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Ndigbo in Lagos have pledged support for the re-election bid of Governor Babatunde Fashola, saying that his  administration has protected their interest.

The Coalition of Igbo in ACN, led by Chief Chris Ekwilo, praised former Governor Bola Tinubu and Fashola   for  involving some members in governance at state and local government levels.

Ekwilo observed that Fashola has demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities and made the state a model to others in the federation.

At a rally held at the Lagos State secretariat of ACN, on Acme Road, Ogba, Ikeja, the Publicity Secretary of the coalition, Comrade Joe Igbokwe, said Igbo would give 95 per cent of their  votes to the party.

He noted that Fashola  has been celebrated by the opposition parties, adding that he is a dedicated, decisive, dependable, intelligent, tested and trusted administrator.

Igbokwe also pointed out that Fashola has made Lagos a clean and secure state, thereby making it attractive to investors.

He said: “Governor Fashola is opening up Lagos through investments in massive road construction. anytime a brand new road passes through your house, the value of the property goes up. This is how government puts money in your pocket”.

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ALTHOUGH President Goodluck Jonathan may have officially ended his campaign tour of the country in his quest to return to Aso Rock on April 16, 2011, the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is still intensifying secret campaigns in some parts of the country which they believe that the opposition appear to hold sway even as indications have emerged that the National Assembly may tinker with its April 19 resumption date.

The Guardian gathered that immediately after the grand finale of the PDP presidential campaign held in Abuja on March 26, 2011, the chieftains of the party under the leadership of Jonathan held a meeting and agreed that there was a need for the party to carry out what a source described as ‘’informal meetings with some areas that the party still has some challenges in terms of extracting “concrete commitments from the political gladiators that the presidential candidate of PDP would be delivered at the polls which will now take place on April 16.

The strategy, according to party sources, became necessary because of the ‘’misinterpretation which some sections gave to certain comments made by PDP during the campaigns and the ferocious inroad of the opposition in vital areas like the North West’’. The North West has large number of votes that can likely determine the winner of the presidential election. The zone has seven states namely Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Kebbi.

The leadership of PDP is of the position that the North West political leaders from the party still has more work to do on the electorate because of the incident in Kaduna on February 11, when some people who had come to listen to President Jonathan at the zonal rally in Kaduna left the venue before the president spoke. Some political pundits have explained that to mean that PDP is not acceptable to many people in the North West. According to a source, “this negative impression needs to be cleared before we go into the election’’.

For this reason, the party has given a charge to the Director General of Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation to reverse the trend before the presidential election. ‘’This was one of key issues that the party is handling and we are positive that the desired results will be achieved because apart from these people who are visible in the campaigns, the party is equally reaching out to leaders of thought, including clerics from the zone’’, the source said.

In the case of the South West, The Guardian gathered that the president and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party led by the acting national chairman, Dr. Haliru Mohammed Bello, had a private meeting with the delegates in Abuja, where a reference was made to the statement he made at the Ibadan zonal rally that the zone should not be left in the hands of jokers because it is sophisticated. Members of the party from the zone were advised to take the opportunity of the Neigbour-to-Neighbour method of the campaign organisation “to erase the wrong interpretation given to the president’s message by the opposition’’,

“With the presidential election shifted to next Saturday, it is our hope that the party’s message of good hope and fresh air in Nigeria will further sink and that will mean that the opposition are living in illusion to say that there will be a second ballot. No party has campaigned the way PDP has done and no candidates has toiled for votes like our candidate. We have toured the entire country and we have reached every Nigerian with our Neighbour-to-Neighbour campaign and when a man has worked hard like that, his reward is success and that is what we expect. Like we said, we were ready for the presidential election and we are still ready and we expect Nigerians to vote massively for the party at all levels’’, the national publicity secretary of the party. Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali said.

Meanwhile, indications have emerged that the two chambers of the National Assembly - Senate and the House of Representatives will shift their date of resumption from April 19, 2011 earlier fixed by them. Speaking with The Guardian on the telephone from his Enugu North Senatorial District in Enugu State yesterday, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Communications, Senator Ayogu Eze, said that with the recent development where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shifted the elections, the National Assembly would not be able to reconvene on April 19, 2011. He described the postponement of the National Assembly elections as unfortunate.

