₦airaland Forum

Blakjewelry:
his use of words shows hatred for some ethnic group and some of his words inspire hatred and subtly called for violence which to me is uncalled for, you can call for what you want and still be civil

ukukaegbu:
While we rush to condemn the man due to pure hate, have we considered the message he is passing across? His men that were arrested, what offence did they commit?
The same people that accuse him of not caring for his people are still the same ones here crying more than the bereaved.

QuotaSystem:
Lol but a good number of IPOB's Igbos are now Atikulooters.

QuotaSystem:
They are simply two sides of the same coin.

duwdu:
Which of the two groups is more in number then?

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Oshigun:
Are you for real? Lagos has the highest IGR in Nigeria today and is the only State that is almost totally independent of reliance on the centre to the extent it can be self-funding and prosperous without FG allocation for far far longer than any other Nigerian State.

I know many love to hate him but this is the greatest legacy of Tinubu. When the vindictive OBJ starved Lagos of federal allocation, hoping to cripple Tinubu and Lagos, Jagaban simply developed the most successful and efficient model of internally generated revenue, linked with tax collection, in Nigeria and Africa.

Read your history and stop boring us with the story of oil developing Lagos. The greatest gains Lagos has made, to be fifth largest economy in Africa, came post 1999 from aggresive IGR generation after The State was denied oil money by OBJ.

So kindly refrain from the redundant argument of oil income developing Lagos in an age of idea the likes of Tinubu subscribed to years ago while you guys remain stuck trying to show you feed others when, in reality, visionaries like Tinubu began preparing, a long time ago, for how oil will probably be worth very little in 50 years.

Ask yourself if all Nigerians would not rush into Lagos and the agriculturally bouyant states today if oil income vanished overnight.

Oshigun:
Bruv, check the article out below to see for yourself. Hope you are man enough to admit you have been lied to about the reality that shows what Yorubas are that the ethnic group gets no credit for because we are not noise-makers or a people interested in embracing violence, bloodletting and blackmail of others to get our way.


www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7879.htm

duwdu:
Actually, no other region has licked the boot of the North more than the East has been doing throughout our democratic journeys as a nation. Let's list the following complete history replete with extreme boot-lickings by the East:

Balewa+Azikiwe vs Awolowo;
Shagari+Ekwueme vs Awolowo;
Obasanjo+Atiku vs Falae
Yar'Adua+Jonathan vs Atiku;
Jonathan+Sambo vs Ribadu.

Do you have more to add?

And we all know the Southeast vuvuzela'd Jonathan's 5-to-6-year term(s) as an Igbo presidency, and Jonathan blatantly made sure it was so.

So, if you live in a glass house, please don't throw stones. Plus, those who forget/ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

'Nuf said.

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Oshigun:
The sad thing is that Igbos, on a personal level, are not actually bad to partner with because you lot bring it and don't expect to be carried. Things are different when it comes to politics. You become blind, hateful and myopic because of a war loss you exclusively blame Yoruba for and remain vindictively committed to getting even with. You don't even see what is obvious anymore.

Look at Lagos and the SW and consider the unfettered success of the Igbos there and tell us, on a personal basis, whether a Yoruba Presidency will harm or uplift you. Like I said before, I personally will remain unruffled if Yorubas do not get the Presidency in 2023 because I believe this would be Nigeria's loss not ours. GEJ was the wrong hand from the SS same as OBJ was the wrong representative of the Yorubas. Under the APC, the Yorubas have no weak hands. Only leaders certain to take Nigeria to the next level like Osinbajo, Fashola and even Tinubu.

I am proud the SW is loaded leadership-wise currently because that makes me understand we will always be okay. Yes control of federal might would help us attain progresses quicker but even minus this we would always be the foremost region in Nigeria because of human resources that is second to non in the while nation.

Oshigun:
Look, Igbos are a great set of people in many aspects of life. Yet never politics because you people cannot get over the civil war loss and have a mentality of settling the score with others, mainly Yorubas you claim betrayed you, to the extent you can never be objective.

Are Igbos succesful? Of course. Yet why do you need to prove that to Yorubas and others daily if not because you still hanker for moral victory today over a war you lost many decades ago?


Obansanjo is a terrible Yoruba man and he was a disastrous President but would you lot actually thrive more under an Osinbajo rather than a Tambuwal?

You are so ideologically opposed to the Yorubas, because of indoctrination you gain from birth against us, you don't even see or notice what matters.

Which State is more supportive of Igbos and tolerant of everyone if not Lagos , under the Tinubu you hate so much, where you do so well and are even becoming more absorbed into local politics than anywhere else in Nigeria?

Continue supporting North because you hate Yorubas but the reality shows that everyone thrives under the egalitarian, peaceful, tolerant and progressive Yorubas.

I personally want the presidency to come to the SW because I feel Yorubas need to atone for how, out of so many capable hands, a misruler represented and damned us in the form of OBJ. I know if a proper Omoluabi like Osinbajo or Fashola is numero uno then Yorubas can pay their dues to Nigeria and set the right and balanced example for others to follow.

If we dont get that then I am still cool with the reality of living in the safest, most opportuned and most progressive region in Nigeria. There is nothing showcasing the best of Nigeria the SW and Yorubas dont lead at. We do not lag behind anyone and set the pace in many aspect of positive, daily Nigerian living. Yorubas won't lose out whichever way.

duwdu:
Yes!

