raskymonojendor:

What he did here is also similar to the Yoruba christians vs Yoruba Muslim that Ibos try to use to divide Yorubas on Nairaland.

Ibos and Gbadebo do not know that we are Yoruba first before being Christian or Muslim. Hence, you find many Yoruba household with inter-religious beliefs. Father fit be Muslim, wife Christian, some kids Muslim and some kids Christians. An average ibo can't fathom how this works since people of same faith fight in their region let alone family members of different faith.

He also does not know that Yoruba-ness is more important than borders created by the colonial masters and military juntas. Yorubas from Benin Republic all the way to Nigeria are one. So that tweet of Faleke, Osinbanjo e.t.c is hilarious. It's even more hilarious that he left out the ibos that worked for both Tinubu and Fashola.

My brother!


Oil dey your head.

Yoruba is not about South west alone. I went on a field assignment in Kogi. Even though Kogi is North Central, the Yoruba people there are YORUBAS, that's how it works, I was at home.
Yoruba is not bound by the geographical boundaries placed by the state.
However, irrespective of wherever you are from, there is an Omoluabi attitude expected of you and this is missing in this puppet put forward for an hidden agenda that will never see the light of day.

TrueNigerian300:


You are foolish after reading all those tweet and you still want the Yoruba to vote for him. Isn’t Adeleke’s mother Igbo Even the useless mother of the idiot hates yorubas yet you want their votes. It is not about his mother being Igbo it is what he represent. If a 100% Yoruba said that he will be disowned as well. The useless mother obviously taught him to hate Yoruba.

Assuming Falz or Macaroni that they feel are the "woke Yorubas" saying such. Na d same treatment.

zeuss:


There is nothing wrong with identifying with your maternal roots. You wretched bigot.... A yoruba Princess was killed by herd men's and Tinubu asked "where are the cows?"
This in not what a person with empathy not to talk of yoruba should say.
GRV is more Lagosian than the riggers.

BTW there is nothing wrong with his comments.

At least the person who made that comment now knows that everything is wrong with it. You don't need to know, it's not your comment and you were not on the ballot.

SHIVA001:
GRV. He doesn't want to start small, he thinks Nigerian politics can be achieved by going to the best schools abroad, oga you will have to queue and have mentors. That will put you through. And also have godfather. Even tinubu has godfather when he was small. Abiola was his Godfather. Before abiola died. You learn from people.

As far as elections is concerned in Lagos, he should forget it. He better start looking for people who wants architectural drawings or needs his services.

Seun:
Dear Igbo People,

I sincerely apologize for allowing a toxic political banner advert which said, "Lagos can never be run from Anambra; go and vote" to run on Nairaland for several hours on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

The mischievously worded banner advert appears to have been part of an ethnically divisive political campaign aimed at securing Lagos State for the ruling party by instilling fear in Yoruba people, making them believe that Igbo people intended to "take over" Lagos State.

Such ethnically divisive political campaigns have no place in a forward-thinking democracy, and for this reason, the ad should have been taken down instantly. No harm was intended, but my lack of forethought about the ethics of that type of advert led to a disappointing outcome.

We should have had a clear policy against accepting negative and ethnically divisive ads on Nairaland, we should have communicated it to all advertisers, and we should have taken down any advert that violated that policy instantly. This will all be in place before the next election.

We made almost N16,000 from the ad. We will double it and donate it to victims of political violence in Lagos.

Please, do NOT give up on Nigeria. The times are challenging, but TOGETHER, we will overcome.

Sincerely,
Seun Osewa.

Funny thing is they will all forget how you were promoting LP contents and pushing it to the front page, they will forget that you anchored a question and answer session bringing GRV here to answer questions that he even did not answer because he has no answers to give.

They will forget all and you have already been tagged a tribal bigots by them.

I for one think you are business man and the platform is open to all parties. LP had their time and so did APC and anyone who recognized the reach that Nairaland could give.

If EDO NO BE LAGOS wasn't bad, I don't see anything bad in the advert.

