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aribisala0:
Yes o sensitive indeed. You know say Yoruba like amala. So Agric ministry go guarantee their amala future

See how GEJ marginlised SW o. Very wicked man.

"The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has commended the Federal Government for its huge efforts towards provision of potable water to the people of the state, in particular Ilesha town.
Aregbesola added that Ilesha town had been without potable water for 40 years and so expressed great delight that the FG has come to the aid of the people.
The governor gave the commendation when the Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Reng Ochekpe, accompanied by the ministry’s technical officials, inspected the Ilesha dam and paid him a courtesy call at the Government House in Osogbo on February 20.
Aregbesola expressed appreciation to the minister for her unusual interest in the welfare of the people of the state.
He explained that the suffering of the people searching for potable water would become a thing of the past as soon as the project is completed."

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/aregbesola-commends-fgs-ilesa-water-works-project/

deedeedee1:
So how come did he win 2011 election in yorubaland. I guess there was no tribalism then.

The tribalism was not as bitter and as widespread as what we saw in 2015. Moreover the Buhari/Tinubu alliance crumbled few days to the elections forcing Tinubu to make make a deal with GEJ at the last minute to collect a hefty sum and giving Tinubu a chance to deal with Ribadu for flirting with PDP

deedeedee1:
Out of the five igbo eastern state, only 1 voted for abiola. In the south-south region, only akwa ibom, edo and calabar voted for abiola. Other ones including the four igbo states namely: enugu, imo, ebonyi, abia and south-south states like rivers, delta which all voted against abiola. So did yoruba cried "southern betrayal"?

Please share the source of this information no vex

deedeedee1:
If gej did well for yoruba, our leaders would not have complained of being marginalized.

Between 2011 and 2015 Jonathan appointed Yoruba to head sensitive ministries like Agriculture and Science & Technology among others. The real benefit that SW derived from Jonathan's government were the massive infrastructural projects like the Ilesha dam which has given Osun pipeborne for the first time since 1966. Tribalism is what turned SW leaders against him nothing more

Realman87:
This is a fatality. Well done brother.

Fixed

nel123:
That was a lovely write up, very thoughtful and informative.. Haven't read such political opinion in a longtime so let me chip my own opinion .

Of a truth this is the status que in the mind of many yourbas esp the Tinubu machinery and let me say its not a bad thing to wish for in a political situation but the thing about these set of Yoruba leaders (Tinubu and co) is that they lack intelligence and over estimated.. Don't understand how they don't know that the SE and SS will be out for them in any political game from now on, cause the truth is this , the northerns understands politics and once they know the SW is all alone, they will not call them a threat.

Even if anything happens to Buhari, don't be surprise if they collide with the SE and SS to change the constitution to suit them cause SW wouldn't have much support to gain.

So my point is this , instead of Bisi Akande and other Tinubu's men crying foul, they should find a way to start reconnecting with their south brothers and thus have a solid weight to plead their case.

I tell you the Tinubu political machine is the worst thing to happen to SW. From Awolowo and his disciples to Tinubu and his short-sighted touts. If you are a student of history you can see a swift deterioration of relations between the yorubas and the SE/SS since Tinubu asserted his grip on the SW. A sharp departure from the paddy-paddy of the military era.

Who pecking order epp? Upon all una betrayal, scramble and animalistic wetie fight for power how has it bettered SW? Dont make me post Osun WAEC rankings here o!

We are prospering as a group without government feeding bottle. We no be welfare case like you-know-who feeling sophisticated with nothing to show. Why my people no go demand freedom from such a marriage

ProWalker:
While you are now No 6 in the pecking order in Nigeria.
Cry me a river, you biafrans are losers and will forever be crying for freedom

SMH
After all GEJ did for the SW see ingratitude and bitterness

Joe Igbokwe and common sense cant be called in the same sentence.

So to maintain relevance with Tinubu he has to again display his dishonesty and ignorance.

The yoruba nation did not support Obasanjo in 1999 but despite all his rascality the yoruba politial elite supported him fully in 2003. Heck the daughter of the then yoruba leader Abraham Adesanya even served as minister in his cabinet.

