naijainstinct:
Well, in my opinion, I believe because Lagos is the richest state in Nigeria in terms of GDP, the SW tend to guard it jealously as anyone would.
Why are Igbos the only tribe referring to Lagos as a no-man's land? Calabar and Kogi were all federal capitals at some point, why are they not referred to as NML? Aba is a commercial city that attracts people from all over the country, why is it not referred to as NML? There are more northerners that south westerners in SE, how many northerners are holding political appointments or elective posts in SE?

I said something about animosity towards Igbos by almost all tribes. Hausas prefer Yorubas to Igbos, South-Southerners don't like to be referred to as Igbo despite the similarities in culture. Yorubas are now becoming seemingly angry with the igbos, why are these?

Thanks. If the IGBOS in the other parts of SW are peaceful with there host, and are seen a problematic in Lagos, then we need to investigate the cause. And this is my findings.
(1) Lagos State, is the only state in Nigeria, where the indigenous groups as owners are less than 10% of it's total population. Meaning, of the 24m( Est) population of Lagos State, the indigenous people here are just 2.5m, people mainly the Aworis, who are in 16-17 LGAs of the constitution recognized 20 L G A.,the rest are non- Indigenes.
Meaning more than 20m people in Lagos State are non- Indigenes.
You can do your findings.
(2) Lagos, by it's cosmopolitan nature is the only state in Nigeria, where evey region in Nigeria has a space. Apart from the fact that Lagos State is in the SW, the Yorubas have their space here, of the over 90% position alloted to them by the cosmopolitan nature of Lagos State.
The IGBOS, have their own space here, ditto other regions.
(3) For the fact that other regions have their spaces here, not by force, but the fact that nature forbids vacuum, the other Yoruba States like Ogun, Oyo, Osun, under the umbrella of Yoruba nation, wants to dominate and push others out of their space here and dominate here in Lagos State, not Yorubaland.
(4) The real indigenes of Lagos State, unfortunately are been dominated by their so called Yoruba brothers in their Lagos land. The other Yoruba land, give to the Lagos State indigenes, what they cannot take in their own states, and expect from the Lagos State indigenes, what they cannot give.
Example.
B. O. S, is not a Lagosian, but he's ruling Lagos State.
His Deputy, Hamzat, is a prince in Ogun State.
Solomon Olamilekan, was a senator here in Lagos, for 8yrs, but has gone to Ogun State, contested and won again as a senator, to represent Ogun West.
Tinubu is from Osun State, but was both a senator and 2times governor in Lagos State.
Obasa, speaker of Lagos State, is from Ogun State, Ambode from Ondo State. Go the ministries, you will pity Lagos State.
Wherein in Yoruba land, has anyone from Awori, Epe, Ikorodu as indigene been a councillor in any part of Yoruba land?
The indigenes wants to take control of Lagos State, unfortunately, they are in the minority, therefore they want their voices heard and their land retrieved from the stranglehold of their Yoruba brothers. This is fight in Lagos. Forget about what they say about the IGBOS.
On the issue of Lagos State, been a NML. It can't be true. It's only used by the Yorubas to put the IGBOS in a bad light. Every piece of land is been owned by someone. If the IGBOS wants to buy land, who do the Pay money to?
Who writes the family receipt? There's as always a family they will go to. So it's just decoy, to demark the IGBOS in Lagos, drive them and confiscate their properties.
IGBOS, have no problems with Yorubas at all.
All that they Igboman wants, is a peaceful atmosphere to do his buying and selling. Government jobs, positions and it's traping are not the immediate need of average Igboman, where to do his business, hide his head, make money to take care of his family at home.
You said Hsusas prefer the Yorubas to the IGBOS, how true is that? It's the same Yorubas, who are generous, that fought against the Hausa/Fulani and massacre them in 2003, when this same Tinubu was governor of Lagos State. It was the same Yoruba that fought and massacre the Hausa/Fulanis in Shagamu,Mile12. That's what the are intending to do now.
No man is taking any part of Yoruba land, rather, Yorubas should learn how not to be intimidated by the success of strangers in their land.
This the whole truth. Do your research and let us know.

[quote author=RZArecta post=121633084]As usual, I pointedly blame seun, mynd44 and oam4j for the non stop incitement going on in this politics section. If Nigeria goes up in flames because of posts like this from the op, they're the ones that should be held responsible for not doing their jobs[/qu

You are 100% right, sometimes, I wonder wether there's an admin in this platform.
I don't know which of the authorities to report them to, I could have done it.
The kind of hate speech and inciteful thread going on here unchecked is very alarming, I wish someone Will call the admin to other.

Kagawa10:


Na craze dey worry you. The two seaports apapa and Lekki seaports were built by SW. Apapa was built before the amalgamation of Nigeria. Sink that into your skull

See how you lie and take what never belongs to you.
When was the South West created. Ask people who know better than you about TinCan Island Port. Major-Gen Yar'Adua, as chief of staff, supreme qrts, Commissioned it.
Make you enquires and thank me later. MMIA,was built by the Federal Government, with Nigeria money, not South West.
I never said anything about Lekki Seaport.

naijainstinct:
Thanks for throwing more light. However, if may ask, why does the Igbos feel they are the most victimized and why is every other tribe victimizing the Igbos? If everyone hates or despises you, don't you think something is wrong with your person?

