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MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by econome(m): 8:25am On Jun 13, 2013 |
I wonder why its only the Yoruba states and its govs. that celebrated MKO and June 12, the winner of the only free and fair election in Nigeria yesterday. Despite the outcry during celebration each year that June 12 be made the democracy but the FG and NASS keep turning deaf hears Now, I am noticing the racism in our political system. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by bloggernaija: 10:08am On Jun 13, 2013 |
Because the other parts still do not understand the concepts of democracy which the Yoruba nation have been practising for over 500 yrs in one form or the other.the same reason why the southwest fought against Turai yar adua for turning GEJ into an houseboy in aso rock is the same reason why June 12 will remain a big thing for the southwest . You just do not mess around with people's mandate . If the military tries to overthrow the current universally hated government of GEJ or any other .you can always bank on the Yoruba nation to make a stand up against such a move . There are just do many civically enlightened individual with a cosmopolitan and urban attitude (most people live in towns and cities)in the southwest to keep the vagabond on their toes. That is why religion or sectional interest play less of a roll than in other parts Note : DO YOU KNOW THAT A BUILDING WAS RECENTLY NAMED AFTER ABACHA IN BAYELSA. ABACHA THE INTERNATIONAL PARIAH 12 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Nobody: 10:14am On Jun 13, 2013 |
bloggernaija: Because the other parts still do not understand the concepts of democracy which the Yoruba nation have been practising for over 500 yrs in one form or the other.the same reason why the southwest fought against Turai yar adua for turning GEJ into an houseboy in aso rock is the same reason why June 12 will remain a big thing for the southwest .GBAM !!!! |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by DuduNegro: 4:11pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
bloggernaija: Because the other parts still do not understand the concepts of democracy which the Yoruba nation have been practising for over 500 yrs in one form or the other.the same reason why the southwest fought against Turai yar adua for turning GEJ into an houseboy in aso rock is the same reason why June 12 will remain a big thing for the southwest . God's Mercy and Blessings be with you.. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Akanbiedu(m): 4:31pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
bloggernaija: Because the other parts still do not understand the concepts of democracy which the Yoruba nation have been practising for over 500 yrs in one form or the other.the same reason why the southwest fought against Turai yar adua for turning GEJ into an houseboy in aso rock is the same reason why June 12 will remain a big thing for the southwest . So many points in a short writeup. Kudos. The rest of Nigeria will eventually understand SW fights. 2 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by kepsi123(m): 4:38pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
I am ss. The sw hold their leaders more responsible for their actions. For this I envy and respect them. The ss and se are more of sycophants and will tow to any body in power. After MKO election the next time I voted was for GEJ. But bros it's 20yrs ago. We need to move forward. Beni 5 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Nobody: 4:38pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
econome: I wonder why its only the Yoruba states and its govs. that celebrated MKO and June 12, the winner of the only free and fair election in Nigeria yesterday. Bros, June 12 is another pointer to the ethnic divide in Nigeria. If MKO was Igbo, the celebrations would had been in the South East. If MKO was Hausa, the celebrations would had been in the North. all the so called great Nigerians were no more than regional champions! Awo was for the West what Zik was for the East and What Bello was for the North. At the end, you don't really have a true "Nigerian". Today, there is Tinubu of the South West, Buhari of the core North and Jonathan of the South South. there can never be a great Nigerian that will be accepted by the North East,North west, North Central, South East, South West and South South. June 12 is worth celebrating by all Nigerians, but don't be carried away by those who are beating their chest that the South West are the icons of democracy. When OBJ and the Uba's abducted a serving governor, the protests was only in Igboland, had it been in the West, you would had seen the south West on fire. I started a thread to address issue: read it for more explanations. https://www.nairaland.com/1321115/why-june-12-important-south 5 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 4:57pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
noblezone: You fell on yourself and you also contradicted yourself so many times.. You still see everything in ethnic colors and designs, but GEJ wasn't not Yoruba when Yoruba people fought for him and demonstrated endlessly on his behalf to return to him his hijacked constitutional rights and privileges while the rest of the country, his own people and the entire SE and SS looked the other way and kept quiet as if their own rights and constitutional guarantees was not on the line. Same way with the last NGF elections after the same anti democracy folks even from the winners region refused to respect the results from a common NGF elections and hijacked the process, but Fashola from the SW took the case to court as a matter of democratic principle and not because of ethnic affiliations. The fact that you are either very tribal and you see everything ethnically doesn't mean the rest of us do. 8 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Ikengawo: 5:11pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
