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Denoh68:
SOME PARTS ARE OWNED BY IJAW AND SOME TRIBES FROM COTONOU. YORUBAS ARE JUST VISITORS THERE

*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.*

IF HIM LIKE MAKE HIM CAMPAIGN TILL SATURDAY,

SANWO OLU WOULD WIN.

JESUS AND SATAN

SANWO OLU, WILL WIN NO SHAKINGS. HE HAD TRIED. U HAVE MY VOTE.

Antoeni:
Mathematics question, if C is found in CBN, PHCN, NDDC,INEC, NCDC, EFCC, NNPC, INEC & APC
Then what is C ?

C means CORRUPTION

STOP THIS YOUR NONSENSE TALK, PLS,
IS IT BY FORCE THE YORUBAS ALIGN WITH YOUR PREFERRED CANDIDATE?

quote author=potopotoking post=121463814]Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---, and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.[/quote]

So shall it be for himself and his family. Fake prophet.

HONESTLY PO SUPPORTERS NEEDED TO CALM DOWN.

ALL HIS WORDS ARE DANGEROUS TO THE SITUATION AT HAND.

HE NEEDS TO LEARN POLITICS WELL. HE REALLY TRIED BY PULLING SUCH A CROWD. EVEN HE GOT HUGE VOTES FROM THE SOUTH WEST AND NORTH.

HE SHOULD JUST APPRECIATE HIS SUPPORTERS AND START WORKING VERY HARD AGAINST 2027 ELECTIONS.

BUT HE HAD TO GAIN THE TRUST OF THE NORTH COS THEY HAVE THE POPULACE..

WE HAVE SAID IT SEVERALLY, TINUBU ISN'T BUHARI,

IN AS MUCH AS PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH APC.

THE MAN GOD WANTS IS THE NEW ELECTED PRESIDENT.

PRAY FOR HIM TO SUCCEED AND LETS MOVE ON..

HE MIGHT EVEN BE THE BEST PRESIDENT SOO FAR. TO SET NIGERIA ON THE RIGHT PATH..

LETS NOT BURN THIS COUNTY PLS..

TO BE HONEST, PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF VOTING APC. I'M LOOKING BEYOND PARTY.

HENCE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO VOTE OUT THEIR SUFFERINGS. COS OF WHAT APC GOVT BUHARI HAD CAUSED THEM.

I LOOK AT PERSONALTY AND
ME I STILL PREFER TINUBU.

TINUBU CAN NEVER BE BUHARI FOR SURE.

HE IS STILL AHEAD. HE MIGHT LOOSE LAGOS WHICH IS BAD.
BUT IM OPTIMISTIC HE WOULD WIN THIS ELECTION.

THIS LAGOS LOSS, SANWO OLU SHOULD BRACE UP.

I don't know why soo much hatred for this Tinubu.

I had made my research and I have a right to vote for any one of my choosing. I have looked at the three candidate and I would prefer Tinubu.

Obi would have become a running mate to Atiku to have a chance and learn for 4yrs as a Vice president, this would enable him gather some political powers and allies . To become president.

As it stands Tinubu seems to be the best candidate to my own opinion oo.


And I also observe OBI fans, once one is not voting for obi. U become a subject of ridicule.


Tinubu can never be buhari. Take this.

God's grace Victory is sure. But if God says otherwise. Any one to make the country better should emerge winner tomorrow.

Peace.

THE PRESIDENT IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR.

U CAN'T OVERULE.THE SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT.

IN AS MUCH AS THE POLICY IS GOOD TO CURB VOTE BUYING.
HE SHOULD MAKE IT WELL DIPLOMATIC.

THIS IS A VERY SAD NEWS. A WHOLE FAMILY, God? All this trucks don't have rear light and reflective stickers hence, the driver would had seen it afar and apply brakes.

RIP to the Family.

This just spoilt my Day .

[b][/b] IN AS MUCH THAT I DON'T REALLY LIKE TINUBU'S DECISION TO BE PRESIDENT. HE WOULD HAVE ALLOWED OSHIBAJO, AND SECOND COMMA, WAS TO PICK A MUSLIM RUNNING MATE...

