It might seem funny but The West have no retaliatory chip unless war, any attempt by the west to Retaliate will be destructive. The fact remains that the core west is an Agricultural economy and as such has nothing to offer the core North that the North can't offer herself.

The biggest chip could have been to blockade the Western port, but that's a waste of time becuase they themselves needs the port especially now that they are on blockade. Even if blocking the Western Port was an option it will only mean that the Northern FG, will revert to Eastern Ports.

It is true that food could still get to the west but this food is going to be highly priced becuase if Kwara is the point of the blockade it means that we are all going to look up to Benue and Kogi, now the East and the West looking up to these two channels is going to skyrocket a competition, Benue and Kogi won't be enough should the blockade last long.

Even if the blockade is targeted on only the West and the East will get food, the East would not be easily able to be capable of shipping these food to west, because the East had never been food exporting people, we need lot of food to eat so we sending food to the west will be a big problem.

Now the West have another bright option, to open their borders, note, the only part of the South that can retaliate the North is Ndigbo, Igbos can also go on strike and stop clothing, drug and machine parts to the North.

People may think that Niger Delta can retaliate but if they cut off oil supply it will become a national emergency and everyone might be plunged into darkness, we all know that Niger Delta can not hurt the North becuases Gasoline is imported, they can cut of crude supply not gasoline supply, and if you do that, the whole country will hurt but that's a lot of time before they can even achieve that.

With the whole country at hult, we all still needs food, now what is the west's retaliatory power I had always told every reasonable South Westerners and Northerners that food is going to be weaponized and AlaIgbo don't have enough food to stand between two food giants (North and West).

Let us just pray this thing does not escalate; otherwise the youth in the Southwest may form groups here and there to stop trucks taking stuffs up North from the ports. All they need is track the trucks and stop them from moving up North as well. So we need to be very careful and hope normalcy return early

Let them keep their foods and kwara isn't point of blockade, it's niger state, it can never happen in kwara state that's why they stay in niger

The blockage will serve as a big lesson to the west and east that over reliance on the north for food supply is a bad one.

Ozinlex:
Let us just pray this thing does not escalate; otherwise the youth in the Southwest may form groups here and there to stop trucks taking stuffs up North from the ports. All they need is track the trucks and stop them from moving up North as well. So we need to be very careful and hope normalcy return early

That will be a very costly mistake, first things does not move from the west to the North, things first move to the East, Aba and Onitsha before finding its way to the North, should you blockade the East, you give us no option than to revert to Eastern port with a nod from FG

The ports they would have used to fight back is not even in their hands. Yoruba go hear wihn.

The South west have a lot of retaliate

Stop petroleum from reaching North

Stop finished goods from reaching the north etc.

But the best thing here is that the best response is to aggressively invest in Agriculture and help build our economy again.

Lagos will suffer the most from the Agricultural blockade than other South West states, but other South West states can use the opportunity to establish supply chain in Lagos that seems to have been lost to the Hausas merchants in the past.

This blockade is a blessing in disguise.

So while North continue to depend on us, we can become independent of them.

I think d only option left 2 d west is to ensure its borders wit neighbourin countries are opened for easy entrance of food

Iamgrey5:
The South west have a lot of retaliate

Stop petroleum from reaching North

Stop finished goods from reaching the north etc.

But the best thing here is that the best response is to aggressively invest in Agriculture and help build our economy again.

Lagos will suffer the most from the Agricultural blockade than other South West states, but other South West states can use to opportunity to establish supply chain in Lagos that seem to have lost to Hausas.

This blockade is a blessing in disguise.

So why North continue to depend on us, we can become independent of them.

Does petroleum Rich North from the west, are you a PMS exporter, what you don't get is that crude is not shipped to the North but PMS, will you tell PMS marketers not to ship to the North are there not Northern marketers too,

Lagos won't suffer first, the East will send food to our people in Lagos

Ozinlex:
Let us just pray this thing does not escalate; otherwise the youth in the Southwest may form groups here and there to stop trucks taking stuffs up North from the ports. All they need is track the trucks and stop them from moving up North as well. So we need to be very careful and hope normalcy return early

Very true. Though I don't think that would hurt the North much.

