In the context of the elections, much has
been said about Nigeria’s “unity in diversity”.
Still, many Nigerians feel they are being
deliberately disjointed on the grounds of
their ethnicity. Dr Ibraheem Dooba, in his
exclusive contribution for Naij.com, explains
why the Yoruba people are frustrated with
the incumbent president and one of the
presidential candidates Goodluck Jonathan,
and why they are most likely not going to
support him come Saturday, March 28.

“President Jonathan won’t implement
recommendations of the conference if he
wins. Even if he does, it won’t be what the
Yoruba people want.”
“Other than the constitutionally-required
appointments, Yorubas are invisible in
Jonathan’s government.”
“The Yoruba people don’t deserve this
neglect.”
Why did the Yoruba become victims in and of
Jonathan’s government? What are the reasons
why the ethnic group isn’t supporting and
wouldn’t vote him?
The laughable National Conference report
First, President Jonathan tried to outsmart the
Yoruba by offering them the National
Conference. But how can he outsmart the
Yoruba, a people so intelligent that Jonathan
would have his brains in knots should he try any
of their mental feats!
It’s now clear that President Jonathan, although
he’s promised to do so, won’t implement the
recommendations of the conference if he wins
re-election. Even if he does implement them, it
won’t be what the Yoruba people want.
“Is Jonathan going to remove immunity clause as
recommended by the conference? No,” Dr
Haruna Yerima, an academic and one of the four
hundred delegates to the National Conference,
said in an interview with Daily Trust, before
asking, “What is there in the report that he is
using now to cajole the southwest people into
voting for him?”
The former member of the House of
Representatives said the report paid scant
attention to corruption and inequality issues in
the country.
“The report didn’t give the southwest people
their age-long desire of true federalism. In fact,
nobody talked about it at the conference. It also
didn’t give them the parliamentary system as
well as the regional system of government they
requested for during the conference. So, what is
there for them?” he queried.
He said the Southwest wouldn’t trust Jonathan
after “six years without doing anything for them.
He is just desperate. He needs their votes to
short-change them again.”
But the Southwest is too smart to be short-
changed that way. Even Mama Sikira, the famous
akara seller, wouldn’t be fooled by this.
Targeted Yoruba sackings

Chief Kola Aderemi wrote in The Nation of
December 23 last year that President Jonathan
must have something against the Yoruba to
allow for such sustained ill-treatment.
“Nothing illustrates President Jonathan’s hatred
for Yoruba better than the way he removed
some Yoruba people from key positions on
allegation of being too close to the former
President Olusegun Obasanjo,” he said. “To
buttress my point, I recalled how he removed
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the PDP
secretary. Mr Yomi Bolarinwa was removed as
DG of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission; Otunba
Segun Runsewe was removed as DG of Nigerian
Tourism Development Commission, and they
were replaced with Igbo people.”
Here is a selection of other Yoruba people that
Jonathan sacked that chief forgot to mention:
Olu Oluleye, executive secretary, the Petroleum
Trust Development Fund (PTDF). Dr Samuel
Oduselu, CEO of the Accident Investigation
Bureau.
Stella Oduah sacked eight general managers at
the FAAN in 2014, six of them Yoruba. The same
minister employed 75 workers, 40 of them are
from the Southeast, her geo-political zone.
The minister sacked Captain Adebayo Araba,
rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation
Technology, Zaria, and replaced him with
Captain Chinyere Kalu from the Southeast. Also
Mrs Ola Onagoruwa, Director-General of the
Bureau of Public Enterprises, was sacked for
“undisclosed reasons”.
The issue of the Yorubas being deliberately
replaced by the Igbo people is debatable, but it is
a fact that, immediately after Yar’Adua died,
Jonathan went on Yoruba sacking spree. The
result? Other than the constitutionally-required
appointments, Yorubas are invisible in his
government.
The Yoruba people moved from the number one
position (in President Obasanjo “era”) to number
22. I’m not exactly sure how this reckoning was
done, but the victims must have taken their time
to do the counting.
President Jonathan betrayed their votes
The Yoruba people don’t deserve this neglect.
Many of them voted for him in 2011, but he’s got
this weird conviction that those who voted him in
the Southwest and the North are the Igbo
residents of those areas.
I sometimes do my morning jog with a Yoruba
woman, a Muslim, who told me that she voted
Jonathan in 2011 because she thought that was
justice — because Niger Delta produces a chunk
of the government income. However, she
wouldn’t repeat that mistake again in 2015. Not
because Jonathan dislikes the Yoruba people,
but because the guy is useless to everybody,
including the long-suffering people of the Niger
Delta.
My own friend for many years, also a Yoruba
Muslim (from the North), gave me the same
reason for supporting Jonathan in 2011. This
“sense of justice” reason makes me believe that
must be something embedded in their culture.
During our time in the diaspora, I had many
Nigerian friends. The most religious of us and
one of my closest neighbours is a Yoruba
Muslim. His old father in Nigeria was also
religious and in 2011, he was preparing to vote
for Goodluck Jonathan. My friend’s father, may
God rest his soul, died this year. His children,
however, are still alive and would not accept
Jonathan in 2015 even if you dressed him in gold.
Make of that what you will, but the northern
Yoruba and their southern brethren – Muslim
and Christians – supported the president four
years ago.
It’s the reason why the Yoruba people shouldn’t
let this betrayal go unpunished. The fortunate
thing for Nigerians, and, particularly, the APC, is
that many of them have long resolved to do this.
That sense of justice will be used to shoot down
Jonathan this month.
Dear Yoruba brethren, you are an intelligent set
of people. Do us all a favour, I call upon you in
supplication: don’t vote Jonathan.
As of this moment, the only Yoruba group which
supports Jonathan is Afenifere. However, even
Afenifere is divided. Afenifere Renewal
Organization (ARG) said they didn’t support the
endorsement of Jonathan enacted by Yinka
Odumankin’s group. So the authentic Afenifere
doesn’t support the president.
The US-based Oodua organization also distanced
itself from the self-serving endorsement of
Odumankin’s group.
Moshood Erubami, civil rights activist, summed it
up: “No real Yoruba man or woman who
supports a pan-Yoruba political and
developmental agenda will vote for Jonathan in
the coming election, because the Southwest has
not gained anything from his administration.”
So let’s have a bloc vote from this savvy and
enterprising race. Jonathan shouldn’t continue,

UP APC...
VOTE 4 CHANGE. ..
VOTE BUHARI 4 PRESIDENT. ..

Yoruba will never vote for an incompetent clueless person. We prefer a performer rather than corruption filled person like GEJ !!!

SAI BABA !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4y5kGXTE8

sammyj:
Yoruba will never vote for an incompetent clueless person. We prefer a performer rather than corruption filled person like GEJ !!!

SAI BABA !!!

Thank God internet never forgets. See why hypocrisy never pays

linclinc:
UP APC...
VOTE 4 CHANGE. ..
VOTE BUHARI 4 PRESIDENT. ..

And now, there is no change. The truth is, we needed better than PDP, but APC was not it.

sammyj:
Yoruba will never vote for an incompetent clueless person. We prefer a performer rather than corruption filled person like GEJ !!!

SAI BABA !!!

Aw far bros, hope hunger no reach your side

Lol

Smh