₦airaland Forum

shortgun:
Many Yorubas are appointed as special assistants by governors in the south east and you won't hear any noise about it but once an Igbo person is given the same opportunity in a Yoruba state it becomes an issue.

Adenike Okebu is the senior Special Assistant on Revenue to Peter Mbah of Enugu State.

The Special Adviser on Health Matters to Enugu State Governo is Yomi Jaye.
Two Yorubas appointment by one Igbo state, yet no noise

check well they have igbo mothers...

the SE has crude oil, one of the largest gas deposits in Africa, one of the largest coal deposits in Africa

while Yoruba people don't have the level of crude oil the SE have, the SW does not have gas deposits, does not have coal deposits.

when it comes to natural resources wealth the SE is extremely richer and wealthier than the SW and the rest of Nigeria and they should not be allowed to participate in politics outside the SE.

SW is significantly poorer than the SE...

so it is not wise if SW to vote non-SW people into SW political position

No rodents in Nigeria anymore.

Rodents in Nigeria are on the run....

Flo36:
Na family business... ruba/ are brothers

LagosOrigin:
ruba land is surrounded but baba seyi don't care

OGOLMEKZ95:
This is what you get when you’re supporting caws and his team.

Bendeco02:
SW are really seeing something.

We already know the people behind the kidnapping

Osariemen12:
To think that the rubas said horrible things about Aketi and his and their governance of the state is sickening. Now that they are gone, where are the men in the state?

One party leader will ask, "Where are their cows?"

Bebold:
Imagine the audacity.

Mr."Where are the cows" is not from SW.

he is from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the zerrorists to over run the country..

he has no siblings anyone knows about

he has no parents anyone knew about

he has no cousins anyone knows about

he has no pictures of him in primary school and secondary school

he has no pictures of him when he was a teenager

the above can only be possible if the person is an immigrant.

BigBelleControl:
Concentration of business in the same location helps such business positively. People like to buy things in an area where there are alternatives.
Maybe the woman and the student already had some beef for each other.

Exactly.. that is how China grew their economy.

Lovit:
He no wan make wetin kill Aketi kill him too.

It is quite unfortunate that our governors are controlled by the Fulanee North.

The Sultan controls the army even when he is not the President, Tinubu sold SW just to get power

Lovit:
condemned or crushed?

why is your darling Tinubu afraid to crush the Fulanee terrorists?

You have been sold to the North just for Tinubu to get the Presidency

Even if they kill 2,000 yorubas today, Tinubu won't talk pim!

you have not figured it out yet

the current president is not from SW.

he is a zuulani from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the zuulanis to over run the country..

he has no siblings anyone knows about

he has no parents anyone knew about

he has no cousins anyone knows about

he has no pictures of him in primary school and secondary school

he has no pictures of him when he was a teenager

the above can only be possible if the person is an immigrant.

ElevationD:
Well, your mentality sounds colonized.

If Igbos hold political positions in Yorubaland, it shows that they are interested in governance. While you sleep and wait for tiny slices of Agege bread, they are working hard to build empires in the areas that they find themselves.

Have you tried to contest an election outside your area? Have you even ventured out of your one room, one window apartment to know what’s happening in the rest of the country? A very big and resounding NO. Venture out of your area and let this tribalistic mentality leave you alone.

You are factory fitted with self delusion, jealousy and bitterness at the successes of others.

Well the constitution guarantees freedom of association. Can you wipe it out?

if SE people hold political positions in SW then it shows they are expansionists because they already have their own states in the SE that are far richer than Lagos state due to crude oil, gas and coal deposits there and it means the SW people have zero economic sense.

it also shows that they will exclude the SW people from benefits that should go to SW people and stabilize SW families and this will eventually lead to extreme poverty among SW people...

lawani:
If oil is that huge, why is it forming thirteen percent of government revenue today? Even as the country is not yet collecting PIT? Oil is insignificant as a portion of Nigeria's GDP.

That's what they want you to think.

Oil is 96% of Nigeria's revenue.

