Northernblood8: Adeleke spoke Igbo during BBC interview even more than some Igbos and his Family line has alot of Igbo blood but yet no one is shouting Igbo domination.
Aketi is married to an Igbo but yet no one is shouting Igbo domination.
Real invaders, Fulani Herdsmen are in the farms and forests in rural areas taking over lands, raping and killing indigenes but yet no one is shouting Domination because they are muslims.
Yoruba Christians must not wait for MURIC to speak for them before they can Timidly speak. Until now, heavyweights like Oyedepo or Adeboye has not issue strong statement against the muslim attack on Christian Igbos under the guise of political thug. This must stop.
A proverb says that only an evil Adult will be in the house and a tied goat will give birth under bondage .
I know say you be ugm and u dey use style dey disrespect Yoruba pastors.but...sniper is less than 1k
Bitchiamjay: No dey pour spit for face. Your drug baron principal Thiéfnùbù go soon return our stolen mandate. Peter Obi will rule this country, the least you can do is drink hypo.
It was never about who is competent. Competence itself is relative and subjective It was never because he was old, circa USA the greatest country in the world It was always an ethnic agenda
funshint: This is a very serious matter. People should contact both schools he claimed to attend; both Nottingham and MIT with his full name; Chinedu Gbadebo Rhodes-vivour. Then verify with INEC which certificate he submitted for screening. We can't afford to have a fraud as Lagos state governor!
He also claim he attended ecole in France, a very ivy league school in France
iLoveYouToo: Guys please we can't allow agberos and irresponsible policemen to keep ruining lives in Lagos. We need someone who can put an end to the madness we face on intra city routes. Imagine getting your vehicle impounded for allegedly going against traffic WHEN THERE ARE NO TRAFFIC SIGNS TO INDICATE "one way traffic only".
Let's kick Sanwo Olu OUT or make him promise to rid the streets of touts and AGBEROS daily taking advantage of law abiding citizen's minor failings.
We need sanity back to the streets. You can't claim to be building a metropolitan city when thuggery and touting remains prevalent on your streets. NEVER AGAIN
ibo man why are you not concerned with Onitsha agbero
Mediahq: Ideally, democracy is meant to be a government of the people by the people for the people, but it has been twisted to be a contrary experience in Lagos State. For so long, the politics of Lagos State has always supported and benefitted only the privileged politicians, the elites, the hanger-ons, the henchmen of politicians, the ruthless enforcers, the transport unions officials, the market women officials and others at the expense of the people.
By and large, the popular political system called ‘state capture’ is the predominant behind-the-scene hand of treachery that controls the levers of economic and political power in Lagos State, while marginalising the less privileged and leaving the general average hardworking Lagosians to scramble for crumbs of survival. Thus, our state has been captured for the private benefits of less than 1 percent of the citizens of the state while 99 percent suffer from the huge infrastructure failure and large scale corruption of the APC government.
Today, as a result of the lopsided, exclusive, corrupt character of government in Lagos State, many questions are begging for answers. How many Lagosians have access to good healthcare services, potable water and affordable housing? How many low-cost houses were built by the APC government in the last 20 years for Lagosians? Perhaps the government built at best 30,000 units for over 20 million struggling tax-paying citizens of the state! Still, how many of our people are gainfully and productively employed? How many new jobs were created directly and indirectly by the state government in the last 20 years? Quite insignificant!
As the grim realities of misrule grind on Lagosians year after year, many are still living in the squalid and poverty-ridden areas of Ajegunle, Okokomaiko, Badagry, Ikorodu, Epe, Alimosho, Lagos Island, Lekki, Bariga, Shomolu, Ketu, Ojo and so on. The sadder reality is that most of the people living in such slum conditions have no hope in the next 50 years of being pulled out of poverty as they continue to suffer acute lack of electricity, potable water, decent accommodation, health and education facilities, gainful jobs and more, due their total oppression by the political elites.
