anonimi:


Thanks for this timely reminder that is very relevant to the issue of discussion.
Can you please explain how one senator equals each, every and all Yorubas? I don't get it.
If he is an idiot, please let him have & enjoy his label alone without roping other millions of Yorubas with the idiotA.

yeyeosoronga:
You have a very valid point.
Every region should have their own commission, and funding should come from a percentage of whatever they contribute to the center.

Perhaps, that will make every state to sit up, and not just continue to wait for handouts from the center.
But most Importantly, we have to start holding our leaders accountable to us, and every kobo spent must be accounted for.

Cherez:
I agree with you but read up the arguments of most SW people here; first it's Igbos who are against the bill even leaving out the northerner and excluding the Delta narrative they bear when they wanna say some part of SS isn't SE.

Fortune109:



My brother!


I just dey reason the scenario in which every region wants a commission ni o

After all we already have NDDC and NEDC

What's good for the goose is also good for the gander

anonimi:


One should not join the senseless, mud-loving crowd in their shenanigans.
Many think I am not Yoruba because I don't join the herd mentality but focus on governance matters that is better when we have autonomous regions as was the case before January 1966.


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alsudan:
If we now have a North East development commission, why can’t we have one in the South West?

Don’t know what the Middle Belt Legislators are waiting for, they should demand same.

odave:
But North-East Development commission and NDDC did and will not balkanize the country. Yeye dey smell. Every part of Nigeria can form any development commission and security outfit. There's no need for silence like before, we all deserve to partake in national cake.

If the people representing your region hardly talk in the house or make move but do things like business as usual, OYO is your case, don't come here and shout marginalization later, you hear?

northvietnam:
I just love these new politicians from south west... they don’t ass lick the Caliphate , then no send any son of a bitch from north side...

Only if Tinubu and Obj was like them

For those quoting me....

Didn’t una notice the silence and Indrect attack my the caliphate on Amotekun.. but these new breeds of politicians have them a middle finger , went on to pass Amotekun bill by every state legislative house in South west, not minding that they might enter into the wrong books of the caliphate. Now a senator is moving for SW Development commission...

ezenwajosh:



Oh son its not true something triggered their anger that's the fact that....the north has played them for too long to the extent of replacing late buhari instead of OSINABAJO TAKING OVER

THEY ARE ONLY DOING WHAT EVER THEY CAN TO PAY THE NORTH BACK OR TO MAKE THE NORTH ANGRY AND PUSH THEM SOUTH WEST POLITICIANS TO EITHER SAY THE TRUTH

sapientia:
Delta people,

See una Nwobosi.

Big fool.

If it was North Now, he will keep quiet.

And our south East Senators could not call the clown to order.

The south is their own problem.

And the most stupid ones are on Nairaland calling each other Igbos and afonja.

There is no personality I hate like any Igbo or Yoruba insulting each other's tribe.

Makes me sick.



You my friend is sick and need help.

unbitchable:
The fear of SW will haunt down all of you. Special status for Lagos was shouted down, Southwest Dev. Commission, shouted down too. How can infrastructural funding of SW leads to the balkanization of the country?. i thought ibos says nigeria can't do without them but truly we have always known that the rest of the country are scared of the possibility of SW leaving y'all behind. Don't come here absolving ibos of this sabotage cos Nwaboshi is representing ibos from Delta north, same way Southeast & Northern senators opposed special status for Lagos. When it comes to betrayal, ibos play second fiddle to their hausa/fulani masters against SW, yet they form the largest number of economic refugees across SW. i hate double faced idiots.

MONIKERREVEALER:


Guy don't even bother engaging that loser!!!

He was seriously hoping that a "south east" igbo man was amongst the opposers to this latest afonja development commission but alas it was a "south south" igbo who he always maintains are not igbos but "aniomas" and hence we the "south east" igbos should leave them alone and stop "attaching"!!!

hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

he is too much of a coward to do anything about the exploitation and degradation of his "south south' so his only respite is to e-fight we, the great igbos, on as many online fora as possible!!!

sophisticated ishekiri coward!!!

bilulu:

What good has all those brought if not to enlarge the pockets of the politicians. If truly we are committed to the country we don't need NDDC or NEDC to bring development. Las las my brother all those commissions na scam

sapientia:
Delta people,

See una Nwobosi.

