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Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by hooged: 7:46am On Dec 24, 2011
GETTING to write this piece is not the easiest thing for
me, not because I worry about the silly labelling it
would automatically attract from those who would
rather not have the issue addressed, particularly the
“marginalisers” themselves, but because there is a
sense in which it raises possible contradiction to my
advocacy for meritocracy and for regional
emancipation that would surpass or render more
meaningless the federal honey-pot.
But the truth must be told, and unless and until Nigeria
wakes up to redefining herself wakes
up to the urgency to drastically alter the structure of
the polity and government, then our problem should
not be compounded by brazen disregard for the rules
of even the present arrangement.
When I received an e-mail from a friend enumerating
the absurdity, the first thing I asked myself before
setting out to give exposure to what is clearly a
systematic if not systemic denial of the Yoruba from
virtually all critical areas of Federal Government is if
my reaction would have been the same were some
other ethnic groups the victims. I satisfied myself that I
would have been so equally aghast to the measure of
their population ratio within the polity. And I don’t
need to convince anyone else of that.
I am going ahead to quote copiously from the report I
received, which has also gone out to many a
concerned compatriot.
It took off asking: “Is there a calculated marginalisation
of the Yoruba in a democratic dispensation under the
leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan? Or is it
simply an oversight by the Executive, arising from an
ineffective coordination of the machinery of
government?”
To be honest if the complaint were limited to what
happens in Aso Rock or around the Presidency, I
wouldn’t bat an eyelid, for isn’t that what the present
(presidential) structure enjoys, if not enjoins? Isn’t that
why every ethnic group struggles to have their man
right up there?
Of course the situation wasn’t necessarily so in
Obasanjo’s time as I am reminded by the petitioner of
Obasanjo’s out of-the-way “fairness” such that his
presidency embraced all ethnic groups, even with the
Igbos in ascendancy; adding that whereas the South-
West in the main voted for Jonathan in the April
presidential election. “Kano State did not vote for
Obasanjo in 2003 but was better treated in terms of
political appointment than any South-West state.”
Maybe as another friend points out, it’s an ethnic
thing and not just with Obasanjo. It seems it’s only the
Yoruba that care particularly about “fairness” or
“balance” in this contraption called Nigeria, reminding
me of the story narrated by Gen. Oluwole Rotimi in
this column last week where, out of the seven names
to be sent for the coveted Staff college training, Gen.
lronsi as GOC sent five Ibos, one Hausa and one
Yoruba, leaving him (Rotimi) out even when he was
senior to all the other non-Yoruba officers!
But the relegation of the Yoruba is more pervasive
than just around the presidency and runs into
government agencies, parastatals, corporations, etc.
The petitioner writes:
“A situation where the total appointments for the
entire South-West fall short of those of certain
individual states speaks of either a deliberate effort to
ignite ethnic resentment or a glaring outcome of total
collapse of coordination in the machinery and records
of government.”
Personally, I cannot see Goodluck Jonathan having a
directly anti-Yoruba agenda; after all, he is in power by
the grace of his Yoruba godfather and didn’t he
appoint a Reuben Abati to replace his kinsman, Ima
Niboro?
If President Jonathan were liable, it would only be to
the extent that. in his usual self, he looks the other way
while those around him are having a field day
executing their own insidious private or ethnic agenda:
He looks the other way and the economy is in a
shambles; he looks the other way and electricity
remains hopeless; he looks the other way and armed
robbery and insecurity are rife; he looks the other way
and our oil is stolen and mismanaged blind; he looks
the other way and the country totters in tatters’
My friend raises the alarm that “available data indicate
that the Yoruba have lost more than half of their
appointive positions since the demise of President Yar’
Adua.”
And. as if mirroring my mind on the need for
competence and merit above other considerations. he
asserts:
“The current disproportionately reduced or non-
appointment of Yoruba into vacant government
positions is not due to lack of qualified and
experienced men and women of integrity in their
numbers and quality across all spheres of human
endeavour in the South-West. Indeed as if to aggravate
matters for a nation in dire need of competent men
and women of integrity what the Yoruba have been
made to lose in terms of numbers in appointive
positions is made worse for the nation in the quality of
some of the replacement appointments.
And here are the samples of key national offices and
the state of origin of their leadership as supplied by
the petitioner:
The Nigeria Top Six: President (South-South): Vice­
President (North-West); Senate President (North-
Central); Speaker (North-West); Chief Justice of Nigeria
(North-West); Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (South-East) (i.e. no Yoruba).
The Legislature: President of the Senate (North-
Central); Speaker of the House of Representatives
(North-West); Deputy Senate President (South-East);
Deputy Speaker (South-East) (i.e. No Yoruba)
The Judiciary: No Yoruba in the CJN succession radar
for the next 10 years.
Top Bureaucracy: SGF (South-East); Head of the Civil
Service of the Federation (North-East); Chief of Staff to
the President (South-South); Chairman Federal Civil
Service Commission (South-East); Chairman Police
Service Commission (South-South); National Security
Adviser (SouthSouth) (i.e. no Yoruba).
Federal Executive Bodies (Commissions): Federal
Character Commission (North-Central); Federal Civil
Service Commission (South-East); Federal Judicial
Service Commission( ? ); INEC (North-West);National
Population Commission( ? ); Police Service Commission
(SouthSouth); Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and
Fiscal Commission(South-East); (i.e. No Yoruba among
the entire 10 executive chairmen of the federal
executive bodies listed in Section 153 of the
Constitution.
Top Corporations & Heavy Budget Agencies: NNPC
(North-Central); PTDF (North West); PHCN/NERC (South­
East); Tertiary Education Trust Fund (North-East); UBEC
(North-East); National Health Insurance Scheme
(North-East); NDDC (South-South); MDGs Office (South-
South); NIMASA (South-South); FERMA ( ); National
Identity Management Commission (South-East); FRSC
(South-East) i.e. No Yoruba heading any of the top 12
agencies of government.
Revenue Related (Generation & Management)
Agencies/Offices: Chairman RMAFC (South-East);
Chairman FIRS (South-South); Nigerian Customs
Service (North-West); Accountant General of the
Federation (SouthWest*); Auditor General of the
Federation (North-Central);
Education Regulatory/Funding/Representing
Agencies: NUC (South-South); NBTE (North-West); NCCE
(North-East); JAMB (South-West*); NECO (South-East);
NERDC (South-East); National Mathematical Centre
(North-Central); ETF (North-East); UBEC (North-East);
UNESCO (North-East)
Security &Anti-Corruption Agencies: Inspector General
of Police (North-West); EFCC (North-Central until four
weeks ago): ICPC (South-South): Code of Conduct
Bureau (North-East).
•Culled from THE PUNCH
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by hooged: 7:48am On Dec 24, 2011
Too bad
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by gidson12(m): 8:34am On Dec 24, 2011
ow! Shut up, everyone keeps crying of marginalization, when your kinsmen were filling up all the juicy position in the polity did you Lend your voice to the the minority who cried for fair treatment cos they recieved little or nothing from their stollen wealth, nonsense
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Wilywily11: 11:29am On Dec 24, 2011
Nigerian rejected Yorubas because of their Fraudulent lifestyle, Yorubas are the architect of Embezzlement in Nigerians, everybody is tired of them.
Anywhere they head always go down. Yorubas are not good managers they are only good in Fraud.
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by chino11(m): 1:42pm On Dec 24, 2011
They should be killed with marginalization
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Nobody: 2:58pm On Dec 24, 2011
lol.
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 3:08pm On Dec 24, 2011
hehehehehehe grin
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by babsjnr(m): 3:49pm On Dec 24, 2011
@ igbo boy and willy willy. Ojukwu slave very soon we dey deport una back 2 ur biafra nation. Stupid coward bastard.
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Ayoolu12: 7:19pm On Dec 24, 2011
These people and their unhealthy obsession with Yorubas,
Yorubas are marginalised, and yet we are to get the largest refinery,
We are marginalised, and our states have the best universities,
We are marginalised, and some people are absconding their villages to move to our cities,
Me thinks 'marginalisation' ain't so bad,
I think some tribes should start praying for 'marginalisation', maybe then they will get the bridge they've been crying for for years!
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 8:05pm On Dec 24, 2011
Ayo-olu12:

