₦airaland Forum

ibotic:
Very shameful...95% of Yoruba people cannot even name one of the Governor's of the SE states and focus on their own states.....on the other hand....95% of my people know Yoruba governors who do not even know us When are we going to start listening to Ipob and focus on our areas....we are so shameless that we have abandoned our lands and forcing ourselves onto people that clearly don't want us....

We leave our backward land and will start shouting o to ge in oyo, ogun and lagos state asking that a party which has failed us in our land be allowed to win in a land where[b] their parties have always performed [/b]and we find succour Are we crazy or what?

This is the main reason why those parties hold sway come rain or shine in the SW, at least in over 75% of the cases.

oluwaahmed:
If it's Afonjas now, the news will be that they stabbed their fellow afonja to death in a train tunnel.

Gutter water fall on you.

Bighead9:
The South East is presently the most unsafe Region in the Country. They are always on the news for wrong reason. Crimes everywhere.

Such a wonderful post and meme.

OlawaleSmarter1:
You people can not run Your Region very well and develop your states enough, but you want to run other regions LMFAO, and is the investment you are talking about not benefiting you Only? If you don't invest and start that small stores and businesses what will you really be doing to survive? The investment is for your survival not because you want to help anybody, and you are demanding reward for what you are doing to survive. You guys are really delusional and pathetic

Olawale my brother, thank you for pointing out these facts. Folks from the other side are fond of talking as if their petty trading is a 'free of charge' business. They talk as if they run 'charities'. Developas, my a$$.

Mboi:
This is the reason why people regard you Yorubas as men with no focus. How can a reasonable human say Lagos and Ogun are the same? Did u leave your senses in the toilet? Make the whole Yoruba states have one governor na, all of them will be Lagos state with one allocation. When you go to embassy, tell them you're from Lagos meanwhile your passport says you're from Oshogbo, tell them Yoruba is Yoruba anywhere any time, you will see what will happen to you

Stop saying what you don't know, Oga. That analogy of yours was exactly the same Azikiwe (NCNC) attempted to use at the parliament of the old Western Region and it backfired right on his head. So it won't hold sway in the 21st century as well. We are a close knit set of people in Yorubaland.

fisheryems:
And sir, what are the rules? That they must vote for my political party?
Take Igbos out of all major businesses in Nigeria and lets see what is left.
Nigeria in a nutshell
1. Hausa, Agric, Political power
2. Igbo, Business, Oil (s/s inclusive of Igbo cos they are the three major tribes)
3. Yoruba, Book, education

What the above means is that we all need each other to foster a well balanced country Nigeria.

My dear that analysis may look correct, but sadly it holds no water. Adaptation is the word. The economic world is too dynamic, ever-evolving that you can't fly with that stereotyped template.

redsun:
They are trying to bite the hands that feed them in anticipation of taking over,but they failed to realise that a buoyant economy takes more than begging and extortion to maintain buoyancy.

A very primitive and tribal society.

Laughable comment. Hands that feed us indeed!!!

Marvelbars:
One thing I know is that yorubas are lazy that's why the igbos will come and develop your land then letter you will start barking like a dog's just for the igbos to leave your land, you guys are lazy and Lagos will never be develop with the igbos and if you guys think you can stand the igbos then make the move and all will be like a film. Don't say I didn't tell you

Very childish. How does hawking gala, selling okrika, fake medicines, second hand engine parts etc translate to development? My dear, you make me laugh.

immhotep:
Igbos left Lagos for you in 1966, your dvllard leaders went to bring Igbos back.
Receive sense abeg.

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Biggest lie ever told!! Is it not hunger that drove you people back to Lagos? The same way you folks keep trooping to Lagos from your various hamlets to the West till today.

Mitsurugi:
I see. Now you've unburdened your mind perhaps you'll get back to answering the question I asked you. 'What is this rule? That where two YORUBA MEN are contesting must Igbos be compelled to vote one simply because a YORUBA GODFATHER has ordered it. Remember I said 'Don't make me doubt your intelligence.' I think you are but don't make me doubt it.

