₦airaland Forum

stayreal:
My brother are you aware of history? Do you about the western governor crisis of 1966. That event is what led to the first coup. If Igbos simply stay out of Yorubas problems at that time things will be different. Never shall we have any alliance with Yorubas. We have been there and done that. That bridge has burned long ago. Let them figure it out themselves this time.

myright:
Now listen and listen carefully. If you are close to Tinubu or know anyone close to him, tell him to pay a well publicized solidarity visit with FFK, Fayose and other yoruba elders to Nnamdi Kanu. Let them go into a close door meeting with Nnamdi Kanu and agree to secede from Nigeria. In return, Biafra and Niger Delta will give Oduduwa republic unhindered access to our oil for 20years to develop your own means of generating igr.

Deedeedee3:
I dont think we can ever get Regionalsim. The Core North oppose it. The South east will only accept it if they go back to the former eastern region; the minorities in the south have said they wont go with them.
You need 3/4 of the house to be in support.
We have 109 senators. That means we need 82 to vote in support. How do we get that when the north-west and North-east both have 39? When you minus 109 with 39, you are left with 70. Besides, not all southerners will be in support. There will be some that will still betray us.
Let us stop deceiving ourselves. We can never ever restructure Nigeria. The only soultion is for us to leave Nigeria. If we declare our country, do you think the south-south wont declare theirs? Men, those guys cannot wait to leave Nigeria. They want full control of their resources.
If south-west, south-south and maybe south-east leave who will the Hausa-Fulani fight? Remember that the middle belt wont fight with them( thanks to the fulani herdsmen).
Disintegration is the key not restructuring.
Let us be real here

Olive33:
no form of blackmail will make us support Yoruba in their fight with their master up north ..

Deedeedee3:
Nothing will happen to Osinbajo. Mb are still ok; especially the tribes that dont lick Hausa-Fulani ass, but how many of them dont do that?

OBAGADAFFI:
How dare you compare Tinubu to OBJ.

OBJ is miles ahead of Tinubu anyday, anything.

OBJ is more respected in the North than Tinubu.

Didn't you notice how Tinubu and co, were busy visiting OBJ when they wanted to Buhari for President.

Agbaletu:
Omoiya, pls be soft a bit.
I have said it earlier, Yorubas are alone and we will never beg any ethnic group for alliance.

Olive33:
let me assure u once more ... Yorubas are alone on this .... This is your fight .. We in niger delta aren't helping Yorubas in anyway ... Not after what your people said and did to GEJ

Deedeedee3:
Baba shut up! Do you expect the Igbo man to support Osinbajo? You dont know those people do you? Why were Yorubas marginalized under Gej regime?
The Igbos are ready to stop there secession if they see Yorubas or tinubu beign "punished". This is how their life is.
You should use your stupid brain and stop insulting Yorubas here. We dont need any alliance unless it we want to seceed.

Deedeedee3:
Shut up your dirty mouth! Yorubas dont need any alliance with the se/ss.

Olive33:
till Oct 1 lets see if Yorubas in the north will not be affected also ..

Olive33:
I don't think SS/SE will easily support Yorubas in anything , when stuffs like this keep playin out in our everyday lives

hornyofife:
www.thetrentonline.com/yoruba-restructuring-arewa-youth/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

amachuk:
OGA!, of all you said, I am more concerned about where you mentioned SE&SS and how they will vote saraki in 2019, it gets to show that you don't have the full grasp of the prevalent mood in these areas, we are going to shock and shake Nigeria till it collapses. Anambra will be just a microcosm of what is to come in 2019.

ColonelDrake:
So you want Yoruba moslems to talk? Osinbajo is a christian. Do not expect yoruba moslems to support "an infidel" against thier abokiii slave master. They talk only when slave masters say they should talk.

ayokellany:
Not every race in life is won by the swift, ever heard about silence being wisdom. Let Saraki play is card for Oshibajo to counter instead of him rushing to assert his authority. Remember even Turai bullied Jonathan around but all that changed within a tinkle of an eye.

sekxy:
I'm impressed by the way you are calling your afonja brothers to order..keep it up..,,,they are busy masturbating on NK issue while theirs is about to sink

joeyfire:
Copied from the facebook wall of an exceptional yoruba son.

I envy and admire the resume of Ag. President,
Osinbajo, thus, i advise him to thread softly with
Saraki and the Northern cabal.
He should not play into the hands of the cabal
and the northern oligarchy.
He should face the reality and stop following
emotion.