Joe Igbokwe doesnt even have the shame to admit that the yoruba race in a show of support for Obasanjo did not field a candidate to challenge him in 2003. When Arthur Nzeribe tried to get the National Assembly to impeach Obj didnt SW governors declare him persona non grata in Yoruba land.

This Joe Igbokwe is a bigger ass kisser and mumu than I thought

ProWalker:
Losers and crying bigots like you forget there is a constitution
Your cry never start in Nigeria, until your Biafra quest hurts your ass out

Despite all your twisted, selfish, sub-human, bitter and petty scheming your gamble has at best earned you a glorified omo odo (domestic servant) supervised by Abba Kyari and regularly put in his place by El rufai. Water always finds its level

No be only constitution na co-ordinator

ProWalker:
Una cry just dey start.

Nobody is crying more than Akande at the moment. Buhari no gree kpeme make una boy enter instead he was appointed Coordinator. Jokers

ProWalker:
Igbotic trash

Very intelligent post

VirginFinder:
shiorr!

You yEasterners will NEVER recover from the GEJ's 2015 election loss.

What a pity!!

GEJ sidelined Yorubas in his administration so much so that there was no Yoruba man from no 1 to no 10.

And you were expect we Yorubas to siddon look?

What of appointments? Whatever was due the Yoruba was given as extra mainly to the yEasterners.

Come on, Osinbajo is your Ag President once again and in God's time he'll become substantive President.

Next time you wont toy with the most sophisticated tribe in Nigeria.

Go and die!!!

No dey cry for here. Go ask Tinubu why he swore that a yoruba woman would not be speaker under GEJ. At least Jona gave solid cabinet and defence appointments to yorubas. Besides which region appointments epp? Obasanjo was president for eight years and the SW gained nothing.

The infrastructural projects that GEJ put in SW and the North will stand for the next generations to enjoy. But u cut your nose to spite your face because of bigotry and bitter politics

https://www.nairaland.com/1447691/gov-aregbesola-commends-fg-completing

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, OLUSEGUN OBASANJO AND THE TINUBU YORUBA PARADOX

Let me point out once again from the outset as I have maintained in several fora here that I am NOT in the least interested in any discourse relating to the health or otherwise of President Buhari.
Indeed, just as I indicated in the Yar' Adua case in 2010, I find all the current idle speculations about Buhari's indisposition, as well as the accompanying agitation for his resignation, absolutely needless, irreverent and abhorrent.

The reason is that it is Buhari/Tinubu Yoruba tribalism, religious bigotry, maladministration and Godlessness, rather than Buhari's health, which are threats to Nigeria's corporate existence at present.
Thus, all the flippant speculations and naïve agitations are, in my opinion, the clearest indicators yet that Nigerians on both sides of the political divide have learnt absolutely nothing from the Yar' Adua episode.
However, I could not but be attracted to the following excerpt from the recent sycophantic and hypocritical media posturing by Bisi Akande, former APC chairman, and a key Tinubu Yoruba slave functionary in the Godless conspiracy to oust former President Jonathan from power in 2015. Akande said inter alia:
'...Let me warn today that those who wish to
harvest political gains out of the health of the
president are mistaken. This is not Nigeria of
1993. We are in a new national and global era
of constitutionalism and order. We hope
Nigerians have enough patience to learn
from history...'.
Now, what does one make of this absolutely silly statement, especially the reference to 1993 and history? It appears to me that virtually all the discourse on Akande's statement completely missed that part.
The reference to 1993 is absolutely intriguing considering that the only event for which 1993 has become a notorious milestone in Nigeria's annals of political infamy is the criminal annulment by Ibrahim Babangida's regime of the June 12 election putatively won by MKO Abiola.
Since that annulment and its tragic fall out leading to the eventual murder of Abiola in 1998 were rightly seen as a brazen act of injustice by northern Muslim military leaders against Yorubas, it is not particularly clear why Akande is drawing a parallel between that event and the present case in which he claims some people are attempting to 'harvest political gains out of the health of the President'.
President Buhari is a northern Muslim, and those who may wish to 'harvest political gains' from his health challenges are believed to be his kinsmen from the Muslim North as well.
And so in what precise manner does the current Buhari 'health crisis' recall the June 12, 1993 crisis? Pray, how does the perceived 'politics' swirling around the man's health today adversely affect Yoruba interest reminiscent of Abiola's debacle?
The answer obviously is in the current status of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the most potent symbol today of the success of Tinubu Yoruba tribalist mischief and conspiracy against the Goodluck Jonathan government.

