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zenmaster:
I prefer Oba of Lagos

zenmaster:
Igbo amaka

zenmaster:
What of the one by Aribisala

cc aribisala0

IkpuMmadu:
Yoruba are losing here
Igbo girls are marrying the rich Yoruba
The rich Yoruba are having half Yoruba kids
The half Yoruba kids will prefer mum and you know that
Then the Igbo would make an in road to the main heart if Yoruba ....maybe one day, half Igbo would be ooni. When that is done, it is complete

zenmaster:
Eko oni baje rara

zenmaster:
Suffersticated

zenmaster:
Stop quoting fake blogs.
I have been giving you confirmed Newspaper articles.

zenmaster:
The Igbo voters will vote in those place with Yoruba names

zenmaster:

zenmaster:
Dullardism has affected your reading capacity.
The newspaper article is from March 2015
Igbo amaka

Danladi7:
Yorubas are proud of that.
More Igbo is to be yorubnized.

Yorubas are great!.Igbo can only aspire to be us not the other way round

zenmaster:
Thats why Lagos is 51% Igbo and growing

zenmaster:
LMAO
Yoruba names with Igbo population: still Igbo land

Sprumbabafather:
I love the laws. It makes all of us compulsory yorubas and will help us learn the traditions of our people.

post=62057673:
I pity western youths, continue living in fools paradise, this is 2017 fiscal viability report, instead to asking your leaders questions, Igbos have dominated western cyber space, northerners are silently taking over west, they had taken over Kwara, their is no northern politicians both dead and alive that doesn't owned a property in Lagos, their youths several times killed Yorubas in Lagos, but you guys are more concerned over peaceful tribe (Igbos).

zenmaster:

Sprumbabafather:
I learned it in my childhood here in Lagos so kini big deal? Making yoruba language compulsory is a step in the right direction and will unite all of us as Lagosians

Sprumbabafather:
Yes, except stopping Lagos from being a no man's land

Sprumbabafather:
Eko oni bajaj

FortifiedCity:
That's how your master Buhari said he has technically defeated BH.

Government of inefficient technicalities

wisenewgem:
Rest In Peace my Bosom Friend Chioma Udu nee Owoh. Your untimely death is a pain I have to live with. Rest In Peace my Bosom Friend Chioma Udu nee Owoh. Your untimely death is a pain I have to live with.

inteli:
whatever you people think you are doing, TSTV will never disclose its agreement with BeIN to you. Frustrated haters you will remain.

Sprumbabafather:
Then why are Edo people claiming Lagos?

Basic123:
North, South West, Nigeria’s major
problem —Musa
October 8, 2017


Alhaji Balarabe Musa was the governor of Kaduna
State in the Second Republic and has been a vocal
member of the Civil society ever since. He revived
the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and became a
leader of the Conference of Nigeria’s Political
Parties (CNPP). In this interview with AYODELE
ADESANMI, he speaks on the problems of Nigeria
and why the project has failed.


LOOKING at the Nigerian system of today, it
appears that the system is not working right now.
Why did it work in the past?


Those days, it was public interest first. Public
interest is the primary condition for any all-round
development in any society. It was public interest
first because public interest is superior to self-
interest. Public interest means collective security
and welfare. Self-interest means survival of the
fittest. But there is no nation which exists on
survival of the fittest. That is what we have in
Nigeria today: survival of the fittest through the so-
called privatisation, commercialisation and
deregulation of life in the country.
Looking at the Nigerian which has evolved over the
years, would you agree that the nation needed to be
redesigned or reworked as it is?
Yes, it can help. People are talking about
restructuring. Yes, restructuring is very important. I
am in support of restructuring. Once we can
determine what restructuring is and what
restructuring we want. At the moment, everybody is
just pushing his own idea of restructuring; some of
the ideas are advanced while some are backward.
Return to ethnic nationality is backward. Return to a
system whereby the human being matters more than
anything is advanced. Now, what we are talking
about restructuring in Nigeria; some are talking
about the most backward form of restructuring, that
is ethnic nationalities, while others are talking about
the most fundamental and most advanced structure,
for instance the leading role of the state in the
economy to ensure peace, equality, justice, dignity
of the human person and even development of the
whole country.
For instance, restructuring as far as I’m concerned
is made up of three or five components. The first is,
are Nigerians reconciling among themselves to
accept that they are one nation, to accept that let us
have a system in which every Nigerian has the
capacity to participate in the affairs of his country?
Let us have a country where we can have unity and
so on. To bring this about, you have to reconcile.
We have to sit down at a constitutional conference
to agree amongst ourselves how we can treat each
other and live in peace. This reconciliation needs to
be promoted by the government in power. But we
don’t have the government in power that can do
this.


Are you saying the present government can’t
reconcile the people?


