OAM4J:

You and coogar kept on repeating this. Who is FG? Who gave FG his powers? The People!

For God sake this is democracy, the government of the people by the people for the people. I say again, only an insensitive and senseless government officials do things under democracy without carrying the people concerned along.

papatosibe:

Hows GEJ's move autocratic? He only changed their name. Whats autocratic about that?





He does not have the power to do that. Now if he did that, that would be autocratic.


I hope you now see the difference?



I'd like to believe that you didnt make this careless post while stoned out of your mind from Toluene inhalation. Now. could you please provide a link to the result of the carefully analysed public poll you conducted showing how unpopular GEJ is in the SW. Because I actually like the dude wella. . .

At least one thing becomes clear from your comment, he is not loved and respected from that region and the move was only an attempt to spite the people of that region. I say to him 'well done!

Beaf:

Politics in that area is governed by rudeness and ceaseless attempts to ridicule the office of the President. Consultation would have been a useless exercise.

OAM4J:

You and coogar kept on repeating this. Who is FG? Who gave FG his powers? The People!

For God sake this is democracy, the government of the people by the people for the people.

I say again, [b]only an insensitive and senseless government officials do things under democracy without carrying the people concerned along.

OAM4J:

obviously it flew past you cos you were in a hurry to attack me and you failed to notice where I derived the analysis from, even though i mentioned it in the same line you quoted. Now, read again and check the bold and read the post I was referring to also. Good night!

Pain: With all these noise about Abiola's philanthropy and the Fed's right to rename any federal school, can anyone throw more light on the following quetions?

1. What was the source of Abiola's wealth?
2. What is the place of due process and rule of law in a democracy?
3. How is the Fed Gov funding UNILAG? By Tax Payers Money, Commonwealth or Private Funds?
[size=18pt]4. Are we still under Dictatorship Rule or Pseudo Dictatorship?
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Pain: With all these noise about Abiola's philanthropy and the Fed's right to rename any federal school, can anyone throw more light on the following quetions?

1. What was the source of Abiola's wealth?

2. What is the place of due process and rule of law in a democracy?

3. How is the Fed Gov funding UNILAG? By Tax Payers Money,

Commonwealth

or Private Funds?

Pain:
2. What is the place of due process and rule of law in a democracy?

Pain:
3. How is the Fed Gov funding UNILAG? By Tax Payers Money, Commonwealth or Private Funds?

Pain:
4. Are we still under Dictatorship Rule or Pseudo Dictatorship?

bayooooooo:
...
But a great man deserves a great honor, and MKO deserves it all. We are still imploring GEJ to finish his good work by recognizing June 12 as the official democracy day. He does not need to amend any law to achieve that.
...

Beaf:
When did anything ever get funded with taxpayers money in Nigeria? How many pay tax anyway?
The funding is from oil.

Beaf:
Ridiculous. I have never heard of dictatorships being voted in.

Pain:

So you have never heard of elected leaders in Africa meta-morphing into Dictators. Okay, I guess you live in Iceland. The Land of Raw Beaf Eaters

odumorun 1: I strongly disagree with Wole Soyinka on this.

The furore regarding the renaming of Unilag is elitist posturing of the worst kind, dressed up in the garb of democratic protestation. This has nothing to do with anger that the council of the university was not consulted. The university and its senate and governing council do not fund the school. The school is funded by the federal government from the federal purse representing millions of hardworking Nigerians most of whose kids will never enjoy the benfit of a university education let alone a prestigious one like Unilag.

The storm in a tea cup is another example of middle class Nigerians, particularly yoruba ones (the most snobbish and self regarding version and yes i am a Yoruba) refusing to be associated with a person largely revered by the poorer classes. The same happened when Uiversity of Ife was renamed in 1987 in honour of Obafemi Awolowo, when a few hundred students largely of middle class origin demonstrated their objection, while the poor people in the town, carpentars, shoe makers, tailors and others who benefited from awo's reforms celebrated.

This is all about a few priviledged and educated yoruba people wanting to retain what they see as an eleitis label placing them apart from the majority of the population whom they secretly despise. If the school had been named after Barack Obama would they be protesting, even if it was done without consultation - Of course they wouldn't - they'll probably be fantasising about getting an easy visa ride in the American embassy.

Wole Soyinka is a radical and progressive Nigerian but his elitism is a well known flaw which is why he has never inspite of his undoubted courage been able to buod a mass following for his ideas.

Unilag is funded by the majority of the people of this country, not the students or their lecturers. Most ordiany Nigerians respect the sacrifices people like abiola made - they, not the spolit middle class kids kicking up a fuss in Unilag are the majority. The noisy minority in Unilag should be ignored. they will son go back to their Ipads

If they don't like the name when they receive their degrees let them rip them up. They don't own the school, the people do -i've not seen any demonstrations in mushin, shomolu, bere or sabongari against it.

If wole is not happy let him write a poem about his fury. He is a great man, but on this occasion he is wrong

papatosibe:
of what relevance is this to the matter at hand?

papatosibe:
How many people pay tax in Nigeria?

papatosibe:
Whose commonwealth? The one God put there or the one your papa put there for your future use?

papatosibe:
That is not a bad way to look at it . . . After all, GEJ is a venture capitalist by nature. And you know what venture capitalist do, they rename schools. Its their money, the can do and undo with it. Imagine me telling you not to spend your money on that ashi you've been eyeing for the past 5 yrs, how would you feel?

PhysicsQED: "Let us not compound the aberrations of the past with provocations in an era that should propel us towards a belated new Age of Enlightenment."

I like this sentence.

niyitogun:

There's a flaw in your example, in this case it's not Gej's house but a house belonging to the entire nation, built and funded by the entire nations taxes including even the officials of the same university...it's just common logic.

ndu_chucks: In my opinion, any greatness that could be attributed to MKO Abiola was completely nullified by the level of theft and the disgraceful handling of the ITT contract which was supposed to rebuild Nigeria's telecommunication system. Abiola and ITT ripped us off of billions of dollars without building a single circuit to improve P&T, the old Nigerian communication agency. This, by the way was when the naira was pretty strong.

People like IBB, MKO, OBJ, and others need not be worshiped. IBB and OBJ belong in prison, period. These people and their likes do not deserve to be our heroes, we have quite a few Nigerians who qualify to be real heroes and who have unblemished characters.

I'm surprised that some of the posters from the SW do not find MKO's theft deplorable. Folks need to do a bit of research and discover that billions were spent with absolutely nothing to show for it. SMH

PhysicsQED: "Let us not compound the aberrations of the past with provocations in an era that should propel us towards a belated new Age of Enlightenment."

I like this sentence.

odumorun 1: I strongly disagree with Wole Soyinka on this.

The furore regarding the renaming of Unilag is elitist posturing of the worst kind, dressed up in the garb of democratic protestation. This has nothing to do with anger that the council of the university was not consulted. [size=28pt]The university and its senate and governing council do not fund the school. The school is funded by the federal government from the federal purse representing millions of hardworking Nigerians most of whose kids will never enjoy the benfit of a university education let alone a prestigious one like Unilag.[/size]