HE IS STILL FAR BETTER THAN THE OTHER CANDIDATES.
IM AFRAID AGE IS NOT ON HIS SIDE ALSO. THATS MY FEAR.

Biodun556:
Reasonable people reason alike, the mentally derailed reason differently

Emefiele should be sacked with immediate effect. He coloured old note and call it new note.

He withdrew 3 trillion from people and printed only 300 billion

He created panic in the system and made people to suffer upon their money by giving short notice and ultimatum.

He is a party to the 2023 election because he purchased nomination form, he should not remain in the CBN

THIS I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU BOSS..
EMEFIELE SHOULD HAD STEPPED DOWN AFTER LOOSING BID TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT.

Newly arrived flights from a long distance journey are always watered. It's to avoid metal fatigue due to intense heat expecially hot zones with temperature 🌡️ rising above 40 0c.

This meeting looks serious, but we would be happy if good policies that would drive Nigerians and move the nations forward is discussed.

THIS WIKE MAN CAN'T RULE A COMPLEX COUNTY LIKE NIGERIA. HE ACT LIKE A TYRANT.

THERE IS ALWAYS TIME TO SHOW POWER NOT ALL THE TIME.

THIS SEEMS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE APC

This should have reached front page by now

IN AS MUCH AS I LIKE TINUBU, HE bleeped UP BIG TIME TO BE YARNING ALL THIS TRASH. HE JUST SHOWS NIGERIANS HE IS A DICTATOR. COMMON MAN, HES MANAGERS CAN'T EVEN TAME HIM,

HE SHOULD BE TALKING AND DOING MORE OF ASSURANCE TO THE MASSES ON HOW HE WOULD IMPROVE THE CURRENT STATE OF THE BAD ECONOMY AND INSECURITY IN THE COUNTRY.

HE IS JUST TOO LOOSE. AND DESPERATE, IF HE WOULD BE A BAD PRESIDENT FOR THIS COUNTRY, HE WOULD NOT GET THERE IN JESUS NAME.

WOULD RATHER VOTE FOR OSIBANJO OR PETER OBI.

THIS IS PURE OPPRESSION ON THE POOR, WE HEARD THE MANAGER FOUGHT BACK TO RESIST BUT HE WAS OVER POWERED. BY THE SECURITY DETAILS OF THE MIGHTY.

WHY NOT ARREST THE CELEBRAN T

mediainc:
The way those people block the road leading to Goshen from that blue water, it's so shameful the government allow them keep scrap on the road, that is a huge security threat for the neighborhood, they block the road as well, those scrap sellers are constituting a big nuisance on that road, road linking blue water luxury apartments to Goshen. In an area like Marwa, it's a shame for government to allow it.

WELL SAID,

That place was an alternative road to Marwa but it's a terrible mess now. Close to the ocean and blue water apartments. It's a coastal line but don't be surprised it would be taken over and allocate to developers. Instead of road.

IN AS MUCH ITS A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT, CAN THE GOVT KEEP TO THERE WORDS BY MAINTAINING IT AS ROAD NOT TO SELL TO BIG MEN AS ESTATES.

TO BE HONEST, WAS THINKING OF RAISING THIS TOPIC, TILL OP HIT THE BULLS EYES. I HAVE ZERO PITY FOR THEM.
THEY DON'T OBEY TRAFFIC RULES,
AND THEY SPOIL YOUR SIDE MIRROR S AND MAKE WAY SHARP SHARPLY.
SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE..

Abeg na I dey remote area. Make u na send where I fit stream na

Abeg o anyone with live stream

CHARGE YOUR ENERGY ON SUSTAINING A BETTER NIGERIA. WHY MUCH HATRED FOR A PROGRESSING TRIBE

TarOrfeeek:
By all means necessary let Bola Tinube become the President of Nigeria.


It's like the suffering of the past 8 years is not enough for Yoruba people.

They think suffering use to select tribe or religion.


Even me if I can, I'll vote BAT.
I want us to suffer another 8 years, but this time I'll know that I was part of the decision to suffer.

laugh wan kill.me.

Lari03r:
You can see why the naira is flailing, we simply do not have exports apart from oil which can facilitate foreign exchange earnings.

