₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
no
I don't know book

aribisala0:
So Nnamdi Kanu's agitation is about Eeboe presidency?

aribisala0:
I never said I thought any president can do that

That is entirely your worldview or perspective

aribisala0:
I do not get your point.

History555:
Tinubu is a powerful and well connected individual who has been installing govs in lagos. He has neva installed a powerful person as gov because he needs to be able to control such person. In the same vien, he should not expect the cabal to handover to him because they need a powerless person they can control.

aribisala0:
Presidency should not be Yoruba agenda not our priority
Papa Awolowo showed us that we do better in opposition.
Opposition does not mean enmity with the Federal Government
Say no to Tinubu
We have always done better in opposition and will continue to do so

All we want is to govern ourselves and control out security/policing
We have no interest in governing anybody
Those who want sharia should be allowed to do so
Those who want Popomiri should also be allowed
Do not allow one joker deceive you that his presidency agenda is a Yoruba agenda.
The same man that was asking where are the cows?
Who made his daughter Iyaloja
Lai Mohammed, Aregbesola, Obanikoro and the rest of the are there for their families not Yoruba

Let us restructure and go back to 50/50 resource control


Bottomline whether we have Presidency or not we will always run Nigerian economy.
We do not have to be responsible for developing the rest of the country

Let everyone control his space and destiny

Latakia:
Consulate is where they issue Visa, the head of a consulate office is called consul. The consul work is also to protect the interest of their citizens in a foreign country where they reside. They also carry out commercial activities between their country and the host country. There are some embassies that have their consulate office within the embassy. An embassy is a building where the Ambassador or Charge D'affaire of a foreign country operate from. Ambassador doesn't issue Visa. U can do more research on your own.

Latakia:
The one in Iraq is an embassy while the one in Eko Atlantic is a consulate. Know the difference between an embassy and a consulate.

perambulator:
You could have saved yourself from embarrassment by using Google before you respond

Maxymilliano:
This is not a prediction, oil has been discovered in Tongeji Island in Ipokia Local Council Area of Ogun State,

LegendHero:
When is FG going to finish building those psychiatric hospitals they want to build in that East? Coz it seems these days, lot of Meth addicts keep escaping and we have to contain them.

So DailyTrust, a Northern owned Newspaper is now Tinubu newspaper?

To the topic, Amaechi asking for this right now is somehow stupid coz FG should be able to at least cater for the funds to treat these guys themselves without needing private funding. No be Nigeria donate over $1million to Afghanistan the other time, so why can’t the FG raise millions in Naira to treat victims?

Even if Nigerians will raise funds, I think the FG should not be the one to advocate for that. Amaechi should have used some NGO proxies to call for this. At least have some shame.

Franking:
project Tinubu.

BSdetective:
Even if he believes do you think he'd get northern support if he comes out public with it?

Smarkest:
the whole drama is scripted

osinbanjoisaliar:
VP wan go beg for presidency. Make I ask one question. How many VP don turn Presidency for Naija history. Make I even add military join. How many deputy don turn head of state for Naija history. Apart from Obj and Jona Jona, nobody else don turn water to wine. Mr Osinbande make I tell you small truth, you be wetin Elrufai call "Perpetually Unelectable".

But e fit be say you just go greet Baba Iyabo and no be presidency you go find

osinbanjoisaliar:
This your dream too sweet I no go lie. Una don collect slap wella but una neva tire. Make I give you the short stori. Anytime wen north want something dem go send pesin like El rufai to go meet Baba Iyaloja. El rufai go tell am say him be the oga at the top for Buhari presidency. Say make baba dobale for buhari request. If him dobale buhari go dash am main prize. After baba Iyaloja don bend small, and time don dey reach for the prize giving ceremony, baba Iyaloja go go Aso Rock to go collect ein share. But Elrufai go dey on AWOL, him no go dey anywhere, worse sef him phone go dey switched off. Na pantami go con answer baba. If Baba Iyaloja demand for him gift, pantami go just laff in Swahili. If baba start to dey shout, pantami go tear am 2 hot slaps, baba go start to dey cry. Na den Garba Shehu go con show. Garba Shehu go con pursue pantami, and go con clean baba eyes. Him go con tell baba make him no worry say na him b d real oga at the top for buhari presidency. Say next time make him meet am for d prize giving. But now prize don finish, make baba Iyaloja just manage diz 500,000 for now. Baba go con smile, con tink say next time tins go betta. After all him don meet the real oga at the top. Na so dem dey take whine Jagaban since 2015

Enemyofpeace:
did I write in Arabic language?

poiZon:
All the senate presidents during obj were igbos.
Speakership was occupied by northwest region, they were only 2 that occupied the seat thru out obj tenure.
One buhari that was impeached due to toronto result and the current katsina state govr.
Try and know politics before coming to spew trash on sm

JAMO84:
Crying more than the bereaved.


Every time, hausa will betray Yoruba, north will betray Yoruba, Fulani Caliphate will betray Yoruba.


Let them betray us, we like it like that.



WAILING LOSERS TAKING PARACETAMOL FOR OUR HEADACHE

Enemyofpeace:
Kemi Adeosun the first female Vice President and the best Nigeria ever had. It is unfortunate that they ganged up to remove you

Frigga13:
What’s the number for?

Deadlytruth:
First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:

Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense

In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."

Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.

Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.

At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.

In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.

Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.

For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

Frigga13:
0812 449 6804

Don’t worry after 2023 election .. the votes will determine how many Nigerians that reason alike

ERockson:
But are you guys not trying to destroy Tinubu with propaganda. You ibos are confused and tactless

BlazinGlory40:
On one hand we clamour for power to return south and on the other hand asking for atiku to be given ticket. I think a stand needs to be taken

christistruth01:
Are IPOB still butchering and eating their kinsmen as food in the South East ?

Ndimkpurummiri:
PDP should zone its ticket to the SE I want to know their popularity

MikoB:
The real politics just began, who are those sayihg the VP has no support, can you now see that every political meeting in the presidency recently, osinbajo is always present with the president, like I said the real contenders are coming out little by little, watch out!

PrinceOfLagos:
I tell you bro ..

This Tinubu and his urchins talk too much

When you see them brag on Nairaland, you will think they got games up there sleeves but na lie

I wish Buhari could just open Tinubu corrupt cases and throw him behind bars for good