₦airaland Forum

VEHINTOLAR:
OSU wants to be a governor in Yoruba land,ti Iyalaya yin ma baje ni ! We shall see,se l'ori iya yin o pe ni,as in this side looks like Anambra or Enugu to you fools,right ?

ONWU GBUO GI, NKITA NDI UGWU NSI JURU ONU RIE NSI NDI UGWU NYURU. AFONJAS ALREADY SAID THET ARE TIRED OF GODFATHERISM IN LAGOS, NGWA NU, GO AND KILL AFONJAS THAT SAID IT EWU

BABAawoo47:
Ijaw? Ijaw isn't even present in ogun or any other neighboring state...
So explain how ijaw land there?

ALL THE COSTAL ARES IN ONDO, PARTS OF LAGOS, OGUN ALL BELONG TO IJAW PEOPLE. GO AND READ YOUR HISTORY BOOKS WELL. AND THEY WILL SOON DECLARE IZON REPUBLIC AND CLAIM ALL THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS.

EPIJOE:
*Yorubas, Igbos And The Lagos Question*
*When a former* *Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of…*

By
*John Olufemi Kusa*
*Sun, 17 Mar 2019 3:35:18 WAT*


*When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.*

*I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.*

*Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.*

*The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?*

*Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?*

*Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?*

*OKOTA BALLOT BOX*

*As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.*

*But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.*

*Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.*

*Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.*

*In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.*

*Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique*

*Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.*

*So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.*

*Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?*

*That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.*

*The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?*

*JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE*

*The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.*

*The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.*

*Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?*

*I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.*

*Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?*

*It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.*

*What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.*

*The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.*

*Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos.*

WHO JAILED AWOLOWO AND WHO RELEASED HIM. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN OR POSTED BECAUSE IT WILL BE IN YOUR FAVOR. WHEN YOU STATE THE REASON AWOLOWO WAS JAILED, WHO MASTERMINDED IT AND WHO RELEASED HIM, WHY HE WAS RELEASED THEN I WILL TAKE TIME AND READ WHAT YOU JUST POSTED. THANKS

YES OO, TIME FOR BINI AND IJAW TO RECLAIM THERE EKO TOWNS. VAMOS ELUU PYYY

Fut9ure:
You all should go out and vote
Don't be scared
Yorubas are not the owner of lagos

The Binis are the owner

The so called lagos is owned by the Binis

The Binis were the people who named it eko

Please before you quote and insult me


Ask elderly ones in your family probably your grandparents

Or rather take a walk to any of your monarchs and ask them they will tell you the history

SOME PARTS ARE OWNED BY IJAW AND SOME TRIBES FROM COTONOU. YORUBAS ARE JUST VISITORS THERE

SANWO OLU WILL BE VICTORIOUS, TINUBU'S SINS SHOULD NOT BE USED AGAINST HIM PLEASE.

OHHHHH GOD, ANOTHER MUSLIM. KADUNA IS GONE.

ebenholer2:
THIS ALLEGATION IS BASELESS, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW HUGE NUMBERS OF YORUBA VOTED FOR OBI IN THIS ELECTION, THE NATURE WE HAVE NOT FOR ONCE GOTTEN FROM THE IGBO COUNTERPART. WHEN YOU TALK OF BIGOTRY, RANK IGBOS THE FIRST AND TO BE FOLLOWED BY EFIK/IBIBIO PEOPLE

SO, IGBOS DID NOT VOTE FOR OBJ AND ABIOLA. I DON'T THINK YOU REMEMBER THE EVENTS OF 1999 AND 2003.

THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, I DISCOVERED IKWERE PEOPLE ARE THE MOST CONFUSED PEOPLE IN NIGERIA, THEY ARE NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. THAT'S WHAT WIKE REPRESENTS. TODAY THEY ARE BINI, TOMORROW THEY ARE IJAW, THE NEXT DAY THEY ARE YORUBA, ANOTHER DAY THEY ARE FULANI. THANK GOD THOSE STUPID GOVERNORS THAT FOLLOWED HIM HAVE LOST THEIR SENATORIAL BIDS.

0fodirinwa:
Chai

IT'S TRUE NWANNE, DON'T PITY UGLY PEOPLE, THEIR MIND IS ALSO UGLY. TRIBALISTIC CARNIBALS IN HUMAN FORM. I HAVE LIVED WITH THEM.

0fodirinwa:
Cursed tiger face. Choose your picture. Ntoor hahaha

NATURALLY THET ARE UGLY, THE TRIBAL MARK IS ANOTHER MILESTONE OF UGLINESS ON THEIR FACES.

