₦airaland Forum

gregg2:
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Buhari is never my President. I am not proud of him.

How many Nigerians even voted for him? 15m out of total population of 180m does not represent a true wishes and aspiration of a people. Never!

I can't wait for 4yrs to come and go[/size]

GMB is not ur president abi? Invariably u wont obey any law and rule under him. Try it if u wont rot in jail. Sore looser. And if by now uhav nt learnt to leave with that fact, the lagoon is there. And what makes u feel if more pple voted he wont be defeated woefully? And were u blind to how pple across d nation celebrated d win? Did they celebrate like dat in 2011?

PS: people like u are d reason this nation where it is today.

nigerians never cease to amaze me. How can u bliv everything u read online. Guess time will tell who d rumor mongers are.

nigerians never seize to amaze me. How can u bliv everything u read online. Guess time will tell who d rumor mongers are.

MuguliciousMUGU:
See house? And he said he has 1 million naira and 150 cows, that devil must be a liar, devil has seen his twin brother since 1914, even lord lugard knows about the union...

This was the main reason why mama peace was crying "there is God ooo" chai.

bastardt the topic said hotel room.

Thank god for iphone been able to read for me. Who go read this epistle.

alexdidi:
yeah. The way you used it in the sentence though

I wasnt the one who used it. Just informing u!!

win1234:
Gullible Nigerians, the man has said nothing as far am concern, he just showed his color as political antagonist fully equiped to defend his cronies & deal with his enemies. Let's see how ur script plays sir.

Who be this??

As at this hour, not talking of the next Buhari himself is the Godfather of Tinubu and the rest. I still wonder how people think tinubu will influence Buhari.

**Sitting down leg crossed and arm akinbo watching in bluray 3D HD, sipping fura di nunu**

rainmaker12:
Is this swift midnight unlimited still working? I tried it but my data was deducted. Anytin else?

avoid browsing or downloading between 5 and 6am they will deduct ur data. Happened to me severally before I detected.

alexdidi:
KO not TKO

Have u heard of total knock out?

I am not trying to be tribalistic here but just saying things as they are. If anyone will agree that the igbo nation is the problem of this country. Not until every igbo man learn to respect a fellow Nigerian where ever they find themselves, they will forever remain in conflict with each other and other tribes. Look across the nation the highest level of violence and poll irregularities happened in the SE and SS where as in other parts of the nation it was peaceful and quiet. This was a situation they nearly panned out in Lagos because of their ungrateful attitudes towards their hosts. However Lagos will always continue to be peaceful. Rather than cause problems in other people's land why not channel that strength to love yourself? If Igbos don't love themselves how can they love others?

petermichaels:
Talk is easy,work is much harder. General i tnk u shuld know.

All of u criticising the General even before he assumes office, if u cant handle the fact that he is ur president, the Lagoon is there and its free ticket to ride into it.

himkers:
[size=14pt] start by prosecuting the defacto-president and the worst electoral offender in Nigeria,Tinubu, then we'll take you serious. Isn't it better this president-elect shuts up till he assumes power??[/size]

I just wonder how some unrepentant fools keep calling Tinubu a thief. With all the accusations against the guy nothing has been proven as yet. More So, lets agree he is a thief, he stole and use the money to invest in Lagos employing thousands of people. What of people like obanikoro, Deziani, stella odua, orji uzor kalu, wven Jonathan and mama piss that cArt away public funds out of the country to benefit the western economy. Do u knw how many people will be out of jobs if Tinubu closes hos companies? I guess u are all been intentionally blinded with hatred for APC. If u can't withstand the change that has come, jump inside the Lagoon.