Moving forward, what are the exact grievances of the south East and how can they be placated?

I don't know wether it's here or not, I have asked the Yorubas, this question, you can as well help answer it.
Are there no IGBOS in other parts of Yoruba land? Where in those places, have heard of any altercation with their host?
Why is it only in Lagos State, that it's sad in the South West, IGBOS wants to take their land, IGBOS are dominating them. I I have been to almost all parts of Yoruba land, but Ondo State. Just help me answer this question, it's very germain in addressing this issue.
IGBOS, were in Lagos in the early 90s, they couldn't take the land then, it's now they want to take it.

cocolacec:


Seyi must marry another wife who is Yoruba like Jackson Adeleke.J.Adeleke is married to Ngozi amd Dupe.

So the children from the Igbo wife are not his children?
So they don't have any right to anything SEYI in Iragbaji, where Tinubu comes from.?
Please South West, teach us, we are fast learning. Bro, let me tell you, it's not ending here. The seed has been sow. Psquare and all who married to Igbo men, should begin to know what to do now.Do me, I do you, God no go vex. After Tinubu's regime, the fruit will be very visible.

Godspikin:



He is not being denied because of his marriage. Yorubas intermarry with the igbos the most. He is being denied because he denigrated the people he now wants to lead. His disposition shows where he truly belongs.

That's not true. Follow the story very well. I'm following it and documenting for tomorrow. Thank be to God for smart phones.
Their pains are mainly because of linkage to the IGBOS, nothing short of that.
If you disagree with me, cast your mind back to the days, when Jimi Agbaje contested on the platform of PDP. What was the jingle then?
Jimi will sell the Yorubas to the IGBOS.
Do you check and get back to me.
Honestly, we are seriously learning from the South West.
You know, tribal politics and carpet crossing started with you people, it has spread.
I pity for those, like SEYI Tinubu, Akeredoliu, FFK, Taslim Folarin, with Igbo wife and Yoruba children. E go hot baje bake in the future trust me.

kel4soft:


I don't support Tinubu but in no way did Buhari wrong your region. Atleast thank him for the 2nd Niger Bridge.

It's a bridge for all Nigerians. It's not a bridge for the IGBOS alone.
For almost 8yrs, Lag- Ibadan Express road, is yet to be completed, so what will the Yorubas be saying?
V.P is their son.
Speaker of the HOR, is from there.
Minister of Works from there. Yet, it hasn't been completed.

HardBishop:

Good!! Pls tell your TINUBU not to employ any Igbo man to cushion these hatred. WE DONT NEED UT, infact GOOOOO. You kill us in The north, you destroy our properties in the west. So don't expect anything good from an Igbo man.

I didn't read your post before I replied someone about the thinking of average Igboman about the political positions that people are dangling before the Igbo.
The Nigerian nation has brought out the beast in the people of Igbo land, that nothing they now, gives us the trust and confidence in what they are doing.
They don't know the tigers they're trying to tame. May God help all of us.

naijainstinct:
So it's Presidency or nothing? I really hope the SE can being more tactical in their alliances. Politics is about strategy not sentiments.

Let me tell you the truth. You there's a way you treat someone, that brings out the beast in him. When the beast is out, nothing interests him again.
The way the Nigerian nation have treated the People of the South East, it has made every political position, to be of no value to them
again
The average Igboman, sees nothing attractive in your Senate President position, having held it for more than 5 times. So what's new about it.? Anyone of senators of Igbo origin, gunning for it, is just to fester their own nerves.
If I tell you, the mind of every Igboman now, you will be surprised. But I will not.
You don't why the voted for Obi massively.

christistruth01:


As if you can even Stop us from taking what is already ours

If you had given us the Port duties you collected from it and Apapa as you should have done it would have paid for all costs many times over and there is Seme border too
It's ours and we want all you collected there !!
What FG collected in duties there can buy and pay for 5 west African Countries and even have change left over

Yorubas are just being generous

I doubt if you know the meaning of the word generous. One thing I can decipher from all your actions, is that Bola Ahmed Tinubu's victory at the just concluded Presidential election, has brought out the real thinking of every average Yoruba about the IGBOS.
That someone said Lagos is no man's land, is just a smoke screen. If not, how can you say that the should give you the sea port, that is Nigeria?
Are you ok? Invariably you are calling for the separation of the country then.

oracle009:


You said "A yoruba man". We know there ARE igbo communities with massive spread across several yoruba lands. Who are doing well, infact, working in Government parastatals with no issue. When you start taking the kindness of your host as stupidity, then there will be problems.

