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Throwback:
Buhari is useless I swear.

This same indecision is what made Saraki to dribble his own APC party and install himself and his PDP friends as the Senate leadership in 2015, after a hard won victory by the APC.

Something is seriously wrong with Buhari.

This the same indecision to news that Buhari wanted to marry his Minister of Environment.

Same indecision to news that the CBN Governor wanted to contest the APC presidential primaries.

Buhari is sleeping while riding a bicycle.

Little wonder Abba Kyari as CoS to the President, was the one running the country and keeping things afloat.

If Emefiele is not arrested on the very 1st day of Tinubu’s tenure, then I will know I have to get things done by myself and pursue the Presidency seat myself.

this one the reason we have Obidients movement today to up thing in the right direction but as usual you guys have refused to have sense, as if APC uses jazz in their members

I love the way well learned Yorubas, especially some of the Professors (with conscience) are coming out now to speak the truth.

*LAGOS 2023: TINUBU AND SANWO-OLU MUST CARRY THEIR CROSSES*

by

Moses Oludele Idowu

Let me begin by way of clarification: I am not a card- carrying member of any party and have no loyalty to anyone. My loyalty is to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Of late I have been inundated with several calls, posts and solicitations imploring me to support the re-election of Babajide Sanwo- Olu, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State. The way these calls and posts and bombardments through various formats and platforms are staged it is like Lagos is under imminent attack from foreign takeover and external invasion.
It is these irritatingly vacuous and asinine propositions by opportunists and third - rate social media activists and mediocre intellectuals that I want to demolish in this intervention. The manipulation of information, the deployment of ethnic sentiments and religious sympathies; the dubious and maniacal insinuations and rearranging the facts to suit intended sinister purpose by people who neither love Yorubas nor care about religion is what irritates me and which I want to expose here.
I have been closely associated with Lagos since 1995 and until recently I have lived there. So I am aware of the entire history of the Fourth Republic as per Lagos State and all the administrations that have ruled Lagos since 1999.
This is why I am a bit disturbed at the campaigns of calumny flying around about the supposed takeover of Lagos by a certain tribe. If you have ruled a place consistently for 24 years under the same party and you are still afraid of takeover then it is a proof that you failed in your assignment or you didn't do all that was required of you. It is not for you to run from pillar to post or demonise another tribe but to calmly see your own failure. If you train a child for 24 years and now that child wants to rebel and change his parentage it is actually not his fault but the parent's.
That is the truth they are not telling you which I will tell you here.

Few days ago the ubiquitous and noisy Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN) Lagos State Chapter through its executive unanimously adopted Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the candidate and asked people to reelect him for a second time.
With due respect and in all humility I stand to tell you that what you did was wrong. It is not your place to adopt a candidate or seek for the re-election of a candidate of any party. As clergymen you are supposed to be neutral and maintained neutrality. And if you must be partisan then it has to be private not using the corporate organ of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
The Labour Party candidate is also a Christian too, so on what basis are you showing partiality between two candidates?

I am also aware of several Yoruba Groups and Yoruba Nation activists who have been busy writing, posting, soliciting for the need to prevent Lagos from been captured by outsiders. Thus, they want us to vote the APC candidate and reject the Labour candidate whom they claim is an agent of the vehicle of complete Igbonisation of Lagos.

Several arguments, some of them utterly fallacious, jejune and illogical, have been adduced to support this infantile reasoning including the Awo - Zik spat of 1950's.

Let me say this blunt truth that our people are not careful to notice: If Lagos falls on Saturday to the Labour Party or any "foreign" candidate the number one person to hold responsible is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is not anyone's fault but Tinubu himself and the way he has governed Lagos both directly and indirectly from 1999 till now.
People are afraid of consequences but they forget that it is their choices and causes that produce consequences. It is what you sow that you reap. It is now time to reap for all the sowing of the last 24 years.
There should be nothing to fear if you have done well. The rewards of your hands are now about to be given to you. It is now time to carry your own cross.

Thus all these barrage of information manipulation and ethnic profiling are not necessary.

Let me now debunk certain claims in the public domain.

