₦airaland Forum

malonephill:
why should someone sit somewhere anonymously saying such thing? everyone condemn the statement of OBA AKIOLU. But
let ask ourselves one important question, WHY IS
OBA AKIOLU ANGRY WITH IGBOS?
My answers are:
1. I WILL ELEVATE EZE NDIGBO TO THE STATUS OF
OBA OF LAGOS - JIMI AGBAJE.
2. IGBO WILL DETERMINE WHO RULES LAGOS-
IFEANYI UBAH
3. LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND.- IFEANYI UBAH
DURING TAN CAMPAIGN.
4. IGBO DEVELOPED AND CONTROL LAGOS- JIMI
AGBAJE DURING GEJ CAMPAIGN IN AKWA IBOM
5. WE MUST PRODUCE THE NEXT DEPUTY GOVERNOR
OF LAGOS- EZE NDIGBO
The QUESTIONS TO IGBOS,
1. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT ALL THE ABOVE
MENTIONED?
2. CAN EMIR OF KANO ACCEPT ....?
3. DO YOU HAVE ANY SINGLE TRIBE IN YOUR
CABINET IN THE EAST?
4. CAN ANY TRIBE CLAIM ONITHSA OR ABA TO BE NO
MAN,S LAND?
5. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT THE ELEVATION OF
SARKIN HAUSA IN ONITHSA TO OBI STATUS?

Bro! nobody can take such
I don't know about ariyo I wouldn't like to stress on that, and have you seen where soyinka denied making those speech?

We are all nigeria let's live together in peace

So these are your example of Igbos lambasting Yoruba as an ethnic group? Plus, I did not know Jimi Agbaje is an Igbo man

OrlandoOwoh:
Omo ale jati jati ni o. Igba wo ni won fi o je abenugan awon omo Yoruba?

See how you Yoruba iddiots kill yourselves? Yoruba-owned The Cable sacrificing Soyinka for their selfish gains. Una go soon self implode.

AhmedMustapha:
The reporter has no proof that the man made that statement

But he is Yoruba and the News paper is also Yoruba, as are the CEO and editor. What is the Yoruba connection?

No answer?

^^^^^
The Yoruba conection

Tolexander:
where are those yabbing Professor Wole Soyinka?

Soyinka is not the tribalistic Achebe!

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malonephill:
let's forget how prof wole soyinka was and who he is, its just because he's a well known person that's why the news came on.

Lot of thread has been opened here on NL saying all sort of things about yoruba's, those thread was later closed due to some words using on it.
I would have love to point to some of it

And there were no similar threads about Igbos?
BTW, those comment on Nairaland that you refer to were from by faceless anonymous people with pseudonyms, not real life people like Soyinka or Oba of Lagos or Abraham Ariyo among many others.

AhmedMustapha:
The man said he didn't make that statement. There is no need for this

Well, I am waiting for Taiwo George (the Reporter) or Simon Kolawole (publisher of The Cable), to reveal the original source of the quoted remarks.

Soyinka= Yoruba
Taiwo George = Yoruba
Simon Kolawole= Yoruba

Do you read the signs?

AgentOfAllah:
OP
Be informed: https://www.nairaland.com/2297243/soyinka-denies-blasting-igbos-says

It was reported by The Cable. Now guess who runs The Cable

Well, I am waiting for Taiwo George (the Reporter) or Simon Kolawole (publisher of The Cable), to reveal the original source of the quoted remarks.

Yoruba people are becoming desperately disgusting

lolababe331e:
See one of the morons Wole Soyinka was talking about. They won't even verify a report, instead they will rush to get their 5minutes of fame with their silly letters, hiss

It was reported by The Cable. Now guess who runs The Cable

Well, I am waiting for Taiwo George (the Reporter) or Simon Kolawole (publisher of The Cable), to reveal the original source of the quoted remarks.

Yoruba people are becoming desperately disgusting

Please my people, I am writing a thesis on Nigerian politics. I have a question for you.

What is stomach infrastructure and where is it rampant in Nigeria?

Another Yoruba contested for a position in Canada and got only one vote: his own

I hear that both Igbos and Yorubas in the UK recently contested elections into the British parliament and while three Igbos were elected, all the Yoruba contestants lost.