You still don't understand. It's assumed by your people, that the IGBOS are not accommodative. That someone is debunking that story, it makes happy. There are many more. A youth corp member, served in my town in the South East, when this issue of IGBOS not been accommodative and all what not was been said, on this platform, he came out to debunk it again. I have never met him one/one before.
On a second note, taking about taking kindness for granted, I have always asked this question, may you too can help answer it.
Are there no IGBOS in other parts of South West, apart from Lagos State?, Where IGBOS are doing well, have properties?
Has anyone taking the pain to study this and find out the cause?
No one, of Igbo extraction, can take any piece of Yoruba land. On what ground will these be?
I'm expecting an answer from you.
Thanks

kettykin:
This is the restructuring people prayed for , Niger delta take over their oil, the north their agriculture, the west their sea ports and the east their oil , coal and gas deposits

The West will not take the seaport. Tin can Island Port, was dredged by the Federal Government of Nigeria during the military era.
Please take note and Seas of that nature belongs to the Federal Government
Take note

cocolacec:
FACT CHECK

COPIED

I am a graduate of Unilag and I was a student of Unilag. As a Governor, Asiwaju performed exceptionally.

In school then, the Igbo boys and girls at Unilag usually run for elections and they win because the Yoruba students usually support the Igbos in a Yoruba dominated University.

Do you know that this "Lagos is a no man's land" narrative by some Igbo people in Lagos is something they have done before in a place called Sapele in Delta state some years ago?

In Sapele, we have Hausa road, Yoruba road, Urhobo road, Okpe road, Itsekiri road, Benin Road and even Esan road but no Igbo road

Alt these roads are named after various tribes in the town

You know why? (He meant why there is no igbo road )

History has it that the road called Okpe Road was originally called Igbo road

It is the main road at the middle of the town though Yoruba road is the longest road in the town, because that road have so many businesses, The Igbo people started calling Sapele a no man's land

This was around the 1940s and 1950s

So during the civil war, the then king of Sapele, Orodje of Okpe then ordered that the name of the road Igbo road must be changed to Okpe road

Today that road is now Okpe road instead of Igbo road because Igbo people were calling the town a no man's land

Also, there is no road in the entire town that bears an Igbo man's name

We have Awolowo road, Akintola road, Adeniyi road

But no single road named after the Igbos because of their attitude of calling the place a no man's land

Most people in Lagos don't know this.

I was born in Sapele and I know the History

They always have this r*de domineering spir*t which is very annoying

When I was discussing the matter with a few friends recently, I mentioned the Sapele case and challenged them to go to the town if they will see any road named after Igbo or any Igbo indovidual

The solution in Lagos is to cut them to size

Lagosians should start buying back their landed property

Lagosians should start buying back their landed property

I could not get a house because they see me as Igbo though I am from Delta state

So, I had to relocate back to my state from Lagos

Igbos are creating problems for non Lagosians in Lagos
WHAT THEY CANT ACCEPT IN THEIR LAND .

Shonde Festus

I forgot to tell you yesterday, that I was born and nurtured in Okpe in Sapele, never heard this your story before.

Very idiotic and useless post.

naijainstinct:
It's good if the APC wants to create a sense of equity by zoning the position of SP to the SE. But objectively speaking, the SE do not deserve that seat more than the NW, NC or SS who actually produced substantial votes that aided the APC to retain power at the federal level.

The SE ought to know that there are consequences for our political choices. You can't keep playing amiss and expect to be awarded a prize for that. It is well sha........

All these undisciplined teenagers on this forum, If you quote me to spew rubbish, I will send you home to deliver a message to your father. Be guided.

You should understand the kind of people you are talking to.
What is Senate President ship? IGBOS have had it for more than 6times under PDP.
It's not a favor. Like someone said, we survived the political shenanigan under Buhari, Tinubu Presidency, doesn't fancy us.

Beremx:


https://www.inlandtown.com/the-one-who-dared-prof-olusegun-shogbesan/

So grateful to God. So there's a Yoruba man doing well in Igbo land. Those who said IGBOS want to take their land should meet with this man.
I know the man must have his own building in the state

stuffs2002:
IIGB0S are the most tribal people on earth

1) IIGB0S refused to vote Betty Akeredelu in her ancestral home just because she married a Yoruba man. They see her as a betrayer and not one of them anymore just because she married out of her ethnic group.

2) PSquare (Peter and Paul) became enemies just because one of them married a Yoruba lady by name Lola. They exorcised him from the family just because he married a Yoruba lady Things became worse that Jude (their elder brother) kept on cursing the one that married the Yoruba lady.

You promote nonsense, when you don't know the cause. Emeka Anyaoku married a Yoruba woman, tell me one right that has been denied her or her husband for the intertribal marriage?
Yorubas in the SW, made lots of post on this platform, against her husband, for marrying her and ask Ondo people to vote against her husband for marrying an Igbo woman.
Two of my uncles, married Yoruba women, nothing of their right in Igbo land has been denied them. She understands Igbo language and speaks it well. She was made a women leader in her clan, not minding that she is not an Igbo woman.
Recently, Yoruba carpenter, who is handling my project in my village, got married to my sister and they have two(2) kids now. No one denied them any of their right, because of their tribe.
Yorubas are teaching the rest of Nigeria, new things now. Don't worry, it will come to hunt you later.
SEYI Tinubu is married to an Igbo woman, hope under Tinubu's nose, his grandchildren will be called Omo ale in Yoruba land.
It's setting. The soup will be very hot in future

Jostoman:
I dont even understand the type of politics that you guys are playing.