It appears that in the above busybody Freudian slip, Akande merely gave voice to the tribalist anxieties currently ravaging the hearts of ALL Tinubu slaves in Yoruba land, who, despite their thin veneer of pretended support for President Buhari, are actually secretly wishing that he would step aside or, 'better still', pass on in order for their kinsman, Osinbajo, to take over.

Thus, in the thinking of Akande, all the Buhari loyalists who are 'concealing Buhari's illness' and encouraging him to remain in power, and, therefore, depriving Osinbajo of political power are the enemies of Tinubu Yorubas just like the 1993 annulment protagonists.
Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear! It is astonishing what tribal bigotry is doing to Nigeria. Prominent Nigerian citizens now flaunt Godless tribalism like a badge of honour.
I find it particularly intriguing in this case that the Tinubu Yoruba slave in the South West of Nigeria --- after endorsing and enlisting in the most iniquitous, pernicious and mendacious tribally motivated political propaganda and conspiracy in history against Dr Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 because of raw vicious tribal hatred for Igbos --- now believes that he can justifiably stake a claim to equity, rather than Nemesis. Astonishing!
You helped to prevent a minority Ijaw man from securing a legitimate second term, after your own kinsman, Obasanjo, had served out his own second term. Now you want yet another kinsman of yours, Osinbajo, to be handed power so soon after Obasanjo! Dear Lord!

I am absolutely flabbergasted that these agents of tribalism such as Akande in the Tinubu circles of Yoruba land and elsewhere in Nigeria have so far been incapable of reading the current momentous events in Nigeria accurately as the commencement of divine wrath on their 2015 sleight of hand.

Let me jolt their weak memories with a bit of recent history in order to properly exemplify the tragic paradox that they represent at the moment.
In the 1999 Presidential election, Nigeria was presented with two Yoruba candidates, Olu Falae of the AD/APP alliance(admittedly the far better candidate of the two) and Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP(who had just been released from prison where the then Head of State, Sani Abacha, had left him to rot).

The Yorubas in the South West completely rejected Obasanjo for Falae. But Obasanjo won on the strength of the votes of the North(Central, West and East), South East and South South, with a total of 18,738,154 (62.7%) votes to Falae's 11,110,287 (37.2%) votes.

The total votes from the five South East States of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo were as follows:
i. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO = 2,404,739 (71%)
ii. OLU FALAE = 978,997(28.9%)
Those from the six South South States of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers were as follows:
i. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO = 6,065,197(83.4%)
ii. OLU FALAE = 1,205,087(16.5%)
From the six South West States of Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, Osun and Oyo came the following results:
i. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO = 1,092,216(20%)
ii. OLU FALAE = 4,366,993(79.9%)

Obasanjo won all the states in the three zones of the North except Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara States won by Falae, three of which were possibly on account of the influence of Falae's running mate, Umaru Shinkafi, a Sokoto prince.
But hardly had Obasanjo settled down as President when he began to fight everybody in the PDP including the Senate Presidents Chuba Okadigbo and Adolphus Nwabara, House of Representatives Speaker Ghali Na Abba and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Obasanjo employed brazen bribery to serially remove the Senate Presidents and attempt to remove the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Huge sums of money were often displayed on the floor of the two Houses of the National Assembly as the bribe given by Obasanjo for the impeachment of their leaders.

In 2001, in order for PDP to win elections in the South West, against the threats of Bola Ige to ensure that only President Obasanjo without the other PDP elective positions would succeed in the South West, Obasanjo presided over the murder of Bola Ige, his own sitting Attorney General, the first time such a heinous crime would be committed in Nigeria.
The same fate later met other opponents of Obasanjo such as Harry Marshall, and A.K. Dikibo, a PDP member.
Yet the Yorubas who had rejected him in 1999 were now Obasanjo's staunch supporters.
By 2002, Obasanjo had completely lost the support of the Muslim North who perceived him to be working against their interest by favouring the South West who had rejected him in the election.
They began to engineer opposition to him through such officials as Chuba Okadigbo, Ghali Na Abba and Imo State APP Senator Arthur Nzeribe.

