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Some Cross River people have English surnames as well. Donald Duke is one prominent example.

The Ijaws have English surnames, and Hausa of Muslims names. You will not find many Fulani with Muslim surnames.

Koreans and other Asian countries have been buying up Africa's agricultural land. I would be wary of these "investors."

ezeagu:
I'd struggle to find an Igbo man named 'Alfonsus, Alloysius, Longinus, Donatus, Adolphus, Reginald', just like finding a Yoruba man by those names. Unlike Yoruba, I would struggle finding an Igbo man whose surname is Wellignton.

Come to Rivers state and you will see "Igbos" with English surnames. And they are proud about it.

There were Krios present in Onitsha as well if people have forgotten. I wonder what happened to them.

I seen a lot of people in Warri with English and Portuguese surnames. It must be a riverine phenomenon. Even many of the riverine Igbo have those surnames.

ezeagu:
Please reomve Yar'Adua's name. Not to insult him, but he wasn't exactly the center of attention in those meetings he attended with his pyjamas.

They still would not be insulting Yar'Adua though. The people in the West seem to be wary of Muslims.

sbeezy8:

see lula?
[img]http://haaren.files./2011/01/jonathan-and-lula2.jpg[/img]

thats ifferent they are descendants of former slaves- n surnames did not exist back then.

Just imagine? Would my favorite Brazilian president ever do that to an Abacha, Yar'Adua or even an Obasanjo?

ezeagu:
Andre Uweh I'm surprised, I've heard about the grass being greener on the other side, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to say such an incorrect thing about Nigeria. The same Yoruba people with names like Crowther, George and Wellington?

Were they not the descendants of Krios?

They are mocking his name. Foolish Africans who have English names. I am happy I do not have any foreign names. My name is a mixture of Igbo and Ibibio.

Yorubas do cherish their names more than other group in Nigeria. Followed by the Bini and Igbos.

Rhino just learn to stay on topic "old soldier." No need to act like a military grunt, when you are competing against a tactician.

I am enjoying this squabble amongst our brethren west of the River Niger. Is this there famous unity? Seems more like disunity.

^^^

Is the one on the bottom Ileke-Idi?

Now this is the Rhino we have all come to know. Keep it up. . .  I know it is frustration coming from you.

Rhino.5dm:
^was Ojukwu NOT an Idio*t? Still you people regard him as your leader even after leading more 2 million Igbos to the slaughter house. Free BAT!

You just couldn't resist. Keep Ojukwu off this thread and stay on topic.

How can a drug dealer like Tinubu insult Awolowo's family? 

Attack on Awo: Yoruba leaders must call Tinubu to order - AD

Written by Taiwo Adisa
Friday, 10 June 2011

THE national chairman of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa, has asked leaders in Yorubaland, including traditional rulers, to immediately call the former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, to order, in respect of the vituperations of his associate, Mr Sam Omatseye, on the family of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Akinfenwa, in a statement on Thursday, said Tinubu’s indirect attacks on the Awolowo family was an insult to the Yoruba race, adding that such a development was clearly a confirmation that the former governor  did not receive good parental upbringing.

“It is surprising that a man of questionable background will start raining abuses on a family of undisputed integrity and a woman, who our leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, described as his jewel,” Akinfenwa said, adding that Tinubu’s sponsored attacks on Awolowo family was part of his plot to emerge as Yoruba leader.

“We were not suprisped that African Magic Yoruba, on DSTV Channel, came up with a questionnaire, which shows that Tinubu was a main contender for the leadership of the Yoruba.

“It is clear that the channel has embarked on a self destruction agenda, which it may never overcome. Tinubu is only the leader of African Magic as he can only lead by magic.

“Papa Awo is revered by all true sons of Yorubaland. Some miscreants cannot come from nowhere to cast aspersions on his character and family. All those who did that in the past have always received their reward here on earth.

“The first editorial of Concord Newspapers was devoted to attacking Awolowo. Today, that newspaper has gone down into history.