It is being said that current struggle for power in Lagos is akin to the Awo- Zik struggle for the West in 1950's.
It is not.
What is going on in Lagos State regarding this election is not like the famous Awo- Zik case. It is not even similar.
In the 1950s Zik was the usurper, an interloper trying to rule in a region that was not his own. Also the vehicle he was using NCNC was founded by the Yorubas but after becoming a leader he introduced tribalism and turned it to an Igbo party. For instance when he was contesting he should have allowed another person as the leader of the party instead he chose an Igbo man like himself.
Also Awo and the Action Group's programs were far better and superior to the Zik and NCNC even now in retrospect.
That was in the 1950's.
It is not the same today. We have seen how APC has ruled Lagos State and how a Mafia has emerged as leaders, the lack of accountability, the corruption, rent- seeking patronage system, the level of poverty ( Lagos is the most Indebted state in Nigeria even though it is also the state with the highest internally- generated revenue.), the alienation of the youths, neglect of the old and the native Lagosians etc.
It is an insult when you compare Awolowo with these people. It is an abuse of language when you compare Awo's struggles for power with these people's struggle for power which is basically for their own benefits and selfish interests.
The noise about Yorubas is chiefly diversionary; these people care nothing about the Yorubas.
I will come to that soon.

I sympathize with genuine Yorubas who feel sincerely bothered and worried that Lagos State is about to become a no- man's land which is what the Labour Party's victory would signpost.
However, the seeming loss of Lagos didn't begin today; it began long ago. It began when someone because of his ambition and greed began to sell through his agents every choice estate to developers, non- indigenes and even non- Yorubas. He didn't consider then that the effect will come back someday to haunt him.
Yorubas have been losing Lagos for a long time. I could see it but others of my tribesmen can't see it.
Now I am afraid it is late. The consequences of your foolish actions are now here.

I will speak exhaustively another time of how Yoruba began to lose Lagos but let me just mention few cases that our duo will remember.

* *Excluding Lagos from Yoruba Struggles*

If you observe for a long time Lagos usually stand apart from other Yoruba states. It rarely identifies with other Yoruba states in their struggle or share the collective aspirations and desires of the Yoruba Nation.
They see other Yorubas as grabbers and usurpers who want to eat Lagos wealth. Observe that during the Constitutional Conference Lagos stood apart from other Yoruba states in their position. " Gedegbe leko wa" - was their slogan meaning, Lagos stands apart.

When the Southwest was besieged front and left by Fulani invaders and herdsmen terrorists and the governors met for a common position was Lagos part of it?
Only a deputy governor represented Lagos State at the meeting. And when the Amotekun was set up Lagos was not part of it. Tinubu has always loved to govern Lagos as a fiefdom and not share it with anyone.
Good. So fight the battle too alone. Why are you now appealing to Yoruba sentiments. So go face the battle alone. "Lagos stands apart?", Good, so stand apart and fight your electoral battle without appealing to Yorubas to help you.

* *The General Adebayo's Letter*

Before his death the late General Adeyinka Adebayo wrote a passionate letter to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Since I read that letter I have kept a copy of it. It was a beauty of a statement by someone who have seen it all, a patriot and a passionate Yoruba man conscious that all politics is first local.
What Adebayo warned about has already befallen the Yorubas now in the Southwest. How many industries today existing in southwest are owned by Yorubas? How many existing in Lagos are owned by Lagosians and Yorubas?
The paper industry used to be exclusively owned by the Yorubas. Go to Mushin today and see who now control it.
The banking system used to be the turf of the Yorubas. Today another tribe has displaced you lock, stock and barrel.
How has your policy impacted this or brought it about?
What have you done about addressing the genuine concerns expressed by that illustrious army general in the last few years?
Why is it only about election you are concerned about and returning to office? Of what use is a Yoruba control of Lagos when it is the Yoruba administration that has impoverished its own people?
Whether you are aware of this or not your policies have driven many Yorubas to find succour elsewhere outside Lagos. And don't forget that for every Yoruba man that leaves Lagos two Igbos or northerners come to take his place. That is why you now have the dangerous demographics that you have today. That is one of the factors that resulted in the Waterloo of February 25 and the worse is yet to come except you do the right thing and take the right steps. It.is still not too late if you know what to do but it is not by deploying ethnic sentiments; it has gone beyond that. Pray you will find the wisdom to know what to do before Saturday.

