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In the context of the elections, much has been said about Nigeria’s “unity in diversity”. Still, many Nigerians feel they are being deliberately disjointed on the grounds of their ethnicity. Dr Ibraheem Dooba, in his exclusive contribution for Naij.com, explains why the Yoruba people are frustrated with the incumbent president and one of the presidential candidates Goodluck Jonathan, and why they are most likely not going to support him come Saturday, March 28.

Story highlights:

“President Jonathan won’t implement recommendations of the conference if he wins. Even if he does, it won’t be what the Yoruba people want.”
“Other than the constitutionally-required appointments, Yorubas are invisible in Jonathan’s government.”
“The Yoruba people don’t deserve this neglect.”
Why did the Yoruba become victims in and of Jonathan’s government? What are the reasons why the ethnic group isn’t supporting and wouldn’t vote him?

The laughable National Conference report

First, President Jonathan tried to outsmart the Yoruba by offering them the National Conference. But how can he outsmart the Yoruba, a people so intelligent that Jonathan would have his brains in knots should he try any of their mental feats!

It’s now clear that President Jonathan, although he’s promised to do so, won’t implement the recommendations of the conference if he wins re-election. Even if he does implement them, it won’t be what the Yoruba people want.

“Is Jonathan going to remove immunity clause as recommended by the conference? No,” Dr Haruna Yerima, an academic and one of the four hundred delegates to the National Conference, said in an interview with Daily Trust, before asking, “What is there in the report that he is using now to cajole the southwest people into voting for him?”.
 
 
The former member of the House of Representatives said the report paid scant attention to corruption and inequality issues in the country.

“The report didn’t give the southwest people their age-long desire of true federalism. In fact, nobody talked about it at the conference. It also didn’t give them the parliamentary system as well as the regional system of government they requested for during the conference. So, what is there for them?” he queried.

He said the Southwest wouldn’t trust Jonathan after “six years without doing anything for them. He is just desperate. He needs their votes to short-change them again.”

But the Southwest is too smart to be short-changed that way. Even Mama Sikira, the famous akara seller, wouldn’t be fooled by this.

Targeted Yoruba sackings

Chief Kola Aderemi wrote in The Nation of December 23 last year that President Jonathan must have something against the Yoruba to allow for such sustained ill-treatment.

“Nothing illustrates President Jonathan’s hatred for Yoruba better than the way he removed some Yoruba people from key positions on allegation of being too close to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo,” he said. “To buttress my point, I recalled how he removed Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the PDP secretary. Mr Yomi Bolarinwa was removed as DG of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission; Otunba Segun Runsewe was removed as DG of Nigerian Tourism Development Commission, and they were replaced with Igbo people.”.
 

Here is a selection of other Yoruba people that Jonathan sacked that chief forgot to mention: Olu Oluleye, executive secretary,
 
the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF). Dr Samuel Oduselu, CEO of the Accident Investigation Bureau.

Stella Oduah sacked eight general managers at the FAAN in 2014, six of them Yoruba. The same minister employed 75 workers, 40 of them are from the Southeast, her geo-political zone.

The minister sacked Captain Adebayo Araba, rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, and replaced him with Captain Chinyere Kalu from the Southeast. Also Mrs Ola Onagoruwa, Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, was sacked for “undisclosed reasons”.

The issue of the Yorubas being deliberately replaced by the Igbo people is debatable, but it is a fact that, immediately after Yar’Adua died, Jonathan went on Yoruba sacking spree. The result? Other than the constitutionally-required appointments, Yorubas are invisible in his government.

The Yoruba people moved from the number one position (in President Obasanjo “era”) to number 22. I’m not exactly sure how this reckoning was done, but the victims must have taken their time to do the counting.

President Jonathan betrayed their votes

The Yoruba people don’t deserve this neglect. Many of them voted for him in 2011, but he’s got this weird conviction that those who voted him in the Southwest and the North are the Igbo residents of those areas.

I sometimes do my morning jog with a Yoruba woman, a Muslim, who told me that she voted Jonathan in 2011 because she thought that was justice — because Niger Delta produces a chunk of the government income. However, she wouldn’t repeat that mistake again in 2015. Not because Jonathan dislikes the Yoruba people, but because the guy is useless to everybody, including the long-suffering people of the Niger Delta.
 
My own friend for many years, also a Yoruba Muslim (from the North), gave me the same reason for supporting Jonathan in 2011. This “sense of justice” reason makes me believe that must be something embedded in their culture.

During our time in the diaspora, I had many Nigerian friends. The most religious of us and one of my closest neighbours is a Yoruba Muslim. His old father in Nigeria was also religious and in 2011, he was preparing to vote for Goodluck Jonathan. My friend’s father, may God rest his soul, died this year. His children, however, are still alive and would not accept Jonathan in 2015 even if you dressed him in gold.

Make of that what you will, but the northern Yoruba and their southern brethren – Muslim and Christians – supported the president four years ago.