I don't need a certification of intelligence from you. Be free to entertain whatever opinion that suits you.

bongolistik:
In your mind.. You always forget that Lagos was a capital city where all Nigerians converge to develop.. Or don't you also know that Abuja is what it is today for being the capital.. Will you argue the fact again? You think it is only Yorubas that made Lagos what it is today? You are just refusing to tell yourself the simple truth.. Continue deluding yourself that the host provided conducive environment

Mr Developer. A homeless person claiming to develop another man's home.

Mboi:
Oga you are the one that is deceiving yourself. You are from Oyo state, do you have write Lagos State as your state of origin?

Go back and read what I posted there. Read it slowly so that you don't derail as you have earlier done. 'Oyo' man indeed!

ojimbo:
Anthony Joshua. You should be grateful for the opportunity you had to leave this shithole called Nigeria at early stage. If not, you for dey Oshodi dey grab ballot box

Hilarious, with some element of truth, but thankfully not so.

baysol:
All na because of money, the only thing them and their kinsmen understand. Take money and comfort out of Lagos you go see them in flight like they did during june 12 brouhaha, yeye pepo.

True talk, my brother.

zurich1010:
Why didn't Yorubas buy the land like Igbos do in Lagos?

Igbo land that even Igbo themselves are not willing to stay and invest on?

Nicklaus619:
Oop incomplete story, tell us what part of her body they where recovered...

BluntBoy:
You are pathetic.

I am yet to see any tribe in the world that plays the victim like you people. From the smallest lad to the oldest, everyone plays the card so well.

It is disgusting.

So apt. Thank you for these words.

IntrovertedK:
when men are talking politics, the politically blind 5%ters should watch and maybe learn if they want. This will save many of you all this act of stupidity being displayed on SM.

I saw the other day, you were the first to accept defeat even before you personal lord and saviour Atiku did.

If not that you want to show your naive self, you should have learnt Ondo state doesn't play godfatherism politics and Akeredolu not being with Tinubu was the reason he was voted for buh you now saying Ondo state is against him because he is not ass licking Tinubu because of the actions of some sponsored group is stupidity.

And before we voted Akeredolu, we knew he was married to a Igbo piggyeasterner so we'd suddenly go against him because of that now?

Use the little brain on your flat skull once a while please, you are even a self acclaimed wife. Smh

Wise words. God bless you.

Mitsurugi:
And what is this rule? That where two YORUBA men are contesting another YORUBA GODFATHER must decide whom the igbos must vote. Why not kuku tell the Igbos not to bother voting since it's a Yoruba affair. Lagos is not a no man's land yet how many real Lagosians have governed it? It's only in Lagos that Oyo Osun Ondo Ekiti and Ogun people will be claiming ownership. You tell Igbos to go home. How many of you can go home?

We don't run a discriminatory system like you people do in your areas, we don't call Yoruba strangers in Yoruba land. It is your culture where they have osu system, widows are compelled to drink corpses' poo water, etc

LeeSantos:
Can you list 2 Yoruba state that is doing well economically.. do you think if other tribes pull outta Lagos, Lagos would still remain the same.. what business do you guy even have or do if not to be impregnating people's daughter and be trowing wild parties

They told you that Lagos is an impoverished enclave like your hamlets. Please leave Lagos. An immigrant that is supposed to be thankful he is enjoying a conducive environment provided by host community!

civilserva:
What if Britain ask all Yoruba to leave?
What if Niger Delta ask all Yoruba in Oil companies should leave?

We don't chest-beat atop another's land, we don't call our host lands' no man's land.

solreb:
ENGR AJIBOYE: LAGOS MY STATE.
WHO OWNS LAGOS? HISTORY 101: POINT OF INFORMATION

"By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.

In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260. Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.
In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville,both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council, presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition,trade and commerce, infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -EXTRACTED

With the little facts above, I would like to educate some illiterates making stupid assumption from blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Osogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before Igbo citizens, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and in 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these stupid assertions.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

For the sake of our generation and posterity, we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa, all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba man from Osogun) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While I do not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe, for I do not believe in racial superiority; I will not also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over others

Thank you for such an enlightening piece. Many of the savages here have no inkling of history. It is tantamount to the migrants struggling to enter Europe by water today, to start saying they develop Europe in 50 years time from today.