ControlX:
A few days ago, the Oba of Lagos threatened Igbo leaders. If they did not vote for his governorship candidate in Lagos, he said, they would be thrown into the lagoon. His entire speech was a flagrant performance of disregard. His words said, in effect: I think so little of you that I don’t have to cajole you but will just threaten you and, by the way, your safety in Lagos is not assured, it is negotiable.
There have been condemnations of the Oba’s words. Sadly, many of the condemnations from non-Igbo people have come with the ugly impatience of expressions like ‘move on,’ and ‘don’t be over-emotional’ and ‘calm down.’ These take away the power, even the sincerity, of the condemnations. It is highhanded and offensive to tell an aggrieved person how to feel, or how quickly to forgive, just as an apology becomes a non-apology when it comes with ‘now get over it.’
Other condemnations of the Oba’s words have been couched in dismissive or diminishing language such as ‘The Oba can’t really do anything, he isn’t actually going to kill anyone. He was joking. He was just being a loudmouth.’

Or – the basest yet – ‘we are all prejudiced.’ It is dishonest to respond to a specific act of prejudice by ignoring that act and instead stressing the generic and the general. It is similar to responding to a specific crime by saying ‘we are all capable of crime.’ Indeed we are. But responses such as these are diversionary tactics. They dismiss the specific act, diminish its importance, and ultimately aim at silencing the legitimate fears of people.

We are indeed all prejudiced, but that is not an appropriate response to an issue this serious. The Oba is not an ordinary citizen. He is a traditional ruler in a part of a country where traditional rulers command considerable influence – the reluctance on the part of many to directly chastise the Oba speaks to his power. The Oba’s words matter. He is not a singular voice; he represents traditional authority. The Oba’s words matter because they are enough to incite violence in a political setting already fraught with uncertainty. The Oba’s words matter even more in the event that Ambode loses the governorship election, because it would then be easy to scapegoat Igbo people and hold them punishable.

Nigerians who consider themselves enlightened might dismiss the Oba’s words as illogical. But the scapegoating of groups – which has a long history all over the world – has never been about logic. The Oba’s words matter because they bring worrying echoes of the early 1960s in Nigeria, when Igbo people were scapegoated for political reasons. Chinua Achebe, when he finally accepted that Lagos, the city he called home, was unsafe for him because he was Igbo, saw crowds at the motor park taunting Igbo people as they boarded buses: ‘Go, Igbo, go so that garri will be cheaper in Lagos!’
Of course Igbo people were not responsible for the cost of garri. But they were perceived as people who were responsible for a coup and who were ‘taking over’ and who, consequently, could be held responsible for everything bad.

Any group of people would understandably be troubled by a threat such as the Oba’s, but the Igbo, because of their history in Nigeria, have been particularly troubled. And it is a recent history. There are people alive today who were publicly attacked in cosmopolitan Lagos in the 1960s because they were Igbo. Even people who were merely light-skinned were at risk of violence in Lagos markets, because to be light-skinned was to be mistaken for Igbo.

Almost every Nigerian ethnic group has a grouse of some sort with the Nigerian state. The Nigerian state has, by turns, been violent, unfair, neglectful, of different parts of the country. Almost every ethnic group has derogatory stereotypes attached to it by other ethnic groups.

But it is disingenuous to suggest that the experience of every ethnic group has been the same. Anti-Igbo violence began under the British colonial government, with complex roots and manifestations. But the end result is a certain psychic difference in the relationship of Igbo people to the Nigerian state. To be Igbo in Nigeria is constantly to be suspect; your national patriotism is never taken as the norm, you are continually expected to prove it.

All groups are conditioned by their specific histories. Perhaps another ethnic group would have reacted with less concern to the Oba’s threat, because that ethnic group would not be conditioned by a history of being targets of violence, as the Igbo have been.

Many responses to the Oba’s threat have mentioned the ‘welcoming’ nature of Lagos, and have made comparisons between Lagos and southeastern towns like Onitsha. It is valid to debate the ethnic diversity of different parts of Nigeria, to compare, for example, Ibadan and Enugu, Ado-Ekiti and Aba, and to debate who moves where, and who feels comfortable living where and why that is. But it is odd to pretend that Lagos is like any other city in Nigeria. It is not. The political history of Lagos and its development as the first national capital set it apart. Lagos is Nigeria’s metropolis. There are ethnic Igbo people whose entire lives have been spent in Lagos, who have little or no ties to the southeast, who speak Yoruba better than Igbo. Should they, too, be reminded to be ‘grateful’ each time an election draws near?

