₦airaland Forum

fashoo2010:
Even with the bloody rerun, PDP won. INEC should do the needed and declare Abba Yusuf please.

You have headache.

yemeshak:
Who says PDP is dead?
We are very much alive and we will come back stronger in 2023.

2023 or 2062

You making a mistake. 2023 is sealed already.

Kwankwanso was already planning to dupe Atiku in 2019 as at this time.

I use to think this guy was brilliant


Look at the extent he took it too.

Smh

Where is the childish Tobi that publicised there fvck encounter

Better he just keeps quite girl cos people are waiting to roast him.


Small boy. Fvck Alex, and went on to tell his friend he has yansh the girl, knowing well that one too will tell his babe.


Small pikins


If he was lucky to yansh CeeCee, he will hold a world conference.

Nodogragra4me:
The man says you should think... Thinkers made the world.

Think what solves your problem.. Even the people you claim he is brsinwashing can take care of your entire family expenses for a decade from their impress account. I mean, some of the people he has brain washed are better than any one in your entire family lineage and I can prove it with names here

Who is this bald dwarf!

The police should get the artiste attested

You unwarranted intrusion on Khalid's privacy.

Did he get an order or permit to draw his son?

Make I no talk.

Who has watched the "King Kong" movie?

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sojiboy:
In case you missed it, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an advocacy group, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Muslim ministers from five south-west states when he constitutes his cabinet for his second term. Why? The group says because five of the south-west governors would be Christians, that is the way to go — to address the “marginalisation of Muslims” in the geo-political zone. Put plainly, what should determine the choice of ministers from the south-west should be religion, religion, religion, religion and religion. The press release said Yoruba Muslims have been marginalised in ministerial appointments for too long “despite being in the majority”.

I seem to understand the game MURIC is trying to play. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has spent the better part of the last 33 years analysing how many Christians are appointed into cabinets, especially when the figure tends to favour Muslims. They are quiet when it favours Christians. In the aftermath of Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1986, CAN became more than a pressure group. In fact, it could have been registered as a political party along the line, given the role it played in weaponising religion in the politics of Nigeria. I guess MURIC was propped up as a counterforce to CAN and it is now trying to outCAN CAN.

One problem I can see, though, is that MURIC is not serving as a counterforce to CAN at the national level but has been working very hard to divide the south-west along religious lines. Although I have heard many people describe MURIC in uncomplimentary terms and would want the body ignored or even blacked out of media coverage, the truth remains that it represents a tendency and it is gaining followership. The Yoruba love to celebrate their multi-religious culture and often boast that they cannot be divided along religious lines. However, recent events suggest that this religious harmony should not be taken for granted, not with MURIC on the prowl.

What is MURIC’s complaint? Of the six south-west states, five will be governed by Christians by May 29, 2019. Only Osun state will be ruled by a Muslim, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola. Although Senator Ademola Adeleke has won his case at the election petitions tribunal, Oyetola is expected to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Adeleke, who goes by the name Nurudeen, is assumed to be a Muslim, although MURIC has rejected this claim and once issued a statement saying the dancing senator is a Christian. If Adekele eventually becomes governor, MURIC will have yet another evidence that Muslims have been marginalised in Yorubaland. It will then demand six ministers.

But how relevant is religion in the politics of south-west Nigeria? Is MURIC trying to solve a problem that does not exist? Is the body genuinely worried that if religion does not become a factor, south-west Muslims might be relegated to the background and be denied what belongs to them in the scheme of things? The south-west is the only region in Nigeria that is evenly divided between adherents of Islam and Christianity. While the north is predominantly Muslim, the south-south and the south-east are predominantly Christian. But no one, apart from MURIC, describes the south-west as predominantly Muslim or Christian. You have Christians and Muslims in almost every family.

