₦airaland Forum

resurgentxtian4:
I think he’s out now. The bank shouldn’t have arrested him. The bad publicity is bad for the bank but they would do just fine.

They can just apologize and settle this in house.

Which bank arrested him?

Are you paying attention at all?

Ekweremadu is using his position to push ethnic interest. This is wrong use of Senatorial proceedings and assets. Why is Senate running a parallel investigation to that of EFCC, do they not have confidence in EFCC?

SalamRushdie:
Or just plain political witch hunt form this very primitive govt we have today ..Iwont be suprised this arrest has something to do with 2019

...or maybe with IPOB

All transactions between individuals and banks are private and personal, government does not involve itself in the personal contract. Even if an individual defaults on a loan the most a commercial bank could do is initiate recovery action which usually start with the collateral, if there is one. The next stage is legal action, and the last is a writeoff and then blacklisting. Government is never called in to intervene in a matter between an individual and their bank in normal instances.

If a fraud or criminal activity has taken place on a individual account, a bank can invite government for forensic investigation. This is very rare because banks usually have their own shady deals they are trying to keep covered and under cloak of drkness and so they will never approach government into their business even at most disadvantage against a client. Theyd rather hire private investigator and get their legal department involved.

When government is involved in a bank account usually they have been monitoring that account for a while and with surveillance. Government likes to keep credibility intact and avoid embarassment with public. So they restrain and are cautious about taking impulsive action that will prove unproductive and end in embarassments. Account scrutiny and surveillance can take months, sometimes years gathering evidence and collecting forensic footprints and trails of money movements in and out of an account, sometimes across many countries and they may even involve security agencies in other countries to establish proper protocol and jurisdiction.

So for someone as high placed as Innoson to be invited by EFCC there is a lot going on the fraud/criminal side...more than likely funding for a terrorist group, money laundering, drug cartel protection money, and so on.

Innocent Chukwuma should not be giving interview so soon unless hebis attempting to get public empathy to his side. If hands are clean he should support government investigation and give all assistance he can to get to the bottom of the issue. Coming on TV to talk about what banks owe to him is a deflection and is read as someone trying not to sink in the sorrounding pool of evidence accusing him of wrongdoing. At the EFCC interrogation they must have showed him some basic evidence, not all...its a setup...a hook to get him to panic and start covering his footprints or trying to erase tracks.

Who owns GTBank?

Awww...what happened?
Mtcheww

May her soul rest in peace!

hardywaltz:
Atiku has neva won any competitive Presidential Primaries.

He will lose again to Sule Lamido.

He is going to come in third behind Lamido and Makarfi. Thats his comfort zone....coming in third place.

Big Congrats to Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo!

Yuletide or no yuletide, what good is Akanu Ibiam airport anyway?

Look at the expression on Gowon, Sonekan and VP's face. This woman comes from a very affluent background, financially, politically and culturally...look how she exhibited good upbringing.

Tell me why Sonekan and Gowon will not vote for her husband if he asks for their backing.

We in SW will vote in 2019 to secure YORUBA Presidency for 2023.

This article was written November 19th, 2019. This was the projection ahead of PDP Convention on December 9th.

By December 10th as feedbacks streamed in and judging by temperaments it became clear that PDP had yielded SW, ground zero of 2019 election, to APC. This is so because not only did PDP deny the region Chairmanship but also declared that SW is politically irrelevant and inconsequential to the destiny of PDP.

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Tobi Soniyi examines the dynamics of the South-west politics and concludes that both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party would have to slug it out in the region to win the presidency in 2019

For visionary leaders, the campaign for their re-election begins immediately they are sworn in for their first term. But not Muhammadu Buhari!
While waiting to be inaugurated, the president started to squander the goodwill with which he was elected. After inauguration, he continued to make enemies and sought protection within his ethnic enclave. He was brazen that many believed at the time he was not going to seek a second term in office.

