₦airaland Forum

edicolove: I would be interested in such a list but again, you cannot say people like Abacha or IBB really cared much what their ministers thought or said. Their agendas were cast in stone from day 1. Awo was the first finance minister if I can recall. He definitely set the tone for where we are now as a nation. His people did benefit from him and you have to respect that but in the context of Nigeria, his divisive ideologies set us up for the big divides we see today.

Johndoe100: At last you have found another traitor. It must make you so happy. We are all for keeping politicians on there toes, but the ACN has malice as their primary motive.

Beaf: Who gives a phuck if Yoruba people like or dislike Obj?
That point is irrelevant and those raising it are fools who equate ACN with the Yoruba ethnic group. ACN itself promotes this disgraceful attitude as a primitive means for dirty ethnic blackmail as well as to coerce id!otic bigots into line.
If anyones outlook on life is so abysmally primitive, they should bear it in mind that the rest of us do not share your place in the dregs.

In the meantime, lets hail ACN as the title suggests; "fearless ACN" bravely trying to bully minorities!
Up fascists! The new Nazi's in town where everything is delineated with ethnicity.

edo.girl:
This is about party politics, between two political parties. It's disingenuous to make this a Yoruba thing.

Also, your warning that Yorubas should not 'provoke' non-indigenes into leveraging their numerical strength (not dominance)in the politics of Lagos assumes that so-called non indigenes will line up in single file behind you to vote against Yoruba interest come 2015.

First, most non-indigenes in Lagos are just glad to live peacefully in Lagos. They have nothing fundamentally against Yorubas, at least no more than they have against other tribes. They will not change their position becos JEG can't look after himself

Second, there is a significant number of non indigens who are from outside the S/South and S/East, such as Northerners who live in Lagos and who will have nothing to do with siding with your position unless ofcourse you promise to hand over more of the remaining 30% Nigerian-owned oil blocks they do not already own - to add to the 70% they control. I suspect you wouldn't want to do that, or would you?

Third, many Lagos residents from the South South are clever enough to see this current issue as party politics and nothing more than that, certainly nothing to justify a meaningless gang-up against Yorubas - I include myself in this group.

Regarding your contention that ACN's antics threaten to leave Yorubas 'isolated,' I disagree. Isolated from what exactly. From central govt? When you look deeply, you will find that way back from the First Republic, Yorubas have always been in opposition, including, most of Obasanjo's time as President. Afterall, being in opposition to the central govt didn't stop Awolowo from excelling as Premier. I doubt threatening them with isolation from JEG's government will send shivers down the spine of any right thinking Yoruba person.

My message to you is, keep tribe out of this. Focus on the real issue.

edicolove: My guy, if you looking for an opportunity to lash the Ibos, go ahead. I am not from the south east. I am Niger Delta thru and thru. But that is not even important. What's imporant are that we must have a country where evry tribe is equal and respected. GEJ should be criticised as president but how does insulting his name, traditional attire and such stuff count as proper criticism. Please tell me?

edicolove: @Jason123, maybe I should break it down for you.

1. Even if Buhari had won all the other five states, GEJ would have still won the lection. Check the result figures.

2. My point is simply that ACN is turning their opposition into a we versus them war. It isn't the other way round. ACN are the real bigots here.

3. There are enough non indegines and Yoruba PDP folks in all the south west states to give GEJ those votes.

4. The reason I keep emphasising the non indigenes point is because you folks think you have a sort of status that really doesn't exist. I don't have a problem with you criticising GEJ, I have a problem with you trying to distract him with your petiness and bad blood. There is BH, PIB, etc that will need to focus on, not some petty building in the presidents village. Haba, it sounds really st.p1.d I must tell you and folks across the country see it as such. Its only in the western press you find those taking it serious

edicolove: Of course I supported him because I needed a change from the majority rule that have ruined the country over 5 decades. You don't think that is a strong reason? Some of you lads have a false sense of importance really.