Irony1:
Ohhhh so they are not red soil erosion ravaged and poorest region again. See how you guys are desperately twisting narratives.

Only reason there's poverty in the SE in 2026 is because in 1966 certain SE soldiers and leaders who had zero knowledge of economics could not forecast the oil boom that awaited the SE region and due to their superiority complex and mindset to always dominate non-SE people they ignorantly chose to destroy the regionalism that would have made every SE person filthy rich and stinky rich and start a civil war..

Kalulu44:
When last have you ever seen any states in Nigeria aside Lagos been compare to other states in Africa in terms of richest state in Africa?
I await your answer

The rest of Africa and the world is very ignorant of Nigeria and where the resources in Nigeria are located.

ElevationD:
The LGA talked about has a very fair balance of Nigerians living there. It traverses Isolo, Ire-Akari, Ago/Okota, Mafoluku and Oshodi. It’s a very big local government area, with decent people. Religion is moderate and tribalism is moderate. It is one of the most peaceful local government areas in Lagos and it is quite developed. The last elections saw LP defeat APC - in Alimosho of all LGAs -, at the Presidential stage. It did not have to do with tribalism or religion, but the candidate. When it was the governorship, APC won. It did not have to do with the threat by touts, but the choice of the citizens.

Ago/Okota keeps expanding with road infrastructures and people who own houses/businesses are of different tribes. One cannot explicitly say a particular tribe is dominant. But it is incontrovertible that it is Yoruba land, with Obas, Baales and Chiefs. Chieftancy titles in those areas are not restricted to our Yoruba citizens only, as others hold Chieftancy titles there too, well respected and peaceful.

When it comes to elections, the ruling party has not always been the dominant party there. It does not have to do with the tribes, but with the people, who seem to go the individual way. Everyone in Ago/Okota, Isolo, Ire-akari, seems to know everyone. They are independent and are very unbiased when it comes to their candidates. That’s why you can see that the area is not an APC dominated area, even though APC wants the area under its absolute control. It may not be so. But the people are happy with their representatives.

Political positions are also economic position and this non-SW man has access to over N2billion annually...

if the SW people in that area like then they should continue to elect non-SW people then when the SW people in that area become poor then they should not complain...

Goodvibes007:
I too love X.

this is what truly and really eventually caused and led to the civil war.

MasterTeeUSA:
This is a nonsense post. As long as the people are qualified, the process is open and transparent and these people were born and raised in Lagos, it is no big deal.

Here in the US, the Speaker of the House from California before her retirement was born in Baltimore MD. President Biden claims Delaware but was born in Philadephia. What we need is competent people that can commit to improving the welfare of all Nigerians...people that are detribalized. I am yoruba, but we have married into Edo and Abia. So are you saying my cousins from Abia, children of my sisters are not worthy because they bare their father's last names?

We need to move on and move forward. May God bless Nigeria. Those screaming...we need to ask them...what have they done for Yoruba Land?

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you are not from the SW..

who you marry should not influence and stop you from investing in your own ethnicity...

the SW people on that list probably have SE mothers...

the SE has crude oil, one of the largest gas deposits in Africa, one of the largest coal deposits in Africa

while Yoruba people don't have the level of crude oil the SE have, the SW does not have gas deposits, does not have coal deposits.

when it comes to natural resources wealth the SE is extremely richer and wealthier than the SW and the rest of Nigeria and they should not be allowed to participate in politics outside the SE.

SW is significantly poorer than the SE...

so it is fuulish of SW to vote non-SW people into SW political position.

Kalulu44:
What's the meaning of all what you wrote now? We're talking of Lagos and you're talking of SW. What happened can only happen in Lagos and never in any other SW state. Why bcus, Lagos is almost for all (I don't want to say no man's land).
And talking about oil or no oil, no states in Nigerian including with their oil is richer than Lagos.

the oil producing states are 100 times richer than Lagos.

Lagos does not have sh*t...

Lagos is richest state in the SW and if SW people don't protect the politics of Lagos state then the poverty that will hit the next generation of SW people will be brutal..

right now SW people are shouting "ebinpawa".. if they don't protect Lagos they will become paupers...