Big fool.

If it was North Now, he will keep quiet.

And our south East Senators could not call the clown to order.

The south is their own problem.

And the most stupid ones are on Nairaland calling each other Igbos and afonja.

There is no personality I hate like any Igbo or Yoruba insulting each other's tribe.

Makes me sick.



You my friend is sick and need help.

sapientia:
Delta people,

See una Nwobosi.

Big fool.

If it was North Now, he will keep quiet.

And our south East Senators could not call the clown to order.

The south is their own problem.

And the most stupid ones are on Nairaland calling each other Igbos and afonja.

There is no personality I hate like any Igbo or Yoruba insulting each other's tribe.

Makes me sick.



You my friend is sick and need help.

President2031:


Mumu Yorubas have not seen anything.

You want more Niger delta oil money with your South west commission bill. NO WAY.

If you are not ready to fight for the division of this country Nigeria for us to go our celebrate ways and have our own passport not commission, then please remain in Nigeria and stop looking at Niger delta oil money.

You think we are fools? Even after rejecting our brother Jonathan you’re talking rubbish.

ERockson:
Almost every region is having or about to get one. I knew IPOB will openly oppose SW development commission

Oshigun:


It seems others are too slow to understand that Yorubas are moving subtly towards regionalism and freeing themselves from the burdensome yoke of Nigeria. This time it won't be one Awolowo struggling on his own and being backstabbed by many turncoat Yorubas. The way Makinde of PDP worked in solidarity with APC Governors over Amotekun is proof the political divide-and-conquer days of Obasanjo, that saw Yoruba leaders working at cross-purposes and against themselves, may be over.

Duru1:


Yoruba can move towards heaven, regionalism and truest of federalism, I do not care. All I want is total and unconditional disintegration of the shithole called Nigeria. I prefer Republic of Igbo land to Biafra. I do not care if what is left for the republic is sand.

Stevecovey:


Tell them. Some silly people are here dissing tinubu, as if amosuns bill wasn't supported by remi Tinubu in the Senate. Or Tinubu was not aware as fashola transferred some dilapidated federal buildings to lagos state management. BAT is a wise man, you don't get anything done through posturing and talking too much. People dt want personal glory do that, and they hardly get anything done.

sapientia:


If you think Yorubas are your problem.

You are terribly sick and need help.

emkz:
Eventually, Nigeria shall develop along regional lines. Where one region currently contributes the bulk of government earnings is meaningless in the long run and ballooning population.

Niger-Delta sells oil which proceeds can be used to buy food from the North and North-Central. The South-West is the gateway of foreign goods influx into the country = taxes and levies/duties on imports. Not to forget cocoa which can be exported to Belgium and Switzerland. Boasting of a sizeable population, people can also be taxed to raise revenue. The South-East shall be the manufacturing hub and commercial nerve of a regionalized Nigeria. Each region federates itself, have its own police, enforces its own laws and even conduct its own elections. We scrap the Senate and have three representatives from each region to meet twice a month to legislate on matters of common interests. Each region contributes 32% to a central government to oversee immigration matters, customs, national police, regional regulation, Supreme Court, army, national infrastructure, common examinations, currency and stock market.

That way, development is closer to the people. As it is now, I don't know my LG chairman, or state and federal representative. But Fulani herdsmen rioting is Buhari's fault, whereas the governor should be held responsible.

PS: Regional heads chosen by the people elect one of themselves or a neutral person as Chairman who oversees the country (and represent us in international meetings) with the regional heads as vice-chairmen overseeing the regions. Regions can have 1000 members in their regional assemblies, it is their business so long as they can pay them. We need a lean center. Nigeria is too big and heterogeneous to be centrally managed or policed.