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Bobloco:"We urge the DSS to send these words of caution to those bigots who are pushing this country to the brink of disaster with their utterances and violent conduct against other peace-loving Nigerians who do not subscribe to their political views or speak their language.” Unfortunately this applies to the LP protagonists like Datti Ahmed, who he is furiously defending. |
Olodo24:A gayman spotted. Your spurious analysis of the numbers of gays in Nigerian society is a figment of your corrupt mind. Nigeria is not a gay life acceptable country, we are a majorly God fearing citizens of a God fearing country. Don't make us what we are not. |
ceeceeco:Must you abuse your leader? Stop it, it is irritating. |
DMerciful:Never exists. Just a puerile imagination from hateful minds. In the same way that Jubril el Sudan for Buhari was digitalised. |
Askng:Won't do that. Wanna remain anonymous on this faceless, but abusive platform. If you are interested, go to Amazon, and check for "A Fool's Note - A Book of Poems, and ditto you have it. Meanwhile my review of your poem was positive, yet you responded with a perceived thrust against me, what's your beef about it? Or, you don't want anyone reviewing your work? If you don't, then don't post it? |
Passionate888:Sorry. Life's like that, you win, you lose sometimes. |
anngodwin:Fake narrative from a morbid hater of Asiwaju. Continue enjoying your own lying twist of the story. As long as it is giving you a good kick, you deserve your happiness. |
LikeAking:Rather, government must support small businesses to built local factories, after stabilising uninterrupted power supply. |
Guyman01:Was he slurring any Nigerian tribe in this FP piece? |
AnambraPRINCE78:And fearless too. We need more like him to protect our national pride and heritage. |
stepaside2:Maybe Seun got the Intel that DSS is after the platform before he took this sanctioning route. This action was long overdue. It is being taken after Nairaland has fostered deep tribal hatred among formerly tribe neutral citizens. |
rockcitie:Supported. |
OChimex:I hear you Mr. Citizen of heaven. Keep on deceiving yourself thinking America is your heaven on earth. Who do you think you are selling your fake dream to, Bro, not me, not me at all. I have a truckload of relations living in big bad America, and another truckload of books and movies about that land of fugitive migrants. So don't sell me a fake utopian story about the land, I won't buy it. We have voted for whom we want in Nigeria, so accept it and be in peace. Enjoy your Joe Biden, and pray hard that D. Trump does not come back, or else you will find yourself back in Africa. |
Angelfrost:Just to show the Igbos that nobody has monopoly of tribal insults. We all can play the game, and it is no retreat no surrender for the Yorubas, we too have a beef to settle with the Igbos. They start it and we are going to end it for them. |
For you Obidients: |
OChimex:There are crook politicians everywhere, e.g. Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in America, so Nigeria is no exception. All the 3 major polithiefcians that contested for presidency were crooks with critical financial and moral scandals against them, we just choose the smartest one among them. So stop being malicious because the one we choosed this time didn't come from your tribe. Have patience your tribe's turn will come, and maybe then we will have our peace of mind from you people. And please stop throwing your being abroad on our face, and stop pitying us. You are struggling there for survival as we are doing here too, and we are enjoying our struggling here with more freedom than you. Better days are coming for us sooner than you think. |
An exercise in futility. Not gonna fly. American has better intelligence on dangerous individuals in Nigeria than the petitioners, and I am sure MC Oluomo is not one of them. |
tenpipsperday:Fake Yoruba man, I hear you. What's the big deal about you that I should bother to check your background upon the thrash you wrote? Too many of you on Nairaland. A well brought up Yoruba man does not answer a rejoinder with an insult like yours. And instead of insulting me, answer my query. I said what miracles did your Obi perform in your Anambra when he governed there for 8 years? It is when you answer that you can be throwing insults up and down. If you cannot answer that, then your insults return upon your head. |
