5starMan:

A criminal projected Sanwolu and you guys never complained about inexperience.
Now a man with no records of criminality is projecting GRV you now remembered experience.

Your comment is appreciated but you see, it wasnt the same scenario. SO had served as a Commissioner before as well as in corporate management capacity in a position accountable to stakeholders and investors. There was some level of public sector and management experience before he was selected for Governorship. GRV has nada.

Kasiyya:
Tinubu is about to be uprooted in Lagos..

Epele Mr. Gardener. Shiioor

ppogba:


A google search would have cured your stupidity.

He was the MD of a Lagos Govt agency involved in housing before serving as a commissioner for special duties.

That’s not enough still doesn’t worth it to be the governor of Lagos

datola:
Honestly, GRV cannot stand Sanwo-Olu's experience in all ramifications.

It is also true he might not be as corrupt as the experienced one.

He is yet to be tested for corruption viability. Until then no one can vouch for him.

IyaebeTheGreat:
I’m just being human. He really need to rest and move on

we must retake our mandate

Omicronvaccine:
Rufai: GRV Doesn’t Have Experience; Obi: Yes, He Doesn’t Have Experience In Corruption



https://igberetvnews.com/1440663/rufai-grv-doesnt-experience-obi-yes-doesnt-experience-corruption/

OBA OF LAGOS IS NOT A LAGOSIAN LIKE THE EMIR OF ILORIN IS NOT A YORUBA MAN— Let Oba Rilwan Akiolu Tell Nigerians his Ethnic Ancestry and Leave the Igbo Alone


Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD
Odogwu of Ibusa & Combatant Political Historian
Research Fellow@Exile, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
International Coordinator, Nigerian Diaspora Council for Defence of Democracy (NDCDD)
Email: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com

The English man Francis Bacon, the First BaronVerulam (1561-1625 wrote: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator.”

I am looking forward to the day when an Awori will become the Oba of Lagos, a Yoruba the Oba and not Emir of Ilorin, the Hausa Serikin Gobir the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Suleja returning as Serikin Zauzau (Zaria), a Nupe man of Tsuede ancestry taking over his ancestral Etsu Nupe throne in Bida, the Hama of Bachama sitting over the throne of Lamido of Adamwa, and all the expelled Hausa Serikin returning to take back all the positions the Fulani jihad Emirs occupy today. 

We are gradually moving to this stage of Nigeria’s history—Restoration Epoch. Actions and reactions are equal and opposite; so says Newton’s third law of motion. As our literary icon Chinua Achebe rightly put it: since the bird Eneke-Ntioba has learnt how to fly without perching, hunters have also learnt how to shoot without missing.

 A popular saying among the Igbo of West Niger says: “Abochaba akwa agadi-nwanyi abochaputa ife di anyaa.” When you dig into the cloth of an old woman you will definitely discover something messy. This is the case of the current contest over indigenes and non-indigenes of Lagos State and consequently the indigenous status of Oba of Lagos, His Majesty Rilwan Akiolu. To state the obvious, the current contest or debate over Igbo right of settlement in Lagos State is no more no less the contest for political relevant between two sets of non-indigenes of Lagos State and not between the indigenes and non-indigenes. 

The aborigines of Lagos State are by right of ancestral heirloom the Awori of the Lagos central axis up to Sango-Ota, the Ijebu of the Ikorodu and Epe axis who were annexed by the British rulers in 1894, the Egun of the Badagry axis who became part of Lagos by incident of Benin conquest and subsequent annexation by the British colonial administrators. Ironically none of these groups is presently in the forefront among those contesting the indigenous right of Lagos State. The Ijebu sub-group who form part of this aborigine class for sure has never been among those groups contesting the Igbo presence in Lagos State because they are as shrewd in business as the Igbo and thus posses the ability to match the Igbo head to head and toe to toe. On the other hand, the Awori and Egun are too estranged with their internal colonization by the Yoruba immigrants of Lagos State that they have never considered the Igbo their primary enemy or the cause of their political woes in their ancestral land.

Most importantly, it is historically necessary to point out that Lagos State is not a Yoruba land by core ethnographic definition. The Awori, Egun, and Ijebu are not ancestral Yoruba people. Those historically known as Yoruba are mainly the people of the present Oyo and Kwara States, popularly known as Oyo sub-group. Every other group of people outside the people of Oyo and Kwara State should be proud to identify themselves as Anago, including the Yoruba of Igboland known as Olukumi. This further explains why the Yoruba people of the Republics of Benin, Togo and, Sierra Leone reject Yoruba identity but adopt Anago as their official ethnicity.