“It is unfortunate that the we have this situation on our hands but I appeal to Nigerians to remain calm. Let them be patient with INEC and still contribute their quota to the success of the exercise. With this development, the National Assembly can not reconvene on April 19 because we have elections up till March 26, but the leadership of the National Assembly will let Nigerians know’’, he said.

Also, the PDP has said it was targeting at least 80 per cent victory in the various elections in the South-East, even as it urged her supporters in the zone not to be discouraged by the sudden shift in the elections.

National Vice Chairman of the party in the South-East, Chief Olisa Metuh, who stated this while addressing reporters in Enugu yesterday, said the party does not need to resort to violence to achieve the feat, stressing that PDP has become dominant party for the politics of the zone.

He said he was certain that the party would win the elections in Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia states and an overwhelming majority in Imo State, refraining however to comment on the fate of the party in his home state, Anambra.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43805:pdp-intensifies-lobby-in-nwest-swest-for-jonathan&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

•PPN accuses PDP of plot to stop Isiaka •Olurin: we want the court to clarify his status

Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel yesterday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has derailed. He declared: I’ll not support the party in the general elections.

Daniel spoke in Ijebu - Ode during the disbursement of grants-in-aid to Community Development Associations (CDAs) for various self-help projects.

The state chapter of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) yesterday raised the alarm over a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop its governorship candidate, Mr Gboyega Isiaka, from participating in the election.

In a statement, PPN’s Publicity Secretary Mr Raheem Ajayi said: “This is not only condemnable but a usurpation of the functions of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

‘’It is also an infraction of the rights of the PPN under the electoral laws to present its duly nominated candidates for election.

“We cry out to the world that both the PPN and those of us who are victims of Justice Kafarati’s injunction and judgment have no confidence in Kafarati. And we do not sound this warning without cause.”

He described the state PDP as a “band of desperados and opportunists.”

Ajayi called on President Goodluck Jonathan, the National Assembly, the Chief Justice of the Federation, (INEC, civil rights organisations and the media to caution the party against “truncating democracy in Ogun State.”

But the PDP’s governorship candidate Gen. Adetunji Olurin, in a statement, said the case was not that of the state PDP and PPN in Ogun State.

He said it was between the PDP and INEC because of an alleged illegality in admitting Isiaka as a candidate against provisions of the Electoral Act.

Olurin said: “How possible is it for Isiaka to be a candidate when at the time our case against him was determined, nomination process and substitution had closed?

‘’The law made provision for substitution but we are yet to be told that Isiaka met those conditions.

‘’There is also a pending appeal on the matter, in which he is involved, so how can he be candidate of another party when he is still fighting in court for PDP ticket? These are what we want the court to decide.”

Daniel said: “The PDP that you hear about in Ogun State has become a shadow of itself. As somebody well brought up, there is no way I can afford to support PDP in the state. The PDP of today, where you conduct primaries in the open and some people changed the process through the backdoor cannot be a party I would associate with.

“But our President, Goodluck Jonathan, is of good character and I am sure he did his best , We worked assiduously for his presidential ambition. The president was not part of the conspiracy that occurred in Ogun PDP. But let us go and vote enmasse for the president. However, after that, there is nothing else we can do than to support the new political party in Ogun State ; that is PPN.

“We thank God that we came and toured all the 236 wards in the state , appealing to you that despite the fact that we do not like the PDP, let us vote for the party because of our baba, Chief Obasanjo. And I thank God that you agreed with me and we succeeded in the election. But I want to tell you that the PDP of the last eight years is quite different from the current PDP,” Daniel said.

He chided the PDP governorship candidate Adetunji Olurin for threatening to jail him. He said: “The person they chose as their candidate said he would send the governor (me) to jail.

“They think civilian government is run like the military. They think the way the military trampled on people’s rights is the way government would be run in Ogun; their forefathers will go to jail. If I have worked tirelessly to develop Ogun State in eight years, their forefathers will go to jail. You would observe that your governor has not spoken like this before, but if one ought to speak out, one should speak out,” Daniel said.

He denied that his administration was using public funds to support the campaign efforts of PPN and its candidates

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/31762.html

In spite of efforts of opposition parties to take advantage of the multi-ethnic nature of Lagos State, ABIMBOLA ADELAKUN writes that the support for Governor Babatunde Fashola transcends ethnic lines.





