₦airaland Forum

Padipadi:
Sharap

helinues:
Are you from Lagos state? Any part of SW?

Answer those 2 questions before I can know how to proceed

TopBanter:
Grow up. Yorubas learnt their lessons with #EndSARS when Kanu instructed protestors kill Yoruba leaders and burn down Lagos with Chinasa Michael and co heeding his instruction.

The issue is simple enough. Everyone should protest in their states and region of origin. Is that too much to ask for and why are you so worried about the SW alone?

Mobilise for protest in your State and region of origin. Make your own voices heard there and there alone. Burn and destroy in the process if you so wish. Leave SW to Yorubas.

You can see the destruction Chinasa Michael, all the way from Anambra, visited on Lagos State. Never again.

helinues:
Na when did president Tinubu turn to youths from the South West.

Okay let's even assuming it's president Tinubu, do you have any issue with him trying to protect his own region?

Zxcvbnmghtr:
Tinubu na strategist sha. See as NLC sef don calm down so tay dem give Baba three gbosa.
Mark my words, nothing tangible will come out of all this noise making.

helinues:
Go to court

Ritchiee:
This is Ibadan that is more developed than the entire SE infrastructurally..

Nigerians have come down hard on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the lopsidedness in his political appointments. He is being accused of continuing from the nepotism of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari after making 10 new appointments, six of which favoured his South West region.

The trend of his lopsided appointments to favour the Yoruba ethnic nationality has been obvious since he became President on 29th May, 2023, but it has become more pronounced.

Those who spoke to People&Politics on the issue describe it as act of ‘extreme nepotism’. According to Mr. Silas Ezebuenyi, the act not only favours the President’s region, it is specially targeted against the South-East region of the country which has received the least number of appointments under Tinubu.

Rukevwe Joyce, a banker who spoke on the recent appointments, calls it ‘nepotism pro-max’ considering that the nation has six geopolitical zones. She added that the President’s attitude is unacceptable as it is in breach of the federal character principle.

“And you know what?”, she enthused, “the South-West has systematically taken all the juicy appointments in the country and the appointees are likely driving that same nepotism down the ladder in the various offices they are sent to head”.

Among the new appointees are; Mr Silas Agara (Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment), Umar Ibrahim Mohammed, (Director-General of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency), Mr Baffa Dan Agundi, (Director-General of the National Productivity Centre), Cornelius Oluwasegun Adebayo, (Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority), Mr Saleh Abubakar, (Director-General National Agency for the Great Green Wall), Dr. Olufemi Adekanmbi, (Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project), Mr. Tosin Adeyanju, (Executive Secretary, National Lottery Trust Fund), Oluwaseun Faleye, (Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund), Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Kehinde Alli-Macaulay, (Executive Director (Operations), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund), Ms Omolola Bridget Oloworaran, (Director-General, National Pension Commission) and Mr Jobson Ewalefoh, (Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission).

Some of the appointments have also been criticized because of the characters involved.

The appointment of the former representative of Amuwo Odofin 1 Constituency at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mojisola Kehinde Alli-Macaulay, as the Executive Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), is one of such. She was accused of repackaging COVID-19 palliatives as birthday souvenirs in 2020.

Mrs. Alli-Macaulay
On social media, Nigerians have queried the lopsidedness of the appointments.

@HAHayatu said: “70% of appointments are now Yoruba and even in that 70% are Lagosians. Nepotism pro max. Buhari sef dey learn now.”

@EmmyPromise71 said: “What did President Tinubu want to achieve with nepotism in his government, for crying out loud? How can you make about 10 appointments in your government as the President of Nigeria and No Igbo men or women made the list? What kind of nepotism is this?”

@nonsook96346206: “10 appointments – 3 from the North and 7 from Yoruba. No single person from SS and SE that has over 95% of oil reserves and gas reserves. Tinubu should continue his yorubanization nepotism – history will remind him of it.”

@captainsterling said: “Na wa ooo for this administration’s defenders and supporters. I rise.”

@adeyanjudeji said: “Tinubu just appointing Yoruba people all over the place. I miss Buhari. Tinubu is the worst president ever.”

franchasofficia:
Northerners are wasting their time. I don't like hearing or seeing Northerners complain about Tinubu at all because when Buhari their brother was destroying Nigeria for 8 good years, they looked away, now they are waking up because Tinubu is not a Northern person, they are mad.


The protest is already a failure, yeye Northerners, tamburu

Mynd44:
I disagree with Atiku. The position of Senate chief whip is the APC's decision and at any time, the APC can decide who they want as chief whip.

Many do not know that the term Chief Whip simply means Majority Chief Whip. Ndume holds the position on the request of the party and it isn't an elective one.

APC can wake up tomorrow and ask for the Senate leader to be removed, it is their right and choice. So if the party feels the person occupying that position is demarketing the party, they can choose another person.

Paraman:
Toh

BlindAngel:
We both have agreed on the name, she suggested it and i agreed, though it pains me that I wasn't the one that came up with the name fully, but we've already agreed and changing my mind right now will lead to an heavy quarrel and lot's of endless crying from her. That I'm wicked and heartless that after we've both agreed, I changed things.

WizardOfNG:
For once you are making sense. How is it possible that those who continue saying they will not join protests and insist they are advising their kinsmen not to partake in it are also those talking the most, by far, about the protest on social media and whipping up sentiments in favour of it taking place?

Even on Nairaland they are the most virulent pro-protest voices when we have over 400 ethnic groups in a nation of 230 million.

Think about the numbers for aminute and see if it makes sense only Igbos are virulently insistent on protests going ahead.

Is it not obvious, to anyone with a brain, there is a hidden agenda Igbos are not confessing?


The most seditious ethnic group in our national history ever, who have always insisted they wanted their own nation and wish to leave the "Zoo" to be away from other Nigerians, are suddenly today same people most concerned about the hunger of Nigerians?

Does it make sense to anyone and can someone pleasse explain this hypocrisy of Igbos and emergency love of "Zoo" animals to me?

yarimo:
they are known for stealing in the name of protest

helinues:
Start whatever protest from your village..Stay far out of any part of SW

Our land, our rules

Exclusive101:
With this you name you will be among the clowns claiming you are not Igbo on Nairaland ba ?! So are you now HausaFulani or you from hellfire because there is no way you are Yoruba like me.

Tobihabeeb:
See transformation, from slump to state of art.

raskymonojendor:
Chinasa from Anambra..
Cost of damage: over 3 billion naira.