A man of faith By Sam Omatseye What Asiwaju Bola Tinubu – the president-elect – just pulled off is a miracle but the merchants of miracles in our midst are not shouting hallelujah. They are still querulous. Rather than see a divine halo in the man’s march to his hallowed dream, they were trying to choreograph the divine poise. They did not see his seesaw of obstacles and how he scaled one after the other. And, also, how gifts fell on his lap. First, it was in his party, the APC. Once the 2019 polls were over, some elements in Aso Rock as well as opponents in the party ganged up. First step, sack Adams Oshiomhole as chairman. He was seen as Asiwaju Tinubu’s man in the party’s inner sanctum. They did, and then one of the coupists, Akpan Udo-Edehe, announced that they wanted a consensus candidate. In other words, a not-Tinubu as flagbearer for president. It was even decreed that no court suit should ensue. Udo-Edehe limped in his run for APC ticket in Akwa Ibom. He sulked into NNPP. That was not enough for self-confidence. All eyes focused on the primaries. First, they advanced the idea of an open one. Then they balked. Tinubu had a way with the crowds. The sweepstakes may creep out of their hands into the Jagaban’s web. After all, he was the chief proponent of open primaries. So, let’s make it delegate-driven. It buzzed until they saw again trap falls of disaster. The only feline path to tear him apart was to get the president to appoint a successor in the mould of how Abdullahi Adamu emerged as party chairman. It did not happen from Buhari’s end. Then, they came with a magic. They wanted a narrow count that disenfranchised lawmakers and many party leaders. Their frustration was that a primary had to happen. Before that, they orchestrated a machine of lies. He did not go to Chicago. A media outfit called Chicago State University to wrest a denial. Rather the school said he was not just a student but a distinguished one. They brought drug hobgoblin even after a U.S. government’s denial. They said he was not fit enough. He beat all contestants hopping from state to state. He even beat his chest over his peripatetic prowess when he met Niger State delegates. His opponents were waiting for him to faint and fly out in a medical craft. Nature failed their malice. On primary day, some party men rallied behind Senate president as the anointed pick. But it floundered. In fact, some Villa elements wanted Buhari to change his mind at the last moment. One of them asked the service chiefs to see Buhari for a last-minute order. One of the chiefs insisted the president already gave them a go-ahead to conduct a fair primary. But a cabal insider insisted all three should see him. They did. They met an irritated boss who asked them to proceed to the stadium to conduct a fair poll. He did not only win but handily, flummoxing all those who predicted his Nunc dimittis. He had before then enriched our political language with Emilokan. Some called it outburst. But it busted the cabal. As the campaign wore on, he became a source of immense derision. They mocked his body fluid, his height, his walk, his sitting, his standing, his words, his accent, his language, his faith, his paternity and maternity, his roots. But they were mocking his maker. And God said, God is mocked. If he had lost, a newspaper was waiting to appropriate O lule for him. But they wouldn’t employ it for their dazed candidate. Weeks to the polls, they saw an inevitability, and they devised a new obstacle. Fuel and cash. They would blame his party for putting Nigerians through the crucible. Tinubu will pay for them. The elements in the villa were accused but they had no shame. They persisted. Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar loved the cynical play because they expected the scarcity to knock out the Jagaban. We experienced in Tinubu on this matter what political scientists call loyal opposition, when he spoke under warrior Lisabi’s shadow in Abeokuta about those who wanted him to fail. El Rufai elaborated later. But in the divine strain must be seen a few factors. One, the APC northern governors, who were this essayist’s personal pick for persons of the year in 2022, insisted the next president must come from the south. Two, Obi came in as a gift by wiping out Atiku’s southern entitlements in Lagos, Southeast and south-south. Three, Wike and the G-5 factor. The forces were aligning. For the LP man even the APC did not hide the permutation that he was a gift for Tinubu. Yet, PDP and Labour Party in their mutual obstinacy united for Tinubu. Kwankwaso, the Kano landlord, also left PDP. They broke into three. How could pieces make mincemeat of a whole? The APC left them alone according to the words of Napoleon: “Never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake.” The Obidient movement was like Asahel in the scripture who, like Fela’s joro jaro joro, ran but looked neither left nor right with no weapon and plunged straight into a sword. It is a movement without eyes or ears but legs of a flailing antelope. Like flies following the sweet scent of death in a corpse, they buzzed into their own electoral oblivion. Buoyed by false prophets and ethnic bigotry, it believed it could force a victory on a diverse nation. They forget that southwest and North coalition gave Buhari his