Tinubuagbado:
*Boycott Census in Lagos.*

Lagos is about 20million people.
By Law, more seats are allocated to states like Lagos in the house of Reps due to their large population...this population is made up of those of us who have been violently prevented from voting...we were told we are not Lagosians, we were told to go back to where we come from.

....And we have accepted.

Come May 2023, there will be another national Census and we won't allow ourselves to be counted as Lagosians.

We must "respect our hosts" and return to our states of origin to be counted. Or refuse to be counted as Lagosians.

You can't accept our population and Reject our votes.

#BoycottCensusInLagos.
Copied.

So, when Lagos state now wants to use that data to appropriate anything and you are schemed out. You will be the one to come here and start creating threads that your people are being victimized.

Nna, do what pleases you, boycott the census. It won't change anything.

thesicilian:
The only person I know in Lagos right now that could have defeated Sanwo-Olu in a free and fair election is Ambode

If there's a way I can give 100 likes to this post of yours I would have. That's what LP should have done if they were serious about winning.

They brought forward someone with so many baggages just because he has an Igbo background. Someone who denigrated in the past the very people he wants to lead, the internet never forgets and he couldn't even apologize. Someone whose capacity and competence can not match SanwoOlu.

All the noise the Igbos and some obidients are making about the GRV issue is just emotional blackmail.

He is not the first person to contest in Yorubaland who has an Igbo mother, he is also not the first to contest in Yorubaland who has a Non-yoruba wife. Governor Adeleke's mother is Igbo. Aketi's wife is Igbo. Governor Seyi Makinde's wife is not Yoruba.
There has never been anytime any Yoruba man campaigned against any of these people on the basis of where their mother or wife is from. One should then ask, what is different in his own case.

GRV was rejected because of his disposition towards his supposed people the people he intended to govern, evident in his submissions online.

He wasn't rejected because his mom or wife is igbo. He was rejected because of his disposition towards the Yorubas, his disposition is anti-yoruba. His posts can be likened to an Hausa man referring to Hausas as bunch of Almajiris, no Hausa man will ever tag his people in that manner, at least not one who has the intention of leading them.

GRV's loss is Karma playing out, he deserves to lose and SanwoOlu deserves to win!

Abeg, LP lost this from the beginning.

It's their cry of victimisation that is even annoying now. Twisting the narrative just to make themselves happy.

Karlifate:


That meme means disagreement to you

LMAO! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wetin person no go see for Nairaland.

I do not know what the meme means that was why I asked you, it's a question.

The last part of your response was unnecessary.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Dinosaur footprints

On hard rock?

Those can only be found in sedimentary terrain.

[quote author=Karlifate post=121918455][/quote]


You disagree?

Please prove me wrong.

Meti99:
What pains me most about Ibos is that they always lie to themselves just to make themselves feel good...

I expected the elderly ones to think inwardly and discover what the cause of their failure is genuinely... But they themselves love lies just to please themselves and make the unwise youths happy...

Obi just woke up one day as an accidental candidate.... What role/impact does he play within the ibo nation prior to his candidacy as labour party....
You just want to use him to get power in a fire brigade approach....it doesn't work that way....

When we say you don't have structure you always think it is about having agents across Nigeria....No
It's about Leadership of your candidate within his Political zone before it is Extended to other zones ....
What was his relationship with other people from zones prior to his candidacy...?
How many people did he build up politically?
Reasons why he dumped APGA to PDP and then to LP
What did he stand for politically that would make people believe in his ideology?

At least Tinubu believed in a decentralized Nigeria and he has been saying that for years now, that is what some of us see in him that made us vote for him..

Obi just wanted to use same format which buhari used to deceive us in 2015, claiming he was coming to fight corruption...

Obi was just an errand boy that was just handpicked for a mission he can't accomplish...


I expected the ibo elders to call their youths now and tell them the bitter truths they hate to hear and begin to build up for 2027/31 elections, Rome is not built in a day....


Rather than do something now all of them both elders, youths, pastors, have started wailing again

You are 100% correct sir. Rather than wail they should be strategic, that is if they are serious about having an Igbo lead this nation. Pity will not do it, only strategy will.

Presidency can not be given to anyone out of pity.