“We know that as a result of the planned attempt by Tinubu to smuggle himself as leader of Yoruba, some of our traditional rulers would soon be put under pressure to confer on him the title. We want to warn that Yoruba leadership is not for sale, it is not to be conferred on persons with questionable backgrounds.

“Any Yoruba oba who falls for the trick of naming a person of unknown origin a leader should beware of the curses of our ancestors,” he said.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/23350-attack-on-awo-yoruba-leaders-must-call-tinubu-to-order-ad

Honda29:
Chei!!!

Tinubu, a drug dealer indicted in America for drug running is now seen by the Yorubas as their leader!!!.

In Nigeria of today, criminals are Kings!!!!!!!!!

Now that is the amazing part of these events. A mere drug dealer is consider a Yoruba leader.

ekt_bear:
Not a problem. Just don't then be offended then when others "participate with interest" in your own affairs.

Your people already do, so this is no problem for me. Like I said before, your people should really look in the mirror sometimes.

ekt_bear:
Absolutely irrelevant. Mind your business. A very simple concept.

Irrelevant to you, but I will continue to participate with interest. And there is nothing you can do about it.

ekt_bear:
No, it is not. Keep your damn nose out of it.

Sorry but I cannot do that. The other groups are looking with interest in what your people are doing. We all know how your political fights end.

I am just a messenger. And I am tired of reading this Awolowo nonsense in this section.

Βουκέφαλος:
Yawns and goes back to sleep

Are you guys not tired of whining

Who is whining? Is it not a Northerner who is saying this? Or do you know how to read?

We Igbos have made tremendous strides over the recent decade, but more needs to be done. He is only reiterating something the Ndigbo already knew.

He is speaking many truths, in which we in the South-East already knew. Now this is coming from a true Hausa-Fulani, so have the Ndigbo been speaking the truth for all this time?

South-East still paying for civil war, says Balarabe Musa

By Chioma Igbokwe
Friday, June 10, 2011

Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balabare Musa has said that the repeated marginalization of the South-East is because Nigeria has not forgiven the Igbo’s over the civil war.

In an interview with Musa who was the governorship candidate of People’s Redemption Party (PRP), in the just concluded election, said Igbo are still paying the price for the civil war. He also spoke on the reason why he will not go to the tribunal despite his claim that the election was massively rigged.

[b]2011 election
[/b]The election was not free and fair. Rather, it was disgraceful. It was something planned by the President, knowingly or unknowingly. He is a part and parcel of a conspiracy against the stability of Nigeria. He is one person that came looking fresh and clean. He shouldn’t have allowed himself to be involved in the abandonment of the zoning system, which has sustained Nigeria as one country since 1959. The conspiracy has now exposed the fact that as he became the President, is saying that the zoning system should be sustained.

As someone who has part and parcel of a conspiracy, he did everything to destabilize politics by abandoning the zoning plan, so that he can become president. Now that he has become president, he wants to return to zoning.

[b]South-East marginalization
[/b]All governments in Nigeria marginalized the Igbo since the civil war. Marginalization is on the ground that they participated in the civil war, so many years after the civil war that ought to have been forgotten.

The abandonment of zoning is one of the things that will perpetually marginalize South-East because with this zoning system, any part of Nigeria can hope to present a president. The South-East, which has never produced a president, will never produce a president without zoning system. You know that there won’t be stability if a section of the country can be so neglected.

The civil war ended and since the so- called surrender, has anything come from the South-East to assure Nigerians that the civil war problem will not repeat itself? Since they surrendered, they have integrated themselves into Nigeria. The leaders of the country are refusing to integrate them. Until the days of late Yar’ adua, the South-East was not part of the security system in the country. They did not have their own share of the leadership in every part of Nigeria. What they relied on in the past is trading. They are not relevant except in spare parts business. They still have grievances and that grievances should be looked into.