''Three Out Of Five Nigerians Win Parliamentary Seats In UK General Elections-NigeriaToday

For the first time ever, Nigerian-Britons have secured seats in the UK parliament. In the first serious attempt last Thursday, three emerged victorious in the UK’s toughest elections in more than three decades. Chuka Umunna (Labour), Helen Grant (Conservative) and Chi Onwurah (Labour) won their constituency seats while Kemi Adegoke (Conservative) and Abbey Akinoshun (Independent candidate) were unsuccessful.''

http://saharareporters.com/2010/05/09/three-out-five-nigerians-win-parliamentary-seats-uk-general-elections-nigeriatoday

malonephill:
Its such bad statement.....

But many igbo's are also form of doing these.

It not only left for yoruba's alone

Do me and i do man dey no vex

Can you mention an Igbo man that has lambasted Yorubas as an ethnic group (not individual Yorubas) in the past?

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Hhahah! It looks like Buhari - if he ever becomes president - will throw Tinubu and the SW under the bus. Just like Obasanjo threw the north under the bus; just like Buhari, then IBB and Abacha, threw MKO under the bus.

SOUTH WEST AND MILITARY ROMANCE :

From an interview General Babangida granted a German news magazine, we got to know that the Buhari coup of 1983 was sponsored by a powerful and wealthy civilian. It is said that when the coup had succeeded, he visited the Head of State on a courtesy call. After pleasantries, he asked that the Chief release his Editor in Chief to him to work as Chief Press Secretary. Chief MKO promptly turned the request down. He wanted serious workers in his private newspaper to keep it profitable. General Buhari was angered.
He sent his boys to impound the newsprint belonging to Concord Press that just arrived at Apapa port. The government queried the import license granted them to import newsprint. Concord's protestations that approval was granted it by the Shagari administration before it was overthrown was rejected, despite every available proof proffered. The newsprint was eventually shared amongst government owned newspapers. Concord hurt deeply. Chief MKO bid his time.

Months later, his friend General IBB overthrew Buhari. Please don't ask if there was any financial sponsorship this time around. Suffice it to say that Chief MKO prospered exceedingly under IBB. Their friendship blossomed. Until pressure brought to bear that Nigeria must transit to democracy.
MKO was propelled forward to square up against alhaji Tofa,a Northerner, in a keen presidential conquest in which no one expected a South Westerner to win. But against all odds, MKO won convincingly, the June 12 election. IBB was shocked so, he annulled the election. MKO knew too much about the military to be allowed to rule, so they made him run away. He came back and eventually fell foul of the next military ruler, General Abacha who promptly clamped MKO in solitary detention such that the Chief did not know what was going on in Nigeria. They crippled all his businesses and executed his wife.

But death played a fast one on General Abacha. On a day he was to execute some South Westerners like General Diya and Co, he died, in the presence of two imported Indian pleasure ladies.

Freedom now came the way of the South Westerners, including General Obasanjo, Diya, Major Fadile and many others.

Since nature would not allow a vacuum, another military man, General Abdusalami succeeded Abacha. While pretending to negotiate the freedom of Chief Abiola as well as pressuring him to renounce or abandon his freely given mandate, he was served poisoned tea, and he died in the presence of US and UN diplomats.
An incensed South West arose in anger and bitterness, as if the nation was going to crumble. This greatly frightened the military complex that they hurriedly arranged an election that would feature only two candidates from the South West as a way of placating that region .

While the North let it be known that General Obasanjo was their preferred candidate from the South West, the region wanted a complete civilian in the person of Chief Olu Falae, who eventually lost to General Obasanjo ,the man without home support.
To get a second tenure, Obasanjo prostrated before his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and equally prostrated before his kinsmen who were persuaded not to put up a candidate and as compensation, he would let their governors be despite the difference in Party.
But the military has a different garrison mentality entirely . When they laugh or sing and dance with you in church, it is still war. They seek ways like the tiger tangos with the lamb.
The South West ignorantly acquiesced. Obasanjo won. The following week, he rolled in the army tanks on patrol, and the governors were toast,except Tinubu in the gubernatorial elections. He made his own governors. His Vice President that he prostrated to was eventually castrated out of office, and out of favour. He had won, and therefore needed nobody else.

The South West has never fared well with the military complex. In pre colonial days, the Commander In Chief of the Oyo army known as the Aare Ona Kakanfo, Afonja who was stationed at Ilorin to expand the empire had a few difficulties with the Alafin of Oyo. Instead of bowing to the wishes of his Monarch, he chose to collaborate with a Fulani soldier of fortune called Alimi to break away from the Oyo empire. Unknown to him, Alimi had his own plans after the break away. He quietly killed Afonja and seized Ilorin, making himself an Emir. Till date, only Fulani descendants of Alimi rule Ilorin emirate. The Yoruba play second fiddle in their own land.