* *Policies Alienating Yorubas*

Another factor in the crisis that has befallen the APC is the policies, deliberate policies that tend to drive natives away for reasons best known to them.
I will give few examples.
Under Bola Ahmed Tinubu virtually every Igbo governor had a plot in Lagos State but Tinubu denied a fellow Yoruba governor this opportunity.
Lam Adeshina was governor of Oyo State and he helped Tinubu covered his tracks at a time when he claimed to have attended Ibadan Government College which is untrue. It was this governor who ensured that the records was not found.
Yet how did Tinubu pay back? He applied several times for a plot in Lagos without Tinubu acceding the request even when he gave Igbo governors the privilege. Anytime Lam Adeshina came to a meeting in Lagos he must return before night to go and sleep in Ibadan.
This is the same Tinubu who is now claiming to love Yorubas than Oduduwa.
Whenever he is threatened he always resort to ethnic card like when the APC cabal was trying to deny him the ticket. But how much does he really love Yorubas?
There was riot in Ibadan and markets were destroyed and Yorubas killed. Did you hear his voice? Did he donate anything?
But he has donated for rebuilding Katshina market, Kano market except Yoruba land.
This is the man who is now appealing to Yoruba not to allow Igbos to takeover Lagos.
Who cares?

The policies of APC took properties of the natives and gave them to the highest bidders. Yorubas were evacuated in Badia under the name of redevelopment and who got the prime land thereafter?
Yorubas were evicted from Tejuosho market and a new ultra modern market built which the poor Yorubas cannot afford. Did your government give them the loan or empowerment to be able to take them? Today Igbos largely have also taken it.
These are the Yorubas you want to vote for you on Saturday, the same Yorubas you have impoverished through your market- driven philosophy and neo- liberal economic policies.
What about the Ilajes? You destroyed their shanties without building a replacement for them.
What about the owners of Makoko and other indigenous lands that your government, backed with touts and police evicted by force of arms to God- knows where?
These are the votes that would be missing on Saturday.
Your government drives away street traders and arrest them for street trading while the touts who extort money from motorists are left unmolested and unaddressed because they are "cooperative mobs." Those are the Yorubas who may vote against you on Saturday.

How about the Housing Estates? Who owns the choice land in Lagos Island today? In Banana Island, Osborne Ikoyi, Lagos Atlantic etc. You have sold everything that can be sold in terms of landed estate, so future Lagosians will wake up to pay the debts that you have generously incurred for them.

What happened on February 25 was not just an Igbo affair or even youth revolt. It was a Yoruba revolt too. Many Yorubas are aggrieved the way APC and especially Bola Tinubu has managed Lagos State in the past few years. That was the tsunami you saw last Saturday.
You can still prevent the hurricane that is coming if you do the right thing even as late as it is, not by appealing to ethnic sentiments. It doesn't mean anything because you really didn't love Yorubas and the people now know it.
It is left for you to do the right thing before it is late. Saturday will soon be here.
Please stop appealing to Yoruba or ethnic sentiments. Use your records of achievement in the last 24 years if they are good enough.
Be prepared to carry your cross. It is now pay back time.

helinues:
Can't some you people make your comments without throwing tantrums, common this is getting childish

then always bteu to say a simple truth it doesn't hurt, if you don't want to be insulted

helinues:
Because Obi and his supporters played a tribal tricks on other Nigerians

fool

MasterShifu010:
God go just Dey look una ,
You guys should remember that God cannot do for man what man must do for themselves ..

believe me you understand God more than all these GO mostly adeboye I don't know what he teaches his congratulations

This man must be an idiot, am not sorry to say this

Meen wetin this guy use senior me no plenty o
And I dey here dey argue with urchins, it's time to advice myself

budaatum:
If "NIGERIA has a defined voting pattern" where in that pattern did Labour Patty get it's own votes? Was it only from PDP, and nothing from APC?

I suggest you go do some research instead of believing I am the sort of person whom you think can be scammed by propaganda.

Start with Lagos State, then come tell me how it was only PDP that lost votes there.

you think if was just about APC and PDP you think I will waste my time to vote those that will vote will always be party members

Is any Igbo man contesting in your own state

IyaebeTheGreat:
This Obi will not let us drink water and drop cup in peace, what is so hard in moving on? I wonder what would have become of Nigeria if he had come second? Seriously he’s disturbing the peace of this country .

no peace for you my brother, a thief deserves no peace

IyaebeTheGreat:
This Obi and his people don’t want this country to move forward, it’s so sad. Is Obi the first to lose an election? What’s his problem for God’s sake?

chai, this is type of people I am sharing country with, what are u afraid of, are u ok can you read what you just wrote, does it make sense to you, if you don't like progress as a black man the rest of us in this country want to compete with countries like chine and Singapore

Houseontherock1:
You are clamouring for an interim government or you want this one to continue while the case drags on? How selfish can you people be?!

ya interim government have already been programed for osibanjo, take this to the bank

Soon some countries will legalize public sex

The world have crazy
Is this what we call genda equality biko

Tinubu must never be allowed in aso rock until the case is over if not the case will die, that man is dangerous to a fault

HydraFeeds:
Nothing like collusion,PDP has always been a great challenger too but their candidate this time around is not a serious fellow and has fallen off after been displaced by LP .