Just to be sure you put my answer to your poser in proper context, I'll add this: No politician since Independence by himself has ever had the political support of more than one of the three main regions, not even Buhari in 2015. The only exception to the rule was Abiola.

I leave the rest to your imagination, so make of that what you may.

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QuotaSystem:
Lol political neophytes ...now who are the two front line candidates? One of which has the lips of ipobs planted firmly on his arrse?

Just like they are making blind, baseless permutations of an Atiku presidency today...

There is truly nothing new under the sun.

otosa:
Count South South out of 2023 game .It's only South East I pity most because then they will know the real Tinubu. Meanwhile, I don't really believe in this power rotation but good government.

Oshigun:
You see the mistake you guys make? Everything is about enmity and bitter stand-off. You don't seem to appreciate what bridge-buidling can do. We have a very different way of life to Northerners but we have no problem with them fundamentality as you do and will work with them in areas of mutual political interest because that, beyond permanent friendship or enmity, is what politics is about.
As I said before, make all manners of negative and anti-Yoruba prediction as you want. That will never stop Yorubas trying to get where we wish to go.

You lot always pitch your tent with what you believe to be political ' sure bankers' because, while hardworking elsewhere, you are very lazy thinkers and movers politically.

Like I said, not many, especially Igbos, would have banked on Tinubu deposing PDP but he did. 2023 will be interesting but the Yorubas will not come out of any eventuality as losers. I predict this comfortably because, unlike Igbos, we think and plan for likely outcomes without placing our eggs in one basket to then be f.cked and lose all our eggs if we drop that basket.

QuotaSystem:
Why in the world would the PDP present a northern candidate again? I for one would definitely vote a Southerner for equity and peace.

If PDP is to be fair in fact, it would present a SE or SS candidate in recognition of the massive support it has enjoyed from that region since 1999. Anything else would be taking the Eastern region for granted.

sapoyoro:
not all yorubas support APC just like a large percent actually support PDP,
GEJ despite the propaganda machinery got almost 45% percent in SW.
which is a good result considering SW is APC controlled and I did wager Atiku will get even more or around the same.
this should be giving you perspective rather than always abusing every Yorubas
we play the best politics in this country, we are the only ethnic group that doesn't put all our eggs in one basket like u Igbos or the hausas

Drchristian:
Vote for them they will never vote for you.

We have said it again South easterners vote is inconsequential.

Abiola defeated Northerners and Igbo in 1993

Awolowo almost defeated Shagari and Igbo... Therefore your vote is meaningless.

Buhari will defeat Atiku.

Drchristian:
I promise you that Yoruba or Osibanjo will defeat Tambuwal. 100% assurance.

YORUBA are not Igbo that sold out their birth right to the Northerners in 2018 because of fear of losing and will be seeing Yoruba as their enemy.

From APC and PDP a Yoruba presidential candidate will emerge.

Oshigun:
South South after GEJ just left in 2015? Oga talk better as this your thread will die a quick death because not many will speak in favour of SS Presidency ahead of an SE or SW Presidency given you had the slot behind the North recently through Jonathan.

The slot, in my opinion, belongs almost exclusively to the SW even though the SE also qualifies in terms of equity and fairness to all. Nonetheless, the reality is that the SE disqualified itself idealogically in the minds of kingmakers who would ordinarily support them to the top job because of many many antics in the past decades that shows the region is hateful and, in general, does not mean well for others and cannot at all be trusted with power.

The worst being the South East tacit endorsement of Kanu and IPOBS hateful posturing against other Nigerians. How will Northern powerbrokers feel when they see Igbos jubilating hysterically when Kanu says he is going to Abuja to return with the head of Buhari?

Remove Okorocha, now acting funny because he did not get his way, and Igbos like Ngige, Joe Igbokwe and Ken Nnamani, how many Igbos have the reputation to show their face as pro-Nigerian politicians with a stellah history that supports that stance?

Is it Obi who wants to lead Nigeria in future but was ranting against Yorubas and Fulanis yesterday? Ekweremadu? Anyim?

Ordinary Nigerians should learn to face reality. SS don't qualify and SE disqualified itself. Simple as that. If Buhari wins then your President in 2023 is Yoruba. This is why we should all have an eye on tomorrow when tempted to misbehave, burn bridges and upset others today.

Iwillbegreat:
Power of presidency will surely return to the south after 2019 no matter who won 2019, be it APC or PDP party.

People are quick to say the 2023 is between southwest(Yoruba) vs south East(Igbo).

They quickly forget there's the south south.

Right from democracy, the Yoruba have ruled the most in southern Nigeria.

Obasanjo..1999-2007
Osibanjo...2015...?

It's not fair to still see Yoruba claiming the presidency once again.

So from the south south, I think the people that might likely contest are:

Godwin obaseki.. governor Edo state
Udom Emmanuel.. governor akwa Ibom
Wike.. governor river state.


Who do you think deserve the presidency?


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henrolevra:
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kaysteelz:
d watsapp group link is not dropping o..

Ilamina:
We need to drop our pride and face the truth

Nigeria is like Soweto

The black man does not have the mental strength to make their country fine

This Gen. Umar Musa once Physically threatened Activist Adeyanju Deji (a Christian) for engaging in #FreeZakzaky protest and rallies in Abuja. He bluntly told Adeyanju that "Shia are not Muslims". Adeyanju told me that he was shock of the ferociousness of Gen. Musa against Shia Islam. He said why will an officer of the Nigerian army concern himself with the religion or sect of Nigerians?