In the process, he lost many of his staunch supporters especially in the South-west. Today, the South-west people are at a crossroads. Should they stick to Buhari and risk further alienation if he wins a second term? Or should they switch allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party? For many in the South-west, deciding on which option is best is not an easy task. This is because each option carries its own risks. Perhaps, there is a third option.

Luckily for the South-west however, it appears to be the zone that will ultimately decide who becomes the president in next elections. It is going to be the battleground. Little wonder, the PDP wants the zone to initially produce its next national chairman.
Having already secured the South-south and the South-east and having zoned the presidency to the North, the PDP needs the South-west to beat the All Progressives Congress. Against this backdrop, it is re-ordering its options. It also wants to zone the vice-presidential slot to the zone too since the APC may likely retain it there.

The APC does not even have a choice in the matter. Since the party is not wanted in both the South-east and the South-south, save for the façade of crowd that greeted the president’s visit to the zone recently, the APC must do all within its power to maintain the status quo by remaining the dominant party in the South-west zone in order to retain power at the centre. Whichever way one looks at it, the South-west is the attractive bride every party wants to befriend.

yanshDoctor:
this time around pdp dont need to clear south west. just shared the votes that all. if they can get same number of vote in 2015 that is okay. the major area for pdp is to clear NC and 25% from NW then 40% from NE.

Do you even realize that by voting APC in 2019 we have prolonged Ibo presidency by another 16yrs?

Which SWesterner do you know that will not buy into that idea?

yanshDoctor:
for now south south is the most strongest region for the PDP despite APC is controlling one of the state that is EDO. APC as a party is not sellable in edo although the people might like the governor as a person and not the party. beside that we all knows how oshiomhole ring his way through the election for the governor at a time PDP was in crisis.

in 2019 presidential election the PDP will claimed this 6 states for sure with 80% total vote despite federal might. and i see reasons why the chairmanship should come from this region.

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next is the south east, although PDP might not be able to claim IMO state. but sure the vote will be divided with at least 40%-50% sure for PD in imo. but i am confident that PDP will deliver Abia, Enugu, Anambra and ebonyi.

so from the south east there is going to be 70% votes total vote for PDP.

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But from the south west PDP will perform poorly. but because of Igbo population there maybe 40% total votes from there.

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north central PDP will get upto 60% votes there including Abuja.

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north west pdp will get 25% votes.

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north east pdp will get 40% there.

This is why your PDP chairman should come from swing region, and not a region already in the PDP pocket.

You first find places where the voters are split and your opposition is loosing credibility. You then identify a person with strong track record for credible performance and one that is a social symbol for your opponent's mantra.

Example, APC mantra is anti-corruption.

So you should put someone up whose political background is stellar and comparable to the President in moral character. This will force APC to shift ground and find a new mantra to champion. That will be a grave political mistake to change imperative in the drive up to an election year.

Study McCain vs Obama, US Presidential election 2008. Economy exploded and the leading candidate shifted his message and lost ground. Guess who gave Obama victory? Swing voters!

SW was a decisive state and fully in APC basket in 2015. SW did not kick Jonathan out because price of gari was high or because kulikuli was not affordable, no....Jonathan was kicked out because he showed arrogance, in symbol and in substance. First he had called Yoruba leaders rascals, then followed it up by denying them access to what they want. Jonathan assisted SW to vote APC.

A lot has happened between 2015 and now that has caused SW to regard APC with suspicion. SW can swing away from APC and kick Buhari out if they are given what they want in PDP.

Instead, Wike, like Jonathan, insulted our leaders and PDP, as it did in time of Jonathan, has again denied us what we want. On the opposite side APC has vetted our son to be its flag bearer in 2023. SW is going to put victory in APC's hand again in 2019.

Study and understand Nigerian politics thoroughly, stop feeding us bullshyyte out of your @ss

ItsTutsi:
how many times did the north vote Buhari and he didn't win?

Head butt.

richidinho:
But he is a graduate unlike Buhari your own messiah

Graduate of where?