Thus if your ancestry does not fall into any of these Lagos aborigines then you belong to part of the wider group of non-indigenes of Lagos State of which the Oba of Lagos His Majesty Oba Rilwan Akiolu is at the head. This is where the likes of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Femi Fani-Kayode rightly belong; yet these are the same people drumming up the rhythm of ethnic cacophony against the Igbo settlers of Lagos State. 

For instance, most of these thugs employed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intimidate, attack and burn Igbo dominated markets in Lagos State like M. C. Oluomo are descendants and children of Oyo taxi, danfo and molue drivers who metamorphosed from danfo and molue conductors to agbero and alaye miscreants. Check out their detailed identities and you will find out that no noble Eko, Awori, Egun, Ijebu, Egba, Yewa and other Anago sub-groups of Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Kogi, Edo and Delta States indigenes will allow their children to be part of these Lagos miscreants. 

This readily explains why the Oba of Lagos His Majesty Rilwan Akiolu and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu deviously employ these miscreants as their tools of political vendetta against the Igbo in Lagos State; because they, like these miscreants, cannot trace their ancestry to any of these aboriginal groups of Lagos State. The Oba of Lagos claims Edo ancestry while Bola Ahmed Tinubu traces his ancestry to Osun State. If this is untrue let both the Oba of Lagos and Bola Ahmed Tinubu tell Nigerians their true ancestry. So the issue of who owns Lagos State is not a dispute between the original indigenes and aborigines of Lagos State and, the Igbo, but a contest over political relevance between the immigrant indigenes of Lagos State collectively led by Oba Rilwan Akiolu and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Igbo immigrants of Lagos State.

On the other hand, the British Government had never accepted the Oba of Lagos as a true indigene of Lagos. For instance, in 1898 when the British administrators of the Territory and Colony of Lagos officially commissioned the Lagos-Abeokuta rail-line, they did not invite the Oba of Lagos, then known as the Eleko of Eko as the Chief Host because he was not considered a bona fide Yoruba king; instead the Alake of Egbaland was invited to officially commission the first train transport in Nigeria as a sovereign king then independent of the British colonial administration while the Oba of Lagos attended as an ordinary citizen. 

It is important to let the likes of Oba Rilwan Akiolu and Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the original indigenes of Lagos State and the entire Anago (Yoruba) nation have always seen their Igbo immigrants as allies and brothers. History is replete with this fact. Herbert Macaulay groomed Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and from that moment Lagos remained the stronghold of the defunct NCNC.

The minutes of the meeting of the Aburi Accord penultimate the Nigerian civil war showed that the then Administrator of Lagos Capital Territory Major Mobolaji Johnson not only declared the neutrality of Lagos in the conflict but openly supported Lt. Colonel Ojukwu’s position. He went further to protect the Igbo residents in Lagos and their property throughout the period of the civil war. Can Oba Rilwan Akiolu and Bola Ahmed Tinubu change this historical truism? 

Thus it will not be strange to history if Labour Party led by an Igbo wins Lagos State Governorship election the same way it won the Presidential election. Furthermore, it is striking to note that while the current Governor of Ondo State Rotimi Akeredolu is married to an Igbo woman, the current Governor of Osun State Ademola Adeleke is the son of an Igbo woman. Those having unending running stomach with Igbo population in Lagos State should ask Oba Rilwan Akiolu the whereabouts of his staff of office and if the Igbo residents in Lagos State were responsible for its sacrilegious disappearance? Bola Ahmed Tinubu should further be asked if the Igbo were responsible for the EndSARS movement that destroyed his Lekki Toll Gate. 

In April 2015, Oba Rilwan Akiolu the Eleko of Eko threatened to drown all the Igbo residents in Lagos State in Lagos Lagoon section of the Atlantic Ocean. In April 2017 Oba Rilwan Akiolu, the Eleko of Eko snubbed the Ooni of Ife and King of Kings of Yorubaland Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi in a public function. His reason was that he owes allegiance to the Oba of Benin and not the Ooni of Ife. 

Invariably Oba Rilwan Akiolu was telling Nigerians that he is not a Yoruba man but Bini of Edo ethnic group. In September 2020, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu sat down against Yoruba customs and tradition in a public function while the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi stood up to greet him. This is the vile unity of Oba Akiolu and Ahmed Tinubu.

Now let us take a look at the historical mathematics arising from Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s actions, first against the Igbo of Lagos and second, against Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife.  Oba Akiolu claims to owe allegiance to Oba of Benin and not the Ooni of Lagos, while the Oba of Benin owes allegiance to the Ooni of Ife and the Ooni of Ife owes allegiance to the Igbo aborigines of Ife-Ife. 
If the whole Yorubaland recognize the same Ooni of Ife as the King of Kings of Yoruba nation, between Oba Rilwan Akiolu and the Igbo, who has better historical link with Lagos State and Yoruba nation as a whole; bearing in mind that those appointed kings in conquered territories by Oba of Benin did not have to be members of the Benin royal family?

