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LeoDeKing, am I invited

Kindly check

LegendHero:
Nope. We know the modus operandi of bitter IPOB people.

Pastor Tunde Bakare said he will only call Tinubu “president of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria” and not “My President”.

He can still be angry at how Muslim-Muslim candidate defeated the church candidate but even in his anger, he still recognize Tinubu as president of Nigeria.

So Why should I abuse him?

You are only making excuses because he is Tunde, if it were to be an "Okoro" it would have been different

tonicyril:
The reason dey never undo it is to make sure karma have a filled days working on the descendants of ironsi

Karma!

tonicyril:
Then it was flexible and every region had option to leave should they feel marginalised.

But ur greedy leader, ironsi made it rigid just because he was in power, he forgot power is transient...the reward of his greediness is what biafrans are suffering today..

U know this but u don't just want to admit, well, either u admit or not is not my problem, so far u feel marginalised, I am happy, at least u re feeling the effect of the grave mistake committed by ur greedy leaders.

But there have been successive governments after ironsi, why haven't they undo what ever it is ironsi did

A calamitous government

LegendHero:
Why should I refer to pastor Bakare as that?

Is that not what you usually describes any one that does not support Tinubu

tonicyril:
if only ironsi had not forcefully joined us together because of his greediness

Was ironsi there in 1914

Watch how Tinubu miscreants will tag them Ipob

tonicyril:
Secede from what their oga ancestor(ironsi) joined together??

U smoke Igbo, u no dey go anywhere only if u go meet ironsi to come and unbind what he binded together

Let them secede so that you all, Yoruba and Hausa Fulanis can remain in your indivisible one Nigeria

It's a civilian coup

Shigishege2:
if tinubu sneez you people will talk if he strol around you people will sob. You guys are inconsequential and everyone has left you behind.

It doesn't take away the fact that Tinubu is a Notorious narcotic drug trafficker the state of Chicago has ever known engaging in criminal state capture

LeoDeKing:
Did you just say "obedients have moved" on?

As in, how do you people feel comfortable telling us something that is clearly the exact opposite of what it is?

LeoDeKing, you haven't moved on.

Move on and you will realise that Obidients have moved

ipobarecriminals:
The section that wear RED CAP are saddest, while those that wear babaringa,agbada are in happy mood

Is Tunde Bakare from that region

BuharisBoy:
So After they arrest Tinubu on Monday, they will ask Osibanjo to takeover.That one will say he doesn’t want wahala so they will have no choice but to give the mandate to Peter Obi the rightful owner

Elections are over

....and when the election is over, governance begins

Op move on, Obidients you are so fixated about have moved on

HopeSpencer:
They must eat roasted corn for 4 years

Down payment for a roasted corn

😁😁😁😁😁😁

oyebanji44:
If it is so.. then , why are they still partcipating in Nigerian politics.

I remember when kanu was trying to stop them they quickly warned him not to do so

They are still Nigerians so they have to participate

Allow them secede and they seize to participate

No one is referring to him as ipob

LegendHero:
So far you call him the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, we are good.

I am surprised you didn't refer to him as ipob, Obi supporters, children of hate and other derogatory names etc

oyebanji44:
Which state? So you mean

if all the separatists decided to go the whole hog today, tomorrow the state would rage atrocity against them..

it isnot possible, War doesn't start that way.

There will be a moment of jawjaw..

see,

Many ibos are not ready to leave Nigeria cos of self interest...They just want the federal seat..

They are the insignificant many

No one wants the federal seat, even Peter Obi ambition wasn't even championed by the Igbos

The Igbos want to secede from this contraption and allow the Yorubas and Hausa Fulanis to have their indivisible one Nigeria

That doesn't in any way make your government legitimate

On May 29, a man with an alleged dark past in drug dealing and head of a group that has held Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, in a suffocating grip, will be sworn-in as President of Nigeria.

It is a pity the late Africanist, Stephen Ellis, who has devoted so much time to researching and writing about the unholy alliance between state actors and criminal gangs in both South Africa and Nigeria is not alive to witness how some of the darkest fears described in his works, could be coming to life in Nigeria. In the 1990s, Ellis systematically showed how all state actors in South Africa got entangled with, legitimised, armed, and collaborated with various criminal, drug smuggling, and illicit trade gangs to get the upper hand in the heydays of apartheid.