If there is any state in Nigeria whose character fits Femi Osofisan’s book, “Many Colours Make the Thunder King”, it is Lagos. The state has an estimated population of 18 million people of varying ethnic groups and nationalities and is perhaps the most diverse in the whole country. Although official census puts its population at nine million, from all indications, the city has higher population especially since the voter registration figure says the number of people who were eligible to vote were more than six million.


In this vein, there has been a high appeal to the ethnic diversity of the state in recent times. First, it was President Goodluck Jonathan, who met an Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Aka-Ikenga, in Lagos State. Though the president at the meeting stressed how important it was to appreciate ethnic diversity, it was largely perceived as rallying Igbo support for himself especially since Yorubas is Lagos might not be too predisposed to voting him. In his Ibadan rally, [size=14pt]the president pointed out that the number of non-Yorubas outweighs the Yorubas in the place; a tacit way of making an ethnic appeal against Yorubas’ voting strength[/size].


T[b]here are no figures of the number of Igbos and other ethnic nationalities[/b], who live in Lagos but various word of mouth accounts put it between 40 to 60 per cent of the actual population of Lagos. With such belief tottering in the minds of the Igbos and others, [size=14pt]it is obvious that Lagos is a breeding ground for ethnic battles[/size] in the coming election. Recently, some Igbo groups threatened to give their protest votes to another party other than the Action Congress of Nigeria if the governor did not promise to give them more appointments based on their population.


[size=14pt]Not only are the Igbo clamouring for a share of Lagos, the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum recently claimed that they didn’t have a representative in the Lagos State Executive Council and they wanted to be included in the running of Lagos.
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With the various interplay of ethnic factors, the governor, Babatunde Fashola, might have a hot clay pot in his hands which he must set down carefully and handle with utmost tact. Recently, when he attended a debate organised by the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church, somebody in the audience identified himself as an Igbo who has been living in Lagos for 32 years. He accused the governor of using the Igbos to win elections and afterwards, destroyed their businesses and then they left for the East where they took to crime.


T[b]he governor replied that his life long friends are mostly Igbos because of where he schooled. He gave instances of several appointments that he has given to people who are non-indigenes and non-Yorubas in Lagos State, saying that the quality of expertise they bring to the table matters more.
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He said, “on the issue of appointment, I focus more on content and Quality rather than where people come from. Lagos is home for all. We don’t need to integrate them because they have already made a home here. They are in various aspects of governance, from civil service to the judiciary.”


For those who might have thought the ethnic nationalities would explode on his head and probably cause him to lose elections, a gradual turnaround of ethnic agitation occurred recently when various socio cultural groups representing the northerners, Igbos and South-South indigenes in the state started endorsing and showing support for the Governor Babatunde Fashola and his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria.


First, it was the Ebonyi community resident in Lagos State who conferred him with the chieftaincy title of “Omenkeafurunanya 1 of Ebonyi.”


Also, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, on behalf of their people, held a rally in his support. The National President of the AYFC, Alhaji Yerima Shettima said the Arewa community has not had a fair share of representation in governance at the State Executive Council, despite the contributions the community has made to the success story of the state under the Fashola administration.


He said, “[size=14pt]The Arewa Community has been sidelined, we do not have a representative at the state executive council but the Igbos have. We pay our taxes more than any other community in the state. We contribute our own quota to governance and we believe that we should also have our people representing us at the top.
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“We expect that in his acceptance speech by May 29, 2011, the Governor will announce that at least one or even two of our members will be in his cabinet, if the Igbo have one, we should have at least two because we have contributed more to state development”.


As the race towards the elections heats up, one ethnic based group or the other has been endorsing Fashola overwhelmingly. These days, Fashola greets Hausas and Igbos at various campaign grounds in their indigenous languages before switching to Yoruba or English. At a recent rally in Agege, the Nupe Community gave him overwhelming support, making T-Shirts and other campaign materials for him.


A rally was held on the international trade fair grounds in Ojo, Lagos. Leaders of diverse ethic nationalities in Lagos such as Igbos, South South and northerners. Present at the occasion were the state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Revd Ben Akabueze, Abia State ACN governorship candidate, Chief Paul Ikonne and Arewa leader in Lagos, Mr. Ahmed Kabiru who endorsed Fashola’s re-election bid and encouraged their members to vote for him overwhelmingly.


