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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by todugo(m): 11:25pm On Mar 06, 2023
rottennaija:


He is igbo. He removed the other igbo names. But when you get in Twitter, you will see that the guy is igbo, he is IPOB etc
Keep wailing. You will wail more after election

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Oluwomonext212(m): 11:26pm On Mar 06, 2023
Egbon u fit take 5 yrs senior this Gbadebo or make una be age mate … e sure for SanwoOlu but try dey reason well say na good thing say ur age bracket even get mind dey contest lagos governorship while u are here cursing like African Magic baba lawo. Gbadebo and myself are in the same age bracket, hence the reason I’m giving so much kudos to him and the youths who have stood up to take the country back. While sending a clearer message that Nigeria politics can never again be a business as usual…..
Roboto11:
grin

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by RealityGod: 11:26pm On Mar 06, 2023
Faber:
This one don dey campaign seriously now 💪💥
Sanwo-Olu keep writing letters okay...🤣🤣

Like baba obasanjo

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Basicend: 11:26pm On Mar 06, 2023
I am an obi supporter. . But I tell you this clown is waisting his time.

We Yorubas will vote Sanwo this time. I am sorry.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Thegamingorca(m): 11:27pm On Mar 06, 2023
helinues:
Gbadebo will lose this election even Jupiter residents go feel am.

Imagine those who care less about the development of their region want to impose failure Gbadebo on us who has no family achievement not to talk of political achievements. Thunder punish devil

We go show una say SW na indeed Sophisticated West

Atowunrinwa can not lord over us

Nah no structure ppl dey vote for not gbadebo incase you don't know.
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by davidtemi(m): 11:27pm On Mar 06, 2023
Gossiphub:


Like Apostle Paul😆😆
And Obasanjo
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by MatrixCircle: 11:27pm On Mar 06, 2023
Sanwo don dey get heart attack hmmmm
This na son of the soil if APC like make them go kpaii thier brother because of fear of loosen. The boy is now the face of opposition party in Lagos. He will win.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by helinues: 11:28pm On Mar 06, 2023
Skyview01:


How old are you?

What is the level of your education?

Do you have a meaningful employment in Lagos?

Do you have any property in Lagos?.

How much taxes do you pay to Lagos State per annum?.

I will answer your questions if you can answer the above.

How many countries have you ever being in your life?

Let me start my question from there. You want to be using your penury level to be judging others abi...

Raadarada
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Manofnaija: 11:28pm On Mar 06, 2023
[i][/i]
Goodconcept78:
WHY IS IT THAT IT IS THE IGBOS THAT ARE PUSHING THIS GUY THE MOST. LOL

Clear up your eyes and see .
Gbadebo is a Lagosian contesting for governor of Lagos state through LP.
It's the youths movement and not of Igbos.
Stop your tribalistic propaganda.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Pclemenza: 11:28pm On Mar 06, 2023
helinues:
Gbadebo will lose this election even Jupiter residents go feel am.

Imagine those who care less about the development of their region want to impose failure Gbadebo on us who has no family achievement not to talk of political achievements. Thunder punish devil

We go show una say SW na indeed Sophisticated West

Atowunrinwa can not lord over us
We all know who the devil is and YES, thunder go punish devil.
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by shegra58: 11:29pm On Mar 06, 2023
obi4eze:
This guy has won the election. E sure die. That's why Sanwo Olu who avoided debate is now sending epistles everyday to Lagosians.

Sanwo Olu's boys just tried using the ethnic weapon which backfired during the Presidential elections. They just succeeded in making him more popular. Sanwo Olu has nothing to campaign with and is really afraid that the only thing he will try doing is rigging.

But victory is sure for Gbadebo. He is the next governor. The structure and thieving dynasty in which Sanwo Olu is a houseboy must be broken.
we tell you before presidential election say Obi no fit be president and we're telling you again now that Gbadebo will never be Governor of lagos state

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by press9jatv: 11:31pm On Mar 06, 2023
Sanwo Olu don lose joor. Lagos youths are heavily prepared to votes out Sanwo Olu from power. Sanwo Olu is a goner joor

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by tianshie(m): 11:33pm On Mar 06, 2023
Basicend:
I am an obi supporter. . But I tell you this clown is waisting his time.

We Yorubas will vote Sanwo this time. I am sorry.