Who win presidential election in anambra? Obi

Did soludo change peter obi result to favour Atiku or tinubu? No. So what is the problem with you guys against soludo?

He campaigned against Obi, said a lot things against him, that the enemies of Obi, used to campaign against him.

gabbytabby:
Whose mother and wife is Igbo is not our Governor.

For the whole of Lagos na Chinedu the cunning LP find to disguise as Yoruba

The LP robbers have come to steal lagos money to develop southeast. May the I’ll that is Betty anyanwu that befell Ekiti not befall lagos.

SEYI Tinubu married an Igbo lady.
Tinubu married from Niger Delta.
Obj, married from Edo state
So continue to sow your evil seed. It will soon catch up with you.
Internet doesn't lie.

Perfectbeing:


These are Sanwo Olu achievements before he became a Governor


Education.

A graduate of the University of Lagos and London Business School, Lagos Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Career in Banking.

1. Was the treasurer at former Lead Merchant Bank.
2. Was head of foreign money market at United Bank for Africa.
3. Was deputy general manager and divisional head of FCMB.

Career in public service.

1. Special Adviser on Corporate Matters to the then deputy governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro.
2. Acting Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget.
3. Commissioner for Commerce and Industry.
4. Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions.
4. Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC).
6. Supervisor of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) privatization projects.
7. Pioneer Board Chairman of Lagos Security Trust Fund.
8. The LAGBUS System and the Control & Command Centre in Alausa Ikeja were subsequently established under his directives.


His awards include;

Platinum award from the Lagos State Public Service Club.
2009 Best in Human Capital Development award from the Industrial Training Fund (ITF).
Merit award from the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria.
Merit award from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management in Nigeria (CIPMN).
Merit Award from the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN).
LSDPC Impactful Leadership and Recognition Award.A graduate of the University of Lagos and London Business School, Lagos Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Was the managing director and CEO of Lagos State Property Development Corporation (LSPDC).

Sanwo Olu did not just fall from the sky to become Lagos State Governor.

Lagos State is too big an economy to hand over to an unknown person all in the name of changing power...

Great, I never knew this about B.O. S

But what of Jimi Agbaje. The Yorubas, fought him also and said they IGBOS wants to use him as a proxy, to gain control of Lagos State.
Must it be that anytime another candidate comes from the opposition parties that they will always be fought against by the Yorubas?
So no one else apart from your candidate is good for Lagos State?

MusaChukwudi:
This is the end result for a docile cowardly lazy people!

We are the most foolish people in Nigeria and our children have taken on our stupidity.

We must immediately start a movement to deal with the Igbo threat to our economy, finances, markets, governance….. The Obas in Lagos state as a whole should be dethroned. All of them!

As long the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is alive and well, which guarantees every Nigerian, the right, to live anywhere of their choice, work, vote and be voted for, there's nothing you and your Obas can do about it.
Let me tell you the shortest way to your dream. Glory to God, a bonafide Yoruba man and the head of Yoruba kingdom, Tinubu is the president -elect.
Just make Biafra, a possibility, through referendum or an act of the national assembly.
The earliest you do this with Tinubu, the better for you and your dreams.
There was war, between the rest of Nigerians and the IGBOS. The IGBOS, were massacred in the North. 20yrs after the war, the number of the IGBOS in the North now, is more than what you had then in the North.
The Yorubas, fought against the Hausa/Fulani in Lagos State and Shagamu in 2003, when Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was the governor of Lagos. The Hsusas ran, today, they are back to Lagos, in full force, every day trailers and discharging them in all areas of Lagos.
So work with Tinubu, for the realization of the Biafra dream, then your dream of seeing the Igbos leave Yoruba land will become a reality

VoteTinubu2023:
3 to 4 polling units results cannot be used to discredit an entire Local Government result.

It's not about discrediting the whole election, it's about recording the real figure.
If everything is recorded and displayed for all to see, this social media war between the Yorubas and IGBOS, wouldn't have been.
If you have lost, you have lost period

SHIVA001:
It's the Igbo that can't develop their own land comes to South West and start calling it a no mans land. If you reach Igbo land zero or no infrastucture. They are jealous of the south west especially Lagos. Now tagging it a no mans land.

Don't talk like a fool.
Lagos State, was a former federal capital.
Tin Can Island, was dredged by the federal government, which is the money of all Nigerians.
Muritalal Mohammed Int'l Airport, was built with the federal government money, which is NIGERIAN people's money.
Bridges built by Julius Berger, were all done by the federal government, with our money.
Trade fair, Festac town, 1004 etc
And so many others. So you didn't develop Lagos State. Why didn't you develop Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo State? What of Ogun State?

Zico5:
They want to rule Lagos by proxy through Chinedu. They are even rubbing it on our face that Igbo will be the governor and the first lady. What an insult from the fugitives and wanderers that came with poly bags, selling gala on highways. Yoruba are too nice indeed. Lagos is no man land but Onitcha and Aba are their heritage. We will show them who truly own Lagos with our votes.