You would think the CBN governor would understand but he has outsourced his critical thinking skills to the persons in charge of entrenching rubbish.

If it costs $35k to move 1000 tonnes out of Nigeria, and less than $4k in Ghana, as a business man, you know where would favor your interests.

But the CBN will keep looking for imaginary enemies. Asking a man to come for physical combat over foreign exchange rate which the government has been guilty of manipulating since 2015 due to the existence of multiple rates under government supervision.

The issue of multiple taxation is a big problem that has existed in Nigeria for years.

Our ports are not quick, yet they want to combat unemployment.

We only have one state with a major port despite having 5 viable states where seaports can exist, but they refuse to dredge and develop the seaports.

Then they wanted to build a naval base in Kano -a land locked location with no marine opening.

The question is why is Nigeria operating like a drunkard?

Why will a leader say one thing and then take actions that are against his people

Why is there a palpable lack of leadership and coherence in strategy by MDAs of the Nigerian government? Imagine the revenue loss to citizens because some government agencies want to earn unreasonable revenues?

Does this make sense?

Why is the existence of Nigeria like a glorified concentration camp where nepotism is the only way to get results?

We are facing the same problems we have been trying to solve since 1960.

I'm tired.

In this era of VAT re-appropriation, I think this issue of multiple taxation should be addressed alongside the opening of major port operations in the Niger-Delta states. Anything short of this is economic sabotage.

Nigeria doesn't work because it is structured like an Agbero PLC, pay the thugs, pay the government, and move at ease while the citizens suffer.

Nigeria is too big to be governed from Abuja by myopic politicians who have been close to the corridor of power since 1960.

Let everyone go back to their regions to develop their ethnic nations, at that stage if you continue to act like a fool, your brothers will see through your tomfoolery and they will treat your mess accordingly.

[b] BEST ADVICE AND WORD EVER

pacino26:
As it is in the seaport so shall it be at the airports. Now how do we earn forex if people can't export?

We always find a way to legalize illegality.

[b][/b] BOSS YOU JUST READ MY MIND, EXPORTATION HELPS IN GETTING MORE FOREX TO THE ECONOMY.

BUT WHEN EXTORTION IS A NORM. IN A COUNTRY, WHY WONT INVESTORS MOVE ON TO OTHER NATIONS.

SOME ONE WANTS TO EXPORT CASH CROPS, THE ITEMS SPEND ALMOST 3 WEEKS BEFORE GETTING TO THE PORT. HALF OF THE GOODS SPOILT ALREADY,

ENTERING THE DESTINATION COUNTRY, PRODUCTS FAILED QUALITY CONTROL. WHO NOW LOSSES?

THAT PERSON WOULD NEVER BE ENCOURAGED TO EXPORT AGAIN.

WE ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR OURSELVES IN THIS COUNTRY I SWEAR

Gratefulheart1:
FG should send armed military troops to disperse them, with shoot at sight order incase they do anyhow.

Thunder fire their retired big heads. No peace and mercy for the wicked.

Who would believe same water will be used in cooking fish.

When these dirty things were in service, they're enemies of peaceful Nigerian masses fighting for a better Nigeria.

Nigeria armed forces are one of the enemies of this country. We blame the government but a government cannot execute it's evil plans without the backing of armed forces. Infact, any government only has authority with the powers of armed forces.

Just give a Nigeria uniformed man gun, he starts feeling like God immediately. No civilian is safe around him anymore.

Same corrupt military, police, dss etc doing dirty jobs for government. Same military used for lekki massacre after their fellow masked solider warned them. Killing innocent young Nigerian protesters fight for the good of everyone of us.

Let us make this country a better place, you all refused. Now, animals in zoos abroad live better than a typical Nigerian masses.

To even go on the street, no one is safe, frustrated drug addicts, hungry, diry teens with tatoos everywhere with hidden weapon ready to strike same way they struck Mr. Balogun.

Some people can run abroad but can all 180 million Nigerians run abroad?

Why do we like behaving and living like wild animals when God created us human beings. Shame on Nigeria.

It shall never be well with leaders who made this country the mess it is.

HABA! U NA WICKED O.