Henry22:


That's Is where you totally got it wrong, the very first party to use religion as a tool for the elections was no other than the APC when they fielded Thier Muslim-muslim ticket and coming to tell Nigerians that it's about competency does it mean that there wasn't a northern christian that was qualified enough for the post of a VP?, Now LP itself had a Christian candidate and a Muslim VP that combination alone speaks for itself, while obi was campaigning in the churches datti was doing doing same in the mosque now that's the balance, obi won't campaign in the churches and still move to the mosques when he has a Muslim candidate who can also do same.

Well let's not eat our pillows pretending it's bread, we all know what happened when the elections came and which has been widely condemned both locally and in the international community.

It appears you and I will never agree on the religion issue, we don't have to.

Bottom line, what I am saying is that Muslim-Muslim ticket should not be a threat to anyone if we are a serious nation. It is not only christians and Muslims that we have in Nigeria and officially Nigeria is a secular state. Unfortunately it was the LP that blew it out of proportion.

What should matter is development. For Tinubu who decided to go that path it was purely strategic and not emotional or religious and the results has shown that it worked for him.

Jonathan was a Christian president, there was nothing particular that I gained from that government because I was a Christian. Buhari is a Muslim, there is nothing in particular that my Muslim friends gained because of their faith.

Bring a Babalawo that performs and improves the economy, everyone will experience positive improvement in their lives not because they belong to the faith of the president but because of the positive vibes in the ecosystem.

That's my idea and that's my take on it.

Henry22:


What ever GRV said is left for him to deal with cos he knows what he said and why he said it but for the bolded above I strongly disagree with you on that reasons been It's not LP that employed the services of criminals to intimidate lagosians up to an extent that if you looking somehow well kept and healthy they automatically tag you Igbo, that was the height of Thier insensitivity during the pols and at some point some Yorubas where even wounded just cos they looked Igbo😊, so you blaming LP Is totally wrong.

Well, I said it's a story for another day, but since you quoted me with the bolded I have to respond.

When campaigns started, Peter Obi was going from one church to the other seeking the votes of the church members. That in itself would not have been bad if he was also visiting the Mosques with the same energy he was visiting the churches. I never for once saw him visit any Mosque. He was also going to these churches with one message, NO TO MUSLIM-MUSLIM TICKET.

After all, he wants to be elected President of Nigeria. Nigeria is a country that has christians, Muslims, atheists and traditional religion worshippers. Does it mean he only wanted to be President of the Christians?? Please note, I am a Christian before some people tag me Yoruba Muslim and for me I would not mind voting for a Babalawo if I am convinced he is capable of solving the myriads of problems bedevilling this nation or at least a significant part of it. I would rather vote for a tolerant Muslim than for an extremist Christian. Religious extremism is not limited to those of the Islamic faith

That's the religious angle and colouration LP gave this election.



When it comes to tribalism in this election, I think anyone who looks closely at the data would know where to point accusing fingers.

When you juxtapose the voting data or the voting pattern of the Southwest for example with that of the South East you will see nothing but pure tribal sentiments playing out in the South east.

In the south west Atiku won in Osun, Labour won in Lagos and in the south west states of Ondo, Ekiti and Ogun where both PDP and Labour party did not win they had significant number of votes and that's the same trend in the other geopolitical zones, same can not be said of the south east where LP ensured their kinsman Obi got 85% or more while the other tribes shared the paltry 15% or less in some states, by appealing to tribal sentiments.


That's how it played out and any sane person who wants to be honest and analyse with data rather than emotions and sentiments can not conclude that the Yorubas were tribalistic with how they voted.

About the criminals harrasing people as much as I do not support such, I think what responsible citizens should do is to call for the prosecution of those arrested. Thugs were arrested not just in Lagos alone, mind you. In Enugu I read online that 140thugs were arrested in a location alone. Hooliganism anywhere should be condemned. We should not be selective in our condemnation of such acts.

Karlifate:
Only poor people think along this line.

The Elites always align themselves with new political administration, so as the get favorable policies for their enterprises.
It didn't start today & 2023 own won't be any different.