Kabiru said a poll was conducted among the over one million members of Lagos State Arewa Community to choose among the candidates, the one they should support in the next governorship election and, according to Kabiru, Fashola “ranked first among other gubernatorial candidates from political parties”. He said their ratings showed that Fashola’s credentials and performance towered above the others.


He said, “Fashola scored 72 per cent. His cumulative average was put at 68 percent. The assessment report also shows that Fashola’s administration “performed 73 per cent in the education sector, 78 percent in health, 74 in public works, 58 percent in transportation and 52 percent in environment. But his administration only performed 58 in transportation and 52 percent in environment due to the excesses of the officers of the state Traffic Management Authority and Kick Against Indiscipline Brigade officers”.


Ikonne urged the residents of the state to sustain the broom revolution in the state, saying Lagos State “has been a reference point in all states of the federation,” a rationale for which he said, all residents of the state irrespective of their status and groups should vote for Fashola.


Not only that, shortly before the solidarity rally took place, some Igbo professionals also took up the governor on issues which concern his plan for Lagos residents across ethnic borders if he is re-elected. Another Igbo group and non governmental organisation, Sisters Forum, organised a solidarity rally in Surulere for the governor. The founder of the group, Mrs. Chinyere Anokwuru, said their basis for endorsing Fashola is because “he has fulfilled all his promises by constructing several roads such as Cele Okota Link Bridge, the Sabo Yaba road and the LASU-Iba road. Fashola’s administration has also given succour to thousands of women who have been trained at the various skills acquisition centres across the state”.


Anokwuru also alluded to the credit facility scheme of the state, from which she said a good number of people “have benefitted through Lagos State Micro Credit Finance Institution just as public schools have been renovated and many new ones constructed. On the strength of his achievements, Fashola deserves re-election due to socio-economic transformation he has brought to the metropolis”.


Recently, Fashola met a group of Igbo businessmen and discussed the issue of Lekki Free Trade Zone among other issues. He told them that the project now caters for the goods and services they travel as far as China to import and that the difficulties they experience in clearing their goods at the ports was the handiwork of the PDP-led federal government. Fashola told them that his government “has shown in the last four years that we are a government for everybody, not a government for the Yorubas alone”. He promised that his cabinet, if re-elected at the April 9 gubernatorial polls, “will consist of the best brains in the state regardless of ethnic or religious leanings”.


With only a few weeks to the elections, it will be interesting to see how far the various ethnic nationality factors will play out both at presidential and governorship elections.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110324139459

Former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has charged candidates to go into the National Assembly and make laws for fiscal federalism.

“Go ahead,” he told the cheering crowd, “and elect all ACN legislative candidates into the National Assembly to tackle fiscal federalism and financial responsibility.”

Addressing a rally at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, to mark the Local Government Day in Lagos State, Tinubu told the crowd, comprising mainly local government officials, that the current federal revenue formula should be changed for Nigeria to develop.

He said: “As it is, the Federal Government takes far too much revenue to the detriment of states and local governments, where the real development takes place. For a truly federal state, states and local governments must take a minimum of 70 per cent of federally collected revenue.”

Praising Governor Babatunde Fashola, who was present, for showing good leadership, Tinubu said the governor kept the fiscal federalism issue on the national front burner.

The former governor congratulated the local government officials for keeping faith with what he called a “bottom-up” development paradigm which he said was being suppressed by Nigeria’s quaint federalism, which is no better than a unitary system.

He criticised federal authorities for their handling of local government administration.

Tinubu accused the Goodluck Jonathan campaign group of promoting “adversity instead of prosperity” and “divisiveness instead of unity”.

C[b]harging the President with playing the ethnic card by trying to turn the Igbo, the Hausa and other non-Yoruba against the Yoruba in Lagos, Tinubu said Jonathan was looking for division where there was none.[/b]

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/31516.html

A faction of the Igbo-speaking community in Lagos has thrown its weight behind the candidature of Dr. Ade Dosunmu, the gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

The group, speaking under the aegis of ‘Ndigbo for PDP’, said their members predominantly reside in Kosofe area of the state, where they promised to vote massively for the PDP against the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

The Chairman of the group, J. C. Onyeabor, said they took the decision because the “Igbo have been in economic and political darkness in the state for the past 12 years”.

Onyeabor further insisted that the ruling party (ACN) has brought untold hardship to the people of Igbo extraction; hence they would pitch their tent with the PDP.