[b]Way forward
[/b]In the case of Nigeria today, the issue about the way forward is a big one. Those in control of power and economy at every level did not get there on the basis of merit. I can be frank with you, thieves are now ruling the country from top to bottom and with this type of situation how can we expect rationality? We still cannot have an acceptable election. Every election is worse than the previous one. Those who are knowledgeable know that the 2011 election was worse than others. Do you know the role thumb printing of ballot paper played in the 2011 election? Do you know the role taken by communities to show that there is no election in their community and to ensure that they elect the person they want? All there lies about free and fair election will come out if we use forensic examination on our ballot papers. It will expose everything. It will expose their lies that both local and international observers said, that the election was free and fair.

[b]Post election violence
[/b]The crisis that erupted in the north originally was political. It was a crisis between the leading political parties in the North. Eventually, like everything in Nigeria, it took the form of ethnicity and particularly religion.

[b]Election tribunal
[/b]I am not going to the tribunal because it is a waste of time. I don’t have the money and there is no guarantee of justice in the judicial system. It is a question of the highest bidder taking the day. We cannot afford the hundreds of millions or naira required to process a petition successfully. Apart from the lawyer, the legal cost is another issue. The court charges a lot of money in the filing of documents.
It is something that we will not bother ourselves about. We have already transformed ourselves since 1983 into a movement that can compete in any election, if the conditions are right. The important thing is that PRP is our party and we have since we have transformed ourselves into a movement and electoral political party. We believe that our struggle is protected and permanent. Therefore been rigged out of the election does not mean that we will stop. It does not matter whether we are registered or not. It does not also matter whether we can contest election or not. We are a movement.

[b]Deregistration of parties
[/b]We are not bothered just like I told you. We have formed a movement and a political party that can contest in an election. Whether we can participate or not, we will remain because we believe that our struggle is protected and permanent. Coming to the legal situation, the electoral act that says that a political party that does not win one state house of assembly election or national assembly election be de registered is subject to the reading of the constitution.

And the constitution under the fundamental provision does not allow that to happen. In any case, there is even a practical issue. That same law did not say the parties that have been de registered cannot be registered again. It is a futile attempt by those in power to impose themselves on the people. In any case, after all, we didn’t get registered just for asking. We went to the federal High Court and to Federal Court of appeal in 2002 before 57 political parties where registered. In 2002, when we went to court, only six parties were registered and the electoral body refused to register any more political party. We had Gani Fawehimi who is so patriotic and committed that he stood in for us. It is unfortunate now that we don’t have a lawyer who is so patriotic and democratic that can fight for us. If necessary, we will reach that stage, because they must have seen the futility of questioning what the Supreme Court has already done.

[b]On government agenda
[/b]Why should I bother when I know that they have rigged the election? They are not going to do anything good. The kind of people in government today is not the type of people that are patriotic or can perform. Now, they will make the situation of Nigeria even worse.

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http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2011/june/10/politics-10-06-2011-002.html

ekt_bear:
Fine and well, but stay in your lane and mind your business.

Yoruba's business is all Nigerians' business. We are all in this nation together.

ekt_bear:
^-- Why are you poking your Igbo nose into business that doesn't concern you? Stay in your lane

Are we not all Nigerians? I have family living in the South-West and South-West issues are of concern for me.

Corruption is a disease in Nigeria that is slowly killing the country. It is worse than tribalism, because it transcends all ethnic groups.

Are you all fighting amongst yourselves in who are the true legitimate successors of Awolowo?

Tinubu, Afenifere: Who anchors South West interests?

ANALYSIS
By OCHEREOME NNANNA
THE post-election power sharing bun_fights among the various geopolitical zones are, indeed very intriguing. Of particular interest is the case of the South West where the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoned the post of Speaker, House of Representatives.

In fact, it was supposed to be a two-cornered tussle between two ranking members of the House from the Zone, Hon. Mulikat Adeola_Akande and Hon. Muraina Ajibola.

However, the voting pattern of the electorate in the South West during the general elections suggested that the PDP was no longer wanted there. The electorate of the zone decisively voted out all PDP governors. They returned only one senator and six members of the House of Reps on the PDP platform. The rest were given to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo States and Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State.