victory. They didn’t have that heft. Christians and southeast alone is a narrow coalition. If the Atiku votes up north of Muslims with the southwest were in contention with the Obidients, a shellacking would have drowned Labour. Having shaved Atiku in the southeast and southsouth, Atiku relied only on the north for big numbers. Obi’s cynical move gave us no ideology. If it did, it romped in a narrow radius. The United States has a religious and white coalition. But it falls short. They align with business with the concept of low taxes and small government. Nixon enunciated the Christian and cultural nexus into what he called the southern strategy. It is exhibited in the G’s: God, gays and guns. *The prophets hoodwinked their followers, acting like God’s spokesmen. I asked on TVC Breakfast Show, if that were the case, what happened with Father Hyacinth Alia of Benue State who supported APC and triumphed for Tinubu? Did it mean the holy spirit was at war with itself? God forbid. As Jeremiah wrote, they were speaking from their imaginations.* *He said, “A wonderful and terrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so.”* *Men like that are a disgrace to the word of God. They are spiritual hustlers who want to fill their halls and build gigantic buildings as though the truth of God relies on marble palaces made with hands. Just as we no longer rely on physical circumcision but the foreskin of the heart, the love of God is in the heart, not in the ululations of false prophets.* *Their entrance does not bring light, but lights-out. For all who prophesied, Paul said, “though there be prophecies, they shall fail.” And of course, their tongues shall cease.* The Bible says let the wheat and tares dwell together, not duel together. When the polls results started trickling in, the Obidients were exulting because they were cherry-picking areas where they were doing well. The polls were credible then. They forgot the big picture. They were happy to hear that Lagos fell, that a sort of partial domino fall was dawning: Buhari lost Katsina, Ayade lost in Cross River, Lalong in Plateau, Adamu in Nasarawa, El Rufai in Kaduna, et al. Translation: a credible proceeding. Twenty governors lost their states. But when Obidients lost the full count, they say no sir, it was rigged. Of course, it was no perfect poll. A man like hoary Obasanjo was sulking like an anarchist. The problem with the Obidients is that where they lost, they didn’t lose. Where they won, they didn’t win enough. Maybe they want to win 150 percent of southeastern states. As for some of my eastern brethren, they thought it was all right that a Tinubu had zero percent in one state and one percent in two states there. They have to understand that democracy is about building bridges and not erecting bubbles of bluster. It is the sort of puffy air they are bringing to Lagos. A territorial braggadocio does not make peace in another person’s patrimony. Many of them work here in peace, but a swagger of proprietary assertion by a good number of them does not make for peace. The LP man was an interesting candidate. He was a man who did not rely on his track record or vision. His followers did not watch him except his old wristwatch. When he lied, it was an act of human grace. When Tinubu erred, it was a big, unforgivable gaffe. His statistical illusions made the LP candidate a wizard. All those who hated Tinubu channeled their anger for the LP man. He did not have to be a saint. They canonised him and gave him the holy scent, including our pastors who loved the holy spirit so much that they did not see what was coming. Some writers and commentators went abroad to make claims for which they have no evidence. One of them was writer Chimamanda Adichie who wrote a New York Times piece out of rage rather than method. She turned anecdotes into a pattern, history into tendentious material, bigotry into grace. She probably thought she was writing a novel. But facts, even when fictionalized, have their place. She is often quick to toady up to the west for affirmation. She is entitled to her servitude, but she should not replace research with sentiment. As in her New York Times effusions. She needed to know that we had only a fraction of the polling stations with problems. And every polling station had result sheets signed by party agents at various levels. We need to ascertain whether some people are wailing because they did not have the chance to hack the server. Writing as though her Half of A Yellow Sun, she whipped up a spectre of refugees going to America. No bloodshed here, please. The polls may not be perfect; hence the law speaks of substantial compliance, a point the Nigerian Bar Association President noted in his assessment. At long last, we shall accept that elections, like this one, tumble social hierarchies by affirming the royalty of the citizen. In the words of the boisterous American statesman Huey Long, “every man a king but no one wears a crown.” The coronation belongs to the Nigerian people. When he said, emilokan, Tinubu turned out to be more prophetic than any prophet in the land. It was an act of faith as novelist Dostoyevsky wrote, “In a realist, faith does not spring from miracle but miracle out of faith.” Tinubu was the man of faith. https://thenationonlineng.net/a-man-of-faith/ |
