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Itsrm:
To be fair to him, when I was transferred out of Lagos to Warri in 2015, I was really angry and almost resigned. I didn't want to go. Lagos was heaven and earth to me.

My brother, one month in warri when I was now waking up by 7:30 in the morning, I never wanted to return to Lagos.

Even till now, I will never return to Lagos except I get a job that pays in foreign currency

So if I wasn't transferred out of Lagos, I probably will still be one of you guys today.

Most people who grow up in Lagos usually do not want to leave. Myself , each time I leave Lagos I always look forward to getting back to the city as soon as possible

Theflint1:
There are exceptions, but generally Yoruba's hardly settle in other Southern states like that, at least from the little I know.

I like u; u've done well by putting a caveat that "at least from what u know". Now that's a good way of putting one's opinion out without necessarily generalizing.

iamoyindamola:
Who dash am professor

Na professor o. He even studied in Cambridge and Oxford sef. Chai! smh

Amoto94:
People keep shouting 300bn was budgeted for the selection sorry election but what they dont know is budget is just an estimate, how much was released to INEC and how did they utilised the release funds should be,at the forefront of the debate.

If u have the exact figures released to him, please share with us.

iamoyindamola:
I have been preaching it the man no suppose finish the collation before them throw the werey inside jail

The guy is a disgrace to the academics. Smh. Nonsense professor

CrystalTiger:
Wahala dey oo..No wonder LP and PDP dey para..

Over 300bn spent and we still had the same shit..Since when I come back my area, alot of people are saying no more voting again for them...Voter apathy wey go dey on the 11th no be here..And na this direct upload wey make people vote this period..

As we dey para for the inec worker make he upload results thinking we were doing something reasonable

E reach to para bro. How does one make an announcement to Nigerians, released press release and still go ahead to address the whole world on the electoral process and procedures only to do the exact opposite?

I've seen some foolishness being parotted about online with some people claiming he outsmarted PDP that had planned to hack the server. I call it foolishness because if he wanted to do that, he should've addressed everyone of us the way he did when he promised to transmit results electronically in real time. He owed us that. He didn't just get 300 billion naira just to whatever comes to his mind at the die minute. He just no rate us except his paymasters

afrodoc2:
I said it before that losing the job shouldn't be the only punishment for failed INEC chairmen. A failed election is like treason to the country as it can lead to serious instability. A jail sentence should be attached to failure if culpability can be proven.

The guy is just so annoying 🤬

He has succeeded in making a whole lot of people lose hope in any electoral process in the future.

I don't think I will ever vote in any Nigerian election again 🚶‍♂️

Mahmood Yakubu really shiiit for church mehn! 🤦‍♂️!

Normally this man supposed dey jail

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpUNSaWD_pl/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao

I understand this..
But I remember the day pictures of anambra was shared on twitter and alot of yorubas were actually surprised by how anambra looked coz they didn't expect that level of development.

Also if someone says the igbos settle in more parts of Nigeria than yorubas especially lagosians, would you disagree or agree to that seeing as we have not met all Igbos or all Yoruba's based in Lagos.

You see bro, the problem this present generation is they do not read!

The good old days of newspapers and magazines, u don't need to travel out of Ur own locality to know people within Ur tribe travel far and wide. U will see newspapers and magazines with columns and articles focusing on a particular set of people, their way of live, their choice of travel destinations and where u can find them in large numbers outside ther region/home state.

I didn't even leave Lagos to know Ejigbo people of Osun State have a community is Ivory Coast. I read it in the papers. I read about the igbo community in Equatorial Guinea in the papers. Now we have the Internet that makes people have access to such information easily but we would not use it for learning, na to just troll and project our biases on people. 🤦‍♂️

emmaodet:
Lol, bro calm down.
I am speaking for myself already and what i said is my view. It doesn't mean it is yours.
You also say yours the way you view it and the viewers will compare, sieve, pick and learn from it. That is how discussions go.
Why i agree with your points, i will add that most yorubas even prefer traveling out to abroad because we have the believe that other nigerians are coming to Lagos for greener pasture, so literarily, it doesn't make much sense going the the other way.
It is like a British coming down to hustle here why most of us are going there to hustle. So the best is for the British to go to US or Canada if they want a greener pasture. Atleast, that is the mentality
Many yorubas believe rather going to other regions, it is better we go abroad reason why we full places like pecham in UK, Atlanta Georgia in US and co

