berem: well,it is in the hands of Lagosians to decide.

berem: Desmond Elliot will be massively voted for. How I wished he was contesting under Ojo constituency,I will rally votes for him. He craves for a change and he deserves the chance to make that change.

berem: Egbon,there's no doubt that Desmond Elliot is a confirm yoruba dude. Your grouse with him is that he didn't add "Sola" to his names all these while. I don't think it matters honestly. What matters now is for lagosians to give him all the support he needs.

berem: Well I guess Desmond Elliot is his stage name. It is very common for actors to use only their English names for the sake of their acting career. There are many of them both yorubas and igbo actors who use only their english names.

lyricalz:

Na tribalism na im go kill u die troway. Obama no be kenyan? Whatz ur biz with the ethnicity of the woman he got married to? Infact ur mouth dey smell.

berem: This post sums it up!

LOBATAN!!

I wish Olusola Desmond Elliot all the best in his political career.

ibedun:

Abeg stop your igbotic preaching jare nobody is falling for that poo.

Who told you we are one nation? Abbeg

And charity begins at home jaro not Yorubaland.

If you want to experiment all these your liberalism go and do it at home first.

Ngbo bia........

Collynzo17:
I didn't even read your link. In my last post, I gave you good reasons why your asserrtion remains false.
It seems you are the one who has ran out of points after running from pillar to post.

tupacshakur:

I also think he fuccked up by not coming out with his Yoruba name from the onset!

Well, like some Motherfuckers postulated on this thread, I think he wanted to endear himself to the Movie producers who were mostly Igbos, but he sure didn't consider the long-term consequences...

I'm cool, bro! How your side na?

Thug Life!

Collynzo17:
Your initial assertion that Igbo producers only took advantege of her fame is still a lie because her very first role was given to her by an Igbo man, even the mortal inheritance was directed by an Igbo man and directors even play a greater role in choosing the casts (which is the theme of our discussion here) than a producer.
www.aprokocity.com/omotola-says-omosexy-pet-name-home/
www..com/talk/?action=gallery;sa=view;id=37873
www.zoominfo.com/p/Reginald-Ebere/921648958

Evergreen123:

I bin dey tell you say your people dey do one kind one kind.
The poor guy has a Yoruba dad and Igbo mum.
As far as am concerned, he can benefit from both sides whether nollywood, politics, business, etc as the case maybe.

tupacshakur:

He has always been Yoruba, every time and everywhere!

Did he ever state in public that he's Igbo?

You get sense so?

Collynzo17:
Please provide a proof that Zeb Ejiro produced the movie, you keep jumping from pillar to post.
Smacks of confusion and lies.

tupacshakur:

Shymexx, My man!

DesBaba na Yoruba guy o and he's very proud of his yoruba lineage.

You claimed he didn't align himself with his people, but how could he have done that when there was no opportunity to do so until now.

He and all all his siblings attended the state school, LASU based on their citizenship status and his Dad was one of the Lagosians the government had to resettle from the Island to Surulere (New Lagos) in the 80s. His Mom still lives in their Dad's house in Surulere.

He didn't change names! He has always been Shola and trust me, his folks and those who know him from way back call him "Shola" and not "Desmond"...

django1:

As I suspected, most of you guys talking thrash are PDP, I was starting to wonder when my yoruba people learn to be senselessly tribal? Its all clear now, eyin oloshi.

Collynzo17:
No it was directed by Andy Amenechi an Igbo man.
www.africafilmfest.org/index.php/about-affrif/our-team
http://imdb.com/title/tt1525414/

Ayosh: I think people have begun to take tribalism and bigotry too far. Every nations, even the most civilized of them, US, Britain,Russia,Japan etc have some element of tribalism that still lingers. People will always identify first with their own whether we like it or not. When success is being attributed to a previously unknown figure, most of us go for the name first in other to identify with and possibly brag about the achievement based on the tribe first of all before we take it as far as being a Nigeria. Nothing absolutely wrong in that,its perfectly human and normal and have seen a lot of folks here do it countless number of times even those who are now calling users who see a foul-play in Elliot's ambition bigots and 'tribalists'! I'm quite sure people supporting this would be first to disapprove if someone like Jide kosoko suddenly adds 'ugochukwu' or 'abubakar' to his name claiming to be from SE and North resp cos he wants to contest a political post. Elliot could win despite the cries for or against him here but doesn't change the fact the move to suddenly add Olusola to his was dubious and still is! He should have stuck with his well known moniker even while claiming to be Lagosian and I'm sure the hostility here wouldn't have reached this proportions. I think people have begun to take tribalism and bigotry too far. Every nations, even the most civilized of them, US, Britain,Russia,Japan etc have some element of tribalism that still lingers. People will always identify first with their own whether we like it or not. When success is being attributed to a previously unknown figure, most of us go for the name first in other to identify with and possibly brag about the achievement based on the tribe first of all before we take it as far as being a Nigeria. Nothing absolutely wrong in that,its perfectly human and normal and have seen a lot of folks here do it countless number of times even those who are now calling users who see a foul-play in Elliot's ambition bigots and 'tribalists'! I'm quite sure people supporting this would be first to disapprove if someone like Jide kosoko suddenly adds 'ugochukwu' or 'abubakar' to his name claiming to be from SE and North resp cos he wants to contest a political post. Elliot could win despite the cries for or against him here but doesn't change the fact the move to suddenly add Olusola to his was dubious and still is! He should have stuck with his well known moniker even while claiming to be Lagosian and I'm sure the hostility here wouldn't have reached this proportions. I think people have begun to take tribalism and bigotry too far. Every nations, even the most civilized of them, US, Britain,Russia,Japan etc have some element of tribalism that still lingers. People will always identify first with their own whether we like it or not. When success is being attributed to a previously unknown figure, most of us go for the name first in other to identify with and possibly brag about the achievement based on the tribe first of all before we take it as far as being a Nigeria. Nothing absolutely wrong in that,its perfectly human and normal and have seen a lot of folks here do it countless number of times even those who are now calling users who see a foul-play in Elliot's ambition bigots and 'tribalists'! I'm quite sure people supporting this would be first to disapprove if someone like Jide kosoko suddenly adds 'ugochukwu' or 'abubakar' to his name claiming to be from SE and North resp cos he wants to contest a political post. Elliot could win despite the cries for or against him here but doesn't change the fact the move to suddenly add Olusola to his was dubious and still is! He should have stuck with his well known moniker even while claiming to be Lagosian and I'm sure the hostility here wouldn't have reached this proportions.