My brother ( sorry to have used that word brother)
A bad work man always quarrel with his tools.
Yorubas are found of seeing other tribe as a threat.
Prior to the 1993 election and the annulment, if you cast your mind back, there's nothing the Yorubas, didn't say about the Hausa/ Fulani.
The Hausa/Fulani were abused to hell and called all kinds of names. It's a shame, that 30 yrs after, it's now the IGBOS
What brought about THE YORUBA NATION struggle? Hausa/Fulani,as a tribe were seen as a threat, therefore, they must be destroy. What brought about Amoteku? Fear of threat.
All that have contested election in Lagos State, under PDP, or any other party, was always seen as Igbo proxy, to keep Lagos, under the control of the Igbo.
You are throwing your son, even if the mother's bride price wasn't paid, by the fact that a child is known and recognized from the side of his father, make this GRV, a full fledged Yoruba Son.
For those of you, instigating this, you will pay seriously for it in the future.

JoshTim:
The thing is, this can never happen in Igbo land. So tribalistic a tribe.

Don't say that. According to some of you, Tinubu's success in this election, was a seed he showed over 24yrs. It was his investment, both in cash and kind. I remember in 2011, he brought up Nuhu Ribadu to contest under ACN then, he also gave Atiku, the same platform. These were his investment.
IGBOS have invested in Lagos State, both in cash and kind.
Can anyone of you, go to the South East, make the same investment and see if you can't get your return.
Don't stay here and say it's not possible.

windofchange:
The talks that Lagos is a no mans Land by igbos has been flying around so he decided to respond.




https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXSlaBsFPU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Yul Edochie, thanks for your comment, but you seem not to have understood the undercurrent water behind this move.
IGBOS live in different parts of Yoruba land, where have you seen the IGBOS have dispute with their host in Yoruba land, other than Lagos?
Lagos State, is the only state in Nigeria, where it's ethnic indigenous group is less than 10% of it's population. Meaning, of the 24m(est), less than 10m is the population of it's indigenes.
A whopping 14m is made up of non- indigenes, out of which Yoruba from other states are part of it.
The 10m ethnic indigenes of Lagos State, wants to reclaim their land from both the non- indigenes, which includes the Yorubas from other states. This is the battle on ground.
Non- Indigenes of Lagos State from other Yoruba lands have been ruling and marginalizing them for long.
Check the records of the governors. The deputy governor of Lagos State is a prince from Ogun State. Solomon Olamilekan, was a 2term senator in Lagos State, he wants to be governor of his state Ogun, he has gone their to be senator and position himself for 2027 governorship election. Faleke is from Kogi.
The issue of No MAN'S LAND CLAIM, is a decoy. Which Igbo man does not know that there are people that owns Lagos State?
The Aworis own Lagos State

Putindbutt:
That guy is too clannish, imagine him say he inherited stubbornness from his mother's side, the stubbornness that has always led them to self destruction, who would forget the stubbornness of Ojukwu that eventually led to the 3million ancestors or the present stubbornness that's making them lock up their parents on Mondays, killing and beheading themselves in the foolishness that Buhari is being hurt in Abuja.
From all indications, this guy might constitute half his cabinet with ibo people, elevate them as chiefs in Yoruba palaces and may even declare Yam festival day as public holiday. He could as well sponsor a bill removing Yoruba language from Lagos State House of Assembly. The manner at which he insults Yoruba and Pastor Adeboye in his old tweets makes me cringe, while he adores anything biafra including the terrorist group known as ipob.

Honestly you didn't understand him well, neither did you read well what he said.
He never said he inherited stubbornness from his mother. Rather he said that was the opinion of the people who were sent to beg him to mellow down.
Honestly, I'm seriously disappointed with the Yorubas. Your elites that are supposed to advise the younger ones have kept a studied silence. This is Nigeria, it will turn against you one day. A full blooded Yoruba man of Lagos State, is been rubbished like this because him and his father, married from the South East. SEYI Tinubu, Akeredoliu and others married from the South East, I don't see how much Igbo, they have brought into Yoruba land.
Gabriel Susan of Venue State, married from Yoruba land, Emeka Anyaoku, married from Yoruba land.
Your son's and daughters, travel to UK, get employed, contest and win election, now in the 21st century, because of Tinubu, you are denying your son. Ok.
We from other parts of the country are watching and learning

Pneumaa:


Never wish death on people, you are not God

Please!!!. This is too much. Just spear a moment for the grieving family. Cursing everyone is not the solution.
I plead with all of you for Christ sake show the family, some level of sympathy No matter what.

Grgton:
What is the purpose of This?

It has come to that now. After election, that will be the next agenda.
If a full blooded Yoruba man of Lagos Origin, can be disgraced like this because he married an Igbo woman, why are we in Nigeria?

Vinnie2000:


It's no Longer Funny!

IGBO this, Igbo that.