I don't consider MKO a hero. In Nigeria is someone becomes a politician, he's automatically a hero to someone, and this time it's yorubas because of where he's from. The man isn't a hero. He was a part of the same corruption, and financier of the same coups that destroyed this nation. Fela spoke of this man on ITT and how he used corrupt dealings to sell away the nations future. Winning an election doesn't make one a hero. More importantly the June 12th protests are what should be celebrated, not MKO himself. and it's a lie that yorubas celebrate him. When they wanted to change Lagos State Uni to MKO the students protested and clearly stated that MKO wasn't a hero and shouldn't be treated as one. The SW governors are just loud, they'll do whatever it takes to be spoken about on the internet so their actions are an irrelevancy, but lets not start pretending the MKO is a hero or a champion of democracy just because he won an election, GEJ won an election too. 3 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Ikengawo: 5:13pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Eko Ile: So who was Dora Akunyili and what was her role in making GEJ pres due to constitutional mandate? Were you in the SE and SS to know how the people were reacting? You're a sad soul 2 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 5:18pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Ikengawo: Though I don't go back n forth with trolls and your kind, but I'll take you seriously if you're able to show us pictorial or any documented evidence of such display anywhere in the SE or SS and if you can't, please keep quiet and go away.. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by dayokanu(m): 5:21pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
This is because Yorubas have always been in the forefront of fighting for democracy and justice. When June 12 was annulled, The SW erupted in riots while other regions looked the other way When Saro Wiwa was killed It was riots in the SW mainly while most other regions looked the other way. When OBJ increased pump prices it was the SW who protested also while others just looked on. When Pa Alfred Rewane was killed it was the SW who protested also Same with when Jonathan increased pump prices Look at those who fought the govt from Funmilayo Kuti, to Fela, to Gani, to Femi Falana to Tai Solarin to Wole Soyinka. You see the pattern. When the cabal denied Jonathan being the substantive President check those who led the SNG protest [img]http://3.bp..com/-irdmdfIgqLQ/UF2EWYNl8EI/AAAAAAAABPw/7wDq-T8zdX4/s1600/save-nigeria-group-300x225.jpg[/img] 11 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by DuduNegro: 5:40pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Ikengawo: My friend, lay off! In the age of sophisticated media and internet you dont need to be locally present to see and hear and know whats happening 2000miles away. An event that important to the national politics would have been reported, even from a passerby's cameraphone. Nothing happened in SE and SS! If its not on record, it didnt happen!! 1 Like |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by dayokanu(m): 5:46pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Ikengawo: He role was in lying to Nigerians Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been in hospital abroad for the past 44 days, has spoken on the phone to key officials, a minister says. Yar Adua that has been clinically dead for months 3 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Ikengawo: 5:49pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Setting Bad Precedent, Says Ohaneze Scribehttp://allafrica.com/stories/201001280019.html Nigeria: Ohaneze Vows to Oppose Yar'adua http://allafrica.com/stories/200612180053.html OHANEZE CHIEFTAIN URGES YAR’ADUA TO OBEY CONSTITUTION
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Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Ikengawo: 5:54pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
there is no woman who's words did more to break the yar adua jinx on the nation. More remarkably, she worked for him she is the one the even brought the word Cabal into the nigerian lexicon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TyJOpHERCY 3 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by chino11(m): 5:56pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
noblezone: Zik was a true nationalist and a Pan Africanist. He is miles ahead of regional champions as awo and bello. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Afam4eva(m): 5:59pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Apart from Herbert Macaulay and to some extent ZIK of Africa, i don't know of any leader in Nigeria that is not sectional. That's why you'll rarely see all the regions celebrating a particular person with the same vigour. If Abiola was an Igbo man, he would have also been celeberated only in Igboland likewise if he was from other parts of the country. But the base line here is not even Abiola but the event itself. Now, the question is, was the event that much of a deal that it should be celebrated throughout the country? 1 Like |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Ikengawo: 6:03pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Dora Akunyili asks Yar'Adua to step down Dora Akunyili asks Yar'Adua to step downhttp://www./2010/02/dora-akunyili-asks-yar-to-step-down_8986.html |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 6:08pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