When in 2002 Nzeribe of the APP tabled a motion of impeachment on the basis of 19 impeachable offences against Obasanjo of the PDP on the floor of the Senate, the South West, despite being ruled by AD Governors Niyi Adebayo(Ekiti), Bola Tinubu(Lagos), Segun Osoba(Ogun), Ade Adefarati(Ondo) and Bisi Akande(Osun), was thrown into an uproar against Nzeribe.
Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State declared Nzeribe persona non grata and warned him not to step into the South West.
The North began to campaign against Obasanjo employing deadly Shari'a riots resulting in the loss of thousands of lives between 2000 and 2003.

By this time, despite claims of monumental corruption and maladministration against Obasanjo especially in the North, the South West, including the present tribalistic apologists of Tinubu who are determined not to allow former President Jonathan to move on with his life after they and their tribalistic media houses fabricated Godless falsehood and propaganda to oust him, mobilised support for Obasanjo towards the 2003 election.
They all joined forces with the South East, South South and North Central to re-elect the same Obasanjo that they had rejected in 1999.

By the time the 2003 election came, despite Obasanjo's shenanigans against the South East, as seen in his marginalising them in military appointments, and the South South, as seen in his reintroducing the offshore/
onshore dichotomy in the sharing of oil revenue resulting in the loss of revenue for states like Akwa Ibom and Delta, the two zones defied the kind of tribal bigotry which Tinubu Yoruba slaves engaged in in 2015 and re-elected him in a landslide. The South East even rejected their own Ojukwu for Obasanjo.
The 2003 Presidential election results in the three zones were as follows:
SOUTH EAST
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 3,161,019 (71.3%)
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 253,143 (5.7%)
iii. Odumegwu Ojukwu = 1,018,966 (22.9%)
SOUTH SOUTH
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 7,056,434 (94.6%)
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 371,749 (4.9%)
iii. Odumegwu Ojukwu = 24,218 (0.3%)
SOUTH WEST
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 5,042,678 (93.6%)
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 196,169 (3.6%)
iii. Odumegwu Ojukwu = 146,214 (2.7%)

Obasanjo lost all the northern Muslim states to Buhari but managed to win all the North Central(Middle Belt) States including the mixed religious states such as Adamawa, Kaduna and Niger.
Thus, with the votes of the four zones of South East, South South, South West and North Central behind him, Obasanjo won the 2003 elections in a landslide with the following national total:
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 24,109,157 (67.8%)
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 12,495,326 (32.0%)
iii. Odumegwu Ojukwu = 1,111,933 (02.8%)

The point of all this is that with the complete rejection of Obasanjo by northern Muslim states in this election, if the South East and the South South had behaved towards Obasanjo's re-election the same way that the Tinubu Yoruba South West behaved towards Jonathan in 2015, here is what would have happened:
SOUTH EAST TOTAL = 4,433,128
SOUTH SOUTH TOTAL = 7,452, 401
TOTAL =11,885,529
Now, Obasanjo's total of 24,109,157 votes minus South East/South South total of 11,885,529 leaves Obasanjo with 12,223,628 votes.
Now, add all those South East/South South votes of 11,885,529 to Buhari's 12,495,326, and you get the following result:
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 12,223,628
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 24,380,855
Indeed, even if the votes of the two zones were split equally between Buhari and Obasanjo, Buhari would still have won as follows:
i. Olusegun Obasanjo = 18,166,392
ii. Muhammadu Buhari = 18,438,090

Therefore, would Obasanjo have won re-election in 2003 if the South East and the South South had been bitten by the vicious anti-Jonathan, anti-Igbo tribal bug of Tinubu Yoruba slaves in 2015?
And in case these slaves of Bola Tinubu are still deluding themselves about how Jonathan could not have won the election in 2011 without their votes, here is what happened then:
NATIONAL TOTAL:
i. Goodluck Jonathan = 22,495,187
ii. Muhammadu Buhari =12,214,853
iii. Nuhu Ribadu = 2,079,151
iv. Ibrahim Shekarau = 917,012
v. Others = 104,837.
SOUTH WEST TOTAL:
i. Goodluck Jonathan = 2,786,417
ii. Muhammadu Buhari =321,609
iii. Nuhu Ribadu =1,369,943
iv. Ibrahim Shekarau =30,906
The total votes cast in the South West for ALL the candidates = 4,613,712.
Jonathan's 22,495,187 minus South West's 2,786,417 = 19,708,770.