It’s the reason why the Yoruba people shouldn’t let this betrayal go unpunished. The fortunate thing for Nigerians, and, particularly, the APC, is that many of them have long resolved to do this. That sense of justice will be used to shoot down Jonathan this month.

Dear Yoruba brethren, you are an intelligent set of people. Do us all a favour, I call upon you in supplication: don’t vote Jonathan.

As of this moment, the only Yoruba group which supports Jonathan is Afenifere. However, even Afenifere is divided. Afenifere Renewal Organization (ARG) said they didn’t support the endorsement of Jonathan enacted by Yinka Odumankin’s group. So the authentic Afenifere doesn’t support the president.

The US-based Oodua organization also distanced itself from the self-serving endorsement of Odumankin’s group.

Moshood Erubami, civil rights activist, summed it up: “No real Yoruba man or woman who supports a pan-Yoruba political and developmental agenda will vote for Jonathan in the coming election, because the Southwest has not gained anything from his administration.”

So let’s have a bloc vote from this savvy and enterprising race. Jonathan shouldn’t continue, the Yoruba ought not allow him!.

Sauce

http://www.naij.com/408711-three-reasons-why-yoruba-people-will-not-vote-jonathan.html

Say what?

WTF

Corruption

blank:
Shoot me?

I no mind ooo

I go knack you wella

expozey:
Insects are a very cheap source of good protein

I don't mean to be rude by this correction, truly.

Just goes to show how confusing english can be.

You're the confused one here ITK.

Is there a protein that's bad?

Bur there are "very good source of cheap protein"

Like the winged termite coz they cost you nothing

The first lady of Nigeria, Mrs Patience Jonathan visited Akure, Ondo state today and some of the things she said might interest you!

It was made known that Patience Jonathan, who’s on a ‘Women Rally’ was in Akure today and while addressing Ondo women, she said she is a daughter and a fan of former first lady, late Maryam Babangida. Mrs Jonathan also advised the youths of Ondo to pursue their education, stressing that if she wasn’t educated, she wouldn’t be a first lady;.
 

In her own words, she also said, “Majority of the people of Ondo are educated and I believe you know the importance of education because without education there is no future. We should thank God for the administration of Goodluck and PDP. If somebody is talking and you are not educated, can you be there? If Hilary Clinton is talking and you are not educated, can you be there? As Mimiko (governor of Ondo) is there, without education can he be there? As I am standing before you, if I am not educated, will they choose me?”.

In the same vein, Dame Patience Jonathan, while speaking to a mammoth crowd at the PDP rally held at the Gani Fawehinmi freedom Arcade.
 
ground in Akure earlier today said that a vote for the APC presidential Candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is a vote to send Nigerians to Prison. While reminding the peole that Buhari is a dictator, Mrs Patience Jonathan said a dictator will always be a dictator no matter how his handlers white wash him. Nigerians should not make that mistake because a vote for Buhari is a vote to send people to Prison.

Describing the APC as a party of liars, propagandists, and a party of people who have “nothing to offer but to grab power by all means”, Dame Jonathan said the Jonathan administration impacted the lives of women more than any administration before him.
” Do not vote for the candidate of the APC who do not have regard for the women. This is pay back time for President Jonathan all our women should come out on saturday and cast their vote for him.”

Just yesterday, the wife of the president during her women rally to Onitsha yesterday was noted to have said that the All Progressives Congress will be buried on March 28th. She also used the defection of Rivers state Deputy Governor, Tele Ikuru as an example, reiterating that that is an indication that the opposition party is dead.

What do you think abot this ??

Is it an obsession or what?





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Godmystrength:
I never pointed out your marital status.

Pardon me if I don't know where my sense of humor is: I just find it difficult to imagine my spouse saying that about my mother. No matter what, it would never be funny to me jare...

Am sorry madam if you feel offended by my harmless joke

Godmystrength:
so what stops the MIL from asking her son all she likes to know??

I love my MIL and so does she. But I would not tolerate that level of familiarity from anyone.

Your last statement is not expected from someone who has any form of respect for his MIL

Where's ur sense of humour?

FYI

Am not Married yet.

LadyX:
So to you it's OK to test the lady and not the man! Why the double standards?

Where is shooting blanks coming from and how is that information supposed to help me?

Anyway you are entitled to your opinion.

On no occasion will my Mum say she wants to have a bath with my to be wife.

What ever assessment she wants to do, she can do it while she's fully clothed and leave the carnal assessment to Mii.


You've been misunderstanding Mii since and it looks as if you are looking for a way to pick quarrel with Mii.

Been joking since

Godmystrength:
and why should your FIL believe his daughter? He needs to confirm himself o

He doesn't have to

Will be glad to give MIL some demo

steppin:
Dem never enter, dem don dey sue and extort money.
APC na legal criminals club.
Vote wisely. Vote Goodluck Jonathan.
GEJ till 2019.

A criminal that knows and respect the rule of law is way better than the ones who must not be named.

They went to court and won

LadyX:
Excuse me! I don't remember calling anyone a monster.

