[quote author=Okealaaye post=118097467]
the author of this epistle is a literate illiterate, let me point out something clark is urhobo not ijaw. The formation of the first post independent nigerian government was influenced by britain through the outgoing governor general to handover power to the north before azikiwe could say pim james robertson had declared npc the majority in the house and the rest is history.

Am not against Tinubu as a person but for 8 years as party national leader please tell me what he said about economy, high cost of food, high inflation, banditary,boko haram, insecurity , poverty, and reclessness of some of his chieftains , the promises are uncountable the delivery is zero tell me why I should vote APC with over 815/$ God forbid evils we can hardly eat daily meal

You dey mind these people...So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lolYou dey mind these people...So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol...

Felixamos:
But people mumu well, well oh.. APC dey campaign to save Nigeria from APC and some brainless idiots here dey support them? Them do una? Another set of idiots na the mikanites...

I'll be voting for the first time in this coming election and the candidate I'll be voting for is Peter Obi..
No be say him dey perfect but when you put all the presidential aspirants together, na only Obi I dey see..

If they ask you now you will say you're voting for Peter Obi not labour party so why can't we say the same thing that it's the person of Ashiwaju we are voting not APC

TinubuThief:

The Emilokan bastard that doesn't know whether he is alive or dead sef

He has already lost touch with reality

I like the lyrics of your wailing. I shall increase the volume.���

Drsnives:

You get sense.at all?
Why didn't him speak out when things were going wrong, his wife even had the audacity to shut smart adeyemi up at the Chambers cos he was speaking the truth.
All these urchins una no wise at all..

Go and speak for him na... ignorance everywhere

Why did Peter Obi not speak against the wrongs in Jonathan's government? '


Ignorance

Marvins009:
Why didn’t he turn Nigeria around when he was Vice President?

And APC made a bad situation worse.

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Why do you think we voted out pdp in the first place, even after Yaradua did well?

My point is simple:
Your candidate represents your party.

Buhari failed, hence Apc failed.

BeardedMeat:
And APC made a bad situation worse.

Apc supporters are 100% hypocrites

sirtipaiga:


But Tinubu said he brought Buhari to be the president.

Yes he did..

But he also said he did not ask for contract, appointments or anything.

This is Buhari's government. QED

27Pushing30:


You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

So now the push and start guy wants to rescue you from the pit he threw you into since 2015? Same goes for Atiku.

Manofnaija:



If he claims that he made Buhari president, he should also be in the forefront of the administration, especially, with his intention to succeed Buhari

So you haven't heard tales of how people a person "helped" turned out to IGNORE Them? ladies trained by men who end of refusing to marry the man etc?

When person dey find help dem dey loyal

27Pushing30:


Go and speak for him na... ignorance everywhere

Why did Peter Obi not speak against the wrongs in Jonathan's government? '


Ignorance

Tinubu that wants to continue buhari's work?
And your case is what??

Hardened ignorance.

I honestly don’t understand you.

Manofnaija:


I are not saying the truth and you know it.

27Pushing30:


Yes he did..

But he also said he did not ask for contract, appointments or anything.

This is Buhari's government. QED

His boys were appointed and his company got road contracts in the north please.

He doesn't have anything to offer abeg.
We are tired of packaging of old cargos like Atiku and TINUBU.

Go and rest.
APC and PDP bye bye

Tinubu took Yoruba race to center for the first time what a dumb statement. So Obasanjo is not Yoruba because he was not endorsed by Tinubu? What I can deduce from your statement is Tinubu interest represents Yoruba interest, anything aside Tinubu interest is not Yoruba interest. No wonder in Lagos if your follow Yoruba is contesting against Tinubu's candidate you guys will tag it that Igbo want to take over Lagos. What a sophisticated people indeed.

Okealaaye:

Adebanjo And Clark’s Distortion Of History

By

Jide Oluwajuyitan

On Nov 3, 2022

Culture and history are critical for the survival of any society. The former with its social, educational and spiritual dimensions, allows us to understand ourselves and why things are the way they are while the latter, as record of past events, allows us to find a pathway for the future.

Unfortunately, the ongoing battle for Igbo presidency by the duo of Pa Edwin Clark and Ayo Adebanjo is at best a distortion of our recent cultural and historical experiences. Their repeated warning of imminent disintegration of the country if there is no Igbo presidency by 2023 is seen by many as a strategy to remain relevant even at 94 forgetting the world is a stage.

Pa Clark has been reminded by many concerned Nigerians that if he so loves the Igbo, he should demonstrate such love by ensuring charity starts from home. He was part of the Gowon cabinet that set up David Mark-led Abandoned Properties Committee after the civil war. Instead of issuing inciting statements to mislead our youths who have no knowledge of our history, he as leader of Ijaw nation, should prevail on his people to release Igbo properties confiscated since 1970 by Ijaws who rightly claim ownership of the land on which the properties were erected. After all, the Igbo returned to Lagos after the civil war not only to take possession of their properties, but rents collected for them by their Yoruba hosts including Pa Subomi Balogun who was said to have handed huge funds to the late vice president, Alex Ekwueme upon his return to Lagos after the civil war.