Besides, Tony Elumelu is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings & UBA is tiny fraction of it.

No be everything wey you dey think, you go type for social media. Many of them are simply your delusions


In addendum, Mr Tony Elumelu has touched so many lives Nationwide, especially through his TEF project, without even knowing and/or seeing those people.

Kindly state the program/project/platform, your political god 'Peter Obi' has done to help the common man.

None.

I have come to the conclusion that the number one feature or rather the most important criteria for one to qualify as an Obidient (pka Zombidients) is that the person must be brain dead and averse to reasoning.

Tony Elumelu has blessed so many lives, their tribe was never a condition for such.

Let igbos boycott his business, other people will support it. I will personally open an account with UBA if such happens.

Who even makes the choice of a bank on the basis of the tribe of the CEO. This was how obidients started their "we will cancel you culture" online. If we start using their own weapon against them now, they will still be the one crying like victims.


Tony Elumelu knows better, he knows what the dumb, brain dead Zombidients don't.

Henry22:

I will gladly do if he has the technical know how to lead a state, I will vote him again and again cos we don't belong to the hyena packs, we are humans who think peace and progress anywhere we go.

I so much love your response.

That's exactly what made GRV lose this election. He does not have the technical know how. Just go through the resume of all the front runners, you will see that most of the experience he had was as an intern

Besides his capacity, he lost because of his disposition towards Yorubas, the same people he intended to lead. Statements made by him in the past were "anti-Yoruba". It shows where his heart belongs. He never denied nor apologized for these statements, meaning he meant everything he said and he doesn't give a damn!

He was not rejected because his mother is Igbo or because his wife is Igbo. He is not the first person to contest in Yorubaland whose mother is Igbo or whose wife is Igbo. For the sake of setting the records straight, Aketi who is the governor of Ondo State has an Igbo wife, the mum of Governor Adeleke governor of Osun state was an Igbo woman. During their campaigns it was never an issue, no Yoruba man ever made it a reason why they should not be voted.

Moreso, the tribal and religious colouration that this election has been characterised with was driven majorly by the LP but that's a discussion for another day.


Those who voted SanwoOlu are not hyenas. They are people who also love peace and would like to continue the progress that the state has experienced so far under SanwoOlu rather than handover to a green horn who lacks manners and who was too arrogant to apologise.

Henry22:
A few human in the midst of hyenas.

Make him the next governor of Anambra

Bubu4Sea:
What he said is the simple truth, Homosexuality is invading the church.

How many pentecostal pastors reject Homosexuality ?

The Anglican church of England supports Homosexuality


Then instead of telling the Anglican church of England to reject it.
RCCG has no problems once money is coming in.


This is why homosexuality is spreading far & wide.

Have you seen RCCG condemn Homosexuality?

You definitely have a motive for this post of yours. RCCG has never supported this.

May God help you.

socialmediaman:
David Hundeyin on Twitter:



https://twitter.com/davidhundeyin/status/1637577109345320962?s=46&t=dR32GmclMO3sOOFX1ADAtw

David Hundeyin is an idiot, it is not Yorubas that chose Tinubu it is Nigerians. If you look at the voting data from the south west, the votes were divided amongst the 3 front runners, same for the North East, North Central, North West. It is pertinent to also note that all the numbers Tinubu was able to garner in the north, even in states where he was not the winner is what guaranteed his victory.

In the south west Atiku won in Osun, Labour won in Lagos and in the south west states of Ondo, Ekiti and Ogun where both PDP and Labour party did not win they had significant number of votes, same can not be said of the south east.


That's how it played out and any sane person who wants to be honest and analyse with data rather than emotions and sentiments can not conclude that the Yorubas were tribalistic with how they voted.

When it comes to tribalism in this election, I think anyone who looks closely at the data would know where to point accusing fingers and would also know that the failure of this block in this election and in many others in the past is their failure to understand that alliance and networks with the voting blocks with huge numbers is what guarantees electoral victory in Nigeria's presidential election.

Rather than tow this line they are always in the habit of denigrating the Yorubas with despicable words, just because the Yorubas always align with the North in General Elections. Politics and electioneering is a game of numbers. In the gubernatorial election in Kano, close to 2million votes were recorded. What was the total votes of the South East in the presidential election.


