₦airaland Forum

Crixxx:
That heli whatever have always been naive

God1000:
I hope he will stop interfering in Lagos state politics, the process that produced him as APC candidate was transparent

He wouldn't have been APC flag bearer if buhari had interfered

JOLLOFman:
Please help! I'm loosing myself!
An addiction for gambling is one of the most destructive! It's well deviced to reduce one's life to crumbs! I am well aware of this yet I could not discontinue. Why?
I've got a fighting spirit(strong head) coupled with an analytical mind that makes me understand why I lost a ticket! That's why. In addition,the near hits, the losses, and the little winnings( the back and forth) and the ecstasy of it all has kept me hoping for a very heavy rainfall in the Sahara for more than a decade. For 12years, gambling has done the worst it could do to a talented young person like me. This I beleive, is quite revealing considering the reach of this platform. I really want to put out a public statement and declare my resignation from this dragon head burning down every meaningful relationship i had and replacing them with ilks in the"industry"
But I cannot stop betting!
I'm stuck! Trapped in the middle a dragon's canine!
How can I set myself loose? the dragon has in its belly my most valued treasures: my education, my career and my Peace! But who can survive this? Maybe one day, the dragon would choke! And I'll recover my losses!
Have I lost my head?[right][/right][/b][b]

PoliteActivist:
So you concede Aburi accord. Good.

Now, let's see who is rewriting history.

Below is a newspaper report of what Awo himself said publicly (note the bolded):

VANGUARD
26 SEP 2017
By Eric Teniola
ON May 1, 1967 at a meeting of Leaders of thought of Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo made the following declarations:
“I consider my duty to Yoruba people in particular and to Nigerians in general to place four imperatives, two of them categorical, and two conditional:

(1) Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening stalemate and restore normalcy.

(2) The Eastern Region must be encouraged to remain part of the Federation

(3). If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation.

(4) The people of Western Nigeria or Lagos would participate in the Ad hoc Constitutional Committee or any similar body only on the basis of absolute equality with other Regions of the Federation”.

It was the gravest statement made by any leader in Nigeria at a crucial time.
...
The question is why did the Western Region not follow the Eastern Region when it seceded on May 30, 1967?

The Daily Sketch which published in full Chief Awolowo’s speech on May 2, 1967 sold out in Enugu at two shillings per copy which is more equivalent of today’s six hundred naira. The speech was hot cake in Igbo land - all and sundry understood it to mean Awolowo would pull the Yorubas out of Nigeria if Igbos seceded.
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On July 2001 Rudolf Okonkwo pointedly asked Ojukwu if there was such agreement. Here is what he said (note the bolded):

RUDOLF OKONKWO: Did the meeting take place, and was there such an agreement?

OJUKWU: We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually...

Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it.

Here is what Sam Aluko, who was at the meeting, said:

"What Ojukwu Told Me, Before, Durring, And After The War" - SAM ALUKO

"Awolowo said, if the East left the federation, the Yoruba would have to leave the federation."

Karlovych:
A courageous man that challenged the status quo unlike one that ingested hot rat poison after backstabbing the rest of the country.

juman:
He is political colossus . Apc picked him to tackle their opponent.
Because atiku is also political heavyweight.

Battle between lion and tiger.

While the masses continue to suffer.
Masses can vote better persons to lead us.
Their are other candidates in other parties.

Megabig:
OP is useless sha

melonsgroup:
Following

oz4real83:
Wonders shall not end . FFK is on channels tv, on political platform defending APC , defending PMB , defending Tinubu . The verve with which he is doing it is on another level, as if his life depended totally on them .
Politics is really a game of interests in Nigeria.

bastardmod:
Somebody stole the peoples money then turned around to use a small part of that money to bribe delegates to win an election to rule over the people, and you call him a renowned politician, a strategist , a juggernaut, all sorts of names, you are a hopeless and eternal fool

Samson0599:
Well na them sabi, they can continue hating the Yorubas for all I care. They can keep hating , it wouldn't stop me from rooting for PO. He is the better candidate among the rest. Nigerians don too suffer for this Buhari era and we need to get it right this time....

immortalcrown:
It explains why every politician wants to own a media organization. Any platform that can reach a large number of individuals in different locations is a strong political tool.

It also shows most the future leaders are worse than the leaders of today. These youths (moderators) will later head public offices. During Lekki massacre, the youths condemned a certain man. Today, the same youths project the certain man as a good leader.