Following Pa Clark passion and drive for Igbo presidency, many have also wondered when the love between him, his people and the Igbo nation started. I am sure concerned Nigerians just want to be sure Pa Clark is not driven by opportunism just to remain relevant because what we have on record is that he and his Ijaw nation, for fear of their more aggressive and resourceful Igbo neighbours, have since independence sought refuge under Hausa-Fulani in faraway north. Not too long ago, I think it was Tanko Yakassai , one of the founding fathers of Arewa Consultative Forum, who reminded Clark of this historical fact .

As for Ayo Adebanjo, he apparently just couldn’t stand the success of his son. When he claimed ownership of the carcass of AD after Obasanjo’s deadly blow to the party in 2003, Tinubu left him with his trophy to form the AC that later metamorphosed into ACN, the platform he used to retrieve Obasanjo’s stolen governorship victories in Yoruba strongholds of Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. Adebanjo reluctantly praised his son for saving the West from Obasanjo.

But Adebanjo became green with envy when Tinubu aligned his ACN with Buhari’s CPC and other parties to form the APC that took Yoruba mainstream political tendency to the centre for the first time since independence in 1960. Adebanjo vigorously campaigned against APC in 2015 just as he did in 2019 when he railroaded Afenifere to supporting Atiku and Peter Obi ticket against Buhari and Osinbajo, his son. Pa Adebanjo lost out on both occasions precisely because Yoruba voters are never led by the nose.

This is why many believe his current endorsement of Obi as the only man who would restructure the country will probably not count for much. This is because, unlike 2015 and 2019, the stakes are higher in 2023. For the Yoruba, “omo eni ki buru, kale f’ekun je”(your child cannot be so disobedient that you drive him to the lion’s den). That was the message of last Sunday’s public endorsement of Bola Tinubu by Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the respected and undisputed leader of Afenifere who believes Tinubu, his son, is better equipped and better prepared to tackle Nigerian problems than Peter Obi.

Unfortunately, while trying to cry louder than the bereaved, Adebanjo and Clark have not clearly defined what they mean by Igbo marginalisation. If it is in terms of the breach of federal character principle as President Buhari has been accused of doing with his lopsided appointment into sensitive positions, Igbo maximized the same opportunity under Balewa and Ironsi 1959-1966 and between 2011 and 2015 when they hijacked Jonathan government.

However, if by Igbo marginalization, Pa Clark and Adebanjo, meant exclusion of Igbo from the presidency, we also have no evidence Igbo political leaders have at any time expressed regret for the choices they have always made. What history tells us is that Igbo might have not been at the driver’s seat, they and Hausa Fulani jointly ruled Nigeria between 1959 and 2015. (General Alabi Isama “the Tragedy of Victory’)

And we cannot escape history.

In the 1959 election, Igbo dominated NCNC came first with about 2.6m votes, followed by AG with 2m votes and Ahmadu Bello’s NPC coming a distant third with 1.9m votes. Rather than form an alliance with AG and lead the country, Igbo leadership settled for NPC as an obedient beautiful bride. Their choice earned them juicy cabinet positions including the portfolios of Finance, Works, Transportation, Education, External Affairs, leadership of Nigeria railways, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Nsukka and Yaba College of Technology among others.

In 1979, Igbo NPP came third after NPN and UPN. As it was in the first republic, Zik/NPP declared themselves the beautiful bride. NPP leaders including the revered rebel leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu who returned from exile after the war decided the way forward for the Igbo was a working alliance with NPN. Again the deal earned them the Senate presidency and speakership of the Lower house among other juicy cabinet portfolios.

In 1993, Igbo supported Tofa against MKO Abiola. And when Abiola against all odds won the election, some Igbo leaders led by Arthur Nzeribe and others, fearing there will be nothing to ‘chop’, provided dubious intellectual support for Babangida to annul the election. And when Abiola was incarcerated for winning an election, Igbo leaders including the revered Odumegwu Ojukwu who served as Abacha’s envoy to Europe to de-market MKO Abiola on account of his many wives, kept demonizing him in the media until his mysterious death.

In 1999, Igbo rejected Olu Falae , the Yoruba candidate to join the northern establishment and their retired military generals to impose Obasanjo who was roundly rejected by the Youruba, as president. And while vindictive Obasanjo marginalized Yoruba for eight years, the stars of his administration were prominent Igbos including Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chukwuma Soludo, Oby Ezekwesili, the Uba brothers and others. The joke among Igbo was with Obasanjo as president, Igbo nation needed no president of Ibo extraction.

President Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan’s government 2011-2915, with Anyim Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, like Obasanjo’s administration before it, was an Igbo government. Okonjo-Iweala, the de-facto prime minister, did not deny allegation Igbo took over her ministry and parastatals under her but tried to educate Nigerians that Igbo secured their positions on merit.

For the Igbo political elite, there are no regrets for their preference to serve our nation as ‘the beautiful bride’. The only people losing sleep over perceived Igbo marginalization are attention-seeking Pa Edwin Clark and his friend Pa Ayo Adebanjo who on Arise TV on Monday justified his support for Peter Obi by claiming that apart from him, there is no other living Yoruba that has so faithfully served the Yoruba nation.

Marvins009:
Why didn’t he turn Nigeria around when he was Vice President?

oga don't just go there o. Obj's 8 years is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better than buhari's 8 years, I swear. At the end of that tenure Nigeria had the lowest debt profile in history.

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Taken over the show?

Meaning you agree that Buhari's APC has destroyed the economy, as a result of his men's sidelining Tinubu, so why is Tinubu saying he is gonna continue Buhari's legacy? This same legacy of failure?

Okealaaye:


You call Tinubu, a man "made in the image and likeness of God" baboon! Imagine what they would have called a German who should call Tinubu baboon! You call Tinubu Bastard! A man who apparently hasn't offended you in any way personally! A man who is obviously better than you in any classification by which success is categorised! You may not know it yet, but all reasonable people know that you're hateful, cruel and without a good soul. I wonder what you'll call Tinubu in May next year when he becomes president of Nigeria, when his Portrait as president will hang on the wall overlooking your Eze Igwe in your Town Hall? Remember that you're not God who declares the end from the beginning! God has blessed Tinubu in all areas of human desires. So you curse him at your own peril!

He has offended me and Nigerians.

Dollars is 800 and Tinubu said he would continue with Buhari's legacies that brought us to where we are.

That's someone father.
If someone said this nasty things to your father I hope u'll like it..?.
Our support for the Presidential candidate of our choice should not make us to lose sense of respect for elders.
That if at all we've got one.

TinubuThief:

The Emilokan bastard that doesn't know whether he is alive or dead sef

He has already lost touch with reality

Senator777:
Despite the fact that I'm not in support of APC,

So, Atiku is so clueless to the point that he doesn't know that Tinubu was sideline by bubu. Tinubu was completely cut off as soon as bubu won the election the first time. He came back to Tinubu when he realized that he can't win without his support when the second term election was very close.

I kept on telling as many as those that will listen, North will disappoint Tinubu. Fulani has no political party, they follow any party that favor their ambition.

Southerners need to wake up.

But Tinubu kept saying he would continue with Buhari's legacies, meaning he agrees with the failure that Buhari has achieved

Tzar:
Werey, were you not in APC in 2015? What did you do to avert the Buhari disaster?
Who did Buhari listen to while he mismanaged Nigeria?
Obasanjo, Jonathan, Tinubu, Pastor Bakare and many others kept going to Aso Rock until they realized that they were talking to a wall.
Have idiots like Atiku forgotten how Tinubu was sidelined and relegated by Buhari to the delight of enemies? How then did he expect Tinubu to help?!
I swear most Nigerians are MAD! with their selective amnesia!

Oga stop that rubbish talk, here is kemi adeosun, former fin min, confirming that the fg was using tinubu's economic plan.
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-states-using-tinubus-economic-policies-says-adeosun/

27Pushing30:


So you haven't heard tales of how people a person "helped" turned out to IGNORE Them? ladies trained by men who end of refusing to marry the man etc?

When person dey find help dem dey loyal

And then the same guy who is jilted would keep saying she did well abi and

Marvins009:
Why didn’t he turn Nigeria around when he was Vice President?

That question is one question you don't want to talk about but you must say the truth and shame the devil. Obasanjo and Atiku left the treasury depth free and the economy was not as bad as this. He us still a thief .

Tzar:
Werey, were you not in APC in 2015? What did you do to avert the Buhari disaster?
Who did Buhari listen to while he mismanaged Nigeria?
Obasanjo, Jonathan, Tinubu, Pastor Bakare and many others kept going to Aso Rock until they realized that they were talking to a wall.
Have idiots like Atiku forgotten how Tinubu was sidelined and relegated by Buhari to the delight of enemies? How then did he expect Tinubu to help?!
I swear most Nigerians are MAD! with their selective amnesia!

Honestly...

If Tinubu's supporters had an atom of sense, they would avoid this thread and not come up with any smelling defense of "Buhari abandoned his'.

How do you defend the Buhari abandoned him rhetoric when Tinubu keep saying Buhari has done well and he is going to continue his legacy?

Tinubu says he is going to step into Buhari's shoes, how do you say the same person was abandoned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnhlmP3eSM

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

He could have Atlest speak out not being in ghost mood for 7 yrs

Atiku AKA political tourist, will be permanently retired to the United Arab Emirates after the 2023 election.