Lagos is not for all...

Lagos is only for SW people.

nobody forced non-SW people to invest in Lagos and make the SW pot big while their own pot remained small and now they want to take the SW pot by changing the politics of the state.

Kalulu44:
And nobody force anybody to vote him in, if that's what you deduce from my write up

he should not have been on the ballot at all in the first place.

the SE has crude oil, one of the largest gas deposits in Africa, one of the largest coal deposits in Africa

while Yoruba people don't have the level of crude oil the SE have, the SW does not have gas deposits, does not have coal deposits.

when it comes to natural resources wealth the SE is extremely richer and wealthier and the SW and the rest of Nigeria and they should not be allowed to become participate in politics outside the SE.

SW is significantly poorer than the SE...

so it is fuulish of SW to vote non-SW people into SW political position.

Irony1:
May God have mercy on you with this your wickedness. You cannot progress with this mindset. Are these people not part of that consituency? Okota who are the predominant people there? Is it not igbos?

you are the one that is very wicked.

the SE has crude oil, one of the largest gas deposits in Africa, one of the largest coal deposits in Africa

while Yoruba people don't have the level of crude oil the SE have, the SW does not have gas deposits, does not have coal deposits.

when it comes to natural resources wealth the SE is extremely richer and wealthier and the SW and the rest of Nigeria and they should not be allowed to participate in politics outside the SE.

Kalulu44:
I am an Igbo man though born and brought up in Lagos. In as much as I agree what this Mr Okey did was wrong in all ramifications. But it can only happen in Lagos State. No other Yoruba state except Lagos will accept this and do you know why, it's bcus Igbos too have invested so much in Lagos.
Ask yourself this question, don't you think the Oshodi/Isolo people voted for him so that they can get more of Igbo people's patronage?
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Lastly, like I said it can only happen in Lagos State but never in the other Yoruba speaking state. I onced stayed in Oshogbo, there's a spare part market that was banned from Igbo people to own a shop there.
That should tell you something

nobody forced them to invest in Lagos.

Treasure17:
ninubu believes everywhere is safe for now base on his body language. Until these lunatics enter Lagos and shot down third mainland bridge.

Ibehchizzy:
ninubu said it’s his enemies that are causing it

Elusive001:
He is not just the very best ever and will ever be from the southwest, he is a god to many of them.

Seunpapa65:
Is ninubu the best Yoruba can field as a president
The drunken old fragile man will rather die in power than to step down

BAAT is not from SW.

he is a puulani from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the puulanis to over run the country..

he has no siblings anyone knows about

he has no parents anyone knew about

he has no cousins anyone knows about

he has no pictures of him in primary school and secondary school

he has no pictures of him when he was a teenager

the above can only be possible if the person is an immigrant.

Kemetian:
The problem with your "brilliant" idea is that it favours the western buyers who can now drive prices low by forcing a race to the bottom in terms of price per barrel, as opposed to oil producers forming a Cartel to maintain decent income for oil producing countries.

So this does not favour Nigeria at all.

That crude oil is in "your backyard" doesn't mean it is free for Dangote to take.

Or that the process for extracting and delivering the crude oil costs 5 Naira because it is in "your backyard".

you are talking to people whose ethnicity's main business is importation, buying and selling e.t.c.. so they don't care..

lower oil prices will favor Nigeria as traders will no longer be able to use cost of fuel as an excuse and as long as Nigeria votes out APC...

Emeskhalifa:
I suspect he was forced to do that so as to demarket himself.

Exactly he was most likely paid a huge amount to do that..

That's how they've been able to keep hold of Lagos.

If N200b is waiting for Governors to join APC then imagine how much they have been given to opposition parties in Lagos to demarket themselves.

SSpeter:
Oga stop displaying your folly, you are contradicting yourself. You want to choose your own form of intimidation of those you consider non indigenous and also choose their own form of intimidation of overstayers? She is even correct 💯, you are intimidating your own country man and still talking trash

Stop talking trash.

