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Wonderful article from and unbiased observer of the political happenings in nigeria. JK we know, JK we trust.

jimi4us:
I will only believe buhari only when I see or hear say tinubu have been jailed. if not they are all the same.

The true change starts the day Thiefnnubu goes to jail.

ezex:
They should use their head,becuz all I can see is no way PDP can in Lagos state.
Am advising my Igbo brothers to play Lagos politics with brain and not cry marginalization after the election

Don't worry, we have decided that real change must happen in Lagos. JK we know, JK we trust.

dipopooo:
LOL you people are going higher indeed. homeless people

We know the people who are sleeping under the bridges in Ojuelegba, motor parks in mushin, oshodi etc. We also know the people who own the biggest number of property in lekki, festac/amuwo odofin etc. You can do the maths yourself. Even for your people who live under a supposed roof, we know how they live at mushin, isale-eko etc. Your problem is envy that Igbos have taken over almost everything in Lagos while your type continue to die of hate and envy.

dipopooo:
Ask d most intelligent person in ur village what we did to ur leader(OJUKWU). We caged him n fck his wife.

You are one of the products of that 'poo' presently sitting on the throne of the Oba of Lagos. We understand your pain, which is that we are taking over your land, while you are preparing to go back to your villages in Ogun, Oyo, Osun etc to go and be planting cocoa. I'm sure that your Landlord is an Igbo and all you live on is provided by Igbos. Is your life not pathetic? Very soon, your children will come and work for Igbo employers because 80% of the informal sector is controlled by Igbos. Don't allow your hate for Igbos to run your health down because Igbos are God's own people who continue to go higher and higher.

Even if Okorocha likes, let him go and get the entire APC leadership to Owerri, it will not save him from the massive defeat that awaits him at next saturday's elections.

dipopooo:
yesss **in fayose's voice* no apology

Kabiyesi has spoken. He is d owner of lagos dnt u pple understand?
Although I don't wish flatees dead but let dem leave lagos. We prefer ab*okis to them.

#AllIgboMustLeaveLagos

Your fore fathers were not able to do it, and an ant like you is coming to talk trash. We are going to buy up all your lands and convert you to our tenants. We did it to your parents, and we are going to extend it to you. The rubbish on the throne of Lagos has placed you and your generations under a perpetual curse, because he tried to curse a people whom God had not cursed.

donsteady:
The king has spoken

Rather the rubbish that sits on the throne over rubbish people spoke.

raumdeuter:
Well said Kabiyesi

The meaning of Kabiyesi is who dares question you

You have said it and who dares question you

The curse from this madman is upon him and all his supporters, well wishers and their generations both born and unborn.

theChiefPriest:
Slaves issuing ultimatum to their master. They should be rounded up!

Your silly Oba was simply a dog barking at a lion, on Saturday, he and his puppet, Ambode, would be taught the lesson of their miserable lives.

wakacome:
Hypocrites!!!PDP should just shut up,they did not remember that diaris god oooooo when they said they will rule nigeria for 60 years,they did not remember that GOD is the owner of nigeria abi??when the oba was busy endorsing jonathan the PDP guys were busy dancing feeling happy but now that the same oba is against them they are now crying like a three months old baby..awon oniranu

Do you have fingers??I thought boko haram chopped it off when they took you to borno for reprogramming as a robot!!!!!

Stop making noise why didn't PDP after 16 years in government adopt the true federalism you are talking about??Hypocrites!!!!

You just come here to advertise your madness to the entire world. Your Oba is raving mad and you come here to spew trash, after tash, in the name of comments. Is APC trying to bring down the third republic? Are they taking PDP's gentle stance for granted? Please, go and tell your mad monarch that if he as much as spews further trash, he would suffer far more woes than the deposed Sultan Dasuki.

datribune:
I don't blame d oba. d igbo appear  willing to jeopardize d progress of lagos by helping to install d rejected PDP in lagos state just in order to settle a score wit Tinubu who they hold largely responsible 4 their Azikiwe's loss at d polls. Just as they did Buhari, d igbo hav been relentless in their criticism of him even though he is not on d ballot. Unwittingly d igbo hav bought into d divisive politics of Ebele Jonathan.
d people of lagos ar very hospitable but when would d igbo realize dat it would be dangerous to take dem forgranted?. d domineering posture of ndigbo as exemplified in comments on & off dis forum referring to lagos as as a no-man's land is d greatest challenge of ndigbo nationwide.

You are as mad as your Oba. Unfortunately for both of you, the Lagos of today does not have a place for ethnic bigots like you because today, Igbos are getting elected as house of representative members from Lagos. That shows that Lagos is indeed moving forward, and has left ethnic bigots like you and your mad Oba behind.