From my own understanding of Yoruba politics, I would say religion has never really been a factor. Let’s be clear: religion is a very strong sentiment for millions of Nigerians, the Yoruba inclusive. However, when it comes to politics, it appears the Yoruba have managed to keep religion out of it most of the time. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the revered Yoruba politician, was a Christian, but some of his closest associates were Muslims, notably Chief SO Gbadamosi and Alhaji DS Adegbenro. When the Western House of Assembly crisis broke out in 1962, Awolowo favoured Adegbenro to take over as premier from Chief SL Akintola, a Christian. Religion was not on the cards.

In the second republic, it was even more “ridiculous”. There was nothing like the religious balancing of governorship tickets that we have today. The governor of Lagos state was Alhaji Lateef Jakande, and his deputy was Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo. Both were Muslims. There was no CAN noise. The governor of Ogun was Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and his deputy was Chief Samuel Soluade. Both were Christians. There was no MURIC. The governor of Oyo was Chief Bola Ige and his deputy was Chief SM Afolabi. Both were Christians. Nobody even thought about it. Although Chief Bisi Akande, a Muslim, later became deputy to Ige, religion was not the consideration.

The crisis created by Nigeria’s full membership of OIC in 1986 appeared to have snatched this innocence from Yorubaland. The mutual suspicion created at the national level percolated to the south-west, and suddenly the two religions must be accommodated in a governor-deputy ticket, even when nobody really cared about it. Yet, there was a deviation: when Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was governor of Osun state from 2003 to 2007, his deputy was Mrs Olusola Obada. Both of them were Christians. In a state that is most probably predominantly Muslim, nobody raised an eyebrow. Nobody discussed religion. This is one thing the Yoruba seem to have conquered.

I will even go one more step. Most of those regarded as leading Yoruba politicians today are married to Christians, though they are Muslims. Name them: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Akande (who lost his wife in 2017), Senator Abiola Ajimobi (the “constituted authority”), Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and a host of others. Akande nominated two ministers into Buhari’s cabinet — Prof. Isaac Adewole and Prof. Omoleye Daramola — and both are Christians. Amosun, a Muslim, nominated Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, a Christian, into the cabinet. That is the kind of liberal and convivial religious atmosphere that has shaped Yoruba politics for ages.

Even the Christians that have been elected governors in the south-west had the support of Muslims. How on earth could Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu have been elected governor of Lagos without the support of Muslim heavyweights? Mr. Dapo Abiodun is governor-elect of Ogun state with the full backing of Tinubu. Mr. Oluwaseyi Makinde has been elected governor of Oyo state with the backing of key politicians who are Muslims, most notably Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja. In the same state, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, a Christian, handed his supporters to Mr. Adebayo Adelabu, a Muslim. It would, therefore, be very wrong to say there is a conspiracy to install Christian governors in the south-west.

I am very much aware that the Lagos branch of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) addressed the press sometime in 2014 asking that the next governor of Lagos should be a Christian because Christians had been supporting Muslims since 1999, but those familiar with the story said it was a game arranged by the big masquerade himself who was eyeing a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. As ridiculous as it sounds, religion was not the motivation for the PFN demand! Fashola was doing well as governor of Lagos and nobody asked whether he was holding the Quran or the Bible on the day he was sworn in. Sure, I support balancing but I won’t kill for it.

However, the controversy over the wearing of the hijab in schools in the south-west is a pointer that the Yoruba are also vulnerable to religious conflict. If you ask me, though, I would think it is just a matter of intolerance and a storm in a teacup. There are churches that ban their members from wearing earrings and even instruct them to wear headscarf — so how is wearing hijab a problem for anybody if not that some people just want to stoke fire? Indeed, if MURIC concentrates its resources on advocating for Muslims in the south-west to practise their religion without let or hindrance, without intimidation or discrimination, it would have my support 100%.
While MURIC has the constitutional right to advocate as it wishes, I would advise, with every sense of humility, that weaponising religion in south-west politics is too dangerous. Northern Nigeria is today sharply divided by religion. The tension is permanent. I don’t envy them. Northerners identify themselves first by their religions before anything else. In many northern cities, it is rare to see Muslims and Christians living in the same area, much less the same compound. But in Yoruba homes, you can have two people sleeping on a bed — one a Muslim, the other a Christian. If religion is, therefore, successfully turned into a lethal weapon in the south-west, who can survive it?