Just because PETER OBI came out to contest Presidency, Igbos have received lots of Curses and Hate

Just because the Rhode Vivour (Whose Father is a Founding Father of Lagos) came to contest Governorship and his Mother is Igbo,
Hell and Brimstone is threatened to be Unleashed.

The Yorubas Harbouring and Dishing out IgboPhobic Sentiments and claiming Igbo will Take over the state Should Relax.

IGBOS are in Warri, Yenagoa, Benin City, Markurdi, Kano, Sokoto,etc...
And They have NOT tried to do Anything like Take over!

IgboMan just wants to Make Money and impress (or Oppress) his Kinsmen @Home.

So These Yorubas, Chill, OK?.

I have just replied one of them now.
That was how the seed of tribalism and sentiment was sown by Awolowo years back.
They are denying a bonafide lagosian, because his mother is an Igbo woman and she married and Igbo woman.
They forgot that SEYI Tinubu, married an Igbo woman also and Tinubu married a Niger Deltan. After the election, this seed, will greatly germinate.
All the elite have kept a studied silence.
What ever a man sow, shall he reap. Don't worry. If we forget, our children will never never forget.
Awo gave the IGBOS £20, after the war, not minding how much you have in the bank. It's repeating itself again.

ekolobaba:
Nna these obident Igbos are too much hehehe

Nzogbu nzogbu don reach Oba of Benin too

I don't like the way some Igbo people behave honestly. Sometimes they are too possessive.
IGBOS should understand that Obidient family, is a movement, not about Peter Obi, IGBOS or Biafra project.
Obidient movement is about youths and Nigerians, who are tired with the status quo.
It's about Nigerians, who wants a better change. Apart from Peter Obi, it can be anybody's.
Edo voted for Labor party, their king must be respected.
Your enemy, must not be my enemy period

Hayot:
The fall of Lagos into the hands of the invaders during the presidential elections rattled me for some days. The possibility that I can wake up one morning to discover that my Governor is one Chinedu frightens me to the marrow. I don’t even know whether to begin this piece with an apology to those who may prefer a discourse on nationality to ethnicity. However, in a situation where there is an existential threat to what defines my identity and humanity, subscription to sophomoric courtesies becomes a matter of tendentious indulgence. I want to start with a narrative on my origin since the crux of the matter is about heritage.

I am a comprehensive Lagosian. I am from Lagos Island. My great grandfather, Richard Odeliyi Thomas was one of the first merchants cum settlers to build mansions in Lagos Island circa 1854. It was in that mansion he had his first son , my grandfather, Josiah Akinwande Thomas on August 27, 1882. With some arrogant modesty typical of an average Lagosian, let me say, he was a very wealthy man. His mansion was not the only testament of his wealth, the Street was named after him. In the whole of Lagos Island at that time, 8 and 10 Richards Lane was seen as “Ile baba olowo” .That was my great grandfather’s house. He shared this corridor of affluence with some other great Lagos families like the Shitta-Beys, the Kumolu-Johnsons, the Derbys, the Browns, the Benjamins, the Akinsemoyins, the Wolfs, the Foresythes, the Bangboses. To crown it all, his second son, Chief C.A Thomas was married to the daughter of the famous Candido Da Rocha. So, between Breadfruit Street, Richards Lane, Shitta Street and Kakawa Street, we had the Lagos greats whose houses and cars were the insignia of their opulence and splendour.

After about 100 years into the existence of the mansion, precisely 1956, the LEDB came up with a re-development project for Lagos Island. This project, conceived but not executed , led to the resettlement of my family and several others in what was called New Lagos now Surulere. Today, the Akinsemoyins and the Da Rochas still retain their family houses in Lagos Island. But the Thomases, the Shitta Beys, the Derbys, the Foresythes, the Browns and the Benjamins had been dispatched to Surulere. I know that apart from their house in Surulere, the Shitta-Beys had been able to come up with a “sokolo” bungalow in the Shitta-Bey court on Martin Street.

As for me and my family, there is nothing to show that my great grandfather ever lived or owned a street in Lagos Island. The entire stretch of the street is now a flourishing market for costume hawkers. The house which should serve as a memorabilia for me and my children and grandchildren has become an agora for assorted merchandise. But thank GOD for my aunty, Mrs Yéwándé Oyediran, Da Rocha’s granddaughter who has been living in Da Rocha’s Kakawa’s house for many decades now, I probably won’t have anything to show for my “Lagos Islandness” . In three years time, my father’s house in Surulere (Barracks) will be 70 years. Same for my mother’s house in Barracks.

My mother has her own house courtesy of my great grandmother, Moriamo Ashabi Buraimoh. She too was resettled in Surulere when the LEDB demolished her house in Ita Akanni, Lagos Island. Some years back, some of my uncles toyed with the idea of selling the house because it belongs to my great- grandmother. I stopped them. You don’t need the details. As for my father’s house, I do not envisage any problem because GOD has blessed all of us with our own houses. As the first born, I have told my seven siblings (almost all of them live abroad) to use the place as a hospitality facility just for the purpose of maintenance. As at now, our mother still lives there and running her canteen business.