Now, if all Jonathan's votes in the South West, together with those of Ribadu, Shekarau and others also in the South West = 4,613,712 had been added to Buhari's 12,214,853, Buhari's total = 16,828,565 votes. Thus, in 2011:
1)GOODLUCK JONATHAN (WITHOUT ANY YORUBA VOTE) =19,708,770
2)MUHAMMADU BUHARI(WITH ALL THE YORUBA VOTES)=16,828,565.

That was the reality in the 2011 Presidential election.
In addition, the destruction of the PDP was started by Obasanjo as far back as 2005. Once upon a time, a man like Chris Ngige, former Anambra State Governor whose kidnap by Chris Uba was engineered and endorsed by then President Obasanjo, was a member of the PDP.

Audu Ogbe, Buhari's Minister of Agriculture was also a member of the PDP. Today, they are both pillars of the APC. Who drove them out of the PDP? Olusegun Obasanjo.
Even Atiku Abubakar had to run to the ACN to contest for the Presidency in 2007 because of Obasanjo's malicious shenanigans.

Yet the Yorubas did not hold Obasanjo accountable in 2003 by working against his re-election despite the murder of Obasanjo's political opponents, the destruction of PHCN, and even afterwards, the fraudulent Presidential library and Bells University in Otta, the unConstitutional Third Term agenda, as well as the destruction of Odi and Zaki Biam.
At a point, even Obasanjo's first son, Gbenga, accused him in court of having sex with his(Gbenga) wife and sought divorce on that basis claiming that the paternity of his children could not be guaranteed.
Yet this monstrously irresponsible Egba 'agbaya' is strutting all over the place today fouling the air that Nigerians breathe and exhorting and accentuating the anti-Jonathan tribalist hysteria in the Tinubu Yoruba South West.
People like Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, and even the low quality 'market place' poet(pun intended), Niyi Osundare, have now enlisted fully in the pernicious Tinubu tribalist slavedom with the worst form of ethnic bigotry.

Thankfully, I have never ever reckoned with the inferior quality of writing of the Osundares of this world. I am only thoroughly ashamed of Wole Soyinka who has always been my role model but who has now been rubbished with a lethal mixture of Tinubu Yoruba tribalism and senility.

IF OBASANJO COMMITTED ALL THE ABOVE ATROCITIES AND STILL RULED NIGERIA FOR EIGHT UNBROKEN YEARS, EVEN HAVING THE EFFRONTERY TO SEEK AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL THIRD TERM, HOW CAN THE TINUBU YORUBA MAN OR WOMAN WHO ENDORSED HIM FOR SECOND TERM IN 2003 BUT CONDUCTED A VICIOUSLY FALSE AND GODLESSLY TRIBALISTIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SECOND TERM ASPIRATION OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN LIKE DR GOODLUCK JONATHAN IN 2015 BE COMPLAINING ABOUT BETRAYAL FROM BUHARI'S LOYALISTS OVER OSINBAJO?
Yes, anyone can fall ill at anytime and this is especially so for an old man like President Buhari who is believed to be well into his eighties. That cannot and must not become the subject of undue speculation and misplaced agitation.
But when a man has spent twelve years of tension- and blood-soaked struggle coveting with lies and threats the highest office in the land, and he finally ascends that office with deadly tribal and religious conspiracy such as the Boko Haram Chibok Girls scam but is immediately unable to concentrate on governance and savour the spoils of office on account of ill health, ONLY a Godlessly blind and dishonest Tinubu Yoruba slave will fail to recognise that that is God's way of punishing robbers who not only robbed an innocent man but persist in lying against him.