But talk about bravery, courage, love, integrity etc, the South West has it . During the counter coup of July 1966, the Head of State of Nigeria, General Aguiyi Ironsi was in Ibadan. The military came to take his life. The governor, Col Adekunle Fajuyi bluntly refused to give General Ironsi up, preferring to die ,rather than betray his guest. The mutinous soldiers decided to kill not just Ironsi, but Fajuyi as well. The South West lost to the military.

The next highest ranking officer was Brigadier Ogundipe of the South West as the next in command and he decided to take charge according to military tradition and hierarchical structure since General Ironsi was dead . He got the shock of his life when a junior officer from the North refused to take orders from him, instead preferring to hear first, from a senior northern officer. Ogundipe read the handwriting on the wall and quietly fled through Seme border and appeared in London, where the victorious Lt Col Yakubu Gowon graciously decided to name him the High Commissioner to the Court of St James. He became Nigeria's ambassador, and there's no record that he came back home.

Today, the South West is being led by the Asiwaju to go into a romance once more with the military complex forgetting that riding with the tiger is no easy sport. Diya and Professor Odekunle will tell you that much . Segun Osoba will tell. Atiku Abubakar will tell you. Any man who runs with bullets at night and waltzes with the ballot in the day has mastered the art of conquest. They will laugh, prostrate, promise you heaven and bid you to trust them. The first thing they tell you is that they retired from the army a long time ago and are therefore no longer militarily inclined. It's a clever ruse. Until they grab the power first. By the time they start rolling out decree look alike laws ,gagging the Press and emasculating the judiciary, that is when you will know that to them, power is about tactical maneuvers. You won't know where you stand with them in the end. Your Party will become their own, fashioned in their own image.
Ask Ekwueme and Audu Ogbeh how their Party fared in the hands of a garrison commander.

This man could not take care of his father and mother and sister. How can he take care of you?
He will start now to steal money to build a house for his impoverished folks back in Ijebu Ijesha

upsonn:
What did you had in your own exam? If you pass.. I believe they wrote it for you nii.

Stupidly and completely illiterate.

Akshow:
keep deceiving ursef. Awon temi loyo, awon ti egba, awon ti eko wengele, awon osunadara, awon ti Ede, Iwo, shagamu, Ilorin, offa, ijagbo, ondo ati akure..... Sai Buhari ni o.


If u are Yoruba and u are tired of cluelessness and u are proudly voting Buhari, like this post. let's prove to tanoids that we are ready to kick badluck to the creeks to otuoke.

Attempting proving anything on Nairaland makes you dumb. Your mama and papa for your village, those who will do the actual voting, do not come to Nairaland. You be proper goat.

This is an example of a veritable Yoruba man. Not these hungry, Tinubu and Fasola-fed Nairalanders

POLLS: ‘Jonathan’ll win South West’

Posted by: admin February 27, 2015 in Politics

The President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Coordinator for Obafemi Owode Local Government area of Ogun State, Mr. Adeyinka Kotoye, has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will win the majority of votes in the South West, based on his performance and contributions to the growth of the region and the country.
“Jonathan deserved to return, he has done well. He has improved the transport sector, improved the agriculture sector, aviation sector and he has done so much for the education sector in the country. In the economy sector, he has done well. In many areas, President Jonathan has recorded success,” he said
Kotoye said that the region will not fall to the propaganda of the All Progressives Congress, APC and its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), stressing that the result of the polls will be a shock to the opposition.
“I believe the electorates will decide but I don’t like sounding absolute but Jonathan will win. When people postulate about Tinubu’s influence in the Southwest, I often shudder. It is very unpredictable on how people will vote.
He added that the media rebranding of Buhari will have limited influence, especially at the grassroots.
“The media rebranding of Buhari will have limited influence because at the grassroots, people do not use facebook, twitter or watch the television like the elite.
”The APC are using double standard to promote his candidature; in the South, they are projecting Buhari as a pro-Christian while in the North, the slogan is if you vote Jonathan, you are voting a Christian; so why the deceit?”.

http://scannewsnigeria.com/politics/polls-jonathanll-win-south-west/

mikeansy:
all this people cancelling the original post I hope you do realise the original post is still available for all to read on the world wide web?

It is not a black board, you can not wipe the message off with a duster! It is still there and all who care can still read it!