He should not allow empty barrels who will dump
him immediately he's out of office to push him
against those mightier than him in the game of
power-politics.

Any day, anytime, the Northerners will support
Saraki against Osinbajo.

The South South and South East will support
Saraki.
However, the Yoruba nation is disunited.
Contrary to the acidic and caterkerous reactions
on social media, the major security formations
such as the Army, Police, DSS, etc are with Saraki
and the Northern cabal.
Saraki, to me, did nothing wrong yesterday. He's
just not in good terms with those in charge of the
Media.

Assuming but not conceding that Saraki planned
what happened yesterday in the Senate, he would
have carried the day if committed to voting but
he overruled his colleagues.
Politically, Saraki is a master. He sets targets and
he has never missed his targets. For Now, he is
on top and we should respect his smartness.
Saraki retired his father from politics. He
relegated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from National
Leader of APC to Lagos Leader of APC.
Saraki has pocketed APC structure in Abuja. The
National Chairman, National Secretary and
National Publicity Secretary of APC now report to
Saraki, yet you think the man from Kwara is a
fool.?

Today, all the waring rebels in the senate are with
Saraki, including Tinubu's wife, Oluremi.
The DG of DSS and the IG of Police now close
their duties everyday in Saraki's house.
One thing that is so sure to me is that if Osinbajo
decide to fight Saraki, the VP will be humiliated
and the Yoruba opinion shapers will trade him
(Osinbajo) the way they traded Abiola.
I wish Prof. Yemi Osinbajo divine wisdom,
knowledge and understanding to manage the
current situation in Nigeria. Cheers.

emerged01:
Oga chill. As it is now,Yoruba cannot do anything. The way it is north doesn't see us as a threat,they see us as an ally.we don't have to make them feel insecure by our utterances. Forget what is happening between Hausa and Igbo. Surely,One of them will need an ally,that is where Yoruba comes in. We determine their fate. We don't need any region as an ally,other regions need us an ally because they are tension between them.



You may be hearing Igbo saying," e no concern dem,say na Yoruba wahala". The real fact is that Igbo can have their Biafra under Osibanjo govt not under Hausa govt. They as a matter of fact won't want Hausa govt,that was played out in 2015. And the real reason they called us betrayal,they never liked Hausa but we accommodate them.

989900:
GBAM!
Tinubu is a master strategist, twice as smart as OBJ and the 'evil genius' put together.

edunwablog:
It is 50 years since Nigeria's brutal civil war calling for the secession of Biafra started. By the time it ended in 1970 over one million people had perished. Now a new movement has emerged calling for independence. The BBC's Tomi Oladipo explores its popularity.

Hidden high in the luscious, green hills of Enugu in south-east Nigeria, down a beaten track - under a sign that says leprosy colony - is the Biafran war veterans' camp.

Like its location, residents there are verging on obscurity.

Four old men sitting on parallel wooden benches, propped up on metal crutches - swaying and chanting along to an old battle song.

They fought and were crippled in the bloody Biafran war.

"We went to that war with nothing, we went empty-handed," says Francis Njoku. "Some held machetes, some had sticks. They [Nigerian forces] had machine guns."

Mr Njoku, now 69, lost his kneecap in a gun battle.

It was a desperate fight for survival. But it ended in a ceasefire and Biafra became part of Nigeria again.At the end of the war, the Nigerian head of state General Yakubu Gowon declared there was "no victor, no vanquished" - this became the motto of reunification.

But for many people in the south-east, the reunion has been an uneasy one.

"If you come to Igbo-land you can see there is no development here," says Mr Njoku.

It's a common perception we heard many times here - that Igbo people are marginalised in a Nigeria that only serves the interests of the two other main ethnic groups - the Hausa and Yoruba.

Although government statistics show that poverty rates are far higher in the north than other regions, there are some genuine complaints.

In almost 30 years of democracy, Nigeria hasn't had an Igbo president.

"We still need [Biafra]," says Mr Njoku. "Nigerians are maltreating us - like slaves."It's a strong sentiment and one that a new crop of activists is playing on. Among them a new leader has emerged.

Despite bail conditions saying he cannot speak to the press, Nnamdi Kanu invited us for an interview. He also invited his many supporters to greet us.

We were to meet in his father's compound in the south-eastern town of Umuahia - the last bastion of the Biafran state before its surrender.