I am Yoruba, too, and I'm not voting Sanwo the agama lizard, who is Tinubu's omolangidi.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by gasparpisciotta: 11:33pm On Mar 06, 2023
DSC7:
Every structure of Godfatherism and criminality in Lagos state must be dismantled🔥🔥🔥🔥


Labour Party all the way!!!


Obi is Coming!!!

Okoro will not win

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Denoh68: 11:33pm On Mar 06, 2023
EPIJOE:


*Yorubas, Igbos And The Lagos Question*
*When a former* *Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of…*

By
*John Olufemi Kusa*
*Sun, 17 Mar 2019 3:35:18 WAT*


*When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.*

*I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.*

*Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.*

*The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?*

*Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?*

*Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?*

*OKOTA BALLOT BOX*

*As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.*

*But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.*

*Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.*

*Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.*

*In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.*

*Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique*

*Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.*

*So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.*

*Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?*

*That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.*

*The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?*

*JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE*

*The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.*

*The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.*

*Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?*

*I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.*

*Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?*

*It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.*

*What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.*

*The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.*

*Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos.*
WHO JAILED AWOLOWO AND WHO RELEASED HIM. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN OR POSTED BECAUSE IT WILL BE IN YOUR FAVOR. WHEN YOU STATE THE REASON AWOLOWO WAS JAILED, WHO MASTERMINDED IT AND WHO RELEASED HIM, WHY HE WAS RELEASED THEN I WILL TAKE TIME AND READ WHAT YOU JUST POSTED. THANKS
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by LooKseeFar: 11:34pm On Mar 06, 2023
PlayerMeji:
In fact, what the ObidienDs are bringing into Nigerian politics is very dangerous and must be rejected by all.

Now the only thing needed to win any election in Nigeria is to claim that you are fighting for the Youth and the masses. No ideology!

If ObidienDs get into power, another group will come up with the same plan, telling the electorate that they are fighting for the masses...

Now there would be no clear cut ideologies that would form the base of any party... Unlike in saner climes, where they have two or max three political parties with very clear and known ideals. Democrats and Republicans come to mind in the US...




Keep crying and wailing please, we love your tears.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Ilaje1: 11:34pm On Mar 06, 2023
DSC7:
Every structure of Godfatherism and criminality in Lagos state must be dismantled🔥🔥🔥🔥


Labour Party all the way!!!


Obi is Coming!!!

Someone like you are typing with emotion and without sense. Bode George is the godfather of GRV if you don't know. When Jandor refused to make him PDP, he ported to Labour. Most Pdp through Bode are working for him.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by ndidibabe(f): 11:35pm On Mar 06, 2023
DSC7:
Every structure of Godfatherism and criminality in Lagos state must be dismantled🔥🔥🔥🔥


Labour Party all the way!!!


Obi is Coming!!!
You guys like deceiving una sef sha. Any reasonable person should know that Sanwo Olu can not loose this election. It is highly impossible!

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Krublog(m): 11:35pm On Mar 06, 2023
PlayerMeji:
In fact, what the ObidienDs are bringing into Nigerian politics is very dangerous and must be rejected by all.

Now the only thing needed to win any election in Nigeria is to claim that you are fighting for the Youth and the masses. No ideology!

If ObidienDs get into power, another group will come up with the same plan, telling the electorate that they are fighting for the masses...

Now there would be no clear cut ideologies that would form the base of any party... Unlike in saner climes, where they have two or max three political parties with very clear and known ideals. Democrats and Republicans come to min d in the US...

Ok,
Tell the ideologies of both APC and the PDP.

Una don abandon the "no structure" mantra?

Lagosians and NIGERIANS will determine their fates politically.

Enough is enough!!!
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by sholazy(m): 11:36pm On Mar 06, 2023
PlayerMeji:
In fact, what the ObidienDs are bringing into Nigerian politics is very dangerous and must be rejected by all.

Now the only thing needed to win any election in Nigeria is to claim that you are fighting for the Youth and the masses. No ideology!

If ObidienDs get into power, another group will come up with the same plan, telling the electorate that they are fighting for the masses...

Now there would be no clear cut ideologies that would form the base of any party... Unlike in saner climes, where they have two or max three political parties with very clear and known ideals. Democrats and Republicans come to mind in the US...

So what is the ideology of the other parties that have been ruling Nigeria since 1999?