Lol. APC goons are very fooolish

Adminisher:
So we are to accept this as representative of all SW youths?. Youths that I speak to every day?. Even those who were nit born when Buhari was first in government are rejecting Jonathan. All the higher institutions, tradesmen, bus drivers and young businessmen in the SW are anti GEJ. You guys are just deceiving yourselves. In Lagos there is pervasive pro Jimi Agbaje sentiment and that is all I can mark for PDP. I spoke to twenty people last week and it was Buhari/ Agbaje as if they belonged to'the same party. So the CHANGE message is working impersonally in Lagos.

You are an incorrigible propagandist.

Nairaland is not the same as Yorubaland oh! There's a difference between cyber warrior and real life warrior. Hehehehe!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153094269298748

From this video, you can see that Gani Adams was 100% right to suggest that Yoruba vote is up for grabs and actually may go for GEJ.
Buhari losing elections since 1914

The end of Buhari’s presidential candidacy

on February 10, 2015 / in Femi Aribisala 6:40 am / Comments

By Femi Aribisala

IF Nigeria is a nation of laws and of the rule of law, the presidential candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari should end this week. The reason is well-known to all. Buhari swore an oath on his INEC application that his credentials are with the military. This turned out to be a lie.

The military has come out to deny that it has Buhari’s credentials. That means Buhari committed perjury instead of fulfilling INEC requirements. For this reason, he must be disqualified from contesting the presidential election.

The matter has been taken to court and the courts should decide the matter this week. I am not a lawyer, but from my layman’s perspective, this is an open and shut case. Buhari lied willfully. As a former military secretary of the Nigerian Army, he knew that the military does not keep any credentials of its service-men. Nevertheless, he lied on oath that his credentials are with the military. He must face the penalty for this perjury. There can be debate about whether, and for how long, he should go to jail. However, there can be no question about his resultant ineligibility to contest: he must be disqualified.

Buhari
Buhari

To overlook this infraction is to succumb to Buhari’s appraisal that Nigeria is corrupt. If we are going to deal with corruption, we must not fail to deal with the likes of Buhari, who are contemptuous of the laws of the land. Buhari’s false affidavit is corruption. The disqualification of Buhari by the courts will be a testament to the determination of the judiciary to show zero tolerance for corruption in the coming new dispensation.

Some of us have watched APC make a song and dance about the possibility of postponing the 2015 elections. The party brought out all its big guns to tell us that the election cannot be postponed. They insisted that if it is postponed all hell would break lose. Well, the election has been postponed and nothing has happened. It has been postponed and the APC can do nothing about it. It was postponed according to the law.

Similarly, the heavens will not fall with the lawful disqualification of Buhari. Of all those APC could present as its presidential candidate, it chose a man without the appropriate credentials. APC has nobody to blame but itself for this fiasco. It has forfeited its chance of presenting a candidate for the 2015 presidential election. The contest should now be between the remaining 13 presidential candidates. Shikenan!

JEGA MUST GO IMMEDIATELY

The excuse used to force Attahiru Jega to postpone the elections is the inability to provide effective security given the insurgency in the North-East. However, there is little likelihood that the security situation will improve within the next six weeks of the postponement. So, strictly-speaking, security has nothing to do with the postponement. One major reason for the postponement was to prevent INEC from compromising the election.

INEC has long ceased to be a disinterested umpire in this election. The evidence is now overwhelming that INEC is determined to bias the election in favour of Muhammadu Buhari and the APC. This is evident in INEC’s determination to go ahead with the election in spite of the fact that out of 68 million registered voters, over 20 million have yet to receive their permanent voter’s cards (PVCs).

It is remarkable that, in announcing the postponement, Jega conveniently forgot to mention the nagging issue of the inadequacies of INEC in providing voters with their PVCs. It is also remarkable that Jega briefed the Council of State that INEC was ready to conduct the elections. This was one big lie. You cannot be ready to conduct elections when there is a cacophony of complaints, especially in the South, that people are unable to claim their PVCs. Given the time it took INEC to distribute 40 million PVCs, it could not have realistically expected to be able to distribute the outstanding 20 million in just one week?

INEC rigmarole

What is even more sinister is INEC’s willful determination to disenfranchise select geopolitical regions which represent areas of strength for Goodluck Jonathan. Credible Alternative Alliance, an independent political interest organization led by former Kaduna State governor, Balarabe Musa, observed in INEC activities: “a criminal gross disparity of voter spread designed to tilt the election to a pre-determined outcome.”