Mamzi:And the irony of it is that when the kids grow up, they will eventually love their mother more than you. Not minding your struggles to provide for all their needs and keep them alive when coming of age. |
Pan Yoruba group says IPOB, Iwuayanwu attacks on Yoruba promotes genocide asks Prof Banji Akintoye to suspend relationship with Igbo group Widespread reports that the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB plans to attack Lagos coupled with the statement by the Champion Newspapers Publisher, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyannwu that Yoruba are ‘rascals’ represent calls for genocide against a peace loving Yoruba people, the All Yoruba Democratic Movements, (AYDM) has said. The group said the IPOB hate project has been extended abroad where Yoruba professionals like Dr Adeniran Ariyo, a world renown cardiologist has been singled out for attack by IPOB members at their Igbo sponsors. The AYDM called on the Lagos State Government and all South West Governments to set up an extensive Intelligence Corp to fish out IPOB terrorists, their collaborators including drug barons and manufactures of fake drugs who provide illicit funds for the terrorist group. IPOB is a Nazist organisation, the Yoruba have the historical role to denazify her territories from Lagos to Jebba, to Akoko Edo and to Itsekiri territories in Delta State ‘The Yoruba are clearly not the aggressors. IPOB, Chief Iwuanyanwu and their supporters are the aggressors. We promise them that from Yoruba people there would be proportional response to any attacks on Yorubaland or any Yoruba individual since this seems to be the new project of IPOB, Iwuanyanwu and their collaborators’ In a statement on Sunday signed by its Secretary General, Popoola Ajayi, the AYDM, a coalition of 121 community based groups in Yorubaland including Kogi, Edo and Itsekiti speaking area of Delta State said Chief Iwuanyanwu has given intellectual and political content to the plot of IPOB to attack Yoruba people. This may be similar to the position of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Igbo apex group since Iwuanyanwu is a member of that organisation. The group said Yoruba people will not be provoked into attacking Igbo people urging Igbo leaders to caution IPOB and Iwuanyanwu excesses. ‘We urge Igbo in Yorubaland to go about their businesses. If Lagos or any part of Yorubaland is eventually attacked by IPOB, the Igbo Nation should know who to hold responsible for the consequences. The AYDM said during the ENDSARs protests, Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader specifically asked IPOB to attack Yoruba barracks and even kill Yoruba State governors adding that the statement of Iwuanyanwu and IPOB is in furtherance of Nazism being extended to Yorubaland. AYDM said ‘We draw the attention of the local and International community to the genocide plat by IPOB and its supporters including Iwuanyanwu. While we recognise that there are moderate Igbo who do not share the genocidal plot of IPOB, we are mindful of the fact that IPOB is a dominant organisation in the South East which rules the area with fear and bullying but lacking wisdom nor knowledge. IPOB is armed and has been involved in mindless killings of innocent people in the South East. It makes sense to be alert when such an irresponsible and callous organisation makes such a threat. AYDM said the positions of Iwuanyanwu and IPOB are the same and have shown clearly that Yoruba people who innocently drum support for alliance with the South East are doing so in vain. ‘The Yoruba leadership have always bent backwards to work with the South East but at each point, we have ended up regretting, the latest being the support given to Afenifere to Mr Peter Obi who up till now has not even spoken to thank the group nor show solidarily to Lagos people who voted for his party, the Labour Party. In his parochial mindset, he would attribute his victory in Lagos to his people, little wonder he visited only Ladipo spareparts market after the Presidential election. ‘You cannot behead yourself to satisfy the thirst of a people whose primordial aim is to live and witness your peril’, the group said AYDM said ‘There is no difference between Iwuanyanwu and IPOB. Both are expressing extremist views capable of fuelling genocide against the Yoruba people on their fatherland. We are aware that some Yoruba people are already being killed by IPOB in the South East. One of them was an Immigration