Get it in your thick skull. Hausa/fulani and Yorubas ruined this country for 5 decades. If you think I will be afraid to say that because you will call me a bigot, then you need to have a rethink. This is 2012 and we are very aware and ready now.

edicolove: I live in Lagos and understand the politics of Lagos. Lagos is not being ruled by the Yorubas because they are more in number but because the non indegenes or other tribes shy away from the politics. My point is very clear. If you make the issue one of Yorubas against the rest of us, you will create a situation where non indigenes will begin to allign themselves against the Yorubas. This is not about insults or name calling. My warning is very clear and about facts. I saw a bit of that in the last elections. The ACN folks at my polling booth clearly told us during the presidential election that it wasn't their day and that they weren't really interested. They boasted that we should come back and see what will happen during the following weeks gov election and true to their words, they turned out en masse. I observed that in at least 3 polling stations.

The non indigenes in Lagos far outnumber the indigenes. Places like Surulere, Ketu, AJ, festac, etc are majorly other tribes. That many of them can speak Yoruba doesn't make them Yoruba. The truth is, if you want to criticize GEJ, by all means do. But when you create this situation where everything ACN peeps do is right and whatever GEJ does is wrong and you want to claim you are being objective or that you have Nigerias interest at heart, you are creating a divide that will come back to hunt you. And to think that everyone else cannot see your real agenda and motive is very delusional.

This church building issue is sooooo petty that it will really lay ACN out in the sun to dry, believe me. If you think Nigerians from across the country is really going to take this serious, then you have truly lost it.

Demdem: Once again, this is what the retardeen useless yarns has led us. After intoxicating himself with as much kai-kai as possible, what else again? He goofed big time, no doubt about that.

edicolove: One funny thing though is that ACN folks keep claiming they were part of Jonathan's emergence. I live in Lagos so I really wonder at such claim. They never came out to vote during the presidential election. The figures are clear on that. The non indegines in the south west were the votes Jonathan got from there. Their claim is very funny and hypocritical. Truth is PDP does not need yoruba votes to win in 2015. If the yorubas don't change their strategy, they will find themselves completely isolated very very soon.

afam4eva: I think bayelsa was unlucky to be part of a rivers state where everything was centered in port-hacourt. So, when the state was created, they had to start building it from s cratch. Like beaf said, Bayelsa only joined the national electricity grid in 2008.

Johndoe100: Without the us (and this includes the izon in ondo) you would starve to death.

Ogbonaikenna: Its really unfortunate this is happening. But i think they are reaping what they sowed between 1967-1970. Karma has caught up with them. The spirit of biafra is real

alj harem: Let me give the Bigots some example of disgraced Nigerian president

1. OBJ was a Nigerian president and was beating by A YORUBA MAN in MMIA

2. OBJ was stoned with pure water in Anambra (should the "yoruba nation" have come out to shout hailstorm ?)

3. Yaradua was called yara slow, dumb etc before he died (should fulani come and say fulani nation ?)

4. IBB has gone through a lot even till this day from all corner of the nation

5. Abacha was actually murdered by IBB so as to free Nigerian and not Hausa nation or Yoruba nation

I can keep going on and on, you have to understand that the hardwork of making "your son" the president has already been done, Now is the time to leave him to the NATION so he can do his job

GEJ is not a child or a baby you would protect, GEJ just like other and future Nigerian president would got through a lot of hardship and insults till they leave the office and even after they leave they would still be blamed

That is the nature of ruling Nigeria.

Gbawe: GEJ himself wants it like that. We all know how Reuben Abati is quick to open his mouth to defend any perceived criticism of Jonathan. Why was there no reaction from Abati when Dokubo-Asari said that the death sentence against AL-Mustafa is a Yoruba plot to rubbish GEJ? Was that not the perfect opportunity for GEJ to improve unity and cohesion by telling Dokubo-Asari off publicly and stating categorically that the President is behind every sentence passed by a competent Nigerian Court?

There are many examples like that where Jonathan's kinsmen, frankly, have insulted others who have rights , as Nigerians, to criticise the actions of their President or express dissatisfaction with his policies. Instead GEJ kept ominously silent when a peacemaking, uniting and truly Nigerian President would have being very active stepping up to the challenge of putting down divisive, incendiary and needlessly ethnocentric trouble-making.

May God help Nigeria with the choice they have made.

Abagworo: The clear message is that GEJ cannot win 2015 Presidency. If he contests, they will fight him with a fellow Southerner who the North and SW will vote en masse. That could be Oshiomole. Everyone knows what that means. No more blackmail of "our oil" or "they are parasites" because both candidates will be from the same zone.