No law-abiding Nigerian should be expected to show gratitude for living peacefully in any part of Nigeria. Landlords in Lagos should not, as still happens too often, be able to refuse to rent their property to Igbo people.

The Oba’s words were disturbing, but its context is even more disturbing:

The anti-Igbo rhetoric that has been part of the political discourse since the presidential election results. Accusatory and derogatory language – using words like ‘brainwashed,’ ‘tribalistic voting’ – has been used to describe President Jonathan’s overwhelming win in the southeast. All democracies have regions that vote in large numbers for one side, and even though parts of Northern Nigeria showed voting patterns similar to the Southeast, the opprobrium has been reserved for the Southeast.

But the rhetoric is about more than mere voting. It is really about citizenship. To be so entitled as to question the legitimacy of a people’s choice in a democratic election is not only a sign of disrespect but is also a questioning of the full citizenship of those people.

What does it mean to be a Nigerian citizen?
When Igbo people are urged to be ‘grateful’ for being in Lagos, do they somehow have less of a right as citizens to live where they live? Every Nigerian should be able to live in any part of Nigeria. The only expectation for a Nigerian citizen living in any part of Nigeria is to be law-abiding. Not to be ‘grateful.’ Not to be expected to pay back some sort of unspoken favour by toeing a particular political line. Nigerian citizens can vote for whomever they choose, and should never be expected to justify or apologize for their choice.
Only by feeling a collective sense of ownership of Nigeria can we start to forge a nation. A nation is an idea. Nigeria is still in progress. To make this a nation, we must collectively agree on what citizenship means: all Nigerians must matter equally.

Source:
www.olisa.tv/2015/04/10/chimamanda-adichieoba-lagos/

It is disturbing how this issue is been prolonged. Without a stint of doubt, the Oba was wrong but I would not accept this as though Igbos are right. Till date, which yoruba or hausa man in the SE or SS can contest in a political position? None. But they leave in Lagos expecting to receive what they cant offer in goodwill. However, Igbos believe they have as much right in Lagos as Lagosians. Reason why they threaten heaven and earth more often than not that Nigeria should split of it would that they belong to biafra. The igbo tribe has been at the top of the game in dividing this country along ethnic and somewhat religious lines.
Needless to say, on the election in the SE and SS some results are currently rejected due to rigging that occurred. This pattern of voting cannot be compared with the North where PDP still amassed more than 100,000 votes even where the lost woefully compared to the 10,000 votes to a million in the SE. I will say here that all your points are irrelevant and unfounded.

Have u all tried to question the integrity of the source?? What's believeafrica.net ?? Never heard of it.

emmasege:
I learnt Muslim students were spared while Christian students who could not recite any Quranic stuff were ruthlessly murdered.
Imagine a world without Islam...............

Haba u guys shld stop all these lies now. The western superpower are feeding everyone lies and you keep adding tourselves to those that believe the lies. Have tou seen the front page of the Economist 2015 edition? Try check it out and stop vilifying Islam. Islam is nothing but a religion of peace.

This should make fp. People need to see how the media is used to feed lies and deceit b

cyril83:
Guy drop beef chop kponmo. Your oga at top don embrace defeat and move on, you still dey here dey cry.

A leopard cant change its spots. Bad hearted people will continue to hate, at their detriment though.

[Quote] LAGOS—Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George says he may be going on exile following the victory of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Maj-Gen Muhammudu Buhari (retd).

