₦airaland Forum

The National assembly is full of unemployable and useless human beings.
One of the very reason why I want this country to be dismantle. I have no control over the people elected from other regions

F

lofty900:
Praise singers. Nothing he said has any impact on Nigerians

It doesn't because of the clowns you voted for in the national assembly and states

Much ado about nothing.
This guy's thinking ,
You are successful only when you make noises.
Forgetting that there are many successful rainmaker who are silently making it rain .
True wealth is understated .
They do not suffer from low self esteem,thus do not need Bugattis ,prada or tag heur.

Not too late to localise failure

Yorubaland stands alone .

Statsocial:
Yet lag contributes over 40 billion of vat to the same federal purse. So lets assume Lagos is only collecting 9 out of its 40 billion. It simply means receiving less than it contributes.

40 billion is an understatement.

Sarakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
The idea that Nigeria can avoid to pay for their prodigal ways is nothing but wishful thinking .

2 million barrels of crude oil is what the whole country depends on .
The 2 million barrels was for 120 million people in 1990.
Same quantity has to feed close to 200 million.
Yet , only a fraction ( perhaps 2 million or less ) consume the whole resource.

Is Tinubu his governor?
If there is any universally accepted truth in the SW, whether consciously or unconsciously, it is that we are better off on our own .

Has anyone noticed that this guy is exhibiting the God-complex

That map is a joke

millionaireman:
But your pen name begins with Odua, What about Odua'a country in the SW from failed Nigeria? Why call Dokubo a charlatan because he is on a propaganda show for his own country which he wants from failed Nigeria?

Nigeria is a failed state .
It failed not because the country produce people like Asari .
It failed because of people like him.
It is the psyche. He is a local version of the typical Nigerian politician in Abuja .

Fearlez:
Patch up your leaking emotions: All Nigerians are suffering the lack of seaports in other parts of the country that bound the Atlantic. The car you bought at whatever price is as a result of the high duties charged in Lagos because it is the only international seaport in the country.

And what has private hands got to do with opening of government agencies? Warri, port harcourt ports were all functional in the early 80s before it became just a junkyard.

By the way, Lagos remains the only true cosmopolitan state I Nigeria; tribeless

It is a myth .
There was a port in warri .
Those ports used to export produce to Europe , Asia and America under the western region . They collapsed not too long after the Midwest was created . The ports still exist but where is the produce to export .
The carefully conserved forest reserves in Sapele was completely chopped-down, turning it from a boom town under the western region to the derelict it is today .

ninjalove:
I am Ijaw but can this man shut up!! Really Asari you went to build your university in Benin Republic tired of this uneducated warlords speaking for the ijaws please shut up and build your state rubbish!

I am sorry ,
People like you have kept mute while charlatans like Asari completely took over your ethnic space .
This is the biggest war we have to fight in the SW .
See how the clown senator Melaye is being dealt with .
That is how we roll .

wristbangle:
USA is the most indebted country in the world after which China follows yet they are the strongest economies in the world.

Owing debt is not the issue but when you have enough collateral to cover up in case of emergency yet sustainable and also enough liquidity to offset the debt within a particular period, then we can say such economy has high liquidity ratio just like lagos.

The major concern should be region with high debt but no resources/collateral/liquids to service their debts within a stipulated period.

FYI, tax/revenue from sea ports in Lagos is accrued to FG account and if restructuring occurs, we know these revenue will go to Lagos purse. So tell me how Lagos without oil won't survive. This alone is just one of few examples to clarify the fact that lagos is a different league on its own.

Oh! Have u heard of the ongoing construction of Eko Atlantic/Smart cities, refinery, monorail and other gigantic projects which will enrich the tourism/industrial/commercial benefits of the state?

You have time to bother to explain .
I doubt most of them can get their heads around your detailed explanation even though many of them have degrees in business, accounting and economics related qualifications

Nonaira1:
Yeah Yeah Yeah just like OSUN had the largest GDP and doesn't need oil money until allocation reduced and the truth of una loud mouthing was exposed. Considering that your brethren is the leader of the statistics aspect of the government, I don't believe one single sh1t that emits from there known the level of propaganda that hails from you lots.

Like I said, if you lots believed the crap you rant, your people would have long supported the call to rent the oil companies HQ back to SS in addition wouldn't try to disrupt each company that did try to return their HQ to the state they drill from. Instead narrating of Canada, Brazil, etc did, we want to see it done here in Niggeria.