Mboi:
Even people from Ogun state, Ikere Ekiti and Oshogbo are here claiming Lagos state.. very laughable. Igbos have equal rights with you people in Lagos state because all of you are migrants. Even your small God Tinubu is not a Lagosian that is why he has never and can never say openly Igbos should leave Lagos. Real men are not talking, only cowards are ranting. Igbos even have more rights in Lagos that all these Oshogbo, Oyo and Ogun migrants here talking rubbish because they own property and businesses in LAGOS State and they pay tax. So all these e-yoruba rats making noise here and there that Igbos should leave Lagos, go and fight your fathers who sold all your inheritance to Igbos because of hunger and greed. You guys should stop making noise biko...

Oga your statement is childish, yet inciting. Sometimes it is helpful to consider children born of Yoruba-Igbo parentage. What would you expect to be the lot of such folks? Incitements and tribalism are too primitive for us to harbor at this stage of human civilization. Peace.

Shibaraba:
The guy na bolo
When I throw efcc lamba finish na them go tell me sorry
Over 2000 lies wey I go fire them , and all of the legit.

See him face like kemi olunloyo mama mangoes

Those that fail to learn from history are prone to repeat grievous mistakes of the past. Folks have forgotten that fake utterances are among major reasons for wars and conflicts. Rwanda, Biafra, etc come to mind.

theoldpretender:
I see a lot of people grumbling about illitereate northerners, and how they are impaired for voting in Buhari...

Well...

1.The reason why Northerners vote for Buhari is because at least 15 years before Bubu became president, the guy was already 'growing his brand' among the Northerner voter so to speak. As early as 1999,I can recall seeing Buhari stickers in the markets, on public transport ,etc. That's free advertising. And the man was not running for president, and had even not indicated interest in the thing.(And PTF did not impact the lives of most Northerners...except for some roads. Maybe some hospital equipment).

2.Buhari also supported Sharia , which made him a hero. One reason why many of those Northernes support Sharia...I said one reason,out of many...is that the secular court system has not been doing a good job (Same in the South...but we don't have Sharia...so we grin and bear it). Bad court systems make people support alternatives....and Sharia was seen as the right alternative(even though it meant further entrenchment of discrimination against Christians).

And we Southerners too support alternatives like beating up suspected criminals to death...and not allowing them due process because...the court system is corrupt.The court will free them....anyway.

3.Southerners are not very serious with eelctions. The truth is...if turnout in the South...especially in the SE, and the SS and even SW had been 90%....we would have been talking of runoff election, or even a narrow Atiku win. How can a state like Ebonyi have voter turnout of less than one third of voters. ? Meanwhile...Kano and Kaduna had high voter turnouts. The Northerner takes democracy serious. They will queue in hot sun for hours to vote. Southerners meanwhile play. (And let's not even talk about the violence that Southern polticians play that chases away voters from voting...see Rivers and Lagos.).

4.Apart from politicans like Obasanjo....how many Southern polticians...who are serious about winning elections...reach out to the North?. See Obasanjo. How many times have you heard Obasanjo call Northerners illiterate, backward, foolish, etc. Even when they did not vote for him in 2003...did he insult them? That is why today, Obasanjo has his boys andgirls...his die hard loyalists...across the length and breadth of this country...and it was that base that Yaradua and Jonathan used to win elections.

In the last 4 years....especially from loudmouths like Fani-Kayode and some SE polticians ,I have seen insults and abuse being given to Northerners, especially since GEJ lost. (and part of the reason GEJ lost was because people in his entourage hated Hausas and Fulanis virulently)....and all of a sudden when it is voting time, you expect those people to vote for you? If our PDP pols had been as nice as Obasanjo who knew how to grease palms, and soothe sore nerves, and was not a bigot......I bet you Atiku would have won this election. (APC too has those kind of bigots...poeple who hate SE and SS indigenes...but hey...APC can afford some bigotry. PDP cannot.)