Na everybody dey travel abroad bro, people just have different places abroad they prefer traveling to. Igbos prefer Asian countries, Yorubas prefer UK, USA, etc while Edo people prefer Italy, Eastern Europe, etc.

iamoyindamola:
I think that's the plan all along, I was in onne free port zone and the place felt like a mini Lagos I got to find out majority of the companies there import their skilled staff from Lagos while using the indigenes as contract staff, non skilled staff
My host was telling me he rejected 2 big offers in Lagos and he left his family in Lagos

It's just annoying when people make it seem like they have a bird's eye view of what is happening in every part of Nigeria and start making points based on that.

There are Yorubas who own filling stations, bakeries, eateries in the north. The cost of living in that part of the country is cheaper and nobody taxes them to death or rent properties to them at exorbitant prices cos they are non indigenes. People will always travel and live in areas where they feel they are more welcome. Igbos are in Lagos cos they feel they are much welcome here.

Cubana has two clubs/lounge in Lagos; one on the island and the other in Ikeja. He pays tax to Lagos state government like every other persons nd nobody goes to disturb his business. That's why I say make all these people wey dey parrot these tribal narratives hustle and make money like their brothers and enjoy life instead of having a defeatist mentality that anybody is after them.

emmaodet:
When i say many yorubas don't travel to other southern nigerian cities, it doesn't mean we don't. We do but our number is minute and not in a sizeable amount to be really recognised.
I am yoruba too. I have worked most of my life in PH/calabar/warri area and i schooled in Oron. So the best part of my life has been outside south-west so what i said may not be totally true but large percentage of it is.
I have families too who built houses in PH and co.

What u should be saying is different ethnic groups In Nigeria have their own specific areas outside their regions they prefer traveling to.

Go to places like Yauri, Zuru in Kebbi and u will practically see Osun state and Oyo State indigenes speaking Yoruba freely on the street. The same in some parts of southern Kaduna. Go to Abidjan in Ivory coast and u will see Yorubas from Ejigbo In Osun State conversing in Yoruba in large numbers like it's the official language.

There are Hausa speaking who flood Lagos and even have communities in places like Agege, Okokomaiko, Shibiri, etc. There's even Kano street In ebute mẹta Lagos mainland.

Igbo's like to travel to the north to trade and also to other parts of south to trade. They also travel abroad to Asian countries like China, India, Malaysia etc.

No be must say Yorubas must flood the east before u believe they travel oustide their region. U can only speak of what u know about, stop generalising and making it look like Ur own point of view is the S.I unit of judging a whole tribe

emmaodet:
The problem i have with my Yoruba brothers is that they hardly travel to other parts of Southern Nigeria.
To them, Lagos is the all and all of Nigeria. They believe Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos.
Aside Lagos, the next place the typical yoruba man thinks of relocating to is abroad. To him, no other place is better than Lagos so why should he go the other way round when those people are coming to his side.
For some of us who are not homeboys (i usually use it as a name for the typical yorubas who never travelled out of South-west), we have travelled and seen other places and are marveled about what is going on over there.
I schooled in Oron, so i know how developed Uyo and environment is. Have been to Calabar and environment, been to many south-south states and south-east and i can categorically tell you, the south-wet is the most backward out of the 3 souths.
My brothers don't like hearing this. Some will call me omo-ale (a bastard) which is typical of them. I guess the truth hurts.
I do not say this to bring them down or denigrate them rather for us to sit-up and improve. There is no point living in self-denial.
Reason why i do tell them that Lagos/Tinubu/and other Lagos governors have all failed. They are serial failures.

You can't be generating this huge amount of money and your city still looks like a shit-hole.
If AKpabio can turn Akwa-ibom around in 8 years with the money he got which is not up to what Lagos is generating, tarred roads, built stadium, Standard hospital, now ibom-air yet lagos can float Lagos-air and many more and they think their governors are working, then something is wrong somewhere.
Tbh, i only have pity for them.

The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who are reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

FYI: My uncle still live In Rivers State till date and he owns properties there just like Igbo's, Hausas, Ibibios, Efiks etc own properties In Lagos.

Itsrm is even a Yoruba man and he lives in Rivers state as well.