Your moronic Oba has made you lose the elections, sorry.

sweetgala:
Unfortunately the Oba can't and should not retract his statement , he is an absolute and Yoruba tradition demands that whatever a King says goes without remorse.

He is by divine provision the costodian of lagos interest and the hope of his people is vested in his throne.

You are indeed as mad as your Oba.

omenka:
The Palace has already clarified this. The Oba never made such a statement, it is just PDP sticking unto their divisive tradition of ethnoreligious politicking. They will milk this trash for what it's worth whether or not there's a shred of truth in it.

This is the kind of legacy Jonathan has bequeathed on PDP.

The audio recording is already out on social media. The damage has already been done. The silly Oba just elected Jimi Agbaje into office.

ChinemeOkpan:
Enough of this

I will advise people to desist from insulting the Oba of Lagos. Oba Akiolu is the Oba of Lagos; all Lagosians and immigrants from other regions of the country should respect him.

All Lagosians should go out and vote for the candidate of their choice on the 11th of April without fear.

I will enjoin all Lagosians both indigenes and immigrants to vote for continuity so that progress can continue and it also presents a good opportunity to be politically aligned with the center for the first time since 1999.

Ambode no ni Jor

JK is a joker

You and silly Oba will get the shocker of your lives, come 11th April. You will all learn in a painful way, that a dog does not bark at a lion. Igbos will teach you that nobody threatens us.

datribune:
Just as we sent d Divider-in-Chief packing out of Aso rock we shall roundly reject at d polls d party of fear, hate, bigotry & division. Lagosians will not giv in to fear & division even as Jimi Agbaje says Niger Delta Militants will cripple Oil Installations if Buhari defeats Jonathan. We say no to fear & division. Jk is Just Kidding - Ambode 4 lagos.

Stop overacting yourself because the reality will dawn on you and your thiefnnubu Jagabandit. The reality is that the party that has taken Aso Rock is CPC and not APC as you were made to believe. Your eyes will clear very soon when your 'Sai Baba' turns into 'Chai Baba'.

No back to Lagos, Jimi is set to end the 16 years of looting, lies and propaganda in Lagos through the overwhelming defeat of the biggest thief in Nigeria in next Saturdays election in Lagos. INEC must ensure that the process is better than the sham we saw in the last elections. It is recommended that Jega sends Mike Igini to come and serve as the REC for the elections. Real change is imminent in Lagos, and Jimi Agbaje is the man.

bobcharly:
no matter how you look at it..Ambode still wins it, with a big margin o....
his igbo supporters have all travled for Easter, those around are just demoralized due to outcome of the presidential elections...
I will just vote for AMBO....

I agree that some were demoralized after the presidential elections, and some have also travelled for the Easter, but the silly talk from one stupid Oba has provided them the perfect catalyst to vote in much more greater numbers than in the last elections. This will teach the stupid Oba a lesson that he and his generations will not forget in years to come. JK we know, JK we trust.

Most of these silly posts in support of Ambode are coming from those children operating from the APC situation room who are employed to manipulate social media space as part of the APC propaganda. Today, Buhari is asking Nigerians no to expect miracles, after all the APC lies and propaganda from this their situation room in Lagos. Lagosians will not allow APC to scam them a second time, within two weeks. True and realistic change is coming to Lagos, and the agent of that change is Jimi Agbaje.

bamidele029:
Bode George the ex convict , Ogunlewe the long throat and Gani Adams will never be allowed to backrupt Lagos which is what they will do if Jimi wins. PDP no long has the centre as a source of funds so they want to turn Lagos to their Central Bank . Never

Change is happening in Lagos after 16 years of thiefnnubu's rape of Lagos. Say no to thiefnnubu's family business, say no to alpha beta stealing of Lagos funds, say no to gross underdevelopment of Alimosho, Olodi Apapa/Ajegule, Ikorodu, Ojo, Okoko etc, say no to Lekki/Epe toll gates, say yes Progress, say yes to Jimi Agbaje.

This APC Oba has really pressed the self destruct button. If he knew the natural and default DNA of an average Igbo man, he wouldn't have said what he said. After the announcement of the presidential election results, a lot of Igbos were deflated, and where not interested in voting on April 11th, but this funny man has unwittingly provided the Igbos with the perfect catalyst to come out even more than they did, to teach this so-called 'Oba' a lesson that he and his generations will not forget for a very long time. We will teach him that a dog does not bark at a lion. By the mercies and grace of God, change is coming to Lagos, and JK is the man.

braine:
Good. We don't want thugs and uncouth fellows in our new Administration.