The fact is, those Igbo and Yoruba elements who contest mutual Igbo-Yoruba political conviviality are either uneducated, semi-educated or have not ventured into Igboland if they are Yoruba, and into Yorubaland if they are Igbo. Oftentimes those political elites among the Igbo and Yoruba who drum up this mutual ethnic obsession against the other are those who are morally corrupted and politically hypnotized with false flags of Fulani invincibility. Among this group are the Oba of Lagos Oba Rilwan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Femi Fani-Kayode and a host of others with questionable ancestral Yoruba identity from the Lagos axis and, Orji Uzo Kalu, Rochas Okorocha, Hope Uzodinma, Devil (Dave Umahi and, Charles Chukwuma Soludo from the Igbo axis.

There is something I always tell my friends which most of them are yet to comprehend. If another civil war breaks out in Nigeria and I find myself as a commander, I will prefer to have Yoruba warriors around me rather than my Igbo kinsmen. I am not saying all the Igbo people cannot be trusted, but when comparing the response of your kinsmen to your problem in comparison to that of foreigners to the same problem, the principle of moral judgment demands a fifty percent bonus to the foreigners ahead of your kinsmen. 

I state this from my collective experience first from my father’s personal account when his Yoruba friend helped to save his life during the 1966 pogrom in Bauchi and second the unequalled interactive support in both financial and non-financial terms from Yoruba friends and supporters including those I have never met face to face both as a scholar and activist. In fact in my present predicament in struggles, I have received more benevolent interventions in terms of financial support from known and unknown Yoruba supporters than my Igbo kinsmen. 

Needless to conclude by stating that, the core-son of Oodua is the most sophisticated political animal in Nigeria, the most humane in interaction with his guests and hosts and, above all the most objective in political equity and moral judgment.  This explains why the Yoruba overwhelmingly objected to the purported Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim Presidential victory and Atiku Abubakar’s Fulani-again Presidential candidacy. And this is why the Labour Party victory in Lagos State in the coming Gubernatorial election cannot be stopped by the on-going wicked intimidation and burning of Igbo markets.

Kasiyya:
Tinubu is about to be uprooted in Lagos..

There is a lot more work to be done for that to happen.

A kii fi ojú lásán gbá ọmọ lọ́wọ́ ekurọ.

meum:
No corruption experience. I always like PO’s responses to propagandas. No fight. Apt response always.

That’s how they were shouting “No structure” for Labour Party before the “election”. Now it’s the same LP that is making BOS to “sign up” as an usher in a church.😂😂😂

BOS might just return, albeit narrowly. GRV na man you be jare!

The response that didn't take him nowhere

seguno2:


There is a lot more work to be done for that to happen.

A kii fi ojú lásán gbá ọmọ lọ́wọ́ ekurọ.

its left for the people. That's if there will be free and fair elections. No ballot box snatching

IyaebeTheGreat:
Obi should rest, he needs it. He’s doing too much already.

Try a little bit of love for this man,it will be better than these excessive hate you have on him.
Try purging yourself from the extreme hate and tribalism.

IyaebeTheGreat:
Obi should rest, he needs it. He’s doing too much already.

Did he complain to you he is tired?

That means Obi has an experience in corruption because he was a former governor and once a member of PDP

colorsofrainbow:
Lobatan

Obi is the Solomon of our time. Full of immense wisdom.

If u set trap for am,u no go know when u enter for the trap wey u use ur hand arrange for am. Not withstanding,same Obi go still help u comot from same trap.

Obi is God's will for Nigeria & his stolen mandate will be back.

God bless Peter Obi.
God bless all well meaning NIGERIANs who dream of seeing a new Nigeria for real.

Enough of the status quo.
The certificate will be returned ✍️

Amen! Nice piece.

meum:
No corruption experience. I always like PO’s responses to propagandas. No fight. Apt response always.

That’s how they were shouting “No structure” for Labour Party before the “election”. Now it’s the same LP that is making BOS to “sign up” as an usher in a church.😂😂😂

BOS might just return, albeit narrowly. GRV na man you be jare!


You are very stvpid. Make your comment without displaying your low self esteem. Don’t you ever reply to my post with name calling because for every gbas you’ll definitely get gbos. Be warned!

How many of your experienced politicians have managed this your much talked about “lagos state funds” the way it ought to be managed? I’m not only referring to the governor. From every political appointee at the state level down to democratically elected, sorry selected Chairmen of LGAs. Remember the argument has always been that experienced hands are selected to work with the governor.
The response was apt! If you don’t like it go to court!