Emaprince:
Its like una want Sean to cause una sleepless night like he wasted a whole day for Gloriousgbola that time.

This na another angle

While person wey supposed go work early tomorrow go dey have sleepless night dey follow Sean drag, Sean go dey catch cruise while him dey press for one side all through the night. 🤣

Itsrm:
As una dey fight, I say make I drop this one. CBN has informed the banks they will not get as much money as they used to give them again. They have told them to advice their customers to use more of echannels.

I hear 10k is now being sold with a charge of 5k in some places in Choba.

Tougher times are ahead. Make everybody brace up.

Cc Elder0001

Tha k u for this info. I get person wey wan gimme 15k cash tomorrow and I still dey contemplate if I really need it.

Na to just collect am, palm am dey observe for now.

airmark:


Strength in numbers and Lagos is surrounded by how many Yoruba states, before we cross the Niger?

You better calm down and kill those warped thoughts.

Person wey dey somewhere dey smoke loud inside him room dey talk say when shiiit hit the fan 🤣

Realmrsean:
no be una start am for this thread?

Say LP guy mo fit contest say he is not youruba enough?

What kind of bigotry is that?

Sean talk true, can a guy who doesn't speak Igbo language win popular votes to rule in Imo state?

Nobody said he can't contest ; in fact he's already contesting that's why we are discussing about him now. The point we arr making is he won't get the votes of artisans, market women, meat Sellers, elderly people and people who have not been to school but have PVC to vote in an election.

Now let's switch states and also think if such person can also win in Sokoto, Jigawa, Anambra, Enugu, etc when he doesn't speak the language of the people he intends to govern.

larride:
I've seen video of him speaking very clear Yoruba. I'll share if I come across it again.

Please share when u come across it. Make the guy just go dey act comedy with Lateef Adedimeji then 😄

There are enough Igbo's who are multi landlords in places like Ajao Estate, Palm Avenue, palmgroove estates, Heliconia Estate Yaba, Lekki phase 1 & 2, Parkview estate etc. Some even own streets and nobody dey bother them.

They pay land use charge like every other Lagos homeowner, pay income tax and get access to the normal facilities every other Lagosian has access to.

Just hustle and be like them. No dey get defeatist mentality say everybody dey against u cos of Ur tribe.

larride:
Gbadebo can speak Yoruba very well. All those one you are seeing na disguise because hes speaking to Igbo community.

The guy is a cunny bastard.

If that's true, then he's successfully demarketed himself all by himself. I wish him luck. 🤣

raumdeuter:
Demola Adeleke has an Ibo mom, He is currently governor of a state less cosmopolitan than Lagos in the heartland of Yorubaland.

His elder Brother Isiaka was governor in the same Osun 30yrs ago. The issue is not his mothers ethic group, its his own inability to speak

How many people raised issues with Demola when he contested in Osun?

The funny thing is Demola speaks Yoruba, English and Igbo language. That was why I pointed it out that Gbadebo's dad didn't try for him.

I've seen videos of children born and raised in the UK, USA who speak the language of their parents. Such children are already prepared for whatever political part they want to take in the future by their parents.

I just can't imagine Gbadebo trying to address meat Sellers or oke-arin market women association.

The point is ; Kano and Kaduna arr cosmopolitan states where u will find southerners in large numbers in the north.

In fact let's put it this way; Ganduje and Late Ajimobi's children Fatima and Abiola are married to each other . If tomorrow their offspring decides to contest for governor in Kano and all he can speak is English and cut and join Hausa ; it's clear as day that he/she won't even win party primaries in the state.

You have to be able to speak the language most of Ur electorates speak. Without it u will never connect with the people u are governing. This doesn't even have anything to do with tribalism; it's just common sense.

Realmrsean:
My president

Wetin do Ur main account Sean my guy?

Itsrm:
If anything, it does seem like Jandor is who should be collapsing his structure into Labour Party

You guys should keep enjoying APC jare. It's not like the APC governors have not been performing

Personally I'm not happy with Sanwoolu role in how the ENDSARS issue shaped out and then how he's been doing slow and steady in terms of infrastructure unlike his predecessors, but then all the options wey opposition parties dey bring no be am at all.

I guess I will be like u this governorship election; I no dey vote anybody. I go dey my house; whoever ends up being the governor I no get issue with am. Nothing wey state government dey do for me before.