APC for all I care can bring down this nascent democracy for all I care. I'm sure that they know who the biggest loser is going to be.

Onyechere is silently canvassing for appointment from Buhari, so he thinks that the smartest thing to do is to attack FFK. If PDP had won, would he have been making this silly comments about a man that put in everything to counter the APC lies and propaganda. The elections have come and gone, this is not the time to come and be pointing fingers at people who were the shining armour in the PDP arsenal against the forces of lies and propaganda. If fingers must be pointed, they should be pointed majorly on the northern PDP caucus who betrayed GEJ despite all he had done for the north. We believe that a man shall reap whatever he sows, so we are confident that in the fullness of time, all the people who betrayed GEJ will get their full reward.

kazmanbanjoko:
APC wants to make lagos more beta place for lagosians but without the federal support, they cant do it alone. So now that they got federal support, lets support them to make lagos a better place. We should not go back to old times in lagos now that we have the chance.
Vote Ambode for governor.
Vote APC.

Your problem is tribalism, you need to grow up.

Gbawe:
I support Saraki as well. I think he is a good choice given the options available.

As if APC has the required two-third. Kindly note that the PDP will have a lot to say about who becomes senate president as long as their 49 senators remain together.

dickrider:
They must be high on madness. After voting in mass for the PDP who only deceived them with a second Niger bridge on paper. They should relocate to otuoke let GEJ fulfil his promise to them there. They are so hateful that they voted out their son Ngige for supporting APC.

They shall forever remain irrelevant in Nigerian politics. Bunch of tribalists

The curse is for you and your people because whoever God has blessed, no one can curse. Buhari knows better than to heed the advice of minions like you.

Eruditor:
What baffles me is the confidence with which you divulge half-baked ideologies and reasons behind GEJs selection. It is on record that Odili was the touted name but Obasanjo, on receiving Nuhu Ribadu's EFCC analysis, decided to renege and seek another unassuming Niger Deltan. It had absolutely nothing to do with the militants and the sooner you come to terms with that, the better for you.

President Yar Adua signed the amnesty deal in 2009, yet the militancy festered till 2012 and someone is here telling us about chimerical crippling effects the so-called militants had on the economy. As though, Obasanjo was saving stones and not dollars in the FR.

FYI, Obasanjo's stop-gap military approach was not as a result of the pipelines for goodness' sake. It was because of the foreign nationals that were usually taken as hostages during reprisals. It just made sense for the military to tread cautiously. Did the Militants have any effect on the economy? Sure they did. But it is not as pronounced as you would have us believe, so get the full message.

Lastly, and most risible of all, save that 'I-don't-want-to-give-you-a-breakdown' bla bla. My sister works with the DPR. If I wanted figures, I'd get it from her. If you cannot see that with 700k bpd and oil at 40-50$ Obasanjo was able to do more than your man with your supposed 2.3M bpd and 50-115$ (from 2011-2014, 2014-2015) and yet devoid of militants, then keep Stevie wondering through life. Very soon, you'd concede that it is the willpower of the leader that gets things done and not the actions or inactions of misled miscreants A.K.A militants.

The key points here was that the number 2 position was zoned to the niger delta as part of the moves to calm down the militancy, and GEJ got it. The kidnapping of the oil workers apart from increasing the cost of oil production, also forced a lot of the IOCs to declare force majeur. Despite whatever savings you claimed OBJ was making, the fact remains that over 1million bpd was knocked of our oil production, you can confirm that from your sister. You can also ask your sister to confirm to you what is presently happening to the Yoho field, operated by ExxonMobil. People like you who leave in self denial are always the worst hit in times of crisis. The earlier the incoming government starts putting together a strategy to implement the confab report, the better for everyone.
The military option is what the militants are itching for, because it would raise the stakes beyond just resource control. The incoming government would just be playing into their hands. Implementing the confab report is the way to go, else, ruthless sabotage and the eventual collapse of the system would be inevitable. Despite the bravado from people like you, we believe that Those wearing the shoes know better.

GEJ's statesmanship is being taken for granted in Ekiti state, PDP is ready to show APC and GEJ the way things are done on the 11th of April. I pity APC.