As we approached Umuahia it was clear that the crowds were there for our benefit.

We had arranged the interview the afternoon before and in that time he had gathered up to 1,000 people - they surrounded his father's compound waving huge striped flags, carrying the Biafran symbol of a half-rising sun, and foghorns - chanting their support under the pouring rain.

Senior government and police officials live a few hundred metres away but no attention was paid to their presence.

The cheers escalated to roars as they spotted Mr Kanu emerge onto the balcony of the house with his fists raised.

He has gold and black cloth wrapped around his shoulders and a matching gold cap on his black suede designer loafers. "They're calling for Biafra," he says softly, with a smile.

All of this for a cause that has him facing treason-related charges in court.

"Basic human development, basic economic development, basic social development, can no longer be attained for the simple reason that there exists in the polity mutual suspicion, mutual hatred, mutual resentment," he says.

"So the best thing to do is to separate."Mr Kanu is calling for Biafran independence through a referendum.

"We just want to control our political destiny so we can build factories, [build] our roads, cities, bridges, not having to depend on somebody in [the capital city] Abuja."

The Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) movement that he leads believes an independent region will resolve the issue of the marginalization of the Igbos but they also want to bring the non-Igbo, oil-rich Niger Delta into the breakaway state.

They insist it was part of the original Biafra.

"Should any other part of Nigeria wish to join Biafra they are welcome to do so, as long as they are Judeo-Christian... the value system that underpins Biafra."

The movement for Biafra clearly has significant influence around the south-east of Nigeria.A recent stay-at-home protest ordered by Ipob was heeded in many towns. However it seems from many people we spoke to in the region that while they support the idea of Biafra, they are not clear as to where it may take them.

The generation that witnessed the war insists on pacifism, as the men at the veterans' camp told us.

"We are talking about dialogue, not by fighting," said Mr Njoku.

Some are profoundly afraid of where the current rhetoric could lead.

Reverend Moses Iloh is an Igbo but he grew up in the north and now lives in the south-western commercial hub of Lagos.

When the war broke out, he moved to the Biafran Republic to work with the Red Cross.

"The war was one of the crudest you can find," he recalls. "Sometimes there would be more than 50 or 100 children - you would dig a big trench and pour their dead bodies in. I was there. I am not telling you a lie. The suffering was so bad."

Like many Igbos, he supports their ethnic solidarity but sternly warns that any attempts to secede again would be catastrophic.

"Nigerians will not let them go, they will slaughter them - and the whole world will turn their heads and say it's an internal affair."In response to the recent pro-Biafra agitation, a group in northern Nigeria issued a threat, giving all Igbos in the region three months to leave.

The move received widespread condemnation, even in the north, but reflected the delicate nature of Nigeria, a country created when hundreds of different ethnic groups were brought together by the British colonial powers.
more details at http://www.akelicious.com/2017/07/nigeria-treats-us-like-slaves-do-you_41.html

Agbaletu:
I doubt it. I stayed for some years in these parts of the country. A lot of things happened during and after the 2015 election. I am still a strong supporter of GEJ but i must be honest with you, they will never and i say never support us, may be things have changed in the last one year. My friends from these parts of the country have not changed their stands on getting at the Yorubas.

Agbaletu:
I am not usually into this kind of debate but i need to clear your mind that there was never a time in the history of Nigeria that the Yorubas approached or called on any region or ethnic group to support us in any issue. I say this, let it sink into your mind, Yorubas will never call on any ethnic group to support us in any fight or war. We know how we have been handling issues like this for ages and this will not be an exception.

LUGBE:
Face it, so happy you realised that you are yet to put your house in order before going to fight against Biafra.

You now see how they will boot osinbade and next is fashola out.

Is time you fight your battle please remember not to call on Southern, we won't be there to safe your greed

MetaPhysical:
Hausa was never indigenous to Lokoja. Hausas were refugees in Lokoja. The deposed Sarkis and Barons in Hausaland were driven South to the river basins by their Fulani conquerors. When British came to colonize they met resistance with the Fulani Emirs. They in turn were deposed and driven South to a refuge area in the basin and under the watchful eyes of the colonial administrators.

