₦airaland Forum

This goat of an imam is going to jail for this hate speech. Ohaneze or one of these other socio-political groups should report this to the International Criminal Court sharp sharp. No time for nonsense

Mumu guy

Chai! So las las Nnamdi Kanu has shown his Yahoo boy credentials

SouthEastFacts:
Point of correction, yoruba moslems. Their christians don't support their madness.

So what do you say about that serpent called Osinbajo?

Vanguard News Nigeria

Southwest APC’s betrayal of the Yoruba cause

By Olu Fasan

THE Yoruba are the most ardent federalist in Nigeria. They don’t believe they must belong to the party controlling the centre to survive. As a result, they are immune to the “bandwagon effect” in Nigeria’s elections, whereby people vote in gubernatorial and state assembly elections for the party of the declared winner of the earlier presidential poll. The Yoruba don’t do that. They are the Californians of Nigerian politics.


In the US, California State, the world’s sixth largest economy, is the bulwark against encroachments on the federalist ideals. For instance, California, which voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, has resisted President Trump’s controversial policies on climate change and immigration, which it believes undermine its basic values and the 10th Amendment that underpins American federalism. Thus, while California and other states, such as Texas, want the party they support to produce the president, their federalist spirit is so strong that they don’t feel threatened if they are in opposition. That’s precisely the Yoruba attitude: confident and proud of their exceptionalism!

But that’s also why the Yoruba clamour for true federalism in Nigeria. For them, restructuring Nigeria is an article of faith. Indeed, if you give the Yoruba a choice between a) producing a president, with no restructuring and b) having a properly restructured Nigeria, but skipping a slot for the presidency, they would opt for the latter. After all, Obasanjo was president for eight years and most Yoruba would say his presidency hardly benefitted the region. So, those talking about Yoruba presidency in 2023 as if it’s in Yoruba’s interest, albeit for personal ambitions, miss the point. The Yoruba don’t want symbolic national leadership, they need a properly restructured Nigeria.

During the 2015 elections, restructuring was such a key demand of the Yoruba that President Jonathan interrupted his campaign to convene a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to approve the report of the 2014 National Conference just to convince them that, if re-elected, he would implement the report. Of course, Jonathan’s unpopularity and the countervailing influence of Yoruba APC leaders were so strong that his last-minute action couldn’t win him the zone. Even so, he still won 42% of the votes against Buhari’s 56%.

2019: Afenifere faction backs Buhari, Osinbajo


But APC didn’t ignore the restructuring issue in 2015. The party’s Yoruba leaders knew how important it was to their people. Here is what APC’s manifesto said: “We will initiate action to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to the states and local governments to entrench true federalism and the Federal spirit”. Is there any ambiguity in that pledge? No. So, what have they done to fulfil the promise?

Truth is, South West APC leaders have largely gone quiet on the issue, some have even become renegade. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said in 2017, and again last year, that Nigeria didn’t need political restructuring but economic diversification. Never mind the centrality of an enduring political settlement to any development, economic or otherwise! In later interventions, Osinbajo rejected restructuring along ethnic or regional lines, which he called “geographical restructuring”. But how can you have true federalism in a multinational country if the different nationalities can’t feel the fullest autonomy of nationhood within a federal structure?

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who wrote Nigeria’s federalist treatise, the same way Alexander Hamilton and others wrote the American federalist papers, said in Path to Nigerian Freedom that, having studied the constitutions of virtually all countries of the world, he believed a federal structure based on ethnic and linguistic affinities was best suited to Nigeria. Obviously, Osinbajo disagrees with Awolowo’s research, analysis and conclusion. Fair enough, he’s a professor and entitled to differ!

Perhaps, in rejecting geographical restructuring, Professor Osinbajo wants to avoid being seen as an ethnicist, but rather a Nigerian nationalist. Well, if so, he then undermined his stance by playing ethnic politics in this election. Osinbajo asked the Yoruba to vote for Buhari to secure the presidency in 2023. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, also made the same point. But a true nationalist would know that given that, since 1999, the South West has produced president for eight years and the South-South for six years, the South East should provide national leadership in 2023 when power returns to the South. But leaving that aside, is Yoruba presidency without restructuring the goal of the Yoruba? Where is the restructuring that Yoruba APC leaders promised their people?

To be fair, APC set up the el-Rufai committee, which produced a report on restructuring. But President Buhari is adamantly opposed to restructuring. The issue is not even mentioned in APC’s Next Level manifesto. So, restructuring is not on APC’s radar, and won’t be while Buhari is president!

Of course, the Yoruba alone cannot restructure Nigeria. But the APC and the Buhari government wouldn’t have existed without the South West, and Buhari won’t be re-elected without the South West. So, what has the South West benefitted from the alliance? Okay, some say, Buhari recognised June 12 as Democracy Day. But is that symbolic gesture a substitute for restructuring? Yoruba APC leaders are merely occupying political offices; they are powerless on restructuring. That’s a betrayal of the Yoruba cause!

This is embarrassing

It's as if police raided an Indian hemp joint and packed all the suspects to attend this rally

joeyfire:
Very enlightening. I always wondered at the origin of the large community of northerners in Obalende.

Very interesting article and this fact explains a lot

If he can in detail explain and convince the masses on how he is going to achieve this feat, especially how he will convince the northern legislators to vote for it at the National Assembly then Atiku has won this election easily

IkpuMmadu:
Majority of Yoruba Are very terrible folks ...so you want to tell me that my dad and other that experienced this lied

I know why this thread ! You guys can't understand why Igbo came back in full force !