Here begins the plot to derail the third republic. These evil forces should understand that May 29 is still far, it is not late to scuttle this democratic system. Good luck to these evil men.

ogene007:
You can continue to dish out incorrect figures inorder to downplay the adverse effect militancy had on the economy, during OBJ's government, but the reality will remain. The only reason why GEJ was hand picked to run as running mate to Yaradua was to appease the militants. Yaradua, came and followed up with amnesty programme. APC has pressed the reset button, so let's see how the other party responds. It is only positive and genuine engagement with these aggrieved region, with the aim of permanently dealing with the issue of resource control, in a fiscal federalism, that can guarantee peace.
The military option was used exhaustively by OBJ, and it failed woefully, because he realized that the thearter of this insurgency was riddled with the oil and gas pipelines, which made it difficult to take out the militants, without taking down the country. Your line of argument is mere bravado because at the end of the day, those agitating for resource control through restructuring of Nigeria will prevail.

Let me end by correcting some of your distorted figures, before the militancy, Nigeria was at 2.1 million bpd, I don't want to start giving you the breakdown from the various IOCs and local marginal field owners. At the time of handing over to Yaradua, OBJ was at below 700,000 bpd, and that is the fact. As at today, we are doing 2.3million bpd, and Osun and Benue are owing workers salaries. Any form of sabotage will result to mass sack of workers by both the states and federal governments, not to talk of the federal government. Such a scenario will just bring down the government. The only way to avert this is to restructure the country. God bless Nigeria.

The key points here was that the number 2 position was zoned to the niger delta as part of the moves to calm down the militancy, and GEJ got it. The kidnapping of the oil workers apart from increasing the cost of oil production, also forced a lot of the IOCs to declare force majeur. Despite whatever savings you claimed OBJ was making, the fact remains that over 1million bpd was knocked of our oil production, you can confirm that from your sister. You can also ask your sister to confirm to you what is presently happening to the Yoho field, operated by ExxonMobil. People like you who leave in self denial are always the worst hit in times of crisis. The earlier the incoming government starts putting together a strategy to implement the confab report, the better for everyone.
The military option is what the militants are itching for, because it would raise the stakes beyond just resource control. The incoming government would just be playing into their hands. Implementing the confab report is the way to go, else, ruthless sabotage and the eventual collapse of the system would be inevitable. Despite the bravado from people like you, we believe that Those wearing the shoes know better.

Eruditor:
They knocked out about 350K barrels in total at their peak period of militancy. If Production dropped to 700-800K does it not show that production should have been between 1-1.1M as I had earlier said?

Now Yar Adua signed an amnesty deal and the activities still continued. GEJ came with his largess and let these militants carter as much as 400K per day just so Nigeria could produce between 1.5-1.9M, tell me is that good governance? And what is to say if the full armour of the military is directed at the militants Nigeria will do any less than the 1.5M?

Men, stop over-exaggerating the effect of these militants. Especially when we have to consider who they're going to be fighting with should this show of shame linger.

You can continue to dish out incorrect figures inorder to downplay the adverse effect militancy had on the economy, during OBJ's government, but the reality will remain. The only reason why GEJ was hand picked to run as running mate to Yaradua was to appease the militants. Yaradua, came and followed up with amnesty programme. APC has pressed the reset button, so let's see how the other party responds. It is only positive and genuine engagement with these aggrieved region, with the aim of permanently dealing with the issue of resource control, in a fiscal federalism, that can guarantee peace.
The military option was used exhaustively by OBJ, and it failed woefully, because he realized that the thearter of this insurgency was riddled with the oil and gas pipelines, which made it difficult to take out the militants, without taking down the country. Your line of argument is mere bravado because at the end of the day, those agitating for resource control through restructuring of Nigeria will prevail.

Let me end by correcting some of your distorted figures, before the militancy, Nigeria was at 2.1 million bpd, I don't want to start giving you the breakdown from the various IOCs and local marginal field owners. At the time of handing over to Yaradua, OBJ was at below 700,000 bpd, and that is the fact. As at today, we are doing 2.3million bpd, and Osun and Benue are owing workers salaries. Any form of sabotage will result to mass sack of workers by both the states and federal governments, not to talk of the federal government. Such a scenario will just bring down the government. The only way to avert this is to restructure the country. God bless Nigeria.

Eruditor:
Lies. They were never up to 2.3M. Even GEJ was producing at 1.7-1.9M. So what did his largess really do to the economy?

Let me work with your own incorrect figures,say, 1.7million bpd, and the militants knocks out, say 1million bpd, at today's rate of 50 dollars per barrel, that is over 50 million dollars per day.kindly do the maths for one year so that you will know how desperate it was for OBJ, which forced him to go and pick GEJ as Yaradua's running mate. The ultimate loser is the FG who will go virtually broke. You will have to come to terms that in present day Nigeria,the niger delta are the ones who pay the piper, and will ultimately dictate the tune.