SweetLove0:
Shame on Tinubu. Two mouthed fellow

hollowpot15684:


This is still the Tinubu of Nadeco, straight to the point and never taking sides because of considerably flaws in human nature.

A good leader don't blindly take sides, they address what's wrong and approve what's right. In the statement, Tinubu proposed a better system for the operation Amotekun, he said instead of regional control, it should be state control.

As a politician and a Political leader, you should expect him to be an internal operator rather than a public one. There is still an iota of posibility that he was fully aware of Amotekun before the launching, but only playing the game of politics with the north on this matter, a person who has a presidential ambition is expected to be like that.

Nonetheless, your expectations of him to take sides in support of Amotekun is presumably ethnical in nature and needs to be checked.

As far as I'm concerned, the approach he took is the best a wise leader should take.

Iamgrey5:
Tinubu puts the G in greedy

He is very self centred despite riding on the idea of the leader of the Yoruba people to political prominence in Nigeria, he has now turned against the very idea he claims to represent for a fake promise.

Righteousness89:
I don't seem to understand..
Is Asiwaju Talking with both sides of His mouth?
It's Highly dangerous to be in the Middle..

somehow:
The man is a wise man.

There is no regional law
no regional parliament
No regional constitutional power
So making Amotekun a regional security apparatus will fail once it's tested with the constitution.

But there are state laws
there are state parliaments
There are state constitutional powers that are legal.

Even in America, each state has its own local police, this is the closest to local police in Nigeria if done on a state level backed by state laws.

Let each state set theirs up backed by law, then share intelligence with each other periodically, once the parliaments pass Amotekun into law in various southwestern states, no governor can scrap them nor renege from using them but in a regional system, you only need to have 1 or 2 traitors in the region and Amotekun will fall flat.

Make the youth of this country dey think and stop being too sentimental and emotional!

seborrhic:
In other words Tinubu the god of yorubas has spoken.
It's left to see if the masses and general acceptance of Amotekun in Yorubaland will now fade because he says no to Amotekun.
Reminds me of how many lagosians were hailing Ambode's performance.Soon as Tinubu started sending feelers he wasn't in support of his re-election,like camelons they all lily liverely changed tunes and color to dance to the new music of their demi-god.
Shameful.

benji93:
He probably New about the initiative from the very beginning. That's probably another move to put himself in a more politically advantageous position against 2023. He's probably telling the North, you see what I can do.

somehow:
The man is a wise man.

There is no regional law
no regional parliament
No regional constitutional power
So making Amotekun a regional security apparatus will fail once it's tested with the constitution.

But there are state laws
there are state parliaments
There are state constitutional powers that are legal.

Even in America, each state has its own local police, this is the closest to local police in Nigeria if done on a state level backed by state laws.

Let each state set theirs up backed by law, then share intelligence with each other periodically, once the parliaments pass Amotekun into law in various southwestern states, no governor can scrap them nor renege from using them but in a regional system, you only need to have 1 or 2 traitors in the region and Amotekun will fall flat.

Make the youth of this country dey think and stop being too sentimental and emotional!

babaolofin:


All you are saying about region and constitution are irrelevant here because if each receives approval from State Parliament which will be 100% done. The States command can have joint operations under South West people ( Yoruba) coalition or association.

No constitution can stop or break the unity of the Yoruba people. Ask yourself this question; if such outfit had been formed in the North will the South have opposed it? You mentioned US, if I want to teach you about Federalism being practiced in the US, we will not leave here.

Yorubas will never forget Amotekun. We can only go back to the drawing board and map out strategy.

The North is aware that the South East and South South are fed up with Nigeria. Only South West manages to tolerate the unity of North and South thereby making Nigeria still in existence. Out of Nigeria, there is no difference between the North and their brothers from Niger, Chad, Sudan & Somalia.

The problem of the North is that the formation of Amotekun will lead to the establishment of such outfit in South East and South South. Retired soldiers and militants would be recruited. The South will use this apparatus of self defence against terrorism to fight the slavery the South has been subjected by the British with the amalgamation of North and South.

The Yorubas are never united. Internal collaborators formed alliance with the North for selfish political gain. Amotekun is a rallying point. It is a consciousness. It will consume internal collaborators. If such outfit had been formed in the North will the South have said anything?