Only a characteristically blubbering and Godlessly tribalistic Tinubu Yoruba slave illiterate would in the same breath ascribe the President's illness(which medical experts say is related to geriatric complications of Crohns and prostate diseases) to his 'fight against corruption' and complain of loyalists seeking to prevent his kinsman Vice President from taking over the leadership of the country a la 1993.
To those of you non Yorubas who are engaged in the busybody agitation for Vice President Osinbajo to take over the running of the country from Buhari, I am astonished at what I am about to say now:
I am supremely contemptuous of Muhammadu Buhari in all ramifications and will forever be because Buhari represents for me all the evil that can be found in an individual, but given a choice between Buhari and Osinbajo (the very symbol of vicious Tinubu Yoruba tribalism at present),
I shall without hesitation prefer Buhari a hundred times. I cannot believe I just said that about Buhari but it is true!
And to Olusegun Obasanjo and all the tribalistic Tinubu Yoruba slaves in the South West, who are currently labouring under divine punishment because they will not leave Dr Goodluck Jonathan alone, know this:
GOD IS HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE, AND HE KNOWS WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME UNFAIR!

Show me one renowned racist anti-igbo handle that wasn't a sai-baboon in 2015.

NgeneUkwenu:
Let us examine the fraud called ipob and Nnamdi Cownu!

Lets go there!

Mention just one handle!


Note: I have a video clip, where Kanu was soliciting Votes for PDP!

We need to be very careful of our actions and words in this life. After all the power, Bandit became a leper

Cooly100:
There was one of the officers who Gowon nicknamed Bandit. We all called him Bandit. He was commanding a battalion. In the evening, Ike Nwachukwu (who was my operations officer) and I, around 6pm, we would take a quick look at the 3 battalion headquarters before retiring for the day, just to be sure people were properly deployed. This evening, somewhere in the Ishan side, when we got to Bandit’s headquarters, he sat on that type of collapsible chair officers carry about. When he saw me, he jumped up and saluted.

And behold, there was a man buried in front of him, with just his head above the ground. I asked, ‘who or what is this? He said, ‘he’s a rebel sir’. I was initially taken aback, at least, knowing that we were fighting rebels in the first instance, so what made this one peculiar? He said, ‘well, he should suffer a little bit more before he dies’. I asked, ‘what’s the point, you want to kill a harmless man? How do you intend to kill a man who you have buried already?’ He said, ‘you just cut off his head sir’. What? What what? No, I’m just asking what that meant? You asked the questions, so get the answers too. (Another pause) He said ‘yes, just to cut off his head, as long as you do not look at his face’. So, now, when I look at the evil being committed by ISIS, I remember that this type of thing had been happening long before now. Therefore, what it meant was that the pogrom and the killings, like ISIS, had been happening in the 1960s, but most people didn’t know. So, I just ordered him to unearth the man, and I told Ike Nwachukwu to put him in the vehicle and I took him away. If we had enough officers and under a normal circumstance, I would have ordered Bandit court-martialled. But who would replace him? We didn’t have enough officers. I warned him, never (to do such a thing) again. In any case, who are those you would have sent him to so that he could be disciplined? The same people who already have the same type of mindset as to how to deal with rebels? These are bad stories. Where is Bandit now? There was a day Olu Bajowa came here to see me. He didn’t like Bandit at all.

So I asked him if he’d heard about Bandit after many years. Shocking, the response was: He said he learnt that he became leprous. Leprosy? Yes! Leprosy. I jokingly said maybe he even had it at that time and that was the reason he was so mean.

VirginFinder:
I'll try and get back to you.

Ok

Let Ken Nnamani go and eat poo abeg. The man joined APC because he wanted to position himself for president in case the owners of Nigeria decide to allow an Igbo president in 2019. I like what Agukwe did to him. The power base in igboland has shifted in case he hasnt noticed and his mumu, good boy, "bridge building" elite igbo politician cadre have no more relevance. IPOB rules SE at grassroots level and we now see every Igbo politician struggling to identify with them if they want to be taken seriously.

I used to like Nnamani but he has become another Joe Igbokwe.

sarrki:
Gej failed God and humanity

Abeg park well with your BMC opata. GEJ's achievements are there to see. What has Buhari achieved in two years besides borrowing Trillions of naira and repairing abuja airport runway?

Even a 10 year old child knows that USA and the homosexual supporting bag of bones called Obama wanted Buhari to win.

See Kerry and Buhari in January 2015, just a few months to the elections. Kerry US Secretary of state would come into Nigeria and bypass the president but would go and hold meetings with the opposition candidate. God no dey sleep sha. After sending warships to gulf of guinea to flex muscle in our elections, they are crying that Trump had help from Russia.