George had said in an interview that he would proceed on exile if the APC wins at the federal level.
Speaking with Vanguard, on the PDP’s defeat at the polls, the PDP chieftain said “What will I be doing here? I can decide to go and live anywhere. Look at everyone surrounding him (Buhari).
”So, I am not joking about it, what will I be doing here? At 70, what will I be doing here? All we have been doing to restructure the country has been lost. We have been trying to ensure balance in the polity but all that has gone. What else will I be doing here?”[/Quote]

Below is the reactions of some Nigerians

FP @Lalasticlala, @obinoscopy

Sooroptimist1:
Please vote him out of power so that when your allocation gets slashed and the opposition government you will install tax you all to death in order to run the state,you wont say you were not told

Most of you are just so full of hate that you wont mind to cut your nose to spite your face

If you dont know that there is an inherent advantage aligning with a friendly ruling government at the centre

GEJ tactically reduce the allocation to most opposition states citing crude oil theft and reduced oil price while giving leverage to PDP states through the ecological funds to shore up their dwindled allocation in order to make workers and citizens in the opposition states to cry and blame their Governors for owing them many months salary

While Osun workers wailed and whined about Aregbesola owing few months salary,did you hear Ekiti workers make so much noise? That is the advantage of being with the ruling party... a style started by OBJ which Jonathan has also perfected....which is to stifle opposition states of their funds in order to turn opinion poll against them while feeding well its own controlled states

So Imolites should vote out Rochas so that when the new Governor start feeling the cash crunch and seeks to transfer the pain on you the masses,you will perfectly understand the import of your sill.y decisions

instead of you to be happy that Imo will enjoy more attention and patronage from the APC FG,you want to cut your head due to Okorocha;s headache

Kontinu

Seriously i dont knw what to say to you but thst you are crazily on point.

Cop: "Did you kill this man?"
Me: "No, a bullet killed him. Bullets are made of lead, which comes from the ground. The ground is part of nature. He died of natural causes. Case closed."

Texcoco:
[color=#1980BC] Nigerians should brace up for the worse because this doesn't look good from his utterances and bodylanguage...He still arrogant,obstinate and illiterate. [/color]

When will u learn??

I think Nigerians did not really appreciate the input of General AbdulSalami. I can imagine his influence on Jonathan's concession to defeat by sitting with him through the announcement. Likewise his influence in making the two political giants sign a peace pact!!

360command:
All this things, FELA has seen all this before we...
If Fela voice :
"Election story nko
Obasanjo plan am very well
Election story nko
Obasanjo plan am very well
Him take old politicians
Wey rule Nigeria before
The same old politicians
Wey spoil Nigeria before
Obasanjo carry all of them
All of them dey there now"

If u like go and kpef!!!

For one thing after all the mediocrity and cluelessness, I commend Jonathan for accepting defeat and calling Baba to congratulate him. Whose with me?

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Baaaaaaabaaa!!!

Haba 140000 rejected votes in Edo. PDPigggs ok o. God pass una. Kontinu.

Soreza:
IF THE WEST WANNA BE WITH THE HAUSAS FINE BUT AS FOR WE THE SE,SS,WE WILL FORM OUR COUNTRY AM SURE EKITI WILL LIKE TO BE PART OF US AS SHOWED WITH THEIR VOTES

The likes of u are those involved in the retrogression of thos country. I am sure u wont mind to take part in a hate crime. Nigeria must be rid of people like u.

This is real comedy. Who be this prof make dem brong street light give am.

Is this cross river collation officer really a Prof.? Its killing me.

freecocoa:
I'm telling you that southerners and Easterners voted PDP there.

I no see even 1 northerner for polling unit.

Imagine 5 million registered voters in Lagos and just a little above a million valid votes but them get upto 2 million votes for Kano with about 4 million voters, is orite.

I am a Lagosian and reside in Lagos and can categorically tell tou people did not teally come out to vote. Although I expect the numbers to be higher but like I say, a host of the fraction were home sipping kunnu.

Pdp At it again. Disrupting the result announcement.