I didn't ask you for folks running their mouth with no action, show us the mass protests and demonstrations and folks putting their lives on the line. Like the one below... [img]http://2.bp..com/-FtHD0b_9tSE/Twtj7RLLteI/AAAAAAAAC4Q/KAkMUV4Djyc/s1600/nigeria-protest-2010-1-12-19-11-29.jpg[/img] 2 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 6:09pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Ikengawo: Dora Akunyili asks Yar'Adua to step down After she lied to Nigerians and betrayed her office and the Nigerian constitution? Please.... |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by ekoileee: 6:22pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Ikengawo: Dora Akunyili asks Yar'Adua to step down After she lied to Nigerians and betrayed her office and the constitutional oath she swore to? Please ....... Where was the rest of the country when SW students demonstrated everyday, fought the military and gave their lives in the 80's and 90's? Where was the rest of the country when folks from the SW like Fela fought the military junta in Nigeria for decades even losing his own mother in the process? Where was the rest of the country when Abiola gave his life standing up for your rights as a Nigerian? Every protest and demonstration against the military or any injustice in Nigeria emanated from the SW including loss of life in the process. Apart from your sidewalk massob walking down the street protests with lady's handbag, you people don't fight for anything that has nothing to do with issues beyond your bother because you are not only one sided you are selfish, self centered and live by the codes of single stories against what your chimanda preached... 1 Like |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Iykopee(m): 6:24pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Eko Ile: I didn't ask you for folks running their mouth with no action, show us the mass protests and demonstrations and folks putting their lives on the line. Whats d difference between akuyili's outburst and the so called mass protest? |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by chino11(m): 6:32pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Afam4eva: Apart from Herbert Macaulay and to some extent ZIK of Africa, i don't know of any leader in Nigeria that is not sectional. That's why you'll rarely see all the regions celebrating a particular person with the same vigour. If Abiola was an Igbo man, he would have also been celeberated only in Igboland likewise if he was from other parts of the country. But the base line here is not even Abiola but the event itself. Now, the question is, was the event that much of a deal that it should be celebrated throughout the country? Abiola issue was a Yoruba thing. Aboila is a regionalist. Remember at one point he said that he can do without the Igbos, that statement definitely cost him the presidency and subsequently his life. 1 Like |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by kutchs: 6:48pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Why am I supposed to waste my precious time celebrating a day that means nothing to me? For all I know the result of the election was never truly released officially making the so called victory merely a rumour. So we do not know between Abiola and Tofa who won and thats how it‘s going to remain. 1 Like |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Afam4eva(m): 6:48pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
kutchs: Why am I supposed to waste my precious time celebrating a day that means nothing to me? For all I know the result of the election was never truly released officially making the so called victory merely a rumour. So we do not know between Abiola and Tofa who won and thats how it‘s going to remain.Was the result actually announced? I can't remember. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 6:57pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Iykopee: 1. She betrayed Nigerians and her office by lying to Nigerians to protect Yaradua just to keep him in office while on his death bed. 2. Her initial proclamations disgraceful utterances and behavior negates everything after that cos she lost public trust and relevance. 3. Running your mouth and doing eye service with zero physical action to put your efforts and presence where your mouth is are 2 different things.. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by chino11(m): 6:58pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
eko ileee: Your matter is irreversible. Do you know what it means for a serving Minister to call for the resignation of her boss due to ill health? Its the kind of news that we hear in developed clime like US and UK. It took bravery and integrity for Nkem Akunyili to make such a bold stride which not common with our system. That singular move of the amazon was what made GEJ president and not some area-boys parade by Soyika and rest of yoruba cowards. 2 Likes |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by EkoIle1: 7:03pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
chino11: In the same clime you are talking about, they force their public officials to resign when they lie to the citizenry and betray public trust so her medicine after death nonsense we were subjected to happened because we don't do things like they do in that same clime as in she should have been booted from office a long time ago.. lol @ she made GEJ the president... Sounds like somebody is high on kpayan.. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by Desola(f): 7:05pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Iykopee: One was sitting in an air conditioned office spewing jagbajantis in her ibotic accent while others were scorching in the sun putting their words and beliefs into action. Akunyili was merely spewing plenty plenty nonsense. |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by moderatorr: 7:09pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
lol |
Re: MKO And June 12 Celebrated Only By Yorubas by kutchs: 7:18pm On Jun 13, 2013 |
Desola:And you forgot it takes gut to speak against a govt you are working for and that only Dora could do. Dora did what she had to given her position as a member of the FEC while the others used their position too. So give Dora some respect. |
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