea can kill ideas.

OAM4J:

Myopic? Because I advice him to do the honorable thing? Yes the buck stops at his desk, that is why he he shouldn't just accept the blame for failed rescue mission but for all the security lapses involving Boko Haram and follow it up with his resignation.

You my friend is the myopic one for your inability to see that our president is incompetent in handling security matters. From "We are on top of the situation" to "we know they are" to "We have to live with bombings" to "Let is pray that they repent" to "We will not dialogue with them" and now "We are begging them"

What has Tinubu got to do with my comment? Put off your ethnocentric goggle so you can see clearly.

And what does my personal opinion got to do with my moderator role?

patriot2:
I would agree for him to resign but first let him replace the muslim northerner VP by a christian one.
You muslim northerners think you can fool us and put a northen muslim in his place, think again.

pretty_boi:
Why do people like you always put sentiments to things? Why must u either put religion or tribe/language to everything? I'm a Christian & I really don't care if both president & vice president are Muslims as long as THEY DO THEIR WORK COMPETENTLY. I don't care if both president & vice president are Christians either, I don't care if both president & vice president are yoruba or igbo or kanuri or igala or hausa or tiv or idoma or Ijaw or bini etc. ALL I CARE ABOUT IS A COMPETENT LEADER THAT PASSIONATELY CARES ABOUT NIGERIA. SIMPLE.

wesley80:

No one has told Jonathan that he's failed either [color=#990000][/color](at least non one that actually matters!) it doesnt matter if 99% of those in the SW and North think so. Most of the criticisms he's faced have been extremely naive and in most cases than not, fuelled by sectionalism and some sinister desire to pick on a President perceived as being 'weak'.
Wait till your duly elected National Assembly passes a vote of no confidence on his leadership and his cabinet follows suit and see if he'll require OAMJ4 to tell him about resignation!

OAM4J:



5. There will always be ethnocentric threads for as long as you people enjoy creating and discussing them. I have no power to stop that. I am tired of reading them cos you people kept saying the same thing I have read from the very 1st month I joined NL. So don't blame the moderators for what you guys enjoy doing. Many of these threads wouldn't have existed or seen the light of the day if you guys don't create them or if you ignore them. You kept telling Seun and the moderators to stop tribalism while in you actions you prove it is what you love doing. How many serious/'intellectual' threads do you people seriously debate on like you do on 'tribal' threads? You don't need Seun or the moderators to stop tribalism. If you don't like it stop it or ignore the threads.[color=#990000][/color]

6. Yes GEJ should resign if he is not competent and able to address the situation. I do not care who takes over from him whether his name is Emeka or Sule or Bonyface or Seun as long as he is competent. Unlike you I do not support people because they are from my region or ethnic. I support people I believe are competent and honest. For instance, I will campaign for Chime, Ameachi, Duke, Akpabio and campaign against the likes of Gbenga Daniel and Akala.