Itsrm:
Both Jandor and GRV were meant to contest Lagos PDP primaries. They struck and agreement that will see GRV step down and deputise Jandor only for Jandor to turn around and pick Funke Akindele.

That was the genesis of the problem between Jandor and Bode George.

I watched the same Jandor earlier on Arise calling on the GRV he betrayed to collapse his structure into PDP so they can jointly defeat Sanwo Olu

The funny thing be say Jandor + Gbadebo no reach one person

Both of them would still not be able to sack APC in Lagos state contesting under PDP.

I've always maintained that PDP in Lagos is a very unserious party that plays for 3 and half years and once it's months to election period they just pop up, start printing posters and doing yeye campaign that will take them nowhere.

I'm one of the people that had hoped for a change of Guard in Lagos state cos I believe whatever apc is doing in Lagos can be improved upon. However I've learnt not to delude myself into believing Lagos PDP is the vehicle to effect such change. When PDP was controlling the Center it had looked possible but now it's far fetched. Now all they do is prop up lightweight candidates with no serious path way to victory.

Make dem just dey play.

47c3ee:
He's not even going to give sanwo-olu any sleepless night, but you have spent the whole day talking about him.

He's not going to give sanwo-olu any sleepless night, yet you Batstards have been bring up all sort of agenda against him.

Since you guys believe he can't pose a threat to sanwo-olu, I dare y'all to stay without talking about him till March 11, I dare you and your fellow Batstards

U are a joke man; they should tell u at parties.

raumdeuter:
These are the people you will be relating to the most and settling dispute. Imagine going to talk to market women and speaking like that

They will just hiss. E jo kini adie agric yi n so?

That's where the problem is. He will always have to deal with Artisans, market women and most people in the I formal sector as much as he relates with the formal sector. He will have to address the elderly and unlettered population. Speaking through an interpreter or his cut and join Yoruba will just not achieve much.

What he's trying to do is just like a son of a northern elite going to Kano to contest for the governorship seat without speaking Hausa language or a son of one of the billionaires In Anambra trying to contest for the governorship seat without speaking Igbo language.

Make the guy just go rest. He's not even going to give Sanwoolu any sleepless night. They don't even need to run propaganda against him, he's doing justice to that by himself

airmark:
He sounded like one old Yoruba movie actor always struggling with the language, comically.

Only a magic can make him win, based on his unearthed personality.

nihilistjnr:
If you can't speak a native language fluently, you have no business running for office in that community.

You must be of them to govern them.

The guy no get good advisers at all. The good thing is I don't think he has spent much money in the electioneering process, so he doesn't have much losses to count.

I guess he learn his lessons and move on

GloriousGbola:
First of all CHINEDU Rhodes vigour. Just look at this blaba boorayoko afonja talking . Is it Yoruba we will use to govern lagos

Even bros otem no gree for this one.

Obidients done in by their own arrogance or failure to screen candidates. Structureless niccas

I think the guyman was actually supposed to Jandor's deputy in PDP ; I no know the trailer wey pass their middle before he had to go chart his own course.

I believe labour gave him ticket because of his surname. He comes from a very deep rooted Lagos family that are very successful with his great and grand relatives having occupied key political posts in the past. Na that name dem fall for.

A001:
That's interesting. Do they still do so or they've stopped?

I'm not really sure whether they still do it, but I know the other one which was passed into law ; conducting all activities in Lagos state schools In yoruba language every Wednesday is still very much in force. In fact teachers and Lagos state civil servants are mandated to rock traditional attire that day

afrodoc2:
😂😂😂😂😂😂

The guy sounds like those parodies where a comedian plays a non-Yoruba person TRYING and FAILING to speak Yoruba.

So nobody in his campaign team could tell him NEVER to speak Yoruba in public. That in itself is an indictment on his own organisation (or lack thereof).

Did he grow up in the East? Here we have Roland who is Igbo but can speak ijinle proverbs but look at the “Yoruba” gubernatorial candidate damaging the language like an irate area boy. 😂

More like Lateef Adedimeji trying to play the role of "Ndukwe" in his comic roles 🤣

A001:
Lagos is a Yoruba state. If he can't speak Yoruba fluently, he has no business serving as governor of the state.

Exactly