The CROWN is what identifies Yoruba. It is also the object that binds us together. Between Yoruba and others is an umatched distinction in heirarchy. This distinction has been lost and the heirarchy taken away by the modernity of political class. Ethnic groups that were once waved off as inconsequential and politically irrelevant, those whose fathers would vacate and make room for Yorubaman to sit at the banquet, and then wait on him cheerfully till he has had his fill; it is only after he got up to leave that the low caste can scoop up what is left over to take home to his family. Now the children of those Awolowo rescued and enrolled in school, in their nak3dness, with no shoes or pedigree for greatness, tell us that they are our peers and our fathers are inconsequential to how their destiny in Nigeria will be shaped.

What an abomination!

Those who should serve us are now competing with us for a seat at the banquet. If Yoruba does not shape up there soon wont be a seat for him at the banquet table. A response is urgently needed. The CROWN is in need of a renaissance. We dont have to durbar like they do in Hausaland but it should be noted that this Emirate renaissance is a a solid exhibition for displaying political glory and cultural pride.

The distinction of heirarchy needs to be accentuated clearly and for good.

Every Easterner with a worth in his name has one or more abode in Yorubaland. Every Governor of East has a home in Yorubaland. Every red cap chief has his foot planted in Yorubaland. Ohanaeze has held three big gathering in Yorubaland this year, each targeted to ndigbo. Is this not a statement of competition with us in our domain? Pretty soon they will bring the coronation of Obi of Onitsha to Yorubaland. After that Ofala festival will begin to hold in Yorubaland.

This meeting of handshake for Southern bond is a disguise. There is no respect or honor in it because the political class, the professional class, the traditional class of Easterners will not stop to label Yorubaland a no man's land....just because of a handshake across.

The sooner the elders drop all ideas of a handshake for bonding between West and East, the earlier we can pull our bootstrings together and formulate ideas to bring back the CROWN classics for display and upliftment.

Igboid:
I had watched sadly from the sidelines as events unfolded following the recent PDP convention where non Igbos from SS got one over the Yoruba PDP caucus.
It was indeed interesting as Wike now fully incharge of Rivers state treasury like Amaechi was was, flexed his financial powers and translated that into political power, aided by the "cash and carry" politics of Nigeria.

Naturally I am apathic to any thing that has to do with Nigeria, as I see no future hope for Nigeria, but I had to break my silence, after watching from the sidelines how Ndiigbo had been shooting ourselves on the foot again and setting us up for national backlash via unintelligent political calculations.
This is majorly highlighted by the manner Igbo persons all over the Nigerian social media had hijacked an other wise battle between SS people and Yorubas and turned it into an Igbo vs Yoruba battle.

Having observed this trend, the following questions came to mind.



Is Wike Igbo? Cos last time I checked, he isn't.
So why are Igbos being dragged to Wike/Secondus mess, and why are some Igbos taking the bullet for Wike and his Ikwerre people?

Ndiigbo, emelu unu ya eme?

Why can't you learn to choose you fight? This fight should be an Ikwerre Vs Yoruba fight, with Ikwerre warlords like HopeAthand fighting for their brother, and other we SS people supporting him, instead Ndiigbo bought the fight, while these people ( Ikwerre and SS people) sat back and watch you take the bullets from the sidelines.
When the dust settles, Ndiigbo becomes the scape goat, while Ikwerre and SS people goes behind the scenes to get crumbs off the table of the ruling government, while not forgetting to display Igbophobia to please the Yorubas and other Nigerians.

Haven't we been down this line with GEJ before?
Why do we purposely make ourselves pawns in people's political chess board?

The way Ndiigbo are vocal all over the internet defending Wike and Secondus, one could have easily mistaken them for Igbo persons, when they are not.

Ife aga eme unu ugbolo one tupu unu amalu ife, umu Igbo?

Tufia!
Obulu ogwu na oya ele.

NYESOM wike. I thought Nyesom is Ibo name.
UCHE secondus. Is Uche not Ibo name?

pafra:
MEET ONE MOST CORRUPT CIVIL SERVANT RICHER THAN 4 NORTHERN GOVERNORS.