Avoiding unnecessary war is not a sign of coward...

If the North are stopping selling their food items to South West or any other southern region, let Southern region also stop transporting whatever they may be producing to the north.

Southern Nigeria have borders with other Africa countries... We can get our stuffs from them. If buying the items at the high price is the price to pay to stop the unnecessary killing, so be it .

Let's wait and see if the countries the Northerners want to be selling to have the purchasing power.

Btw, this is a long due opportunity for southern region to go into agriculture fully.. We have fertile soil

AlexBells:

Does petroleum Rich North from the west, are you a PMS exporter, what you don't get is that crude is not shipped to the North but PMS, will you tell PMS marketers not to ship to the North are there not Northern marketers too,

Lagos won't suffer first, the East will send food to our people in Lagos

Yes,

Petroleum product comes from Lagos port to Northern Nigeria.

Yorubas can easily target trucks leaving for North and stop them, but that won't benefit Yorubas in anyway.

Yorubas need to encourage what is going on honestly.

During the Endsars, Lagos suffered the most.

Every southwest states outside Lagos have huge agricultural landscape in rural areas

Ekejoestar:
I think d only option left 2 d west is to ensure its borders wit neighbourin countriepr are opened for easy entrance of food

No be Buhari dey power again, He can decide to block importation of food items from Benin republic directly or indirectly !

There's still a law that is why you are talking in this way.have you ever hear break of law before.

SlayerSupreme:
The ports they would have used to fight back is not even in their hands. Yoruba go hear wihn.

Iamgrey5:
Yes,

Petroleum product comes from Lagos port to Northern Nigeria.

Yorubas can easily target trucks leaving for North and stop them, but that won't benefit Yorubas in anyway.

Yorubas need to encourage what is going on honestly.

During the Endsars, Lagos suffered the most.

Every southwest states outside Lagos have huge agricultural landscape in rural areas

Petroleum is imported by the FG and marketers, if you blockade Lagos they use Eastern ports then supply to everyone, what else would you do, port retaliation shouldn't be in your menu becuase the antidote to that lies in the East, which the east won't blink to grab

AlexBells:

Does petroleum Rich North from the west, are you a PMS exporter, what you don't get is that crude is not shipped to the North but PMS, will you tell PMS marketers not to ship to the North are there not Northern marketers too,

Lagos won't suffer first, the East will send food to our people in Lagos

Those are dead wish cos the situation won't get to that level.

johnmartus:
There's still a law that is why you are talking in this way.have you ever hear break of law before.

So far the North are playing by the book as much as possible. So Yoruba can't "break down law and order" or else war go sup.

Monogamy:


Those are dead wish cos the situation won't get to that level.

Just wait until a painter of Gari is #1300 in Lagos and #1100, you will realise how much way bill will leave AlaIgbo to our people in Lagos do you know what +200 means to an Igbo man

Iamgrey5:
The South west have a lot of retaliate

Stop petroleum from reaching North

Stop finished goods from reaching the north etc.

But the best thing here is that the best response is to aggressively invest in Agriculture and help build our economy again.

Lagos will suffer the most from the Agricultural blockade than other South West states, but other South West states can use to opportunity to establish supply chain in Lagos that seem to have lost to Hausas.

This blockade is a blessing in disguise.

So why North continue to depend on us, we can become independent of them.

You can't stop petroleum from going North.

AlexBells:

Petroleum is imported by the FG and marketers, if you blockade Lagos they use Eastern ports then supply to everyone, what else would you do, port retaliation shouldn't be in your menu becuase the antidote to that lies in the East, which the east won't blink to grab

The blockade can Still happen.

There's no capacity to import petroleum products from Eastern ports otherwise they will have started long time ago.

Only Lagos port has large storage capacity for imported Petroleum products built over years.

They can't just build the multi million dollars project in three weeks in the East.

Iamgrey5:
The South west have a lot of retaliate

Stop petroleum from reaching North

Stop finished goods from reaching the north etc.

But the best thing here is that the best response is to aggressively invest in Agriculture and help build our economy again.

Lagos will suffer the most from the Agricultural blockade than other South West states, but other South West states can use to opportunity to establish supply chain in Lagos that seem to have lost to Hausas.