It's not our making but God

I actually feel sorry for them now. The reality of the evil done by their fathers is a bit too much for some of them to bear. Especially as what they tried to do has failed woefully

pazienza:
Why are Yorubas eager to disclaim this monetary fiat they instigated against the Igbo?

Why are they dying on top of the obvious?

I can't believe they revived this disgraceful attempt to cover the sins of their fathers.

According to that fallen hero Fela - "dem no wan take am but dem must take am". You cannot poo and ask poo not to smell. How?

ODB

"Igbo this Igbo that" upandan will not help Buhari win next year. Daura 2019 is real



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYKC1tnEPI

Yyeske:
Obi was the worst mistake PDP ever committed, governors of his home state Anambra, Imo and maybe Ebonyi are waiting for him. Ekweremadu in Enugu is still hurting and can spring up a surprise.
Atiku messed up everything, how can you have a pact with PDP leaders of the SE before the primaries that made you the presidential candidate and after you won, you jettisoned it knowing fully well that the SE is the stronghold of PDP, who does that?

APC supporters sef

Roger3D:
Is he not saying the truth? Last year by this time it was Biafra or death, y'all littered social media with derogatory slurs against the Fulani but the moment a Fulani chose one of your own as his running mate, you became slaves and asslickers. You people are hypocrites just like Okwonkwo pointed out and you shall taste the bitter pill of defeat next year. Hausa/Fulani slaves

Ok....Buhari is still going back to Daura next year and Churchill Okonko is still a jobless hack. That's all

This Churchill Okonko is just a hungry, shameless hack. Always writing nonsense looking for attention

Amein:
"Peter Obi is a tribal bigot," el-Rufai wrote. He was widely quoted on national television that the SSS was right to detain me for 48 hours in an hotel in 2014 on the grounds that 'El-Rufai has no business being in Anambra State as it is not Katsina State!'"

Nasir el-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, has described the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a "tribal bigot".
The Governor stated this on Friday via a post on Twitter.
Although, he did not expressly state what provoked the statement, he also accused the former Governor of Anambra State of being behind his detention by the Department of State Service (DSS) in 2014.
He said he eventually sued the DSS and was awarded N4 million in damages.

El-Rufai expressed his grievance via a tweet that read: "Peter Obi is a tribal bigot. He was widely quoted on national television that the SSS was right to detain me for 48 hours in an hotel in 2014 on the grounds that 'El-Rufai has no business being in Anambra State as it is not Katsina State'! I sued the SSS and awarded N4m damages."

Peter Obi is a tribal bigot. He was widely quoted on national television that the SSS was right to detain me for 48 hours in an hotel in 2014 on the grounds that ”El-Rufai has no business being in Anambra State as it is not Katsina State”! I sued the SSS and awarded N4m damages. httl



source:::http://saharareporters.com/2018/11/09/peter-obi-tribal-bigot-says-el-rufai

Nobody really gives a poo what el-rufai thinks. Buhari is going back to Daura next year

Murtala Mohammed is the definition of a beast. A lousy soldier who was soundly beaten and disgraced in practically every battle he fought in Biafra. Only good at ethnic jingoism, genocide of unarmed civilians, Indian hemp and tribalism

efighter:
I love this woman, I hope she gets some votes from SS and SE out of the votes that Atikuloot is banking on, definitely nobody will vote her in SW or North except her flat headed brothers and sisters doing crime there. Indirectly, she is working for Sai Buhari, God is confusing the enemies to work against themselves

I thought she was a hero in 2015 when she was fighting Jonathan

This Amaechi thinks everyone is as daft as him

aminulive:
@POLITICSNGR


It was during the search that the security personnels in the minister's convoy rescued one of the occupants of the Lexus Jeep. The victims were APC supporters attending the PVC sensitization rally in Ubimini where the minister was to address party supporters.


Watch the Surprising Video HERE

https://politicsngr.com/just-amaechi-rescues-kidnap-victims-rivers-photos/

ZombieNation:
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You job is a simple one

Turn the lies to truth and make the truth disappear.

I know you have no conscience to begin with, my only fear is if your soul is even worth the 30k stipend that they pay you.

What this faeces eating cult of Buhari supporters don't understand is that Nigerians are much much wiser now. We can smell their scam from a mile away

This hypocrite of a woman has come again

She served happily as minister under Obasanjo/Atiku in a PDP government for years. Now she's looking for cheap fame with this "butiku" crap

See shading

Keyamo is just a shameless hustler. The man believes in nothing only his stomach

These efulefu clowns have come again. It's because of clowns like these that Igbos do not have kings like that. I thank God for that. Even though Joe Igbokwe has been the highest ranking Igbo slave to Tinubu for many years who reckons with him in Nnewi? He is a nobody there

This efulefu issue really needs to be looked at.There needs to be an articulated way of really socially ostracising these jokers in the east. This sort of bad behaviour must have consequences

Fashola has finally come clean as a tribalist. The man achieved nothing as governor for 8 years except planting flowers in Lagos. He has achieved absolutely nothing as minister of power and works except noise and lies.

I am just happy that the world can see him for the failure and bigot he is

Binikingdowm:
I swr bro all I see is pain because Atiku will win with an Igbo vp

Gbam

socialmediaman:
Bubu is in trouble with the rate everyone is atikulating

Bubu's executive keke marwa is already warming up to take him back to Daura.

He has lost

Atiku is sweeping SS, SE, NC & NE

Getting at least 50% In SW

Not sure about NW

Shikena! What does some guy's fb post have to do with reality? Like who cares