PaChukwudi44:
Let indigenous lagosians rise up and resist the Iragbiji born emperor from dominating over their land

Samson0599:
Hmmm the hatred is something else even the hausas no hate us like this....same within my neighborhood any small gathering of the ibos na yorubas dem dey abuse and am beginning to be skeptical , if I as a yoruba is rooting for Peter Obi can be insulted at everytime just because am a yoruba,it's really really painful. This haterd is too much

Assetinvestor:
All these Tinubu urchins and foolishness are like 5 and 6. Tinubu is not the same as Yorubas. Every sensible Nigerian including Yorubas know that Tinubu is both physically and mentally unfit to rule Nigeria and are now voicing out.

Igbos have no problem with Yorubas. Stop trying to decieve gullible ones that Tinubu is same as Yorubas. If it was Osinbajo that was given APC ticket, nobody would have issues with it, but trying to foist a Buhari pro max on Nigerians is evil and would be resisted by all men and women of goodwill regardless of ethnicity or religion. Get that into your thick skull.

Anyways, you can continue decieving yourself trying to sell people a dummy. Trying to knock the heads of Igbos and Yorubas together because you have seen that Tinubu is not marketable is an effort in futility.

Ammishaddai:
I never knew someone can be as jobless as this before 9am in the morning. But I don't blame you sha . Na Nairaland I blame

samista:
They wanted him to increase their salaries and other entitlements but he refused. Peter Obi was not owing them a dime, the greedy doctors just went on strike because they wanted more money.

samista:
What kind of foolish talk is this? Can't a person decide where he will invest his personal money? Are you saying that all those companies owned by foreigners that have invested in Nigeria are doing something bad? You people just wake up and make all sorts of stupid comments. Peter Obi is a business man and he has every right to choose where he wants to invest his own hard earned money. It's his money and he is free to invest it where he wants.

God1000:
I'm trying to see if I can cope with the possible ugly reality of Tinubu's presidency.

For the first time, I'm shamed of this country, and the youths in particular

From buhari to Tinubu

For those of you that believe in God, God will judge you all for aiding and abetting every wrongdoing in Nigeria

Fahdiga:
Nigeria is irredeemable

ayokellany:
The Asiwaju National Students Support Organization (ANSSO), led by Giwa Murtala Omatola-Moore, wishes to congratulate its Icon, Bola Ahmad Tinubu, on completing the first stage of realizing his lifelong ambition of becoming President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by being elected as the standard flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 General Elections.

The victory of Bola Ahmad Tinubu remains a win for justice, equity, reserved character, competence and national unity at bay to the historical fact of being the only Governor who recruited Nigerians across all divides devoid of tribe, religion and geographical placement to serve under his administration as executive Governor of Lagos.

When Bola Ahmad Tinubu became Governor in 1999, he initiated and began the era of reform, rehabilitation, and rebuilding of the education sector in the state with the goal of making public schools, particularly at the primary level, appealing to the populace; he would go on to invest 1 billion Naira in Lagos State University in 2006, making him the only Governor to do so.

By July 2000, Bola Ahmad Tinubu launched a free education exercise for all Lagos State public schools, including free registration of WAEC and NECO. He would later become the first Governor to vote 127 million naira and fully initiate and execute payment of bursary/scholarship allowances to all tertiary institution students in Lagos State.

Looking back from 1999 to date, in our 23 years of a striving democracy made possible by Bola Ahmad Tinubu and colleagues from the National Democracy Coalition (NADECO), no state Governor has recorded such unprinted track records and thunderous investments in education as Bola Ahmad Tinubu.

The Asiwaju National Students Support Organization (ANSSO) hereby reiterates its stand towards the candidacy of Bola Ahmad Tinubu and will not relent in its common goal of global mass mobilisation of students and youths in view of the actualisation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmad Tinubu as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria so as to make Nigeria a Lagos.

Fahdiga:
Peter Obi is the best man for the job. Let's rescue our dear country now

Zonefree:
It's more noble for power to remains in North than to go to SW again.

Oplomo:
3) You see the dynamics? Tinubu has a huge tide to swim against. I pray he survives this one with his poor health.

Oplomo:
Good. Bring your Muslim-muslim ticket.

Atiku's media machine will be happy to milk it and monopolize Christian votes both in the North and South.

Even in yorubaland. I don't see yoruba christians, RCCG or Winners teeming members voting Muslim-muslim ticket with the current state of the country.

Atiku should start using the title President-in-Waiting already.