FOOLISH MAN, WHY WOULD HE TRY TO IMPOSE APC ON PLATEAU STATE, HAS HE NOT HEARD THE ISLAMIZATION AGENDA RAGING OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. BUT THE POLICE MAN WAS WRONG. HE SHOULD BE PUNISHED WHICHEVER WAY THE LAW STIMULATES.

Goodconcept78:

THE YORUBAS ARE THE MOST TRIBALISTIC HUMANS ON THIS PLANET, VERY GREEDY. I HAVE ATTENDED SEVERAL MEETINGS MADE UP OF DIFFERENT TRIBES, BUT YORUBAS WOULD RATHER DISCUSS ISSUES IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND WRITE IT DOWN ON PIECES OF PAPER FOR THOSE OF US WHO AREN'T YORUBA, IS THAT NOT TRIBALISTIC AND PRIMITIVE. GREED FLOWS IN THEIR BLOOD. OBJ RULED 8 YRS, OSINBAJO IS VICE 8 YRS, TINUBU IS COMING FOR 8 YRS, BRIBING HIS WAY THROUGH, ARE YORUBAS NOT GREEDY AND WICKED. TRIBAL POLITICS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH YORUBAS AND HAUSAS.

RenaissanceGuy:
Some Obidients were jubilating days ago that Benue people deserved it, because they allowed Tinubu 'win' their state with a marginal 2K vote difference, will they also do the same here, since LP won Edo State?? Theirs was not even marginal but huuuuge.
Logic will fail them here. Trust me, God will heal you!

SIR, LET'S CONDEMN WHAT IS BAD, THOSE OBIDIENTS THAT WERE JUBILATING BECAUSE OF BENUE KILLINGS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. THEY DON'T REPRESENT OBI OR LABOUR PARTY. THEY ARE JUST ON THEIR OWN

Asgard13:
This is an attempt by people outside igboland to distract igbos from what’s happening in Nigeria politics

Sit at home .. 5:30 am? At abakpa.. this is stage and many more of this will follow.

Ekpa and his boys normally wait till 8:am or thereafter

But this ..

That’s not igbos .. this group are paid .. and on a mission

IF THIS IS YOUR SINCERE VIEW THEN I'D TELL YOU THAT THESE MEN ARE IJAWS OR FULANI MEN, HOPE UZODIMMA PAID THESE SAME IJAW BOYS IN IMO STATE. MOST OF THE KILLINGS IN IMO WERE PERPETRATED BY IJAW BOYS.

I AM IGBO, I COME FROM ABIA STATE, AROCHUKWU TO BE PRECISE. PLEASE KILL THOSE BASTARDS THAT BRING SHAME TO MY GREAT TRIBE. THEY DON'T WANT TO LEARN, KILL THEM ALL. BASTARDS.

akanke79:
Orji Uzor Kalu is a corrupt politician who had been tried,convicted and jailed.The Igbos keeps returning the scammer to the senate every election,he had been in the circles of govt since 1999 till this day.When will the Abia Igbos retire him?

WHOS ARE YOU, SEEMS YOU ARE A JOBLESS MAN. GO LOOK FOR CARS TO WASH.

EriMma1:
It depends. It's not so cool to criticize your spiritual leader directly or outrightly to avoid unecessary drama that could escalate and end up dragging you in the mud and that now makes the two of you. Rather, leave him to God to judge because he is God's elect and only God can judge his own elect.

All I'm saying is, avoid trouble by not dabbling into what is beyond you. Leave spiritual matters for the heavens. Also remember whenever a spiritual leader begins to exhibit questionable characters, it's the devil at work and he'll try to rope as many people who would let him into the mess of the whole shit. So be wise.

PASTORS ARE NOT SPIRITUAL LEADERS, THEY ARE HUMANS, ORDINARY HUMANS. BUT BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU CRITICIZE THEM. IT'S DANGEROUS TO DO SO.

Captain8:
meanwhile see your brother calling out how you are making troubles.....you people will make trouble but will not know you are making trouble.....by the time the react, you will be shouting hatred...... God abeg help me change the igbo people to normal

AM I CALLING LAGOS NO MAN'S LAND?? THOSE ARE FOOLISH PEOPLE, I DON'T SUPPORT RUBBISH.

Captain8:
are you igbo or benin?

I'M IGBO, I LIVE IN BENIN CITY, EDO STATE.

IGBOSON1:
I doubt the OP is actually Ijaw, but there's a possibility having seen the kind of unbridled and senseless hate the likes of the fat toad Dokubo have for us!