It said: “Voters in the zones that tend to support President Goodluck Jonathan are massively disenfranchised by the application of the so-called PVCs debacle, 40% to 50% of voters in these regions who are lawfully and duly registered to vote will be denied their right to vote by INEC. That is nearly half of the support base of the President, simply nullified by administrative failure prior to the election. By comparison, the zones that tend to support Buhari are handed a massive voter advantage, nearly 80% of his support base will be allowed to cast their votes by INEC.”

“In an election, which many say will be won or lost by a slim margin, to now disenfranchise 20 million voters through a questionable and unlawful rule by INEC is not acceptable by any measure. CAA condemns in its entirety this attempt by INEC to undermine our nascent democracy through this criminal enterprise to determine the outcome of this election before the ballot is cast.”

This position is corroborated by different observers in the field. INEC needs to explain how more people in the war-torn North-East have collected their PVCs than in the South-West, South-South and South-East. In the APC strongholds of the North-West and the North-East, 80.18% and 81.09% collection rates were recorded respectively. In the North-Central, the figure was 69.89%. However, the figures in the South were significantly lower than these. In the South-East, it was 59.22%. South-South: 66.66%; and South-West 43.15%.

Since INEC under Jega is no longer an independent umpire but is now clearly working for the opposition, Jega should be sent on compulsory leave and a temporary chairman should be nominated to handle the elections. Jega can no longer be trusted.

THE MISCHIEF OF FORMER CBN GOVERNOR, LAMIDO SANUSI

Former Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, caused uproar when he declared that $49.8 billion of Nigeria’s oil money was missing, allegedly diverted by the NNPC. For a Central Bank governor, the statement was not only irresponsible, it was downright mischievous. If it were not that Nigeria is an innumerate society where we have little or no understanding of figures, it would have been obvious that, for the size of the Nigerian economy, it was impossible for such a large sum to be missing.

However, the allegation fell into the narrative of the opposition APC party which was determined to portray the Jonathan Administration as the most corrupt in the history of Nigeria. There was a lot of hue and cry in the press about the missing money; after all, the claim was made by the Central Bank governor no less. However, the governor seemed to have plucked the missing figure out of thin air.

Soon, it was not $49.8 billion at all, but $10.8 billion. Then again, it was no longer $10.8 billion but $20 billion. It should have been clear from all this that the CBN governor was just fibbing. But in Nigeria, we are socialissed to believe the worst.

School-certificate economics

General Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, has used this fictitious $20 billion dollars to preach his own school-certificate economics on the campaign stump. He said: “$20 Billion at N210 to $1.00 is equal to N4.2 trillion- nearly a year’s federal budget.”

If so, how can Buhari believe an amount nearly equal to Nigeria’s annual federal budget could possibly be missing? No matter how corrupt a nation can be, it is ridiculous to presume that public officers would go ahead and steal the entire annual federal budget? Haba! Buhari then used this malarkey to formulate his own voodoo economics.

He said: “If it is true that this sum cannot be accounted for, this is grossest form of corruption. Just think at N5 million per vehicle, this money would have bought 840,000 patrol vehicles; (this would have improved security in every town and village in the country). At N13.5 million for a high capacity bus this money would have bought 311,000 buses; (this would have revolutionised the transport and production side of the economy).”

It is this kind of rudimentary economics that Buhari has been presenting as an excuse for an economic policy to Nigerians in this election season. Just listen to this vain platitude from our eminent retired general. He says: “The monies we realised from anti-corruption campaign will be adequately used to improve education in the country.” Now that is an economic policy that is practically meaningless.

Forensic audit

Because of the nuisance value of men like Buhari, the Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was constrained to ask for a forensic audit of NNPC accounts in order to put the matter to rest. She chose PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC); one of the big four auditors in the world, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.

PwC has now provided a conclusive report that shows Sanusi’s allegation of a missing $20 billion is one big fabrication. This matter needs to be emphasized now that the report is out. Lamido Sanusi lied. The Central Bank governor deliberately cried wolf when he jolly well knew there was no wolf. He was just determined to malign and discredit the government; and he was playing a script to the benefit of the opposition APC.

This then lends credence to the PDP allegation that Sanusi was an APC mole in the government. Indeed, the PDP claims Sanusi gave the APC 1 billion naira of Central Bank money to open its offices nationwide. It also maintains that a fraudulent N48 billion contract was awarded by Sanusi’s CBN to a leader of the APC, while a further N5 billion was paid to another APC member as consultancy fee. So much for APC’s anti-corruption hogwash!


- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/end-buharis-presidential-candidacy/#sthash.1k0VyDW1.vIletc0I.dpuf

Hehehe! I am a prophet, my preduction on JEGA is coming true