The country was created by england. The people that reside in the country are thousands of years older than england so it is foolishness and low self esteem to accept the country..

You are not my country man.

You are my fellow black man.

Lionessza6:
That explanation still doesn’t remove the contradiction.....it actually confirms it.

You’re saying ethnic political competition inside Nigeria is treated as an invasion because history has shown that when one group grows in number inside another group’s political space, conflicts over power, resources, and control follow. That is exactly the logic you’re using.

But then you turn around and say migration pressure inside South Africa cannot raise similar concerns about citizenship, resources, culture, or political space because migrants are “only traders and barbers.”

That’s simply not accurate.

There are already foreign nationals in South Africa who have openly spoken about forming ethnic homelands, like the Igbo king issue that made headlines. And yes, there are foreign-born citizens participating in political structures...as the Constitution allows. So the idea that migration has zero relationship to political space is not realistic.

South Africans also know from their own history what happens when settler populations grow without clear agreements around land, resources, and governance. Conflicts follow. That lesson did not start in 1966 Nigeria....it exists across African history, including South Africa’s own past.

So you can’t argue that population movement into another group’s space creates pressure inside Nigeria because of history, but insist that population movement into South Africa cannot create similar pressure because migrants are “just traders.”

If history matters in one case, it matters in the other too.

it is still not a contradiction.

it is a difference between Nigeria and South Africa.

In Nigeria, A foreigner can run for office but the political parties usually pick indigenes because it is the indigenes that are majority and they will not vote for a foreigner...

in South Africa, according to your explanation, the foreigners where voted into power by South Africans who are the majority...

so that makes it a South African problem.

in Nigeria, when one group grows in number inside another group’s territorial space and not political space that group is still not a majority in that space and the indigenes will always limit them not through violence like South Africans are doing but through not patronizing their businesses, increasing taxes that they pay, not renting spaces to them e.t.c..

that is why it is not a contradiction..

Black South Africans are the majority in South Africa and should use their voting to block out the foreigners turned citizens...

WizardOfNG:
Said it more than 2 years ago Hamzat is the one. I also categorically dismissed any chance of Seyi becoming Governor of Lagos before age 45 and without 'paying his dues'.

Lagos is the most politically complex State in Nigeria by far.Those who dont understand that will never see how the State continues moving forward, to be inspirational in Africa, while others around her are mediocre and comedic.

Angelfrost:
Seyi's turn will come down the line...!

Maybe after MC Oluomo has had his shot.

s:e:yi can never be governor of Lagos...

his father is a puulani from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the puulanis to over run the country..

Lionessza6:
That’s exactly the contradiction I was pointing out earlier.

You’re describing Nigeria in terms of ethnic ownership of political space.....where “ethnic nation A” should not contest leadership in “ethnic nation G.” In other words, territorial political control based on identity.

But when South Africans express concerns about national space, borders, citizenship pressure, and political access, suddenly that same logic becomes unacceptable and is called xenophobia.

So which is it?

If identity-based political territory is normal at the tribal level inside Nigeria, why is it suddenly immoral at the national level inside South Africa?

You cannot defend “go back to your state” politics locally and then reject “this country belongs to its citizens” politics regionally.

That’s the contradiction.

That's not a contradiction...

Black Africans in South Africa are not vying for political positions in South Africa, they are street traders, barbers e.t.c.

they are doing business and are not a threat to black South Africans national space, borders, citizenship pressure, and political access...

the different ethnic nations in Nigeria can be a threat to other ethnic nations that's why it is frowned upon and seen as invasion.

in 1966, the ethnic nation trying to create kings in other African countries k:illed the Premiers of the 2 other major ethnic nations in Nigeria in other to have the power to change the constitution and have access to the "political power" and "revenues" of the other 2 major ethnic nations which they did successfully but it only lasted for 6 months as the other 2 major ethnic nations took revenge and kill over 1 million of them.

so in Nigeria, it is seen as invasion because of what happened in 1966 and early 1800s ( which i did not explain ).