So, right-thinking stakeholders are now asking: where are the so-called acclaimed massive developmental projects being trumpeted by the APC government to deceive voters for a second term when life still is short, hard and brutish in the state for most residents? Curiously, in this same ‘centre of excellence’, consultants to the state government collect over 50 billion naira annually in various commissions for taxes and other levies collected on behalf of the state. Multiple taxation that kills businesses is the order of the day, with all kangaroo kinds of consultants such as in inland revenue, tenement rates, land use charge, advert isement, telecom infrastructure, power infrastructure approvals, building permits, fund raising, markets, abattoir and transport unions all oppressing and fleecing Lagosians of their hard earned income. But where is all the money going into? Where is accountability for our commonwealth? Isn’t it time Lagosians woke up and demand concrete answers as the next elections approach fast?
The Labour Party governorship team of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) and his Deputy is firmly of the view that in every four years of an APC government, over N100 billion is frittered away in special fees payable to consultants and other politically backed rent seekers. When this is coupled with an over bloated and corrupt contracting process, inflated figures by various ministries, plus the state capture by the political leader, his agents and government officials of the land assets of the state, it can be boldly affirmed that over two trillion Naira has been wasted and diverted to some people’s pockets in the last twenty years of the APC government. That is the same massive amount of money that would have helped provide educational scholarships, world-class healthcare, affordable houses, potable water and the creation of millions of jobs for the most disadvantaged, marginalized people of the state.
However, all hope is not lost. That is why GRV’s message is that Lagosians must take their fate in their hands and seize their chance in 2023! We have been taken for a ride for too long. If elected, the GRV government will declare within its first few days of office a total war on poverty. Our focus will be to create a good life and living for the lowest income earning Lagosians and others. We will improve access to quality education, quality healthcare, clean water, affordable housing and so on. We will set up and finance skill acquisition centers for ICT in high-demand jobs and training for at least 2 million people in all the local government areas in the state, in disciplines such as fintech, programming, cybersecurity, gaming technology, data analytics, online marketing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.
Also, we will deal with the miserable traffic situation by building efficient road and water transportation networks all over the state. In all, we will definitely block all leakages, rent seeking, corrupt diversion of our commonwealth, terminate all evil consulting agreements of the APC collaborators and recover our commonwealth for the entire benefits of Lagosians. We will fight the evil extortion of our traders, drivers, market women etc. Major focus of GRV administration will be on catering to a better life for artisans, lower cadre civil servants, lower cadre private sector workers, domestic workers, drivers, market women, underprivileged youths and senior citizens, unemployed folks, and all those living in the ghettos of Lagos, to give everyone a sense of belong and a good standard of living. A new beginning beckons to Lagosians. GRV is ready and prepared to take Lagosians to the next level. Join us!
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You're a untested, unproven and so I'll fit. Go and become councillor chairman first
We all know why you scoured through the internet for this. No where did the piece mentioned ibos as owners of Lagos except as slaves in benin kingdom so rhere fore ibo land is also no mans land .osu man cannot I say it again cannot rule over the yorubas. Watch for serious push back politically
Fut9ure: Now the whole world should ask yorubas what happened? Buhari was travelling for medical check up non stop and the whole Nigerians were crying and regretting why we should have someone old and sick as president especially the yorubas were saying he should just hand over to a vibrant Osinbajo
Now what happened? Why is it that we have even a more vibrant obi but the yorubas chose even a more weaker and mentally and physically unfit tinubu suffering parkinson disease with dementia not aware of his environment Knowing fully well that the seat of the president is for someone who is mentally and physically fit capable of being aware of whatever is going on in ondo, edo, sokoto and ebonyi
Tinubu's mental unfitness is viral and global around the world..Indians, Ghanaian, Americans everybody are aware
It means a Yoruba man will be ashamed of themselves around the world now whenever they want to say that their normal useless talk of them being the most accommodating, Liberal and most educated 😉 😀 😜 😄
They can no longer say it especially the people of Ekiti state
caracas: Nigerians should get ready for the mother of all protests , If the result of the Supreme Court goes the same way as the inec results ….Trust me this country will not survive what will hit it if those Supreme Court chickens fumble….
The question is very simple. Which country?? Or you mean biafra land
Na who do una like this?? Why is hate and bigotry your trademark because it will be very difficult for an ibo man ever to win a truly national election
9jvirgin: Return the people's mandate you stole. The people do not want you. You are a thief, a rogue, and you will be disgraced. May 29th will not happen. Mark these words!
