₦airaland Forum

Koralords:
With what is going on now the pdp would present a northern candidate in 2023

kcnwaigbo:
Sw votes alone will not make osibanjo president.The question is will the north vote for him against one of their own?

Smily202:
Boeing is already responding to the problem of the aircraft, so there is no need to cancel what they have already orderd. If thier is any problem the grounded ones and the news ones will be fixed.

GoldHorse:
Una well so Air Peace?! Who una Wan take do confirmation?

gensteejay:
Very sad news. I can't believe Prof. Pius Adesanmi, one of Nigeria's brightest minds, is gone, snatched from this world by the cold hands of death

IloveToMess:
Let me make it clear to you, Nigeria don't even need Chinese, Lebanese and Indian industrialists when they have Igbo's, just a little capital and an Igbo man will produce what Nigeria can use and export to all those countries with equal level of quality or more. What you don't know is that Ojukwu's father was the richest man in Africa during his time, it was his RollsRoyce that Nigeria borrowed to carry the Queen of England about when she visited Nigeria in those days. If an Igbo man had enjoyed presidency like Hausa's and to a large extent Yorubas, by now more than 3000 multi national manufacturing companies would have sprang up from Nigeria to compete favorably with the Chinese and Indians in several African countries today.

kponkedenge:
I don't know where you're getting the notion that another tribe wants to take over Lagos from the Yourbas. Your leaders are just using the ethnic card on you guys so you keep voting them. Don't forget Jimi is also a Yoruba and even a Lagosian. When people live in a particular place and have lot of investment, they should also have the right as citizens to vote for who they feel is the best for them.
This break down of relationship started during Fashola's second term when he started deporting a certain tribe. If you can remember vividly, there wasn't so much tension about Igbo and Yoruba during Tinubu's tenure until Fashola's second term, and since then, the relationship has further gone South.

Jman06:
True!

Let my Igbo brothers stop that attitude of calling Lagos a no man's land! Lagos is a Yoruba land!

I also want to use this medium to advise my Igbo brothers to learn to reciprocate the goodwill they enjoy in Yorubaland.

Until that time when civilization has completely eroded indigeneship from all nooks and crannies of Nigeria, we should stop telling people that their lands are no man's lands. Why do you tell that to Yoruba people when you dare not say same to an Hausa man in Kano or even gbagi people in Abuja. That nonsense needs to stop!

BafanaBafana:
Aisha is beautiful walahi

tooth4tooth:
I don't know why many of those guys have attitude problems . There is no tribe in Nigeria you don't find residing in Lagos and yet you don't hear them making noise. The thing that baffles me is their obsession with this Lagos

Kennydoc:
I agree with you that we are not yet ready for that level of civilization. But the issue is this, Yorubas don't have a sizeable population in any part of any state that can swing votes to their side in that location (not to talk of the whole state) in any election. On the contrary, Igbos have a large population in some constituencies in Lagos that with their population alone, they can win any free and fair election in those constituencies. They also have a large population in the whole of Lagos state that can swing votes to any direction if elections are free and fair, and they all vote for one candidate. That is the annoyance of Yorubas.
Kano is nothing near Lagos in terms of being cosmopolitan. Kano is to the North what Lagos is to Nigeria.

My point is, let people be allowed to vote their choice. At least I know for now, Igbos cannot contest and win Lagos guber elections. They don't have that much population to dream of ruling Lagos, but they shouldn't be intimidated during elections. They have the right to vote any candidate of their choice.

My initial post was directed at the person saying that Lagos is doing Igbos a favour by allowing them to work in government offices. I replied to tell him that so far those Igbos live in Lagos and are paying their taxes, it's their right to work in such establishments. If in developed countries, people from other nationalities can take some exalted offices in the countries of their residence, it shouldn't be a big deal if Igbos who are Nigerians by right, live and work in Lagos. It shouldn't also be a big deal if they get to participate fully in Lagos politics.

Kennydoc:
This is where you get it wrong. Lagosians are not only Yorubas but all those who live and work in Lagos. Anybody with a voters card in Lagos and registered in Lagos has a right to determine who rules Lagos. If you want Igbos not to have any right to vote in Lagos, then perhaps your legislators should move a motion in the National Assembly that people should only register with INEC in their states of origin. With that, I can assure you that Lagos will have one of the least number of registered voters.
As long as Nigeria still operates the way it is, Igbos have a right to vote for PDP in Lagos, and you can't do anything about it.
Before you start foaming in the mouth, take note that PDP won in last Saturday's election in Ondo and Oyo states. I guess it's Igbos that also made that happen.

Asshurbanipal:
Anambra will dash you governor in your hideout in ogbomoso brown roof

Kennydoc:
Judging Igbos by Nairaland comments shows inexperience. I have Yoruba friends and we've never had any ethnic-coloured misunderstanding. If you had real life Igbo friends, you would have known that what you see on Nairaland is far from reality.
If Igbos are really as difficult as some of you assume, how come there are Igbos scattered in all the nooks and crannies of the world, and we don't often hear of real life confrontations between Igbos and other tribes? Do you think it's only in Lagos that Igbos live? Even in the most remote parts of the different states in Nigeria, there are always Igbo men.
Go into the real world, relate with Igbo men and see your perspective change.

What you call anti-southwest agenda is mainly due to differing political leanings. Igbos are pro-PDP and Yorubas are pro-APC, and just as APC and PDP never agree, that's why it seems like Igbos and Yorubas never agree. It not that Igbos hate Yorubas as a tribe. It's just the resentment for APC that manifests.

Kennydoc:
The greatest cities in the world usually have a heterogenous population of people. Yorubas alone couldn't have made Lagos what it is today. Even the massive population of Lagos which gives it one of its bragging rights is contributed to a large extent by Igbos and all other Nigerians. Much of the amenities Lagos enjoys were built to service all Nigerians.
Stop thinking like a 17th Century African. Think like a 21st Century human living in a modern world.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is Pakistani - British man. Obama is a Kenyan American. These are the realities of the modern world.
Igbos shouldn't only be good for paying taxes in Lagos. They should be able to live and work comfortably in any sector in Lagos too. Some of them were born and raised there while some of you that make noise on social media have never lived in Lagos for even a month. You're not more Lagos than they are.

igbodefender:
If Lagos has an Igbo/Hausa/Ijaw governor tomorrow, it doesn't mean it is no longer Yoruba Land.

As long as Eleko remains a Yoruba monarch. Culture is the determinant.

Now, this doesn't stop any citizen of Nigeria from living there, because the constitution had empowered them as citizens.

But you cannot call the place a no man's land. Haba.

Generalnomercy:
Shameless Prince of darkness.

Did he win election or rig election.


God punish you for your fake Thanksgiving.