Lokoja was a tributary of Old Oyo. Old Oyo fell much after the first wave of deposed rulers sent Southward. So Hausa were guests and subjects under Yoruba dominion in Lokoja. By the time of the British establishment, Old Oyo had fell to Fulani. Our hold on Lokoja were not as resolute as before. After the second deposition and Fulani Emirs joined their Hausa kins in Lokoja Islam grew and overtook the city further cutting back Yoruba hold.

During successive military rule North consolidated their hold on Lokoja and brought in new settlements to dilute the Yoruba enclaves. We lost three important cities to the political North, Ilorin, Katunga and Lokoja. Ilorin and Katunga through war, Lokoja through our own self doing. Till today, the Yoruba ruler, Olu of Oworo is independent and does not pay homage to the Hausa ruler in Lokoja.

We are very prodigal and careless politically. Omoluabi has dwindled away our fortunes.

If I may add, river basins are naturally blessed for agriculture and commerce. Lokoja is a prime location, even moreso than Ilorin...but we failed to see the worth. If we are not careful, in another 50 to 100 yrs we will be completely irrelevant in Lokoja culture and politics.

9jakool:
Exactly!

9jakool:
Of course! You are absolutely right!
There are Okun settlements in the SW and there are Igbomina and Ibolo in the SW as there are in Kwara and Kogi. The only divide is the imaginary line created by outsiders.

realjoker:
Bros calm u nerve down about your follies, if you don't know before, let me let you know, you are towing the path of liepod yoots who are source of shames to other sensible Igbos.


The Yoruba in Kogi and Kwara states knows where they belong to. All the various minorities tribes across the North Central, Kebbi, Kaduna, Taraba, Gombe knows where they belongs to, so stop giving yourself sleepless nights upon matters that is beyond your own doing.

Eastfield1:
they have started their media propaganda

FOLLOWING the agitation for the restructuring of Nigerian polity, the Okun Development Association (ODA), umbrella socio-cultural group of the Yoruba in Kogi State, has set up a committee of eminent Okun sons and daughters to chart a new course for the Okun nation.

The committee, which is headed by the immediate past ODA President, Chief Emmanuel Otitoju, is to work out modalities that will lead to the people achieving their age long agitation to be carved out of the North Central zone and be reunited with Kith and Kins in the Southwest geo-political zone.

The decision was taken at the ODA National Executive Committee meeting which held in Kabba, Kogi State conveyed by ODA National President, Ambassador Babatunde Fadumiyo.

The ODA resolved among others that the Okun people would support any form of restructuring of the polity that would see the “Okun nation occupies its rightful place in the comity of nations”.

It was further resolved that “there is the urgent need to evolve a throw-back mechanism into the workings of the Okun people whereby genuine people’s needs, liberty, self-determination through national and global development, hard work, transparency and accountability which are veritable virtues associated with the Okun people are brought back and better refined; that there should be deliberate and concerted efforts at driving out the negative virtues of social marginalization, abject poverty, mutual distrust, tension, segregation, rancor and acrimony as these are negative virtues which impede the economic and political growth of Okun land”.

The group expressed appreciation to the administrations of President Muhammadu Buhari and Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for considering Okun people to serve in key positions in the present dispensation.

Appraising the lingering political crisis in the state, the association resolved that it was a creation of factions within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, adding that in the interest of peaceful co-existence of all Kogi people, members of the ruling APC at the national level should as a matter of urgency intervene in the imbroglio between Bello and Senator Dino Melaye and create a veritable platform for an amicable resolution.

It condemned “vituperations, unsavory utterances and violent activities of some political office holders which are meant to drag the good name of Okun people into the mud. The executives believed that such unguided activities if not checked, could tarnish the most cherished culture of honesty, dedication, hard work characteristic of the Okun people.”

The communiqué of the meeting read in part, “That political office holders and other disgruntled elements within the Okun political, social and religious hemisphere should desist henceforth from negative act of using Okun people and its territory as a launch pad for political violence, acrimonious relationships and as a platform for disseminating official or unofficial falsehood under any guise; capricious wastage of human resources and the destruction of our age along cherished legacies which are capable of embarrassing the Okun nation.

“That following the clarion call for the restructuring of Nigeria as a whole, a committee comprising eminent Okun sons and daughters be set up with Chief E.O. Otitoju (MFR) as the chairman. That the committee should among its oversight functions Chart New Course for the Okun nation so as to allow the Okun nation occupy its rightful place in the Comity of Nations, especially along with its Kith and Kins in the South-West.”

dudebuck:
Did Nnamdi kanu go to Enugu? Yes or No?