You are ignorant .
I won't even bother to start with you because it is obvious that you do not know how societies work .
Osun on it's own can fend for herself on consumption taxes alone. This is before we talk about natural resources or potentials .

Another disjointed piece .
Solving corruption is all about reducing access to things to steal and harshly punishing any slight deviation from set processes .

Simply limiting bank accounts to which money can be transferred from government account will go a long way . People like those legislooter have access to cash which originates from government accounts.

This is a disjointed piece .

Pfft

Ben Bruce and Shehu Sani are also rubbish

First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:

Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense

In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."

Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.

Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.

At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.

In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.

Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.

For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

What a bunch of drivel from a fantastic idiot . Even at his age , he still doesn't know how parliamentary system of government works. Azikwe did not win a majority to form a government .NCNC did not exist anywhere in the western region beyond lagos

Something has to be done with that National Assembly

People dying over 2 good for nothing and irredeemable nonentities( Melaye and Yaya Bello).

Nowhere near fashola

The problem with this is that the SS and SE electorate have a knack of voting people who can sell their parents for a pot of apku.
Not that we do not have such people in the SW but rarely do we vote them into power.

Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
Perhaps Nnamdi Kalu and his crew should go and read proper books on history starting with the Nigerian/ biafran. And not the distorted IPOB version or the romanticised version from Achebe,Adichie and Co.
I am not even talking about the war. I am talking about the events,politics,attitudes and grievances which led to it.
More than anything, it was the breaking down of the regions into states that was the final straw.
That move by gowon essentially gave in to minority yearnings, they took the oil in present rivers state off the hands of the eastern region.
In other words, it was karma.Chicken coming home to roost. The medicine administered to the western region was applied to the eastern region

Obi and all the other thieves are still dreaming of $120 a barrel crude oil.
Keep dreaming.
The Nigerian economy is as crude as they come.
Oil,theft and patronage is all it is all it is about.
Anyone who loves Nigeria would advice the country to cap all oil well in order to move away from the distorted economy

Not afraid of ?
This is the best possible outcome
Go our separate ways.

kayLion:
why cant Oyo generate more than this?..that guy has just been a disaster across all areas

Transportation and the food sector are huge in the SW. These 2 sectors are either under taxed or the money is going into the wrong hands .
In fact , the transportation sector bigger than the commerce sector but the money goes into pockets of the "chairmen".
I heard of a motor park in Oyo state that generates billions every year but the money ends up in the wrong pockets. This is only one of many parks in that state . Also a surcharge (tax) can be applied to journey tickets .

There is a good argument for trade unions to be proscribed in the SW. From barber , Okada,vulcaniser , mechanic to road transport union . Those at the top of those unions simply exist like a Mafia cell .They pockets the dues which are forcefully taken from their members.

Anyone who has been around knows that the South east of Nigeria is the worst place to start up from ground zero for many reasons .

Number one reason is human behaviour . Hostility or the perception of hostility. This manifest itself in many ways . The sense of freedom you get in Akwa Ibom ,rivers or cross river is simply absent or short supply. Individuals can be nice but as a society , you cannot miss the hostility.

Number two reason is the linear settlement pattern around roads . Instead of building cities and nations , they build villages and clans in a place that is limited in terms of geographical space .

Number three is the "individualism" ( selfishness) which does not help to breed an healthy society . This Manifest itself in very poor social and physical infrastructure.The political elites are also the business elites . Wealth is mistaken for leadership . This is why the region has nothing to show for Jonathan's boom years .
Where people in the SW happily if reluctantly vacate land and property for the greater good( road , bridges ,universities , in the SE , it is war)

Number four is that the colonial master were responsible for giving the igbos any semblance of civilisation . What they met in igboland was the crudest form of human civilisation. Therefore , there is nothing to build upon .
This is why they continuously vote against their own interests. The lessons of history is simply not there to draw from.

As we speak , there are about 4 industrial estates under construction in the SW and 2 industrial estates in hibernation . Those governors could have easily pocketed the money or donate wheelbarrow and buses to agberos but the people demand good governance .
If Nigeria were to be a confederation, the unemployment rate would be closer to zero. The middle class from other regions are tussling and competing for the same jobs as the SW poor.

This is how Lagos and other states in the SW were vandalised in the 70s and 80s.

1 Street lights
2 Manhole covers
3 Aluminium highway guide rail
4 Electric cables and high tension wire
5 water pipes

They all started disappearing