I think more than ever before, this election has shown that whoever wants to become the president of Nigeria does not really need to bother too much about the south east, especially with the way they voted in this election. If such a person can win significant number of states in the South South, south west and an appreciable number in the North.

It's not a giant's footprint.

This guy didn't do any research at all.

That's a gneiss there. These are metamorphic rocks formed and cooled at depth, solid by the time it becomes exposed to the surface, how then will a giant leave his footprint on a solid hard rock. If it were to be a sedimentary rock then you could have a mould of such footprints but on a metamorphic or igneous rock, it's impossible. Even if it were to be that he stepped on molten magma (lava), which is unlikely, you still wouldn't have the prints intact.

These are called solution cavities

What a black man does not understand, he builds a superstitious belief around.

raskymonojendor:
There is no proof that this actually happened in Lagos.

Seun. The Igbos you are pandering to on twitter keep spreading unverified news on your platform just like they are lying about you on twitter, yet you keep pandering to them...wake up and stop forming "woke"

I am surprised that Seun is on this list. Seun that was openly and obviously supporting GRV.

I don't see anything tribal in Seun's support though. I feel it's purely business, even though I am of the opinion that he should have been neutral.

I feel his name is on the list because of the APC banner ad on Nairaland.

socialmediaman:


Even in the US, the religion of a candidate is important to many Americans, because US relations in the middle east may be impacted. In Nigeria, religiously motivated crisis is not something to be ignored

Read what you just posted again please


What are you saying?


US relations in the middle East may be impacted in Nigeria??


Kii nii n wi


Gibberish!

saintkel:
pDP was winning with over 26k votes till dis night.....APC just overtook PDP with d results of Lafia local government now announced.....APC had over 60k votes while PDP has 25k....omo I just lose hope in dis elections abeg....pure rigging

Why is it pure rigging?


It wasn't pure rigging until APC overtook with the results of a local government.


So many naive people on Nairaland posing as Analysts.

Those who know how election works knows that you do not rejoice until all votes are counted. Ignorant zombidiots however thinks once a candidate is leading in one local government it means he has won, anything contrary is rigging.

Sore loser


So if you do not dine with them they will die?


Chest-beating, classic Igbo behavior!

Positive development

It's a classic Yoruba behaviour

rayvelez:

You want incoming FG to support him to repel attack from Fulani herdsmen that’s not nice bro, you want to annoyed your Fulani northern master 🤷‍♀️

This your statement is why Igbo will never be president in Nigeria, as long as you see the relationship between the south west and the north as Slave-Master relationship rather than see it as a political alliance. Igbos will always cry at every election cycle whenever an Igbo candidate is presented as you guys will always lose till Jesus comes.

The magnitude of your cries will increase, so will the frustration that follows your failure of the pursuit of Biafra.

misano:


The problem with this is that it doesn't bring development. The North only one day conquer the entire South. This is not nation building it's all going to fail in the long run.

That's why if you ask me, the only true path to significant development and rapid growth is to practice true federalism. Without that even if you bring Jesus to be the president there can't be humongous or huge difference.


The type of federalism that gives room for positive competition, especially with the energy the South East has which should be invested in industrialization rather than this agitation for Biafra and the bitterness that the failure of that pursuit brings.

Also that industrialization must be guided by institution that will ensure standard is maintained, I say this because in my little sojourn in business I have noticed something about the Igbo man's business principles, standard no dey matter, he is driven solely by profits.

JagabanBorgu:

What happened in Lagos today cañ't happen in SE because SE is not welcoming to other trîbès.
Few weeks ago, elders in Enugu had an open meeting where they swore that someone whose grandfather was from Ebonyi will never rule Enugu.
U lgb0s are so tribalistic other people can't live in ur place in large numbers before they think of doing half of what u are doing in Lagos.

Igbos are not even tribalistic but clannish. It's even worse than being tribalistic cos clan is a subset of tribe.