No they can’t do it. It is part and parcel of this
political conspiracy. For instance, let me tell you
unprintable truth about what I think about this
government and the party that brought about the
government. I think the APC government and the
presidency are the product of political conspiracy
between the Northern section of the Nigerian
bourgeoisie and South-Western section of the
Nigerian bourgeoisie. The government and the party
were brought about by this conspiracy between this
two power blocs: these two sections of the Nigerian
bourgeoisie. In terms of power, they are sidelining
their counterparts in the Eastern section of the
Nigerian bourgeoisie and the South-South section of
the Nigerian bourgeoisie. I will give you an example;
we are now talking of marginalisation. No
government in Nigeria can marginalise the South-
Western bourgeoisie or the Northern bourgeoisie for
more than a few months, but you can side-line the
South-Eastern section of the Nigerian bourgeoisie or
the South-South section of the Nigerian bourgeoisie
and get away with,maybe for months or even years.
So, you can see the conspiracy that brought about
this power situation we have: conspiracy between
the Northern section of the Nigerian bourgeoisie and
South-Western section of the Nigerian bourgeoisie.
These two sections of the country are more powerful
than their counterparts in the South-East and South-
South. I give you an example, a careless
government from anywhere in Nigeria and you know
you can have a careless government, a mindless
government no matter where it comes from, you can
have it if it is made up of this conspiracy between
these two. It can marginalise everyone and
everything and get away with it for years. I’m not
saying forever, for years and get away with it. But
can you imagine any Nigerian government that
marginalises the South-Western bourgeoisie or the
Northern bourgeoisie and get away with it for more
than a few months? It’s not possible because of the
power structure. Let us correct this structure by
returning to the regional arrangement as we had
under the 1963 constitution and create three more
regions or even four regions with the Mid-West later.
Let us have six regions, each of which can be
viable. For instance, it became impossible when we
had the three regions or even four with the Mid-West
to marginalise anyone of them because each one of
them was strong enough to stand on its own. The
worst thing you could do is what another conspiracy
between the regions did and that was to conspire to
create the Mid-West, because that was conspiracy.
Tell us how the conspiracy played out?
In the first place, the Mid-West was created against
the wish of the South-West and the wish of the
South-East, but particularly the South-West.
You said the incumbent government in terms of
power structure was a conspiracy between two
sections…
Conspiracy between the South-West section of the
Nigerian bourgeoisie and the Northern section of the
Nigerian bourgeoisie. If you read, you will see what
it is. You will see the truth.
But we can say you were part of the conspiracy
because you openly showed your displeasure with
the Jonathan government. Didn’t you support the
coming of this APC government?
The PRC supported the PDP for the presidency in
2015. We preferred to support the PDP in spite of
its incompetence, rather than support the APC which
was clearly fascist.


How do you mean?


But we saw, first of all, the composition of the
political leadership that created the APC. We also
saw the bringing back of a former military
dictatorship with fascist tendency to the presidency
and we said it clearly.


People have always laid the problems of Nigeria at
the doorsteps of leadership. Looking at the leaders
so far, which of them can you say is a true leader
who governed with the purpose of delivering the
goods?


Relatively, I will say Tafawa Balewa. Though he
controlled a class system, he was a decent person,
a credible leader. No matter where he found
himself, he was a credible leader. If not because of
the credibility of Tafawa Balewa, the excesses of
the leaders, particularly from the North and from the
South-West would have destroyed the country by
that time. But because of his dignity, his sense of
responsibility, the semi-feudal North and the
secessionist South-West; the South-West was
secessionist right from the beginning.
The next one is Yakubu Gowon. Gowon did very well.
He had two particular achievements in the first
place. He was able to fight a civil war without too
much rancour and without submitting to
imperialists. He succeeded without fighting the war
with foreign debt. Secondly, he was able to obtain a
credible surrender from the Biafrans and
immediately instituted a policy of reconciliation,
reconstruction and the others. That was his two
particular achievements. He fought a civil war
without depending on foreign imperialism and in
particular without incurring foreign debt. Secondly,
he brought about a system of reconciliation of
Nigeria after the civil war. His policy of
reconciliation, if that policy had been continued, we
would not have the situation we now have today.
The third was Murtala’s regime. Murtala did exactly
what Gowon did but with but with more radicalism
and that was why the ruling class would not allow
him more than six months which he got. After these
three leaders, I wouldn’t say we had any leader we
could say or we are proud of.


What about Obasanjo who ruled as both military and
civilian head of government?


Obasanjo was a rascal. In terms of political
leadership, he was a rascal. I wish he were a leftist.
If he had been a leftist, he would have done
wonderful because of his rascality. You remember
all these power blocs? He told them off as military
head of state. He told them off.