₦airaland Forum

chiagozien:
Yorubas always trying to change the narrative.

Osibanjo a Yoruba man was first to suggested indigenous bill in Nigeria

What has state of residence certificate got to do with indigenous bill being pushed by Kalu and other Igbos?

Did Osibanjo push a bill to give people indigeneship just by living in a place for 10 years?

Even over the certificate of residency, every Nigerian except the Igbos spoke against it and immediately Osibanjo backed tracked on the idea.

However, in tbe case of this dangerous indigenous bill, igbos are supporting and backing the Deputy speaker despite other ethnic groups in Nigeria pushing against it.

Dalohad:
Doing her job of taking bribe to declare a 419er who was never elected as Governor of one the most enlightened and peaceful states in Nigeria. A candidate who came 4th?


Even the Americans were shocked at her brazen audacity and denied her visa.

Uzondima is not the topic of discussion when it comes to the indigenous bill even though he supports the bill like majority of other Igbo persons across all politicial parties in Nigeria. The originator of the dangerous bill is the Abia Honourable below. A bill that will transfer North central lands to herders and SS lands to Igbos. Did Kekere Ekun come to his aid too?

However, on Uzondima welcoming just the super falcons from the east alone, this is tribalism. No two ways about it.

Dalohad:
But you were jumping for joy in bulabann happiness when Justice Kekere-Ekun and co. took monkey and declared Hope Uzodinma governor of Imo State even after coming 4th in that election.

Subsequently, your professors from Ekiti who served as INEC RECs and Commissioners went to Imo State during the election for a second term, wrote fake results and declared Hope Uzodinma winner, even after evidence showed mass irregularities in many LGAs including Orsu where they brought busloads of strangers from Owerri to come and write results, with security officers standing guard.

Kekere-Ekun and those Ekiti professors destroyed Imo State. If Hope had been kicked out Imo State would have returned to its default dispositions as a tourist and peaceful state.

As a Yoruba man, I dont care about how you govern yourself in the east. We dont poke nose into your affairs.

Justice Kekere Ekun was doing her job. We are not related in any way, shape or form.

Ps: The man that started the bill is from Abia state is i.e. the Deputy speaker.

An interesting observation is that all igbos including those in Labour, APC and PDP are all supporting the useless bill. Reason being that, it gives them a chance and tbe legal backing tk expand and take over the minorities in the South South.

walefresh3:
S.e with tribalism Naa 5 and 6

And guess what, they project it on others. The 2023 election is a very good example. They gave Peter obi over 90% of their votes. The Yorubas and the North gave Tinubu and Atiku just over 50%, guess who they were calling tribalist?

AustineE1:
Usually APC governors can never fail to disappoint...we igbos dont segregate,we are not like the other people(who claim to be accomodators)but celebrate tribalism to high heavens.
If Hope Ozodinmma is not ready to host all the girls,he should just forget it.we are Igbos,we have a big heart,that's our culture.

Ogbeni. You people are showing Ebonyi who you don't regard as full igbo shege.

They are very tribal people. If other states had done this, they would have been crying all over the social media..

Meanwhile, the yeye indigenous bill this governor and the Deputy speaker from Abia state are pushing is falling apart.

They sneakily added an Ikwerre law maker and Faleke from Kogi as co-sponsors of the indigenous bill..The Ikwerre law maker and Faleke have now come out to say they know nothing about it.

Why would they support a bill that will ensure that minority tribes are removed from Nigeria in less than 100 years?

This is maximum confusion.

Its ia very bad bill. What was the Deputy speaker thinking. The minorities would be gone in less than 100 years with such useless bill.

Welcome Bayo Bilisi formerly Bayo Obidient

Biafrannuke:
can you show me any historical document that so addressed Lagos?

In the “Précis of Information Concerning the Colony of Lagos”: Intelligence Branch of British War Office. 1888.

Biafrannuke:
I am giving Yorubas a challenge

1) tell me the Yoruba name of Lagos
2) show me any evidence where the Yoruba appellation covered the people of southwest before 1800

Indigenous Lagosians are largely not Yorubas by origin. Even the British recognised this and administered Lagos separately, and this continued till after the civil war when the north paid Yoruba back with the control of Lagos. Most native Lagosians harbour resentment for Yorubas and has never hidden their disdain for having Lagos as a part of western region. The suspicion from Yorubas has lead to artificial control of Lagos by the Yorubas where the indigenes are not allowed close to the corridors of power.