The South is entirely in support of Amotekun, the North is against it, then it is illegal. So, the North is Federal Government that is why you find them at NPA, Customs, NNPC milking the labour of the South. That is why they are afraid of the end of Nigeria.

hollowpot15684:


That is the case BAT is describing in the statement.

The level of sentiment I see in this youth is just too disgusting.

somehow:


Laws don't exist in a vacuum, so pray tell, do you have a constitution that backs regional "police "?.

Educated people are telling you its unconstitutional, you are using sentiments

I have told you the best option

Another option is to lobby the legislatures into creating regional laws into the constitution that will enable Amotekun to exist regionally.

Last last, you will be here to see the turn of events.

babaolofin:


Prof Soyinka. Akeredolu, Falana and Ozekome are not educated, you and Malami and the Hausas/Fulani's are the educated people. Are you not making fool of yourself? Is Hisbah in the Constitution? When communities are chased away and people murdered what did the constitution do? When they drove away people from their land and hoisted flag on community land, what did the constitution do? The constitution is only made to protect the North and enslave the South? Amotekun is a consciousness.

AtikuNetwork:


What you put up there can easily be taken out of context if one does not have the full facts of what he actually said.

somehow:


So why then is it an issue if the constitution have no say?

people are playing on your emotion and you are falling for it.

I am discussing from the angle of legality, not sentiments.

Btw, the constitution was created by Nigerians, not northerners

The legislatures are from all over the country making laws and changing it, so its not a northern constitution except you believe those representing us in the National assembly from the south are useless and fools, I don't see the need of saying the constitution favors the north.

if you think its legal, kindly back it up with constitutional references. until then, our discourse won't have a headway.

And let's keep it civil in the process.

babaolofin:


I guessed you are working for one of the internal collaborators. Amotekun will consume all the internal collaborators when the time comes. You called Amotekun regional police. What makes it an acceptable model to all Southern States and illegality to the North? You talk about emotions and sentiment, if my people are killed and driven away from their farm land without any assistance from those empowered by the constitution, then I should not find solution.

I was at government house, Ibadan in year 2000 when Buhari led some Arewa elders with Fulani militia to read riot act to late governor Lam Adesina over the killing of Fulanis at a Saki community. The entire governor's office was under siege and duress that day. Was that not an emotion and sentiment? Can Obasanjo or Akinriade leads Yoruba leaders with OPC members to Kaduna governor's office to give warning to the governor over the killing of Yorubas? Things cannot continue forever this way. The entire South is united on Amotekun. There is no going back on prevention of terrorism and mass killings in South West and South in general. If what happened in Benue should happen in South West, all the internal collaborators will be consumed.

hollowpot15684:


I like your reasoning on the fact that you recognize that its possible the governors consulted Tinubu before they took the step, its not possible for such thing to happen without his consent, all I see is wise politics been played here.

If it were to be Ipobians, they would have announced right from the first day of the meeting.

deji17:


Omo Igbo criminal, you are just a rabble rouser. A nobody seeking attention. Amotekun will flush criminals like you out of our South west. Be very afraid

deji17:


Story for the gods... You are a conquered people, so shut up when your masters are discussing..

Ustec:


Checkmate
FG finally agrees to the formalization of amotekun,
Pure politics being played by the FG and the jagaban himself,
Just to douse the tension in southeast.
Ipobians will start reacting soon,
Just watch

hollowpot15684:


LoL.
I actually saw that coming, something kept telling me that this must be the game of Chess.

It's a Mini-Checkmate anyway, the major one will be played by 2023, Yorubas had mastered the Nigerian politics, we don't use threat, weapons or hate speech, we only use pure diplomacy and common sense.

Ustec:

You're right,
The constitution will surely be amended or restructured by 2023(might even be part of the campaign strategies that APC will use to win the heart of the Easterners)
It will be operation restructure or no elections from the East.
Everybody don wise.!

Ustec:

You're right,
The constitution will surely be amended or restructured by 2023(might even be part of the campaign strategies that APC will use to win the heart of the Easterners)
It will be operation restructure or no elections from the East.
Everybody don wise.!