Onyeabor said: “The ACN that claims to be leading us have brought pains, sorrow and misery to the Igbo community in Lagos. We have gathered to demonstrate our resolve to improve on our plight, so that the Igbo may be free from the bondage of the present administration.

“Governor Babatunde Fashola once insulted us when he said we could go back to our states if we were not comfortable with the way he was destroying our businesses. The hardship he brought upon us during the closure of Ladipo Market is still fresh in our memory.”


http://www.compassnewspaper.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1907:-igbo-in-lagos-root-for-pdp-governor&catid=37:general-news&Itemid=607

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=627286.msg7950418#msg7950418 date=1300646794]Show me the link where DEDE1 said the Edos were  Pro- yoruba. I'd like to see that. Also, I didn't know that you regard DEDE1 so high that his words now are all truthful and solid without a shadow of a doubt now. From now on you should cease to argue with him.

The Edos NEVER vote in the same pattern as the SW! Where the hell have you gotten this unbelievably false claim from?!. As far as your MW claim, yorubas didn't "dominate everything" as you are claiming. They simply suppressed the other ethnic groups and also used them for their resources. This was so because the heads of the Western Region were yorubas. It's called Discrimination.[/quote]sharrap dai you bloody lier


the leader was a yoruba man but his vice was an edo man,.,.,. true or false

nice one op

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=626175.msg7945961#msg7945961 date=1300569940]I read Ondo State lost 260 Oil wells to Delta state a few year's ago (see links), so what's new?

Nigerian Oil wells/wealth belongs to Nigerian Politicians, their families and their goons regardless of ethnicity.

Join politics my people, quit crying over resources that will not benefit you. 


http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/21532-ondo-loses-whopping-260-oil-wells-delta.html


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5589595-147/ondo_seeks_legal_redress_over_delta.csp[/quote]gbamm

ki lo de gann

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semid4lyfe:
This has to be the most pointless and senseless thread I've seen this year. . .

Jeez!

how 

you know you do not have to look at it not even comment on the thread

hater

Beaf:


Its almost safe to say Tinubu has gone senile.

you are right he is senile but remember you are still a mumu

i can see that his tiunbu is drunk or just a rascal like mr presido rightly said

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=611784.msg7796598#msg7796598 date=1298605660]Ba wo ni,jare? [/quote]

wetin be that olodo

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=611784.msg7796562#msg7796562 date=1298604758]You are yoruba.stop trying to keep up with this fake northern identity. Alj olu haram, kedu? [/quote]you can you just shut your mouth, can you explain to me how i am yoruba because i do not side igbos

Beaf:
Have you seen how civilians are whopping the arses og Gaddafi's almajiri's? lol
Same thing will happen to anybody that disobeys orders, because they are coming from an Igbo man, they will end up riding camels in Northern Chad.

well let him try it

i can see that there is no point reasoning with all of you here

some are even talking about terrorist while other and saying the east drive the economy

songothor

i will not put africa above my religion either do i expect you as a christian to put africa first before Jesus but at the end of the day it is you decision

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=611070.msg7796543#msg7796543 date=1298604389]Any Igbo men willing to satisfy Ileke-Idi's carnal needs? She seems like is getting worse each day, without having an Igbo man satisfy her.   [/quote]you peolple made her like this

Beaf:
Then they will end up in Northern Chad. Simple as abc.

see your logic,, ,. nothing

who will put them in chad you or mend

or maybe opc or massob

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=611784.msg7796464#msg7796464 date=1298602839]He did it, because he wants an Igbo man to protect him. Smart move on his part. It is hard to sleep, when you have a Northerner breathing down your neck. [/quote]what do you mean he wants an igboman to protect him,.,.,. how would the igbo man do it if the military is held by northerners and they decide not to take order from the igboman

he did it to end tribalism in the military thats all

THE deputy governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja, has told former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, that he lacks the liberty to speak for the Yoruba race.

Alhaji Arapaja stated this while reacting to the outburst credited to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader in the media, while reacting to President Goodluck Jonathan’s address at the official commencement of the South-West campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Mapo Hall, in Ibadan two weeks ago.

According to the Arapaja, who spoke through his chief media officer, Kola Adegoke, Yoruba people of the South-West were the most educated, the most enlightened and the most politically sophisticated in the country, and would have reacted to the president’s statement if they felt insulted by the remarks that had generated needless controversies in the media.