So, here is the thing. If we want Hausas to vote for us enmasse....better act like you are in their interest. Buhari will retire finally come 2023.That leaves a big ripe fruit of Hausa and Fulanis ripe for plucking...only this is a special fruit that choses who it wants to pluck it. And the only way the South can start winning is by dropping the hate,and getting the North back. Who knows it might lead to a lot of beneficial things like Biafra, or even Southerners winning the election back to back.for a long time.


Oh AND ONE MORE THING

Having a Southern President does not guarantee development. GEJ ran this country for six years...and left it broke. One of his big mistakes is privatising power...and then not allowing DISCOS and GENCOS to set the power bills. As a result, investors are not coming in, and power is at an all time low. If GEJ had deregulated power...for sure we would have been paying bills of up to N50000 per month...but investors would have come in and by now,power would be on for longer....AND....we would be going industrial. (APC too is making the same mistake...which is one of the reasons why I would never vote for them, as much as I don't like the PDP too).

This is one of the best posts I have ever read on Nairaland. Kudos!

agadez007:
still a lot better than slicing up their neck like one particular region where human head goes for 3500

a la Clifford Orji.

ElsonMorali:
Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo's nemesis.


From the first day he started IPOB till this moment the man hasn't done anything positive for the people he claims to lead.


For the elderly Igbo person, this must look like Déjà vu.


A certain young soldier man boasted to the world that his people will surprise Nigeria in the war he had just declared on behalf of his people against Nigeria.

Little did his people know that most of the weapons in Biafra's armoury were just cassava sticks.


Eventually they realized they didn't have enough food to sustain a war, but the young soldier, their leader, was prepared to sacrifice their lives to win the war. He was well fed throughout the war though, including his elitist cabinet members.


When push came to shove he abandoned the people he was leading and scampered off, tail between his legs to ivory coast...his Mercedes Benz was also airlifted with him because according to him he cherished the automobile. Not a single Igbo commoner left with him, but his car found space in the aircraft.


Fast forward to over 50 years later.


Nnamdi Kanu, the new Igbo saviour wept for his dog who was killed in the battle with the military, but just barely, if at all, spared a thought for his fallen comrades and his buddies still in prison.


From the comfort of his abode in UK, he presses his people's remote control and they dance in Nigeria. Now, say whatever you will, I maintain that that's not technology, that's witchcraft.

Thank you for such an intelligent post. Fools are followers of cowards.

BiafransExposed:
No this is ipob not political thugs

Ok. Maybe it is part of the culture, where sons kick their fathers to wake them up. Elders that have failed to train up their children.

ericsmith:
in a sane world , a man indicted with corruption & various charges stand no chance of winning a primary election not to talk of becoming a presidential candidate ,can someone like atiku come out in america or china to contest for any public.
if atiku were to be looking for job can any employer or HR offer him a job after reading OBJ book.
the elites are the major problem of these country the believe is that atiku will open the treasury, money will flow anyhow, stolen money wil be spent freely without the fear of efcc they donnt care if nigeria grow or not as long as they can enjoy life to the fullest
Another definition for we the elites is self centered class of people .. thank God for the illiterates we all must pay & sacrifice that how US and other countries developed.

Thank you for saying something very apt this early morning, you have given my day a great start. Thank you. And the same OBJ wanted to sell the acclaimed thief to us just to cover his own selfish a$$. Imagine our so-called elites!

NEIGHBOUR:
You should be ashamed of yourself and colonial mentality!! So because America has not congratulated Buhari means the election is tainted!! What about UK, China, EU that sent messages to Buhari? American election that brought Trump is tainted and still being probed till this morning.
Let him go to court. He has money to waste on Lawyers. It is our money anyway! Atiku has no committed followership, he has supporters who don't love him but just hate Buhari and those who just wanted his money. You belong to the first group!!!

Don't mind the monkey, he is of that school of thought that says 'if **** billion naira is missing, America would know'.

helinues:
With the results flying around, it is obvious buhari is leading and also will win. The SAN's are piling their profiles so that they can eat the remaining money left for Pdp.

I doubt if Saraki will have an appetite today.

Pdp must learn in hard way the way Nigerians lived in hard ways through out their tenures

So apt a heading for a thread. Vultures wait patiently for dying animals. Lawyers must wack.