officer who was shot dead by IPOB in Anambra State two weeks ago on account of his ethnic origin’ the statement signed by AYDM Secretary General Ajayi said. AYDM said Dr Adeniran Ariyo on the other hand has suffered ceaseless persecution, hate speeches which is only an eye blink away from physical attacks on him. His only offense it to profess his Yoruba ness and his refusal to support the Nazist political agenda of his colleagues who are bent on throwing Nigeria into turmoil, having lost the last Presidential election. AYDM warn those attacking Dr Ariyo to desist or face the consequences. ‘Dr Adeniran Ariyo is a world class cardiologist. He was recently declared as the Yoruba Man of the Year 2021. Since then, he has been singled out for attacks and blackmail. We warn those responsible to beware of adequate responses from the Yoruba people all over the world. AYDM said it was not surprised about Iwuanyanwu’s utterances adding that the warped dream of a section of the Igbo elite is to turn Yoruba land into ashes, forgetting that what God has created, no human idol can demolish or destroy it. IPOB and Iwuanyanwu are heads of heathen. We represent the light and definitely light will subdue and extinguish darkness, the group said. AYDM said ‘Having been listed as the 10th deadliest terrorist group in the world, the Yoruba should not take IPOB threat slightly. The group is irrational, rash and savage. It derives its strength from primitive thinking and a passion for human blood. This runs contrary to the Yoruba values. We have no objection to IPOB operating in the South East, but this stone age activities of a terrorist organisation will not be tolerated in Yorubaland. Our response will be scientific and done in line with the international principles of self defence as entrenched in the United Nations Charter of Self Determination.’ #SOURCE |
Okechinwadike:The same way he decided whom to give in Abia state? |
tenpipsperday:And when Obi was your governor in Anambra for 8 years, what miracles did he perform in the state to turn over its poor economic status? Nothing, except to brag about an unverifiable educational turn around. |
Maxymilliano:Fake news, and Igbo haters are already drooling over it. Shame. |
Polchiz:Prepare your lawyers and meet me in COURT for writing jargon ![]() |
JOemmy:Then why are there no LP governors in the Niger Delta states if they truly massively voted for Obi? |
If they start any ugly action to truncate Tinubu's ascension to the Nigeria throne, they will have us who voted for him, West, North and South South, to answer to. If they want violence, we will give them violence, and if they want peace, they will receive peace. Let justice takes its course, or else.... |
Bluntguy:Bigotry, bigotry and your people have multiple Ezes across other tribes ancestral lands. |
What's the big deal about that? Many Igbo people have big time businesses, including schools across Yoruba land, and we are not promoting that as example of tribal acceptance by us. Only one school by a Yoruba man, and they are busy celebrating that as an example of Igbo condescension to other tribes. |
Yedidea:From all the information you released here, there is a high possibility that your mother met your father in a Yoruba village called IFEWARA, near ILE IFE Town. There is a big highway linking Ile Ife town with IBADAN City, and along the highway are many companies with big compounds. Nevertheless your details concerning your mother's relationship with your father is still too vague. You still need to pump her for more information, especially about his true name and his tribe. If not, it may be difficult to trace your father. Unless somebody recognise his picture on Nairaland. |
But what baffles me most in all these clamour for justice by APC's rival political parties is what type of justice are they expecting? Both PDP and LP candidates did not meet the requirements for being elected as the country president. So are they expecting the court to give this to either of them under the table? The two parties are saying that the presidential election was rigged against them, which the governorship election has effectually debunked by the number of votes received by them. Which truly showed how unpopular they are with the voters. Now the LP VP candidate has suddenly found his voice, and inciting their supporters to public violence. If it happens and it turns to widespread public anger, which will unavoidably turn to a justifiable raging destructive force by the hungry and deprived masses, does he think he and his family will be spared? Whatever this present electoral imbroglio will turn out to be, we are all watching, since all the tribes have one or two beefs to settle with other tribes. It will be fun to watch. The Czechclovaskia ethnic cleansing war of the eighties will be a child play. |
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