I think there's something inherently wrong with these people! They have a slavish, stockholm-syndrom mentality and since the time of Adaka Boro, have been making the wrong call continuosly! Imagine some of them (and some Ikwerre think like this too) still thinking the Igbo are their biggest problem in life....the same people that stood almost 100% with one of them when he was contesting and recontesting for office as president! We stood by him, even to our own political loss, and when this was happening, we didn't hear at the time these Igbo-hating Ijaw dolts screaming that they don't need Igbo support! Now a Igbo was contesting for the same position we supported their son contesting, these same turncoats with their longthroats are now falling over themselves to give their support to a geriatric, drug-dealing godfather from another region that's already produced president, and who has made a career out of criminality and using thugs and touts to steal elections! Judas ain't got nothing on these people!

Given their 'smartness and playing the right cards' from the late 60s till date, just take a look at their polluted region and impoverished population, and ask yourself if these people get sense at all!

WHETHER HE IS IJAW OR YORUBA, I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE THE YORUBAS AND IJAWS. HAUSAS DON'T EVEN CARE, THEY REACT WHEN THINGS DON'T GO THEIR WAY, BUT YOU SEE YORUBA AND IJAW, THEIRS IS ENVY AND NATURAL HATRED, STAY AWAY FROM THEIR LANDS.

EngrKemp:
U better stop this madness.

Same Yoruba that booted out gej an ijaw son from power.
Here u r trying to be wise when u should look back n blame gej for not thinking about the future of the Niger delta before allowing jega rig him out of aso rock.
If gej knew he wasn't going to be serious with power,he would v allowed another person contest from south

SIR, YOU DON'T NEED TO STRESS YOURSELF SCHOOLING THESE PEOPLE, THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE THEIR MINDSETS TOWARDS THE IGBOS, THE BEST TREATMENT IS GIVE THEM WHAT THWY GIVE YOU. THAT'S IT. EXIT THEIR LANDS, THAT'S WHEN YOU WILL HAVE FULL RIGHT TO PAY BACK. WILL IJAW PEOPLE COME TO IGBOLAND AND DICTATE FOR US WHAT WE SHOULD WITH OUR FREEDOM??

Captain8:
igbo community in Bayelsa...lol...hmmm now I see why Yorubas are hating on you concerning Lagos.... you people are like cancer....one will accommodate you and by the the time stay their for long, you start laying claim.....how possible on earth, igbos will jumped from the land and own a place in center of Ijaw? I believe the defeat of obi is disturbing your brain from reasoning...... mentioned the igbo community in Bayelsa..


Bayelsa is 100% Ijaw.....if there is any other ethnicity their, why they have not cried for the Ijaw republic map?

every ethnicity in the niger delta had heard of our quest for Ijaw republic...so why has anyone not come out to say our people in must not be part of Ijaw republic?

Ijaw republic is sacrosanct..... you biafrans will shed blood tears by our next moves

YOU ARE PAINED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, BUT WE WILL NOT FORCE ANYBODY TO JOIN US, IT'S THEIR CHOICE. YORUBAS HATRED HAS NO EFDECT ON US THE ENLIGHTENED ONES. IT'S THE UNENLIGHTENED ONES THAT GO THERE TO BUY SWAMPY LANDS THAT I PITY, WILL YOUR HATRED AFFECT IGBOS IF THEY STAYED IN THEIR HOMES OR TOWNS. THE CASE WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.

Captain8:
in our history books, there is no where said we take Igbo land....so which one is this false accusation? rather, you igbos are the ones trying to grabbed Ijaw land with biafla

YOUR EXPANSIONIST AGENDA HAS BEEN HALTED SEVERAL TIMES, EVEN HERE IN BENIN CITY IT'S THE SAME CASE, ALWAYS FIGHTING WITH THE LOCALS, IN DELTA IT'S THE SAME THING ALWAYS FIGHTING WITH URHOBO AND ITSHEKIRI, IN ONDO AND LAGOS THE SAME CASE IS RECORDED. ABIA, IMO, RIVERS ARE NO EXCEPTION, THESE PEOPLE HAVE SHARED IN YOUR ACTS OF TERRORISM. I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

Captain8:
falsified? Lol.. so are you going to removed the Ijaw people in the land and take it?
Right now, I don't know the Ijaws you wanting to removed....is akwa ibom Ijaws you wanting to removed? Or rivers Ijaws you wanting to removed? Or bayelsa Ijaws you wanting to removed? Or delta Ijaws you wanting to removed? Or ondo Ijaws you wanting to removed? Or edo Ijaws?

Oya tell me which Ijaw is disturbing you?

IJAWS ARE FORCEFULLY GRABBING IGBOLAND. CHECK YOUR HISTORY BOOKS.