TinubuShet: Finally it make front page, Gbadebo Chinedu is omo ale, product of night stand of an asewo woman from East with randy Rhodes Vivour , He will never come close to Alausa, he is also Biafra apologist, never, I don't want to sit at home on Monday morning
Notice how the vivour family openly endorsed Sanwo olu
I really like you, and I will like to see you continue your work from where you stopped, but the people have the final say...
The same people of Eti-Osa you keep punishing with huge tax are the same people you are begging for vote.
Where were you when we are also begging you to reduce your high ended policy, that keeps making things over difficult for us....
You keep introducing different policy, just to milk us dry, LASPA and different agency without listening to us, I know how many times I have to go to your various agency office to be begging including Alausa
My fellow Yoruba brothers were mocking Sunday Igboho when DSS attacked his house in an attempt to assasinate him. They mocked Yoruba nation agitators just for fighting Yoruba course.
Herdsmen ransacked some part of Ibarapa local government in Ibadan, my fellow Yorubas started attacking Sunday Igboho for standing up to Killer Herdsmen. Yoruba interest was not paramount to them then.
When Osinbajo indicated interest to contest for Presidency, Yoruba interest Yoruba ronu was not paramount. It was even fellow Yorubas talking him down. Calling him all sort of names. He is Judas, he is Omo ale, he is this, he is that.
But when Kolu decided its his turn, they started saying Yoruba Agenda. Its time for Yoruba. So Obasanjo is not Yoruba. He did 8years. Osinbajo a Yoruba man also did 8years as VP. So what Yoruba turn are we talking about. Must it be Kolu? Must baba Kolu be president?
Now Lagos election is next week. They started calling some of us Omo ale for voting Labour Party. They are blaming us for selling lagos to Ibos.
My dear Yoruba brothers, you can not eat your cake and have it back. You are anti-Yoruba nation, you stood for One Nigeria. If you are standing for One Nigeria, then Lagos is One Nigeria. Lagos was the former FCT. So all tribes in Nigeria have stakes in it. Thats why we fought for Yoruba nation so that we can be in control of our lands and seas. But you said its one Nigeria you want. Lagos is One Nigeria, so any tribe should be able to govern it.
Then come Gbadebo Vivor. They are claiming he is Igbo. Gbadebo father is an Aboriginal Yoruba people of Lagos. Gbadebo father is more Lagosian than Tinubu who came from Osun state. Ekiti, Osun, Ibadan people be claiming Omo Onile in Lagos. The real Yoruba settlers in Lagos can as well tell you to go back to your states.
Thats how one owala from Iseyin with his Ilu oke ascent was asking me for omo onile money when i was decking my house. Y'all will be put in your places next saturday election.
Shey elegbon ni...ema to kogbon
Put this into your covetous, hateful heart that any Yoruba from Dahomey to Brazil can claim Lagos state.but not iyamirin. No ibo man can lay claim in any guise to Lagos. You're all guests and migrants and can never rule your host
opamoses1: Why even bother argue with these people. The bigot and Yoruba hating bastard will be sent back to Anambara. He can keep loving his IPOB and ESN family in the East.
raskymonojendor: Davido has never insulted the Yoruba, Banky W never insulted the Yoruba, Desmond Elliot never insulted the Yoruba, Governor Adeleke never insulted the Yoruba, but this IPOB apologist deserves all the heat coming his way for using the Slurs and deriding the Yorubas.
I voted for Peter Obi but my vote is for Sanwo Olu this time around.
MikoB: Sanwo olu will win lagos easily, not because he performed excellently well but because of this guy call Rhode vivour past endeavours with ipob and the rest..
BECAREFUL OF THE IGBO JIHADIST. THAT IS THEIR WAY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.
I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.
The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?
Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?
Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?
OKOTA BALLOT BOX
As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.
But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.
Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.
Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.
In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.
Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.
So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.
Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?
That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.
The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?
JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE
The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.
The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.
Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?
I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.
Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?
It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.
What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.
The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.
Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos
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