AND FOUR OTHER THINGS…
BRAIN DRAIN AGAIN

You do not need a stethoscope to diagnose the malignant ailment within the medical profession in Nigeria. Most of the doctors I have spoken with complain about poor equipment and low morale. Even the medical schools are poorly equipped and many of the teachers are directly from hell. So I was not surprised to learn that Nigerian medical doctors have joined the brain drain train. This time, it is not to Canada. It is to Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of doctors recently thronged a popular hotel in Lagos where officials of Saudi Arabia health ministry came to recruit them. Soon, we will not complain about poor hospitals again. We will be talking about lack of doctors. Unhealthy.

POLL DANCE

Senator Ademola Adeleke, also known as the ‘Dancing Senator’, has been declared winner of the September 2018 governorship poll in Osun state by the tribunal — and many would say it was not such a surprise. The circumstances surrounding the declaration of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of APC as the winner were strange — especially how some results were cancelled, thereby forcing a supplementary election. The tribunal declared the cancellation “illegal” and proclaimed Adeleke, the PDP candidate, as the winner. Oyetola will definitely fight all the way to the Supreme Court, but INEC needs to save us this waste of precious time and resources in future elections. Justice.

THE PAWN

The story of Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the eight-year-old Nigerian chess genius in the US, has caught global attention. It is the romantic story we all love to read: a poor, little homeless boy conquering the world with a sling and a stone. Tani has won the New York State Scholastic Primary Championship in his age bracket — and he only started learning to play chess a year ago! Even former US President Bill Clinton has invited him for a handshake. The line that the Adewumis were fleeing from Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria may be suspect, but let us just eat the rice and ignore the stones. Tani could have been hawking “pure water” if he was still in Nigeria. Opportunities.

AND FINALLY…

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of reps, recently wrote to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as the governments of the US, the UK and the EU on a “plot” by the federal government of Nigeria “to unleash violence on innocent citizens of Bauchi state” ahead of the supplementary elections. I don’t know if Dogara took the right step or not, but these guys must be getting tired of receiving mails from Nigerians every day. The rate at which Nigerians are writing to ICC, UK, US and EU these days at the slightest provocation must have turned us into a laughing stock. Expect a Nigerian husband to petition ICC soon if the wife is reluctant to open the door for him. Petty.


https://www.thecable.ng/weaponising-religion-in-yoruba-politics/amp

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midform:
Good one!
Oyetola-governor of Osun state
Adeleke-governor of state of Osun

You did believe you have made a comment to something you know nothing about.

The fact is that , you exposed your utmost ignorance to political and judicial matters.


Indomie kid

kingreign:
You must be a stupid waste of skin.

Are you saying the truth?

And the police never found a way to poison him while in prison!

The incompetence of the Nigerian police is getting to an all-time high an needs emergency attention.

Cent91:
My Father My father!

A happy birthday to:

An ICON
A Father
A GIVER
A Blessing to our generation
A Man of God.

May GOD increase you on all sides .

You shall not fail, fall nor falter.

AMEN.

God's Choice is the Devil's target.

Is your biological father still alive?

Lenadiva:
Because he's looking for a male child he born all this plenty children full ground

African man for you.

Babzrockman:
People vote candidates not party in most areas

Excluding the East

jajernwa22:
so messi won't play champions league against Manchester united?
chai I don bet Barcelona to win man u since last week without knowing that messi will get injured.
my 5k don gone nah.

He will play!

Injury is just to cover up for loss to Venezuela.

The only place he can prove himself.


That guy is just old age Kanu Nnwankwo outside Barcelona.


