They pretend to be Nigerians patriots more than anybody but when it come down to it, they are as tribalist anything. So why pretend? Its nothing to be ashamed of.

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU

Eziachi:
I had said what M.T Mbu had just said before about Chief Awolowo, that the guy never pretended to be a tribalist, who sees himself not as a nationalist but purely a Yoruba leader and there is nothing wrong with that, if that is what you believe and never pretend other wise. That is the problem I have with modern Yoruba folks both here and other places. They pretend to be Nigerians patriots more than anybody but when it come down to it, they are as tribalist anything. So why pretend? Its nothing to be ashamed of.

I have posed this question before, that people should look at the history of Nigeria and tell me any national election in Nigeria, where the Yoruba as a nation had ever in numbers voted for a non Yoruba candidate, when their folk is a candidate in the same election? It has never happened.

A good example was 2003, when everybody decided to kick OBJ out of office, and all of a sudden, the entire Yoruba race remembered that OBJ is one of them, and see it as a tribal protection of presidency including those in the AD party then. When in 1999 the same people told us that OBJ is nothing but lucifer and refuse to give even 10% of their vote to him, including his own community. AD party even decided not to field a presidential candidate of his own, just to protect a Yoruba presidency in the same OBJ they did not vote for four years earlier, only for the guy to turn around months later and rigged all of them out, except Tinubu, who resisted the idea in the first place.
That a great thinker like Bole Ige even left the opposition to join OBJ's govt and the same people had the affront to say anything when ANPP rogues joined Yar Adua's govt but forgeting that they invented it.

Totally agree with you!

Nchara:
BP.

No one is blaiming Awo for being a tribalist. Igbos instead blame their leaders for not being tribalists. That is what we want to change: Igbos must play tribalism in politics. Live with it or die.

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