The PDP had performed very well in other zones, including South_South, South East, North East, North Central and North West (especially outside the presidential election). Majority of the people of the South East felt that keeping the post of Speaker in the South West, in spite of their low regard of the PDP, was misplaced, as some of the members of the House from their Zone wanted the post.

But the Presidency’s hasty offering of the post of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, to the South East and appointment of a preferred candidate of the Zone in the person of Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, initially took the wind from the sail of their agitation for the post of Speaker.

Working arrangement

That, however, did not stop the chief campaigner for the post, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, rallying the rest of his colleagues from the zone in getting into a working arrangement with their peers from the North, where Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was determined the “unfair” PDP zoning would not stand.

On Monday, June 6, 2011 when the seventh Session of the House of Representatives was inaugurated, the zoning agenda of the ruling party was shoved aside, as Tambuwal scored 252 votes as opposed to 90 votes given to Adeola-Akande to emerge Speaker. Ihedioha also emerged as the Deputy Speaker. Already, the Senate had returned four-term Senator David Mark as President of the Senate, while Senator Ike Ekweremadu was voted as his Deputy.

The net effect of this was that the South West Zone, which had always enjoyed a place of pride since the return of our democracy in 1999 (when it produced the President till 2007 and Speaker, House of Reps till 20110) found itself suddenly nowhere to be found in the line of official protocol.

The Tinubu factor

The failure of the South West to clinch the post of Speaker was not necessarily a result of any gang_up against the South West by other zones – as such. Rather, it was purely a play of democratic dynamics that led to it. The South West has the second largest number of seats in the House of Reps, and majority of them were won by the ACN in the last elections. While the defeated PDP camp wanted the Speaker’s seat for the Zone, the triumphant ACN did not want the PDP to have it.

They did not want to risk having a stump of the Party in the South West ranking high in the PDP Federal Government and posing any threat to their hold on power in the Zone. Thus, they decided to support Tambuwal’s quest for the post.

For the ACN leadership, building a solid national party that would in future present it as a credible alternative to the PDP was more important than helping their ethnic group to clinch a high office in the legislature.

The ACN leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has since 1999 displayed uncommon vision and political savvy. He knows how a short-term gain could torpedo a long-term strategic advantage – and how to sidestep it. In 1999, he was just one of the six Alliance for Democracy, AD, governors of the South West.

Towards 2003 when President Olusegun Obasanjo, who had no political base in the zone, sought re-election, he entreated the Yoruba socio_political umbrella, the Afenifere, to support him.

The AD governors then were high ranking Afenifere leaders. Five of them – Bisi Akande of Osun State; Niyi Adebayo of Ekiti State; the late Adebayo Adefarati of Ondo State; Olusegun Osoba of Ogun State and Lam Adesina of Oyo State, offered to support Obasanjo for president while keeping their posts for second term as governors.

It was only Tinubu of Lagos that distanced himself from the arrangement. For his recalcitrance, President Obasanjo mobilised all instruments of federal power – including starving the local councils of their legitimate federal allocations.

Tinubu hunkered down and eventually overcame. He left the AD and joined the effort to found the Advanced Congress of Democrats, ACD, which later renamed itself the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, when the party came under the full control of Tinubu. One after the other, the ACN won a string of court victories that brought Edo, Ekiti and Ondo into its fold after the 2007 polls.

By the time the 2011 elections turned the corner, most expectations were that the remaining two South West states – Ogun and Oyo, would fall into the ACN basket, and they did. The party made big impressions outside the South West, especially in Benue and Anambra States where they won many House and senatorial seats.

An interesting outcome of Tinubu’s political perseverance is that his former colleague South West governors and Afenifere chiefs who could not resist short-term goodies in the Obasanjo presidency – Adesina, Osoba, Akande and Adebayo – are now his followers in the ACN.

https://vml1.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tt.jpg

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/tinubu-afenifere-who-anchors-south-west-interests/

This is the way the Chinese do it and it works.