Na so life be

http://tell.ng/john-kerry-meeting-buhari/

Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi (a Christian), born in 1926, from present day Ekiti state was a great friend of Ndigbo. Though the first military governor of Western Nigeria, he chose to die with Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo fine General.

Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose (a Christian), born in 1960, from present day Ekiti state is a great friend of Ndigbo. Though the current governor of Ekiti State in Nigeria, he chose to take side with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a great son of Ndigbo.

GREAT EKITI SHALL FOREVER REMAIN FRIENDS OF THE GREAT IGBOS

M.C. OGWUELEKA

Many reasons why but the simplest I can think of is that I don't want to belong to a union where I am threatened over my choice to vote who I want to vote for. Where a president can call me 5% and my fellow "Countrymen" applaud him. Our children deserve better than this crap

cuteboy2:
Good question
Ambode is from Ondo State.
Even Tinubu himself is from Osun State.

Revisionists and attention diverters want to change the narrative as if someone's state of origin justifies the stealing.

If Ibori was wrong in stealing Delta State's money, and Nigerians labelled him a thief to be ostracized, why is the stealing by Tinubu justified and worthy of celebration?

Ibori performed far better than all past governors in Delta state. But he also dipped his hand in the till just like all State governors. The degree of stealing only differs based on the amount of resources and funds available in each state.

The difference between Tinubu and Ibori is that the former is more politically savvy, and that some of the money flows to to his acolytes and political surrogates so that nobody can talk. He also used the enormous stolen funds to plant governors in the South West.

More importantly he used stolen funds in the war chest to fund Buhari's election, thereby buying political and corruption immunity for himself in the process.

Goke7:
Good, please concentrate on how to bring more development to your state since you are already developed and stop being a busybody in other people's states matter. It will do you a lot of good. No man can never pocket a whole state, if it were possible the whole oyo state would have been buried and pocketed along with adedibu when he died. It's a fallacy to believe a whole state can be pocketed by a man hence my earlier advise to stop being a busybody in other people's matter. Thanks

Are you a Lagosian?

VirginFinder:
You mean the very afonjas that fought for his freedom?

Deji Adeyanju, Fayose, Fani Kayode etc

Those three men are Yorubas not Afonjas. Every Afonja is a yoruba but not every yoruba is an afonja

Goke7:
and how developed and industrialized is your state?

It depends on what you call "development". We are developed enough not to bulldoze communities and allow ppl get shot just so people close to power can corner prime real estate.

Secondly what does "development" have to do with one man pocketing a state?

What I find really sad is that Lagosians are the most docile people in the world today. Even though Tinubu is using mafia sense on them.

This rubbish can never happen in my state. We for chop the bagger like biscuit!!

thedragon:
Nigeria is stronger for it's high black population, which means a bigger economy and more output.

Nationalism and pride in Nigeria should be taught in schools like the Japanese do for Japan. A stronger Nigeria is a stronger West/ Central Africa and a stronger black people overall. Hence there is no reason Nigeria need split. Get over your tribal squabbling and get into the 21sr century. The Japanese stopped their tribal wars more than a 150 years ago when the British Navy came to Japanese shorwz and started bombing Japan indiscriminately, demanding fealty from the all Japanese, tribe be damned. Do you know what the Japanese did?

The Japanese tribes banded together, defended their land, bought weapons from opposing Europeans groups, learnt to build those weapons, killed the Dutch missionaries on their land and brainwashed every Japanese boy into fealty to the Japanese emperor and Empire. Death to all else. And so it goes.

I disagree with you on comparing Japan to Nigeria. Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogenous country while Nigeria is a badly crafted colonial contraption barely 100 years old, kept together by force and designed to favour one part of the country, the North and their allies in the south west. The Japanese have been united since the beginning. of time. Their civil wars were just between Shoguns (Generals) who were struggling to rule in the name of the Emperor.

In Nigeria's case which King are all of us to swear allegiance to? That would start another problem

Sweetguy25:
Why Yoruba's Love Nigeria

As it stands currently, the Yoruba’s are biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria. Why, you may ask? Well this is because they own (or claim to own) Lagos.