“Civil servant to forfeit 86 vehicles, four houses to FG
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, has ordered that 86 luxury vehicles, together with four houses and a quarry plant in Abuja, belonging to a civil servant, Mr. Ibrahim Tumsah, be temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government.
The luxury vehicles were allegedly seized from Tumsah, a director in the federal Civil Service.” - PUNCH

An online Magazine known as BizWatch profiled him in August 2017 as

“CORRUPT BILLIONAIRE: THE UNTOLD WEALTH OF FINANCE/ACCOUNT DIRECTOR OF MIN. OF POWER, WORKS & HOUSING; IBRAHIM TUMSAH WHO IS RICHER THAN FOUR NORTHERN GOVERNORS”.

This is part of the examples of #CorruptionInMDAs that CATBAN is talking about.

This guy is one of reasons we do not have sustainable power in the country.

Give few minutes...they will be here. They are busy at moment throwing kicks to wake head of household up.

konoplyanka:
Thought you were insinuating that he would be harassed for the phantom Ekitigate.

If not, he doesn't need any immunity. All he needs is position himself for the VP position even though I know PDP can't win the forth coming election.

The ibos are talking of equity when they betrayed that principle by not conceding the chairmanship position to the south west. South West is the only region in the south not have held that position. They should have zoned it to the South West in the spirit of equity and justice.

Now they have no moral ground to complain when we contest the next presidency or vice presidency coming to the South.

Im not a Fayose fan but more than anything else Ive seen what Fayose can do and his resourcefullness to bridge gaps. Mimiko was distant, he listened to Jonathan in Abuja and avoided ACN Govs in public. He wouldn't even attend DAWN events except send representative. Fayose ia also a lone Governor in West and attends all functions with his brothers first as Yoruba, before partisan politics. They accord him the same respect. If he hosts a Yoruba summit in Akure they attend. I love that. Yorubaland does not all have to be APC or all PDP, in fact I wish one of our states will be SDP as well....but the key is for all of them to bond and represent the region as a common front of brotherhood. Fayose plays that role very well. Im not sure if you noticed, even though Akeredolu is APC his acceptance was at first slow. The body language showed it. He attends all events pertaining to the region and now when they are pictured together you can feel their cheer and fraternizing. So while im not his fan, Ayodele Fayose serves a role that I relate with and support. Likewise his stance on anti-grazing....not only did he make the law and create a process he also enforced the law and demonstrated the result.

Fayose is not dispensable but he is displaceable. Ekitigate is not a violation of Nigerian ethos because like you said his action is the norm in national landscape....but in Yorubaland supporting external interest to violate your brothers on their land, as was the case in Ekitigate, should not be tolerated.

Now to his VP ambition, let me ask you this....
1- do you sincerely believe that Atiku/Fayose personalities will make good working partnership at an executive position?

2- do you think beside Adamawa, and possibly Nassarawa and Abuja that Atiku is popular in the North?



On Ibo's strategy, regardless how they vote, their input, whether in APC, PDP, SDP, KOWA, APP, APGA.....has zero effect on voting outcome in 2019. They might as well declare an ofe onsala day and stay home rather than go stand in baking heat and rain for an election that does not bring them victory.

If PDP chooses a Christian Northerner Ibo will not be VP and if PDP choose a Muslim Northerner Ibo would still not be the VP choice. So whats the point of their noise?

konoplyanka:
Tell me who they betray. And I hope you know the meaning of the words you type.

Betray is a hot button Ibos use to sound relevant and engage us in debate. Lets us ignore yanminri on this thread, they are inconsequential to what will happen in 2019.

konoplyanka:
Since we are in Nigeria, we can't sacrifice our own to please Nigeria.

Ekitigate is gone for good.

So would it not be in Fayose's interest to not underestimate the ruling party?