Enough of History. We may still come back to it though. I have gone into this long narrative of my Lagos island background to show how painful it could be for one to be detached from his roots. Though I still have my family houses in Surulere, there is nothing that can ever compensate for the separation of you and your source, or better still, you from your source. You can now imagine how petrified I will be to now harbour the fear that I could lose my land to strangers. I don’t even want to imagine such a scenario for a day let alone four years, eight years or even forever knowing what these invaders are capable of doing to the land if they succeed.
I have been asking myself how we got to this precipice. First was our accommodationist policy. Enslaved by the concept of “Omoluabi”, we opened our doors to all asundry, particularly to the invaders from the east, pampering them with lavish and amazing hospitality” thinking that our generousity towards them will be a kind of investment for future political cooperation and alliance.

Unfortunately, this has not worked for us. It is ending up like a dangerous investment. Our hospitality is coming back to hurt us and is threatening our existence as a people and our collective heritage. When a people you gave shelter to in your house start interrogating your ownership of the land, then you should know that an invasion is brewing. When a people that should show gratitude for being treated with dignity start questioning your authority, you should know that an invader is within your vicinity. When you start admitting strangers on your land without defined borders and territorial limitations, then you are courting encroachment. When you keep selling your family houses to the highest bidders from the East, then you should be ready to be harangued by strangers someday. Our kindness has become a powerful instrument of territorial appropriation in the hands of our visitors.

Again, with aggressive invaders all over you, you are displaying open hatred for your community head thus exposing the cracked wall in your house to the lurking lizard. Tinubu, your own son, who governed the land for 8 years became your enemy. You ganged up against him and started persecuting and abusing him for doing good for the land. What was his crime? You accused him of imposing strangers as leaders. The first person you called a stranger was Akinwande Ambode. Was he really a stranger? He said he is from Epe, you said he is from Ilaje in Ondo State. I was personally involved in the whole selection drama of Ambode but I will leave that for another day. Now, when Oga stopped him from going for second term because of pressure from within, you were all happy. About four years after, see what happened. The same Ondo people you stopped their son from doing second term returned an amazing number of votes that gave Tinubu the eventual victory. Let’s move to Jide Sanwo-Olu. You protested again when he gave you Sanwo-Olu. You claimed he is from Ijebu when most of you know his matrilineal ancestry in Lagos Island. Again, it is this same Ijebu man whose state (Ogun) gave Tinubu a large chunk of the majority votes. Now, those of us who call ourselves indigenes, what did we give him in return? We connived with strangers to disgrace our own illustrious son because of envy and jealousy. But when GOD decided to disgrace us, HE made him the President of the whole nation as a compensation for our “iku ile” conspiracy in Lagos State. Sensing the grave danger ahead of us should Lagos fall into the hands of the enemy, we are now running kitikiti and katakata trying to undo our own “afowofa”.

Let us examine the “indigene” that the Labour Party has given to you as your governor. His name is Chinedu Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. Tinubu, a Yoruba leader, gave you Ambode from Ondo, you called him a stranger. He gave you Sanwo-Olu from Ijebu, you called him a stranger. Now, Obi of Anambra has given you Chinedu of Lagos, what are you going to call him? Can we now see where family squabbles and envy have led us? An Obi from Anambra who never did anything for the State is now the one calling the shots in my state. O ma ṣe o. It has really gone so bad that an Ibo man from Anambra is choosing a governor for us.

An Obi from Anambra who cannot boast of employing one Lagosian into the State Civil Service during his eight- year rule in Anambra now has the effontery to mobilize his own people and our own gullible, ignorant and naive children to install an Igbosian as governor of our State. Why should the preachment and practicalization of charity politics and no man’s land begin from Lagos ? Why not Anambra or Enugu? We, I mean Lagosians in particular and Yoruba in general, are undertaking a very dangerous and costly experiment capable of consuming our collective patrimony and heritage if not nipped in the bud NOW. It is very sad that we have found ourselves in a situation that “an indigene” is now wearing the regalia of Ndigbo to campaign for governorship in Lagos. So sad that we now find ourselves in a situation that “an indigene” of the State will be campaigning in Lagos with a retinue of Igbo women and men and chiefs with no Lagos women and Chiefs in attendance . It is unfortunate that we now have our own children who do not understand the politics of dynastic hegemony collaborating with strangers using a palatinate change slogan to de-establish themselves from their natural territory and joking with their traditional privileges and rights. I pray that one day we will not find the son of a royalty enmeshed in the unforced error of self-induced servitude. This is an electoral warfare that can only be fought with numbers NOT GUNS. What we need is effective and
massive mobilization and deployment of our human artillery to overcome this tyranny of ingratitude. There must be no physical combat. Let’s turn everything to a festival of votes by returning our own son, Jide Sanwo-Olu back to office and also use our victory at the polls as a conciliation between us and the President -elect who we betrayed. Yes, that was betrayal. How can we win all the Senatorial seats and almost all the House of Reps seats but failed to deliver in the Presidential election.? Ah, Yoruba, e ma buru o. Thank GOD, he is not our mate again. He is now the President of Nigeria. There is no doubt that GOD is always on the side of the righteous. We have been nice to them but they have been very very unkind to us. The way to show gratitude for our hospitality is not by snatching our precious heritage while preserving yours with aggressive intolerance. When we play politics, we should draw red lines. The desperation of a man in search of power should not constitute an existential threat to the heritage of a peaceful collectivity. Politics can accommodate profanity but heritage is all about sanctity. Obi wants power but Lagosians want the preservation of their territory. The slogan: Lagos is no man’s land is nothing but the creed of territorial banditry.