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by helinues: 11:36pm On Mar 06, 2023
Pclemenza:
We all know who the devil is and YES, thunder go punish devil.

I swear, the devil are in agony cos of the so many evil wishes which they wished others but turned to calamity to them..
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Denoh68: 11:36pm On Mar 06, 2023
BABAawoo47:
Ijaw? Ijaw isn't even present in ogun or any other neighboring state...
So explain how ijaw land there?
ALL THE COSTAL ARES IN ONDO, PARTS OF LAGOS, OGUN ALL BELONG TO IJAW PEOPLE. GO AND READ YOUR HISTORY BOOKS WELL. AND THEY WILL SOON DECLARE IZON REPUBLIC AND CLAIM ALL THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS.
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by Nobody: 11:36pm On Mar 06, 2023
helinues:


How many countries have you ever being in your life?

Let me start me question from there. You want to be using your penury level to be judging others abi...

Raadarada

Forgive me my Helinues, i am not judging you based on what you have or not. I will be the last person to do that.

I only asked those questions because your response was totally irrelevant and not related to the thread, Lagos State Governorship elections as regards residents of Lagos.
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by helinues: 11:37pm On Mar 06, 2023
Skyview01:


Forgive me my Helinues, i am not judging you based on what you have or not. I will be the last person to do that.

I only asked those questions because your response was totally irrelevant and not related to the thread, Lagos State Governorship elections as regards residents of Lagos.












My response was to let you know I am above those questions. No up Nepa here

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by royalmu: 11:40pm On Mar 06, 2023
Legemiami will not be happy.
Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by VEHINTOLAR: 11:40pm On Mar 06, 2023
OSU wants to be a governor in Yoruba land,ti Iyalaya yin ma baje ni ! We shall see,se l'ori iya yin o pe ni,as in this side looks like Anambra or Enugu to you fools,right ?

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by UncommonLogic: 11:40pm On Mar 06, 2023
Versal:

Go, cast your one vote.
Watch the young man repair Lagos
May he he will repair Aba. He cannot rule our Lagos. It will not happen, just like pandora pathological liar Obi tuary failed, he will fail too.
We don't vote for people because they are young, we vote competence and records not mere promises.

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Re: Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party Governorship Candidate Campaigns At Lagos Markets by greggng: 11:41pm On Mar 06, 2023
EPIJOE:


*Yorubas, Igbos And The Lagos Question*
*When a former* *Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of…*

By
*John Olufemi Kusa*
*Sun, 17 Mar 2019 3:35:18 WAT*


*When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.*

*I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.*

*Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.*

*The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?*

*Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?*

*Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?*

*OKOTA BALLOT BOX*

*As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.*

*But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.*

*Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.*

*Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.*

*In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.*

*Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique*

*Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.*

*So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.*

*Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?*

*That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.*

*The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?*

*JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE*

*The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.*

*The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.*

*Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?*

*I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.*

*Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?*

*It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.*

*What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.*

*The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.*

*Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos.*


All.i can see is a write up.becloulded by poir sense of judgement . All I see tribalism taking to the extreme .

The question a sensible person will ask is simple.have igbos produced a governorship candidate in lagos ?

Does igbos have right to vote for any candidate of there choice in lagos ?

Does not voting for tinubu ad his criminal gang amount to igbos trying to takeover lagos?

Since the yorubas and hausas have this deep rooted sentiment born put of tribalism for igbos why are the reluctant to let them.go with there biafra ?

If a yoruba man can be given a political appointment in United Kingdom and a igbo man given a political appointment in Canada...so why can't Nigerians be free to contest election in any part of Nigeria they like . Kanu is right to say this country is a zoo.

Igbos in lagos always support tinubu and his gang . Most of the times the igbos listen to there eze ndigbo in lagos and vote along his directions . Right now other yorubas that are tired of being tinubu slave are saying enough is enough ...that tinubu ruling lagos for live is not his birth right . If igbos decided to vote for any candidate that impresses them ...I wonder the essence of this write up . You can wipe up all kinds of sentiments but mind you igbos are not afraid of anyone in this country . All this can even enhance the quick actualisation of biafra .. On Saturday igbos and other well meaning Nigerians will vote out tinubu in lagos ...and nothing will happen cos another worthy yoruba son will replace him in lagos ..lagosians will be free on Saturday

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