These people and their unhealthy obsession with Yorubas,
Yorubas are marginalised, and yet we are to get the largest refinery,
We are marginalised, and our states have the best universities,
We are marginalised, and some people are absconding their villages to move to our cities,
Me thinks 'marginalisation' ain't so bad,
I think some tribes should start praying for 'marginalisation', maybe then they will get the bridge they've been crying for for years!
cheesy cheesy cheesy wake up, refinery is not yours, own by Chinese government by the way,you don't have the best universities,that was ur past glory, come again cheesy cheesy
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Ngodigha1(m): 11:17pm On Dec 24, 2011
*Wilywily:

Nigerian rejected Yorubas because of their Fraudulent lifestyle, Yorubas are the architect of Embezzlement in Nigerians, everybody is tired of them.
Anywhere they head always go down. Yorubas are not good managers they are only good in Fraud.

word.
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by NegroNtns(m): 11:31pm On Dec 24, 2011
wake up, refinery is not yours, own by Chinese government


why didnt Chinese build it in East then? Is there something wrong with the East market? Maybe we have the best market grin
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by EzeUche(m): 11:45pm On Dec 24, 2011
;d ;d ;d
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 11:50pm On Dec 24, 2011
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Negro_Ntns:



why didnt Chinese build it in East then? Is there something wrong with the East market? Maybe we have the best market grin
muhehehehehehe u wana bet,that refinery will not see the light of the day,it will end up like Abuja train track remember cool cool cool
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Nobody: 1:49am On Dec 25, 2011
Wonder why other fixated 'non yorubas' seem to be the ones throwing their toys out of their prams for our alleged 'marginalisation'. cool
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by igboboy1(m): 5:43am On Dec 25, 2011
babsjnr:

[@ igbo boy and willy willy. Ojukwu slave very soon we dey deport una back 2 your biafra nation. silly coward bastard.

hey ofe manu I dont live in Olodowa land so how are you going to deport me? I currently reside out of the country but when I do return I live in Delta state, eeediot coward like you
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ektbear: 5:59am On Dec 25, 2011
I don't really expect more from the FG than what is presently given. Everything else we want can be obtained by partnering with foreign capital.

Political positions are nice, but investment is more important. So long as power plants, refineries, factories, etc come to Yorubaland, I am satisfied. And those things aren't really for the FG to give/take anyways.

Anyway, if they do attempt to "marginalize" the SW, it will only harden the heart of your average man against the FG. Which is probably not a recipe for the success of the project called Nigeria.

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