Trying to suppress the indigenous Lagosians puts you on a collision course with the owners of the land not Igbos.

Eko Akete is the Yoruba name of present day Lagos.

Other towns called Eko derived from Oko (farm settlements).in Yorubaland.

Eko Akete, Lagos Island LG - Lagos State
Eko Ende, Ifelodun LG -Osun State
Ekosin, Odo Otin LG -Osun State
Eko Ajala, Ifelodun LG -Osun State
Ekotedo, Ido LG - Oyo State
Eko kan, Shaki West LG - Oyo State
Oko Eko, Ijebu East LG - Ogun State
Eko Efun- Olukumi land in Aniocha North Delta state
Ade Eko, Iseyin LGA - Oyo State
Eko Tedo Ibadan north LGA dubbed, Oyo state.
Eko, Ife Ana, Atakpame, Togo

As per the Yoruba in your question 2. See my last last post.

Biafrannuke:
still scrambling for defence by quoting modern works that can't even make any claims. I gave you one challenge to show me pre 1800 evidence of the people of the southwest being addressed as Yoruba.

There are several historical records from missionaries, sailors, slave traders etc addressing people of southeast in 1700 as Ibos, ebo heebo etc.

Olodo
An Arab explorer called Baba Ahmed wrote about the Yorubas he encountered in his 1615 manuscript.

English publication of the 𝟭𝟲𝟭𝟱 manuscript, by J. Hunwick & Fatima

Slytiger:
What Ajayi crowther wrote when he entered Iboland..

Stop this unity begging and attachment by force. Yoruba and Igbos are not cousins. Our cousins are the Igala and the Itsekiri, both Yoruboids.

If i was ibo as well, I will try everything to get rid of my bad history and latch unto an ethnic group with outstanding history and arts.

The igbos were enslaved by Igala, Itsekiri, Benin, Urhobo, Isoko e.t.c hence, they want to gum body with the Yorubas

I dont think Faleke knows about the bill. The other co-sponser, and Ikwere woman has come out to debunk that she knows nothing about it..

This is beyond madness. The persistent attempts by certain individuals to insert the Igbo identity into Yoruba history are not just misleading—they are disgraceful and, frankly, sinister.

A warning bell was rung decades ago. In a letter published in the Times Literary Supplement on 24 October 1975, D.A.N. Jones foresaw the confusion that could arise from shifting the spelling of “Ibo” to “Igbo”(see attached). He specifically used the example of Ijebu-Igbo to illustrate how such a change could distort geographical and historical understanding. What Jones could not have anticipated was the emergence of mischievous revisionists like ChurchillNwagwu, whose objective seems less about historical clarity and more about historical colonization.

Here are the facts. Up until the mid-1970s, "Ibo" was the most commonly used spelling in literature and documentation. While variants such as "Igbo," "Heboe," and "Eboe" appear in texts, "Ibo" dominated most records. Regardless of spelling, the term was coined outside the present-day Igbo region. It was a label applied externally, mainly by slavers and slave traders.

The earliest written reference to the name dates back to 1627, when Spanish priest Alonso de Sandoval used it in a list describing “a group of forty to fifty independent villages who recognized no king, fought regularly, often sold their women and children as slaves, and were all cannibals.” In several Niger Delta dialects, “Igbo” meant “slave,” and even among communities west of the River Niger, the term carried a similar derogatory connotation.

Because of its pejorative foreign origin, the term was rarely adopted as an ethnic self-identifier until much later. It was often used to describe “others,” “strangers,” or “slaves.” In Onitsha, for example, the term was commonly applied to people from the interior with a connotation of 'backwardness'. Even Nnamdi Azikiwe, in his 1930 article Fragments of Onitsha History, used “Igbo” to refer to neighboring tribes. It was only in the 20th century, with the rise of pan-ethnic consciousness, that the term was retroactively enriched with ethnic content to describe a unified Igbo identity.