Walahi, I agree!

reddingtonblack:
TBH, 2023 election as really expose most Nigerian youths just pass through school, naa very few school pass through when you listening to there thinking process esp. the GenZ is disturbing.
Peter Obi simply dodged the question playing clever by half, which HR will ever consider that Reply.
Can i apply for a lecturer job in Datti's university ... and tell the HR i don't have experience in sex for marks

What experience in government did Obi have when he became Anambra governor in 2006?

What experience in government did Makinde have before he became governor in Oyo?

People who have managed men successfully in their businesses are more than capable and qualified to serve the masses in government, rather than loot them as Tinubu and Sanwo Olu plus other A-looter Poverty Congress, APC governors have done to Lagosians since 1999.

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

He has no experience in corruption? I thought government is about serving people not having experience in corruption. Does this mean Obi believes Sanwo Olu has experience in corruption and the new candidates are fighting to share the same experience? Has he experience in corruption as Anambra governor?

Having said this I hope Nairaland Manager will not log me out of comment again.

IyaebeTheGreat:
Obi should rest, he needs it. He’s doing too much already.

Onukwu fear don de enter una body

Slynation:
I tire oO...Obi has said it all

What experience did Sanwo Olu has before he was elected, they even have to sideline a performing governor just to accommodate him...

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu began his political career in 2003, when he was appointed a Special Adviser on Corporate Matters to the then deputy governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro.


He was later made the acting Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget until 2007, when he was appointed as the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry by then Governor, Bola Tinubu.


After the General Elections of 2007, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was appointed Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions by Governor Babatunde Fashola.


Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was made Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in 2016.





Please, what experience does GVR have?

Smartjeezy:
That frog voice always acting smart.
I like am before but him dey over do now.
We all voted for obi during the presidential election but things have changed now. Don't cause problem for lagosians because of your greediness. Leave Yoruba people alone and stop seeing them as a weak. Yoruba are good people but some unscrupulous element want to take them for a fool. Let me relocate my family to somewhere else before this time bomb explode. (Obi go shock by Saturday).

You are an urchin no dey disguise.

Your mannerisms and lack of common sense give you away easily. Okpo!

colorsofrainbow:
Lobatan

Obi is the Solomon of our time. Full of immense wisdom.

If u set trap for am,u no go know when u enter for the trap wey u use ur hand arrange for am. Not withstanding,same Obi go still help u comot from same trap.

Obi is God's will for Nigeria & his stolen mandate will be back.

God bless Peter Obi.
God bless all well meaning NIGERIANs who dream of seeing a new Nigeria for real.

Enough of the status quo.
The certificate will be returned ✍️

OBI IS STILL COMING ✅

Kasiyya:
its left for the people. That's if there will be free and fair elections. No ballot box snatching

These are exactly the areas that you and everyone else interested to see GRV replace Tinubu’s boy in Alausa, must work hard on.

Except your desire is just like window shopping, without the money to buy what you want. Is that your situation

only igbo will vote for that rotten abi na Rhodes next week sat, let's see how their 25% strength votes will elect him without brainwashing naive Yorubas

blackpanda:
But you Obi demanded 7.5Billion from Obiano
Abi una don forget ni

No, you didnt understand what he wrote on the handover note.

He actually left 75bn for the state

ThierryJay:
Not convinced. Even a goat has no experience in corruption. So is that the only criteria?

Alaaye na only tribalism and racism wey dey convince you, na there your life dey. Hope say you don collect your own money from Apc sha.

Carry your mumu conviction shift..

IyaebeTheGreat:
Obi should rest, he needs it. He’s doing too much already.

Let him continue we are with him.

BluntTheApostle:

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu began his political career in 2003, when he was appointed a Special Adviser on Corporate Matters to the then deputy governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro.

He was later made the acting Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget until 2007, when he was appointed as the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry by then Governor, Bola Tinubu.

After the General Elections of 2007, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was appointed Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was made Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in 2016.

Please, what experience does GVR have?

The same experience that Makinde had before he was made governor by Oyo people, who are enjoying his services to the people, unlike Tinubu’s boy Sanwo Olu of looting experience.

Omo! See finishing!!

Goodconcept78:
OBI THE LYING MACHINE

A BAD OMEN AND VISIONLESS MAN

HIS 8 YEARS BROUGHT NOTHING BUT MISERY TO ANAMBRA PEOPLE

Chai! Your lies can awaken the dead from the grave. Sharap jor

Mindlog:


Why is APGA not using it to campaign against Obi in Anambra?

Lol. No mind d mofio abeg they gat noting on OBI of not dem for don bust am since.

It's why they all be hating on the man. Dem no wan beleive say Odogwu no be scam, because these same fellas were born and raised into scamming and owo mi da.

Johnnyplus01k:
With a written template to follow and is their such in Anambra state

Template of corruption ba.

Peter Obi Fell to Tinubu.

Its Only Natural GRV would Fall to Sanwo-Olu