If you dont want a subject treated you keep it tucked away, dont offer it to public. Fayose has been involved in everything related to Yoruba region and he is well loved by other governors. He has been in several public occassions with the VP. So I dont see how suggesting that he would need his immunity intact raises any flag that was not already up in the breeze. I dont see it! My analysis of his position is not an outing...its a part and parcel of assessing what vulnerabilities exist and what needs to happen to plug it. No one going for an executive post will be exused from scrutiny. You ought to know that.

konoplyanka:
Boss you disappointed me with this your analysis.

On Fayose, we shouldn't denigrate our own in public. We are not the only ones in Nigeria. Nothing will happen to Fayose. Many people have committed gravier offenses in Nigeria and nothing has happened to them. He stands a good chance in picking the VP ticket because he deserves it. He was the only PDP governor in Nigeria that played opposition. He kept PDP alive.

For the rest, I beg to disagree. To even imagine dropping osinbajo for Tinubu is laughable. Tinubu has negative image in Nigeria, even in the south west. The only face of this government in the south is osinbajo. Dropping him for Tinubu is a political suicide.

Buhari will recontest with osinbajo and win. Osinbajo will pick the party's ticket in 2023 and win also.

Forget Tinubu, he will never near as rock. He's better of as a godfather he is.

Im going to respond on Fayose. I will not respond on Tinubu and APC....at least not now. There is time for everything and a proper time will emerge for me to revisit on it.

Put Nigeria aside for the moment, focus in on Yorubaland. Political drama is not new in our land. Palace coups and intrigues are not new to us. There is nothing in our contemporary political experience that cannot find parallel or cognate in the archive of political history in Yorubaland. How would Yoruba treat the drama of Ekitigate? In other words, if we are already a regional government and this happened, what should we do?

macof:
cause if you study even the basics of those courses you would know already that your "theory" cannot hold because its already established fact that Oranmiyan is a prince from Ife. Orion, Aramean theory is as good as dead on arrival

If you knew the basics of such disciplines you would know that one name doesn't have to correlate with another name in another language just because they sound alike. That's what should be called a fools truth

Some words from two different languages can infact be related but sound different e.g.. igbo - Ego, Yoruba - owo. Igbo - ugbo, Yoruba- oko
These are actual cognates that formed from a single language which the ancestors of the Yoruba and Igbo spoke

It is this sort of confused historical theories that make Edos want to bank on the gross ignorance of Yorubas on her history. They know many don't know what is history and what is fiction
Stop doing the Yoruba a disservice by all this middle East, European connection that do not make any sense

I pity you. Look at your lengthy anger over a theoretical input. I didnt know nobody is allowed to offer a theory without first studying and understanding all these subjects. Now that I know, I will be more defiant and offer theories that are wild and extreme. I want to revv up your anger.

AxxeMan:
[s]J author=MayorofLagos post=63140779]

We rule over your land in Bini. What do you mean mind our business? Bini is our business. Have you lost your mind?[/s]

Who is this clown?

Even the Lagos you have on your moniker is Edo Territory , so you are nothing but an EDo Slave

See this clown

Hahaha

Edo is a conquered territory. You have no beginning. Ogiso was brought to rule you from Ife, Oba was brought to rule over you from Ife. Lagos is an original territory of Awori. Bini is known in Lagos, we dont know Edo.

konoplyanka:
Atiku's vp will be contested by Fayose. That's his game plan. He never wanted SW to have the chairmanship position. I think Atiku will pick Fayose because of his political clout. No one else could ganer votes like him in the south.

Knowing south east will readily vote against buhari, that would be his best bet. Fayose won!

It is not so much about wins and losses but goals that we set out to accomplish for Yoruba.

Rotation of party flagship to North is open to both Christian and Muslim North. So far they've had Atiku Abubakar, Umaru YarAdua, Namadi Sambo, Muhammadu Buhari, all Muslims, in the executive positions. That's just since 1999. If you go back in history Tafawa Balewa, Usman Shagari....all Muslims.

If Atiku is given the PDP flag it means in 2019 both parties would have Muslim Northerners on top of their tickets. There is a vulnerability here that can be exploited.