He showed how both the Apartheid National Party government and the combined forces of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) recruited, armed, and actively encouraged and collaborated with various criminal gangs in a bid to come out on top. This led to the complete criminalization of the South African state such that even after the end of apartheid and a democratic election in 1994, South Africa remained gripped in the vortex of crime, murder, and illegal trade and trafficking to this day.

Ellis also did a lot of work on the activities of criminal gangs in Nigeria. At the end of his life, he undertook a gigantic project of trying to understand the history and dynamics of organised crime in Nigeria. Although he died before the book was published, This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime traces the history of organized crime in Nigeria to historical colonial constitutions, clashing cultures and attempts at cultural integration, various political engineering, and to various economic opportunities in Nigeria. In the dying days of colonialism when regional governments were handed to the local elite, the need to raise funds for political parties and party campaigns led to the phenomenon of kickbacks in contract awards, where contractors gave back a percentage of the contract sum to the party or official.

This innocuous practice soon assumed a life of its own, metastasizing into the pervasive government corruption being witnessed since independence, helped no doubt by the oil boom and a culture of entitlement to the riches of the state. As the oil boom came to an end, Nigerian youth and university graduates ventured into other crimes since they could no longer benefit from the famed oil boom. That began the rise of organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrimes, and various fraudulent activities for which Nigeria has become quite famous.




The return to democracy in 1999 saw attempts by members of many criminal gangs and solo criminals to legitimise their wealth by entering politics. Naturally, they employ the tactics they used in the criminal world, to buy and ensure loyalty such that they develop a huge following and influence and become indispensable in the political arena. This can be seen in the influence and control James Ibori wields in Delta State such that even after his arrest, conviction, and jailing in the United Kingdom, he still controls the politics of Delta state and absolutely no one can challenge his hold on the state.

The criminals became so powerful that they began to threaten to take over the Nigerian state in its entirety. In 2012, the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, ran the story: “James Ibori: How a thief almost became Nigeria’s President”. The story detailed his enormous political influence and only Obasanjo personally prevented him from becoming Yar’Adua’s vice president. Had he, he would naturally take over power upon the death of Yar’Adua.

While the BBC and many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief that Nigeria dodged a bullet in 2011, another of Ibori’s co-traveller in Lagos, in typical Mafioso style, quietly went about building his own political empire by first dismantling the region’s gerontocratic system, which places emphasis on elders for political direction, and the displacement of the region’s elite. Using Lagos’ huge economic wealth and potential, he succeeded in building a formidable political structure from scratch and quietly and incrementally extended his influence to other states. To date, only he – and maybe Ibori in Delta State on – have been able to keep all successive governors of their states and appointed officials on a leash and permanently answerable to them.

Interestingly, what Ibori was not able to achieve in 2007 and 2010, Tinubu has been able to accomplish in 2023 through strategic alliances, patience, subterfuge, wealth accumulation, and deployment of money to buy up political patronage, votes, election officials, neutralize all vestiges of opposition, and bypass every institutional challenge. Many individuals with questionable pasts in crime, particularly in the United States now hold strategic positions of authority in Nigeria, and their rise could be credited to him.

https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/the-criminal-takeover-of-nigeria/

oyebanji44:
Is there any thing to stop them? Or is there anybody in their way..? Tell me

Even they are ones that love one Nigeria most. .I can tell you..

It is just cos the country is not going the way they want it to be..it should destroy or break, that they keep wailing

The state is stopping them

Whenever they ask to secede, the state will roll out it tanks to crush the secessionist

Wickedfacts:
They won't be allowed, let them do their worst.

Why

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oyebanji44:
The secessionist should be the ones to answer the question. ..

Since they are being described as secessionist, the state should allow them secede so that they can have their own country

That's the role TVC and The Nation Lagos-Ibadan expressway propaganda newspaper will play

femisplash:
How can only one section of the country be so bitter while others are happy and celebrating.

Which section is bitter and which other is celebrating