Imagine Abia State government sacking civil servants who are from Anambra, whereas in Ondo state where I am from there are so many igbos in our civil service, same for Lagos State.

Some parts of the South East don't like marrying from Ebonyi. Yet we Yorubas intermarry with the Igbos.

When others are showing you that you can be accomodating and allow others thrive in your domain, you want to ride roughshod over them.

Asgard13:
The myopic brain of a typical Yoruba man without common sense

Tribalism has eaten this one brains like food .. he likes food anyways .. maybe he don eaten his brain join

Fani kayode is a typical Yoruba man.. a Yoruba elite and sophisticated almajiris..

Sense is far from him .. like ewure ..

This is exactly the kind of statements that draws bitterness and hatred to you Igbos.

It is obvious you are the one that needs a brain and not FFK. If you can not single out FFK for his opinion but you had to tag all his tribe with his personal opinion.

Jnkay:
Tinubu is the worst thing that happened to the Yorubas. See how we Yorubas showed our true colors of tribalism and hatred. How would we feel if Igbos did these to us in Onitsha or Aba. I am really ashamed of the immaturity we Yorubas displayed in this Election. I thought we said we are more educated.

Abeg rest jare!


You think you know, you don't.


Yorubas are reasonable. You expected people to follow Labour party like zombies and not x-ray the person that was put forward. If Ambode or Doherty had been the candidate, SanwoOlu would have started packing his bags.

GRV was rejected, it's that simple.

He wasn't rejected because his mom or wife is igbo. He was rejected because of his disposition towards the Yorubas, his disposition is anti-yoruba.

Igbos that I know would do the same. Just imagine, someone that was raised by a Yoruba mother, making disparaging comments about the Igbos, they too won't give him a leadership role as sensitive as leading the most promising state government seat, they won't even allow him win a councillor seat.

I know quite a number of brainwashed Yorubas who voted Obi but had to reason rather than follow the bandwagon. That's the essence of education.

So rest bro or rather reason, that's if truly you are Yoruba as claimed.

Not everything you people tag as being tribalistic is actually tribalistic, some are borne out of reasoning and logic but emotions will not let you guys see it as it is, because another Yoruba man on that ticket without the baggage of GRV and with requisite capacity and experience would have won this election.

naijapips04:
Peter Obi has single handedly pulled the Igbo nation decades back.

His singular irrational ambition has enthroned APC for at least the next 8 years if not 16. It has enthroned Muslim domination. Igbos have lost our at the center with no clear path of finding our way back.

Obi is the biggest loser in this election. Alex Otti in Abia state would have won even if he contested under Sowore's party. LP will only take Anambra state backwards. Soludo would be fighting more to stay then concentrate on working for the people. Obi is a dangerously ambitious he goat. There's greater polarization between Igbos and Yorubas. The worst since 1967.

It pains me because I'm igbo. No strong Igbo alliance in APC, PDP. The SS are taking our rightful position. The elections are over. We would go back to screaming marginalisation and Biafra while others reap from Nigeria.

Obi should never have happened and he should be taken down. His continued ambition is doing nothing but harm to the average igboman.

So apt!
You are very on point!

All that you need to do is to make other igbos like you see reason. You understand the issues most of them don't.

They are just overly emotional. Nobody gives power to a people out of pity. Nobody gave the Yorubas.


The structure of the country is already skewed against both the Yorubas and the igbos.

To win a presidential seat one needs to align with others and since politics is a game of numbers, the north is the beautiful bride, particularly the north west. The Yorubas understand this but your brothers see it as weakness, they tag the Yorubas all sort of names, but those who know are aware that the Igbos will never be president in Nigeria with that attitude.

Rather than do a root cause analysis of why igbos keep losing anytime they put forward a candidate from the South East they transfer the bitterness of their loss to the Yorubas.

Tflex01:


Yorubas don't want Igbos to be subservient, they want mutual respect.

I once witnessed an Igbo man insulting Yorubas on top of his voice with terrible derogatory words inside Akure market and all the Yorubas were just minding their businesses.

You will never see a Yoruba man try that in the South East. The arrogance is too much!

You are very right my brother.

Mutual respect, that's all.