On Fayose, his Governorship and immunity ends in 2018. Unless he has a guaranteed plan to transition into Senate or House of Reps and block immunity from expiring there is high likelihood he will be picked up to account for 2014 Ekitigate. So who will take the VP slot you reserved for him?


There are two things likely to happen in APC.
1- Buhari seek second term and he wins the primary.
In 2014 they were not in power, thus respected the diversity rule already in place...the executive will be cross regional and cross religion. They are the incumbent now, as a theory, they can rewrite the rule and do muslim/muslim. If that theory holds, Osinbajo can step down at the party primary for Buhari to pick Tinubu. Tinubu is popular in every region except SE.
This combo gives Buhari 4years with Tinubu returning to do 8 with a Northerner as VP. The outcome is the same if Osinbajo does not step down at primaries...he will have 8yrs following Buhari's completion.

2- Buhari drop out of the race at the primary. The constitution does not allow for substitution but allows for succession. If Buhari resigns or becomes incapacitated in office Osinbajo automatically succeeds. The office of Presidency will not be given to another Northerner because one quits. Twice this year we came very close to this point, the North feared a repeat of 2011. They still have this fear and are unsure if Buhari will complete a second term alive or in good health. Therefore the likelihood exist that even if Buhari show interest in a second term, delegates from North may vote against him in the primaries and put weight behind a younger, healthier and well educated Northerner. Unless there is an electoral act that stipulates against extensions of tenure by candidate swap, North will rule for 8years following Buhari's 4, totalling 12 before it rotates away to West.

These two positions are critical. Yoruba need to come up with strategy and tactic to keep its advantages and keep eyes on the goal to restructure.


More to come....

Akpumadu,
You are looking for reason to cry to UN to rescue you. When we respond dont go ask UN to divide Nigeria o.

I want my brothers in SW to see outcome of PDP Convention and the election of EXCOs as a good promise. I will explain.

Nigerian politics is very dynamic and changes very rapidly requiring frequent assessment and response, leading most times to adjustments in strategies and tactics. The single political interest for Yoruba race is re-structuring, this is our imperative! It doesnt matter if we get it through APC or through PDP, we just want to self-determine our futurw and self-administer our region, period!

Of course there are oppositions to our aim, therefore our efforts should concentrate on softening that opposition and whittle it down sufficiently that we attain our desire with minimal loss. The opposition exist in both parties and in all the regions. So we must examine our opposition from a position of strength/ weakness. Where it shows strength, we play along, where it shows weakness we attack the vulnerability.

Let's refrain from taking ownership of any party. Ownership brings duties and commitments that run counter to our interest for restructuring.

The PDP convention revealed a lot. There are two factions in PDP, Makarfi is one, Ali Modu Sherriff is the other. The Sherriff faction was not at the convention.

I recognize that Yoruba has its sons and daughters in both APC and PDP, so we will be nice and not denigrate the parties or show negativity towards either so not to offend sympathies and sensibilities of our brothers and sisters that cherish their partisan membership loyally. So lets be thorough but with eyes on our imperative for restructuring as the single binding objective that tie the future together for all of us in this Yoruba Commonwealth. We are Yoruba first, we want restructuring second, anything else can follow after!

The race to 2023 has started.

More to come later....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtTIF-xD8g

AxxeMan:
You Yoruba's should learn to mind your business, you don't see Edo's doing busy body on Yoruba matter cuz honestly we Dnt give a fvvck bout you all...

As An Edo Man I just told you that trash your brother wrote about Edo is a lie and you are also asking me rubbish

What your brother wrote does it make sense to you?
How wuld u feel if it was d Igbo's writing same about Yoruba!

Warn your ppl to stay off telling lies about Edo History they know nothing about!!

We rule over your land in Bini. What do you mean mind our business? Bini is our business. Have you lost your mind?

macof:
well well
Are you a student of history, ethnology, Anthropology or any related courses?

Why do you ask?