If you like being 'tested' by your in-laws, parade yourself before your father in law to check how good you are physically, including how big or small your John Thomas is.

Never said you called any one a monster in-law

The issue of my FIL testing Mii, there will be no need for that coz the daughter go don tell am say I dey fire from right, left and centre.

Mind you, I don't shoot blank

You can ask any of my Exes

lawanson44:
Wide Nosed Oily Soup Men! I knew it would definitely be them immediately i spotted the post on FP!

The worst part is that these shameless ohemmanu men after being caught will claim that it was the girl who asked for it! CHOI!!
Even the man's wife is a dolt for saying devil creeped into their home...abeg which kin cloth devil take creep enta? They will have these kind of useless husband and will not "stab them" or "cut them with razor" or "put them in cupboard and preserve them with chemicals for 10 years" as usual of wives in the South West...na the husband wey no do anything dem dey kill.

And if you check now, he will be among those advocating for CHANGE and shouting sai buhari! He has CHANGED the 13 year old girl's destiny

Tribalistic he-goat

Don't ur brothers do it too?

LadyX:
That's bad. Everyone is entitled to their privacy.

If you want to inspect me, don't ask your mum to do it. Just inform me. We go to a hospital of your choice, and then the doctor does all those tests.

I would be very offended if a would be mother in law walked in on me (bathing) to inspect me.

You'd be happy to open ursef to a doctor bur not ur would be Mother in-law?

jazzydee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBY1H6o5d1E

[size=20pt]Listen to the message by President Obama, Even Mr Obama recognises the progress that has been made under president jonathan in Economy, security, democracy etc and is urging Nigerians to vote for continuity to consolidate the gains that has been made so far.

GEJ carry go.[/size]

You mean there is considerable improve in security under this administration?

Awon Jonathanians yii ma gaa ju keh

jazzydee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBY1H6o5d1E

[size=20pt]Listen to the message by President Obama, Even Mr Obama recognises the progress that has been made under president jonathan in Economy, security, democracy etc and is urging Nigerians to vote for continuity to consolidate the gains that has been made so far.

GEJ carry go.[/size]

You mean there is considerable improve in security under this administration?

Awon Jonathanians yii ma gaa ju keh

jazzydee:
Well that the sad reality called Nigeria, Its up for us to choose the lesser evil.

See no evil

Hear no evil

Say no evil.

Sillyee

This is what education has turned to in Niger Area

Chibest2000:
Chai! Are u sure? Or u mean a truck of pure water? Lol..

Nna

Kachifo

Chibest2000:
I tink am seconding 2 dis, hw on earth could Ghana cedi b dat greater dan Nigeria naira?

The last time I was in Ghana (Accra), I bought jollof rice of 1cedis and egg of 50pesewas.


Don't believe that their money is still the useless money they used b4. Where you hear things like pure water being sold for 10000cedis.

Chibest2000:
So dat's 2day's exchange rate abi?

Get an Exchange rate app

The currencies fluctuates.

Buenas Noches Amigo (Goodnight Friend)

Chibest2000:
I got 52.6 against ur answer 54.51. So?

You should know that the Naira is not stable

The exchange rate I used was not the same as the OP

That's where the discrepancy is.

Chibest2000:
Guy abeg, how u take do dis calculation? I mean hw's 0.019 = 54.51?

Try dividing #1 by 1cedis (#54.51)

buskie13:
GEJ rush to an airport for wat...

must y'all be slaves to these white hoes forever?

I pity de black race

Pity ursef first before you consider pitying anybody else.

You need the pity more coz anybody perceived as an enemy of ur GEJ is a bastad

buskie13:
Obama is a scallywag... any objections?

y can't he mind his business... attention seeking bas.tard

Attention seeking bastar.d you say?

The President of the US of A

If he calls GEJ at 2:30am that he wants to see him before 10:00am, am sure he (GEJ) will rush to the nearest airport

jazzydee:
The north are already fighting Jonathan since he became president via boko haram,while boko haram was raging Nigeria became the biggest economy in Africa because the north east is economic liliput.
When niger delta which is the economic powerhouse of Nigeria boils in the event of a jonathan loss all of us will starve and we will all regrate antagonizing the delta,4yrs is nothing if we can all leave in peace,let Gej complete his second term and then the north can do their own term so peace can reign and Nigeria survive .
The Niger Delta boys are no joke they can paralyze Nigeria and they have done it before.

Do we continue like this?

Let's placate the ND to avoid trouble

Let's placate th NE to avoid trouble

When another militant group rear their head we placate them too, right?

Samirana360:
Even if gej win, it doesn't make him a gud prophet...I stil believe dat dis man is a devil's incarnate...fake prophet!!!



I dedicate my FTC 2 gej

Jonaboy til 2019

You see the kind of people associating with GEJ?

Flets:
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country. 

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investment will seize in all sectors.And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc. 

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished. 

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

Guy, you no dey tire with this ur dooms day prophesy?

If GEJ wins so people from the North or South-West should take up arms too?

If GEJ doesn't win, Nigeria will not break nor will there be chaos