APC still has high chances of winning because Sanwo Olu performed,he’s a Christian,he has grassroots support,he’s considered a better Yoruba ,more experienced and he’s incumbent. Many people that voted for Obi will vote for him . The only people that might vote against him are previous PDP base,some foreign tribes and few aggrieved youths .

oga no PDP candidate in Lagos has ever been serious, tinubu usually buys ticket for them in PDP

IyaebeTheGreat:
I thought everyone has moved on, why does Obi goes about disturbing our peace? Northerners voted massively for Asiwaju and he won, so what’s wrong with him?

why did your God have to rig election to win

DMerciful:
Obidients sole mandate is to destroy the structures of criminality

urchins need to hear you louder, because they have kept screeming Igbo up and down

IyaebeTheGreat:
Obi should rest, he needs it. He’s doing too much already.

are u afraid ba, remember he didn't win the election or you think he won?, Anytime urchins see obi or hear him speak their mind will fly take it on yourself bro

naijapikin2:
why are you sounding defensive?
I never mentioned tinubu in this post.

The process was horribly bad the result was catastrophic. That's my opinion.

we are saying the same thing, just a little understanding of legal matters is what am trying to explain to you

Urchins are trying real hard to heat up the polity, knowing that their mandate was stollen, continue setting fellow yorubas up for tribal conflict, you might be the first casualty just dey play

naijapikin2:
In plateau state, lp got over 1 million votes at the state collation center in jos. This was reflected during collation. Only for a different result to be read when it go to national collation center Abuja.

So everything about the election reeks of impropriety.

Shikenan

that is still case of the process, it wasn't tinube that read the result it's inec, the outcome is Tinubu the process is inec

Obi won Edo state, won Abuja won cross river won platue, won nasarawa, all these states are non state and no one crying about igbos but youruba keep crying over Lagos, why are you guys like this even after knowing that Yoruba as well voted for Obi, why are urchins over shadowing other sane yorubas

Asgard13:
Una no go embrace it before he change mind..


Useless igbotic ego..

Na same ego Obi take bounce commit for PDP.. being decieved by his egotist peanut brain that he will win elections

Today he’s crying

The very Obi that gave Tinubu Nigeria President on a plater and still think he can get it just like that

Sense must fall on this sapiens

the person you are replying is he a senator

naijapikin2:
Oga even the outcome is bizarre.

What happened to the over 1 million votes twisted away from lp to apc?

that is the fault of the process not the outcome once the process is gotten right the outcome will automatically revert

lorenzobanks:
Lol! You guys keep giving Yoruba reasons, why the rush and desire to live and die in south west. Shebi, your anambra is super develop like Lagos and Abuja. Then why do we have less numbers of other tribes there? Ndi develop indeed!

because you are too timid and low brain to compete with the indegines there, people that you can't even compete with in your own you want to go to there region to do what what's exactly

IamNat:
The same way they triumph during the February 25th election, I didn't realize that triumph means failure to the Obidents. So if they chose failure, who am I to say no.

This time around hen, dem go hear wien for Lagos, their motives as been brought to the bear and they would be paid back in their own currency, in the next four years, they won't be able to even make any noise by the time the Yorubas are through with them. Make I sha no hear any noise, screaming, wailing or crying by the time it starts.

you might even the first casualty, continue

Olodo is now writing long epistle for people to read did he write this epistle on tinubu over his identity crises, hypocrites

Delightsome2023:
Obi is a foolish he goat that keeps bleating and deceiving his supporters.
elections he obviously lost but can't provide evidence that he was rigged out .
I just pity his useless Supporters that he has hypnotized

so he should give you the evidence because you are the chief judge of the federal highcourt, Olodo

Massiveglory:
Peter obi: I respect the apc presidential candidate bola tinubu. He is an elder brother or even a father.
I have nothing against him. What I am challenging is the process that declared him. It is wrong. It is not correct. It will be corrected.


Peter Obi on lagos LP candidate GRV:
The LP candidate in lagos remains the best candidate.
He is a true and thorough lagosian, from a family well known.
His age, education and background is not contestable.
I support GRV 100%.

when obi calls you an elder brother be ready to fight even the ground you walk on