This blockade is a blessing in disguise.

So why North continue to depend on us, we can become independent of them.

This can be achieved if Yorubas are ready to fight it out with the remaining foolanis that are still killing, raping and maiming farmers. Unfortunately, our brothers and sisters in Ogun are fleeing instead of fighting. If the governor's can support the farmers, I think we can even export food! The Hausa beans we consume is preserved with poisonous chemicals and are not even export quality, even their yams. We can do even better than them in Agriculture if we have our state governments' support. Unfortunately again, sycophancy and hypocrisy will not let our governors speak for us. We are truly on our own now; we either bend or break!

BTW, The OP's hatred for the SW is tending towards a maddening obsession and it'll consume him faster than he can imagine.

November1857:
No be Buhari dey power again, He can decide to block importation of food items from Benin republic directly or indirectly !

True. But in this situation the customs can't control smuggling in that huge scale.

Iamgrey5:
The blockade can Still happen.

There's no capacity to import petroleum products from Eastern ports otherwise they will have started long time ago.

Only Lagos port have large storage capacity for imported Petroleum products built over years.

They can't just build the multi million dollars project in three weeks in the East.

You don't know what you're talking about.

backnbeta:

This can be achieved if Yorubas are ready to go to war with the remaining foolanis that are still killing, raping and maiming farmers. Unfortunately, our brothers and sisters in Ogun are fleeing instead of fighting. If the governor's can support the farmers, I think we can even export food! The Hausa beans we consume is preserved with poisonous chemicals and are not even export quality, even their yams. We can do even better than them in Agriculture if we have our state governments' support. Unfortunately again, sycophancy and hypocrisy will not let our governors speak for us. We are truly on our own now; we either bend or break!

BTW, The OP's hatred for the SW is tending towards a maddening obsession and it'll consume him faster than he can imagine.

Yewa in Ogun state is not the entire Yorubaland

We have Oyo, Ondo and Osun as the agricultural bedrock of Yourubaland in the past.

Those areas mentioned above is the mainstay of agriculture in Yorubaland and it's where Fulanis have been chased away recently. This is why they are unhappy.

Maybe Fulanis plan to cripple Agricultural industry in Yoruba all along and they are unhappy that they failed.

SlayerSupreme:




You don't know what you're talking about.

No, you don't know what you are talking about.

What if they set Dangote refinery on fire?

AlexBells:

Just wait until a painter of Gari is #1300 in Lagos and #1100, you will realise how much way bill will leave AlaIgbo to our people in Lagos do you know what +200 means to an Igbo man

Why do we have to wait? You think SW political leaders are drunkard like some political leaders in other region? Hell No

We have resolved issues that are more complicated than this, so this is just one of those which we will also settle amicably without going into any war.

I haven't see any Yoruba creating thread about Gov Hope inviting military to kill his own people.

Same way I have not seen Yoruba creating thread about the inter communal clash in Ebonyi state.

Only you people have solutions to others problems but can't solve yours.

Ajoka people

Already northern has started war with Yoruba people this is economic warfare and it safe to say northern are breaking down the law and order. The suppliers of foods are not the problem because they ready to sell.

SlayerSupreme:




So far the North are playing by the book as much as possible. So Yoruba can't "break down law and order" or else war go sup.

Monogamy:


Why do we have to wait? You think SW political leaders are drunkard like some political leaders in other region? Hell No

We have resolved issues that are more complicated than this, so this is just one of those which we will also settle amicably without going into any war.

I haven't see any Yoruba creating thread about Gov hope inviting military to kill his own people.

Same way I have not see Yoruba creating thread about the inter communal clash in Ebonyi state.

Only you people have solutions to others problems but can't solve yours.

Ajoka people

You guys are too scared of war and that's the problem, war is not as bad, you are already at war, food weaponized can kill faster than many weapons, your potential allies are more ready for real battle not this food game, we are not prepared for it,

Iamgrey5:
No, you don't know what you are talking about.

Dey there na.

SlayerSupreme:



You can't stop petroleum from going North.

A simple blockade will suffice but like I said earlier, it's not necessary.

We will continue to sell to the north in larger quantity whilst there blockade helps us build back our agricultural industry.