On the day of the governorship election, take the aged with PVC along, assist the physically -challenged who have PVC to the polls, go with your husband, don’t leave your wife behind, stroll to the polls with the youth in your house and neighborhood after you must have lectured them on the significance of heritage. Let them know that ethnicity is about national politics while local politics is about heritage and indigeneship. Ask them why they want to put a Chinedu in Alausa when their mobilizers cannot tolerate an Arẹmu in Anambra seat of power. If they now agree with you, please take them along. Please take them to the polls on conviction not by conscription so that they won’t get there and vote against us. You can also inform them-with the youth, you never can tell what will make them to change their minds-that Chinedu, LP’s gubernatorial candidate once twitted this scary message on Twitter “…..Biafra Day is a day to be acknowledged and respected.” The implication of this is that if he should win (GOD forbid), Lagos will automatically become IPOB’s strategic cantonment. Lagos will become the epicenter of Biafra war against the rest of the country. Tell your children that when IPOB turns Lagos to their FRONT LINE, they will not be able to identify them with the votes they cast for Chinedu but by the language they speak. Once you are identified as a Yoruba person, you are an adversary. There is no column for solidarity allies in any Frontline. Adversaries are adversaries. The fall of Lagos will trigger the domino theory because all the South West states are no longer safe. This is why every Yoruba son and daughter who has a voting status in Lagos state should arise on that day to go and vote for Jide Sanwo-Olu of APC in order to save Lagos, and by extension, Yorubaland from the impending Armageddon that the victory of Chinedu will bring to the land.

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I took time to read all of the lengthy post, to understand the point been raised here.
I can only but say, this is the most decisive, hateful and resentful hate speech that I have ever read on this platform.
I'm grateful to God, that your post is on a popular social media that is been read all over the world. I believe that the authorities concerned are taking note.
This was how the genocide in Rwanda started. This was how the seed of tribalism and hatred was sown into Nigeria politics years back by Awo.
It's very painful, that a bonafide indigene of Lagos State, today is been thrown under the bus, because he married from Igbo land. The same reverberated in Ondo State, when Mr Akeredoli was contesting as the governor. The message then was that they should vote for the candidate that has a Yoruba woman as a wife.
The seed of tribalism and ethnicity ravaging the political landscape of Nigeria, was sown here in the South West, the seed of denying one his right because he's married to another tribe is also been down here in the South West, the seed of traditional rulers calling non- indigenes in their dormain, to either toe their party line or be thrown into the Lagoon begins also in the South West.
Whosoever wins as governor, will rule for 8yrs. Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president, will be for 8yrs, whatever we do today, is a seed that awaits in the future.
You can kill, throw, destroy anything Igbo in Yoruba, post hate speeche and mobilize the entire Yoruba nation against the IGBOS in Yoruba land, you will reap the seed, just a day
The world is a small place.
It's painful that a man like you, going by your post, will for political reason, make a post like this, when in the saner clime, where you claim your siblings are, Yorubas, especially in the UK, are making waves, and none questions the place or origin. But for an election that's just for 4yrs, max 8, a full blooded Yoruba man is been victimized because of where he married.
Tinubu himself, didn't marry from Yoruba land, he once said according to paper publication, he doesn't believe in one Nigeria, does that stop him from who he is in Nigeria today.
Posterity will judge. I rest my case.

marlow1962:
Polithiefians will not suffer shit for anything we do, na me I u go suffer am.
So I will sit back, watch and laugh when they start complaining.
Those jubilating clearly shows the rate of illiteracy in this country. The level of stacked illiteracy (especially from the common man) is higher than the poverty level we have in this country.
Citizens jubilating for another 8 years of suffering, una nva see anything yet.

You see, I get worried when people for no reason, but for foolish, heap unnecessary blames on the people of South East, since the advent of this APC regime since 2015.
They say the IGBOS are political neophytes and regional champions. One of the posts that I have just read now said the IGBOS don't open up themselves for other parties to come into their land.
My question is this, are the writers or posters with their senses at all.?
Now look at the following.
1999. The IGBOS voted massively for PDP and helped made Obj president. The Yorubas never voted for their son
2007: The IGBOS again voted for PDP, helped late Yar'Adua became president. The South West, never voted for him
G. E J's Era, the IGBOS voted massively for him. Few people from the South West voted for him.
2015, Rochas Okorocha, brought APC, to Igbo land after his exit from APGA. Till date APC, has 2 states, members of the NASS.
At what point did the IGBOS decide to vote the way the voted? When injustice took place in the parties.
Please stop your blames and harsh comments against the IGBOS, you don't know their pains.