In contrast, Yoruba history is well documented and internally consistent. As a group, the Yoruba had limited contact with the Igbo until the 1930s. Yet, in recent times, we are seeing audacious attempts by some Igbo writers to claim ancestral links to Ife, the spiritual home of the Yoruba. Entire books, authored even by PhD holders, have been written to justify this fantasy, often citing a single recent royal gaffe as their “evidence.” But the historical record contradicts them. The Ugbo people, whose name is often misappropriated in these narratives, still exist and are indisputably Yoruba. Their oral traditions and the Ife creation myth corroborate each other, firmly rooting them in Yoruba cosmology.

Moreover, Yoruba towns like Ijebu-Igbo, Igbo-Ora, and others being claimed by these revisionists predate any known use of “Igbo” as an ethnic identifier in southeastern Nigeria. These are towns with rich, established histories, well before any collective identity known as “Igbo” emerged in its current form.

This rewriting of history is not only intellectually dishonest - it is an act of cultural theft. To impose a fabricated narrative on Yoruba heritage in the name of “shared ancestry” or “common identity” is to erase the real histories of real peoples. And we will continue to resist all such attempt.

BayoBilisi:
No matter how hard you try. Peter Obi is who he is...

#SayNoToIndigenousBill
#SayNoToIndigenousBill
#SayNoToIndigenousBill ✊

Welcome Bayo. Baba agba I hail ooo.

We have been holding the fort here.

Goke7:
These donations are like votes buying though, let's not pretend

It is vote buying.
He has done it several times. He is just restrategizing. Same man gave cars and gift to senators when he was desperate to be a minister under GEJ'S government.

PUNANI01:
Wasting his money on the zoo because he feels they will accept him not knowing that they hate him and his people. Well, na his money nothing concerns me.

Majority of his money went to the SE. Check again.

Lowest SW = 0.

Highest SE= 416 million.

We told you what kind of man he is. Very divisive.

If you like, let them continue to gaslight you. Check the dates on my screenshots below. He is consistent.

E sure ba je ba je.
Even sanwo Olu is beginning to become conservative. Even though he is a bit late.

We are still testing Mic. Meanwhile in Imo state where Charly boy is from. They have been doing it forever.

Lowest SW = 0.

Highest SE= 416 million.

We told you what kind of man he is. Very divisive.

If you like, let them continue to gaslight you. Check the dates on my screenshots below. He is consistent.

Lowest SW = 0.

Highest SE= 416 million.

We told you what kind of man he is. Very divisive.

If you like, let them continue to gaslight you. Check the dates on my screenshots below. He is consistent.

Stilloracle:
Perfect

Extremely perfect.

A good sign of what his governance is going to be like. A character is like smoke.

Add all the money the gbajue master has been distributing altogether, e nor reach.

In Imo state, Okworocha named a street after Buhari despite Imo enjoying Nigeria's money. Guess what happend, the indigenes revolted and the governor bowed to their pressure.

Whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Finquas:
lol...was enugu a former federal Capital territory?

Whether federal whether colonial. It was a former capital. It was developed with money from the SS.

So is Enugu and Calabar no man's land?

Finquas:
Bro nobody is saying oda states in the south west is no man's land .. have u heard it anywhere?? So pls let's stay on facts and stop being petty .. As long as Lagos occupied the status of a federal Capital in time pAst and the resources of Nigeria was used massively to develop it.. it's common logic and stands on justice that it belongs to all Nigerians.. fullstop

So is Calabar and Enugu no mans land?

They were both former capitals too..

Finquas:
Why tag igbos .. funny I'm not even igbo..but I stand for truth and justice.. yes iwuyanwu rightly said Lagos is not igbo land .. but it's owned by all NIGERIANS as a former federal Capital Territory.. why do u guys find this hard to take .. the earlier you kiss the truth..the better

Lagos belongs to Awori, Egba, Egbado, Ijebu, Egun stock of the Yorubas just as Anambra, Imo, Enugu, e.t.c belongs to the Igbos, Edo belongs to Benin, Calabar to Efik e.t.c
Atleast Enugu and Calabar were also former capital too.

The bloodiest is the January 1966 coup. A pregnant woman was even shot in the belly and killed with her unborn baby.