Collynzo17:
Long epistles cannot help you dribble your way out of your lies.
You said Omotola helped the producers and not the other way round because she was already made before they started using her. That is a huge lie since at least 4 out her first five movies were by Igbo producers, Omotola said it herself that she was discovered by Reginald Ebere an Igbo man.
Finally whatever you describe mortal inheritance as is no problem to me since it was directed and produce by an Igbo man called Andy Amenechi, Fred Amata was Omotola's co actor in that movie not a producer in any way shape or form.

Paentera:

Are you minding the many dimwits and mentally incapacitated members of NL who actively troll posts to whip up unnecessary sentiment usually not backed with any facts but more of badly formed opinion.

superstar1:

Get it into your head, staying in Lagos does not make him an indigene. He is not the son of Oduduwa. Period and we will show him the way to his village.

That is what the constitution tells us. He will go to America, if he wants to contest in a no man's land.

An indigene of any hamlet in.Osun or Ondo or Ekiti or Oyo or yoruba speaking parts of kogi Kwara and edo has more stake in Lagos than any shidebere or shindinma or shindodo.

uzolexis:

then i am truly sorry 4 u. Ur inability to differentiate an enlightening msg from rubbish is worrisome. Lil wonder u have been posting rubbish cause u r incapable of saying something meaningful. goodbye.

Collynzo17: Mortal Inheritance was directed by Andy Amenechi a core Igbo man, Fred Amata who isn't Yoruba by the way was an actor in the movie just like Omotola.
All her early movies were by Igbo producers and directors, the more you contine to defend you lies, the deeper you sink.

uzolexis:
call it whatever you like but i truly hope you got the msg for your own good and the good of our society.

Collynzo17:
Your fake revisionism cannot work, what were her first movies and who produced them?
All her early movies where by Igbo producers
Omotola was discovered by Reginald Ebere an Igbo man and the director of her very first movie ''venom of justice''. Everything you wrote up there is false.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEI4uh49Vw

Collynzo17:
So the Igbo producer that picked Omotola, Olu Jacobs, Akintola and other Yorubas in Nollywood didn't notice their Yoruba names? You are just a bloody tribal bigot, no need to pretend about it, it is nothing new on Nairaland.

swezenberg:

Lesson for you. Think before you post. See as everybody dey attack you. Swallow your pride. You are wrong. Do you need a toddler to come and tell you.

As for me I have lost hope in helping you. May people not lose hope on us.

chukwudi44:

ode!!! go and stop him from your chinco keypad

swezenberg:

There is no point deviating. Unfortunately you can not modify your previous posts because I have copied you. Go and see if you can bribe Nairaland moderators. Oh! I forgot you might not find a bigot like you among Nairaland moderators. May be you should just resort to my initial advice of hugging a transformer or travel fast to Liberia. You know what I mean.

vigasimple:
The point ordinary people are making is that Desmond Elliott has at no point well known to majority of the people especially the Yoruba lagosians to be a Yoruba man. All of a sudden because he is seeking political office add Olusola to his name.

It bring about suspicion and trust issue. And in all honesty, he has identity crises issue or he is completely dishonest, and would do well in politics, because that is their trademark.

Is it me or anyone notice the choice of name OLUSOLA, and SARAKI of Ilorin, who always add or change his name to ABUBAKAR during presidential election to say he is a Northerner.

On another point, look at APC manifesto, it is very clear, they are a party of little substance.

I smell national cake sharing here, but diaris body oh

swezenberg:

So you finally agree you are a tribalist. Now that you have agreed, you are forgiven. Go and sin no more.

chukwudi44: this asoozy guy is a very big disgrace to humanity!!! that guyis worse than ebola ,HIV and can cer combined.Thank God he has littlemor no influence outside his miserable chinco phone keypad that he is using

swezenberg:

He feels he won't get a role because he's a Yoruba man which is usually the case in Nollywood