How are Yoruba’s benefiting from Nigeria by owning Lagos? This is because 90 percent of all foreign investment that comes to Nigeria goes to Lagos. Lagos is the commercial heartbeat of Nigeria. Everything important about Nigeria’s commercial sector and economy is in Lagos – From the vibrant ports, to foreign missions and embassies, to industries, multinationals, financial sector etc.

Almost all trans-border projects connecting Nigeria to other countries are connected to or only through Lagos.
For example – The West African Gas pipeline, the West African Power Pool, The Lagos to Abidjan Corridor, the West African Cable system and a host of others.

All the 5 submarine cables connected to Nigeria are connected to Lagos. In fact, even a cable linking Cameroun to Nigeria was connected only to Lagos. They skipped, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta and connected it to Lagos. (This may be due to viability reasons)

So, the south west is aware of the development that is coming to them through Lagos and they wouldn’t want to mess it up. Their ownership of Lagos has already made them dominate the organized private sector followed by Igbos. Ogun state is also becoming the most industrialized state in the country. That is why they chose to be patriotic Nigerians. Most patriotic Nigerians are Yorubas.


Why Hausa/Fulani Love Nigeria
The reason why the Hausa/Fulani and their kith and kin in the north are happy in Nigeria is obvious. After the yoruba’s/south west, the north comes next as the zone/ethnic people who benefit from Nigeria at the expense of others. They have more states, more local governments, more politicians and more civil servants but less human capital. This means Northerners get to receive more of the revenues generated by the federal government (from the Niger delta).
Due to the low human development in the northern region, they get favorable educational programs and policies funded by the federal government which is not available to other regions. The northern zone also has better road infrastructures than the southern zone. The seat of government is also located in the North, to facilitate the development of the Northern Region.


Ijaws and other ND minorities
The reasons why Ijaws and other minorities in the South South are “content being Nigerians”
Ignorance and helplessness. That’s all. The minority tribes in Nigeria’s Niger Delta generate a bulk of the country’s revenue but they’re some of the poorest people you can ever find in Africa. Most Nigerians from the west and north barely even know they exist.

[s]This thread is purely speculative[/s]


Have a nice night rest. . .

Very very accurate post OP. Kudos!

But you left out the unwritten political agreement they have. Northerner rules Nigeria then hands over to a Yoruba who eventually hands over to Northerner.
We saw how the poo hit the fan when GEJ broke the formula.

Also many blue chip companies with Yoruba CEOs have Hausa/Fulani Chairmen who hold huge shares invested in the company. This has been on since the Gowon/Awolowo indigenisation decree that allowed north and yorubas acquire shares in all the blue chip companies just after the biafran war.

I really am not surprised at how badly those two love the Nigeria of today. If na you nko?

Lets not forget that if you are from Yobe your cutoff mark for admission to school is 2 while the Anambra student has to get 139. Thats why they want to die when they hear Biafra

spanishkid:
There's something VERY WRONG with the IGBO tribe...the past election and there after greatly revealed the MIND of the average Igbo Man and Woman: VERY UNREASONABLE, HATES TRUTH, TRIBALISTIC, DELUDED AND VIOLENT

The reason why a number of people these days say they are the ''The Most Hateful And Tribalistic Group In Nigeria'' is not only because it's TRUE but because people (other tribes) are MORE AWARE of their character more than ever before.

The Igbo man is NOT for PEACE, REASON,UNITY; what they want is CONTROL, MANIPULATION TO ACHIEVE THEIR AIMS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER TRIBES WHO THEY UNREASONABLY PERCEIVE AS THEIR ENEMIES

BUT THERE ARE A VERY FEW AMONG THEM WHO ARE TRULY GOOD AND REASONABLE PEOPLE ...YOU JUST NEED TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH...

But you see...no matter the EVIL they may wish NIGERIA; saying the ''Zoo must Fall'' , GOD's good intentions for Nigeria and it's people will come to pass. AMEN!

Stay off drugs. Allow the few brain cells you have to survive

So mighty DSS raids an office just to remove somebody from office. How shameful.

This woman is the one that refused to allow Fashola and his fellow APC goons raid the hard earned pension funds of Nigerian workers in the name of money for "infrastructure". We knew it would come to this. I can bet one daura brother will replace her and be the one they will try to use to plunder our pension funds but God pass them