Arapaja said with the array of self-determination groups like the Yoruba Unity Forum; Afenifere; Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE); Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC); Oodua Redemption Movement (ORM); The Agbekoya Group, all peopled by eminent Yoruba men and women of proven integrity, the Yoruba race would have spoken out if the president really abused them or offended true, genuine and morally upright Yorubas with his comments at the Mapo rally.

Alhaji Arapaja asked if Tinubu, who had refused to publicly disclose or associate with his root in Iragbiji, Osun State, had the moral right to speak for the Yoruba race.

He said leaders like Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Adegoke Adelabu; Chief Abraham Adesanya; Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola; Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin; Chief Bola Ige and a host of other Yoruba leaders, never

adopted hook and crook means to assume leadership positions. They all lived by good examples which those who claimed to be their disciples must emulate.

He said those affected by Jonathan’s remarks were not the people of Yorubaland but political desperadoes who had perfected the art of blackmailing the society, including the judiciary to get to office at all cost.

The deputy governor said the campaign of calumny launched by Tinubu’s foot soldiers against Governor Alao-Akala portrayed them as a bunch of petty and insincere politicians because industrial unrest in the health sector was not peculiar to Oyo State, while he reminded Tinubu that his political godson, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was yet to resolve the strike embarked upon by medical workers in the state in spite of the close to N20 billion revenue accruing to the state every month.

Alhaji Arapaja also said Tinubu’s adopted Lagos State was ranked 32nd out of 36 states in the implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, thus, tampering with the future of innocent children in Lagos State.

The deputy governor of Oyo State, however, wants Senator Tinubu to concentrate on how to clear the mess he created in ACN through imposition of family members and his cronies and those of other party leaders as candidates against the wish of party members

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18085-tinubu-lacks-privilege-to-speak-for-yorubas-arapaja

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has explained why he appointed an Igbo man, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Iheji-rika, as Chief of Army Staff (COAS), saying that beside basing it on merit, it was also in conformity with his resolve not to discriminate against any Nigerian, no matter his tribe or religion.

Jonathan said this during a visit to members of the Abia State traditional rulers council, led by its chairman, Eze John Akaniru, in Aba.

The president, who was in the state in continuation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nationwide campaign, asserted that it was in view of his administration’s policy of equal opportunities for all Nigerians that he chose General Ihejirika, after much submissions and analyses, with conviction of his brilliance and competence among his contemporaries.

According to him, “he is a brilliant and competent officer, and when people thank me for his appointment, I say no, because we are re-creating a Nigeria, where no one or ethnic group suffers discrimination of any kind.

“I did not know him, I did not know he was from Abia State, but I did my analysis and I was told he was the best and I decided that being the best, he has to take the job,” Jonathan said.

On the issue of kidnapping, Jonathan reassured of the commitment of the administration to eradicate the menace and tackle other issues of insecurity in the South-East region and the nation in general.

The traditional rulers later conferred the title of Omezuri Abia, meaning “the one that has built Abia” on the president.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18099-why-i-appointed-igbo-man-as-coas--jonathan

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=611763.msg7796416#msg7796416 date=1298601611]Wakima! I'm becomrichn [/quote]

Beaf:

[size=14pt]Ban nomadic cattle rearing once and for all. We are not in the stone age.[/size]
After that, if any cattle rearer is found outside his state or designated farm area, shoot the fvker like a thief.

Enough is enough.

and did they tell you they are not stone age as well

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=611760.msg7796141#msg7796141 date=1298597365]Yoruba boy wannabe.

Yoruba boy.[/quote]you forgot to put kedu and igbo boy there

i thought my igbo brothers on this forum said SW voted for obj 2003

i guess it shows that they have been liars from day 1

ShangoThor:
My point is that I believe it is wrong to place ones allegiance to foreign religions before the allegiance to Africa, Black Africa, and the Welfare of Black Africans. This is part of the reason why Black Africans remain crawling and will never be seen as equal partners by other races.
In the thread below, I asked you the same question:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=610234.msg7783055#msg7783055

and this was your reply:

guy i am african does not mean i will put africa first before my religion

i have never and will never deny my africaness but i will put my religion before any africa crap

do you understand

moreover why do you think i am arab or out arab first because of my religion,.,.,.,., should i call you a jew because of yor christain faith