Unlike my CR7, drop him in Eyimba and he will strike. Just put him in a team where everybody has legs.

We must always give respect to CR7's versatility. An all rounder in the art.

3 months left and myself and fellow demonic accomplice, will destroy the marriage

Oyedepo's baldness and height always make laugh.

His deficit in height has gave him a formidable brain washing sense.

Elvis778:
You are very funny sha,
we all know that southeasterners are the brain box behind the economic boom in your major city, LAGOS, but am telling you that when the time comes, those niggas there go free una come back to their home land.........
And mind you, south east has alot of natural resources yet to be exploited, including large deposits of oil and natural gas (FG is yet to consider that due to the cost of reaching these places). Now tell me, when we combine our hardwork, business, clothing, oil, lime stone, coal, agriculture and tax money togather with our industrious nature and Education,
southwest would not stand a chance to even see our brake light, talkmore of compete with us. Argue with your ancestors

Your ascertions is so full of fictions


You think Rome is built in a day

What does the South-East have as at today that can make it independent? Keep saying how you made the SouthWest and can't make your very own South East.

Let me tell you something from concrete feasibility study. More Easterners will flood to the West as their would be no more free money coming from Abuja.

That's just the bitter truth, and the west IGR will multiplying.

Tell me, where will Abia, Imo, Ebonyi, and Enugu start from. Yes states like Ekiti we have in the West too and it's gonna be tough for them with their meagre polulation

Look at what you have now and use it to project what you can achieve 10years from now. I don't like meresay.

Sincerely, Foolishness is most important of all that could be listed. One needs to be extra ordinarily foolish to follow Christ.

See as the girl slim with long legs

To fvck the girl just dey hungry me

Having a strong belief her pvssy will be fat.

I can help her at a time

Elvis778:
wake up bro, i see you are really dreaming, but note this.......
If Nigeria get's restructured, the most successful regions will be the south south and south east.

You made a mistake.

The South West and South-South

gratiaeo:
By the time you understand that South East is not only clamoring for restructuring but secession you might consider awolowo exit route

. Comedy

Pride comes before a fall.


If the South West or South South were clamoring, I won't have a problem cos the tend have to have structures on ground that can sustain them.


What's the South East banking on?

The wife is not even as beautiful bas Daniella Okeke or Stephanie Otobo.


Now I know why Apostle prefers finishing from the back of those two.

Can't be as beneficial as eating pvssy thrice a week.

Wait O!


South East clamouring for restructuring also


I doubt if they know the meaning. Cos if they do, they won't be clamouring


States that will suffer are just too much. The South East and North East will be in same class.

Better!

Let Atiku be please


He is still in shock about the landslide defeat that hit his party and you here trying to refresh his memory about the mistakes he made.

Picked a Vice President from the enemies of the state! First bullet he shot into his legs.

Still was banking on same enemies of the state to deliver him to Aso Rock

He couldn't even learn from his predecessor who have gotten support from them

They should cut the woman and husband to edible chunks and feed them to pigs

What's the fvcking ish about the fact that wife of the morafvcker is not good in bed and morafvcker took his trade out to a better fvcker.

The fvckers wife should relax and free the fvckee

They should cut the woman and husband to edible chunks and feed them to pigs

What's the fvcking ish about the fact that wife of the morafvcker is not good in bed and he took his trade out to a better fvcker.

The fvckers wife should relax and free the fvckee

Brownshugar69:
Your gay partner?

Sharaap!

Nobody asked you for your biography and you just started reading it out!

No wonder you jobless and only Glued to a TV screen.

Better!


You would have been in Alex shoes


Tobi will just have fvcked you and start broadcasting to all his friends.

Am sure Tobi must have also told his parents how he fvcked Alex.

Fvck boy. Fvck wowo girl like Alex and they broadcast to all.
He definitely grant an interview if he was opportune to fvck CeeCee