₦airaland Forum

yanshDoctor:
that guy is not even a yoruba Muslim. but a northern fulani. don't be deceived.

bamidelee:
Osogbo weed + gangaria

proudlyYoruba:
OBJ for the ÀÀRẸ, BABA IS OLD

yanshDoctor:
not just pdp but Jonathan. i don't support buhari. that's make him a pdp or partisan

proudlyYoruba:
Sir name a better replacement? Gani and Kanu are different though they are both hot blooded but different in cause. Sir why were MKO AND AKINTOLA APPOINTED ÀÀRẸ?

AntiWailer:
Mention the people it was given to ?

MKO Abiola is the last Aare Ona Kankanfo.

So what are you trying to say ?

proudlyYoruba:
Sir, our interest is more than the ruling party, protection and prosperity of Southwest should be of utmost importance. The dry season will soon be the psychotic marauding bitçhes up north will soon be here, a new Ààrẹ is important. Pray Tell me why were MKO and Akintola chosen? U sound more APC than Yorùbá

Ojiofor:
Maybe the so called powers that be are fade up with thifnubu and want to deal with his mess up for giving Nigerians a failure like Buhari.

proudlyYoruba:
Sir what is ur point? What kind of șhit is this? Frustrate who? Who should the title be conferred to? Are u questioning ikú bàbá yeye's appointment? Are you a patriotic Nigerian or a Buhari apologist? Are ur decisions in the interest of the ọmọlúwàbís? Go read about Ṣagamu 1999 battle with the Haúsás and see Gani's contribution. If not for his haste action we prolly might have emir in ṣagamu now or our house turned into grazing field. Sir goan sleep

AntiWailer:
What did u smoke ?

bkool7:
Back to sender.

Prophet of doom , receive sense

OmoEpe:
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, to me, is the greatest Yoruba oba alive today. Greatest in terms of his intellectual capacity and his understanding of the responsibilities culture has placed on his divine shoulders.

Although the vault of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade Okunade, bespoke on riches untold, Alaafin’s unspeakable wealth lies in his unequalled understanding of the Yoruba’s resplendent history, mores and culture.

He exemplified his matchless repertoire of Yoruba history during the inauguration of the incumbent Timi of Ede, Oba Munirudeen Adesola Lawal, as the Laminisa I, in 2008. During the ceremony, which held in Ede, Ooni Okunade missed the point when he told the audience that the new Timi wasn’t the first from the Laminisa ruling house to be installed as Timi. This position wasn’t, of course, in tandem with the reality presented by the Laminisa ruling house on the occasion.

When it was the turn of the Alaafin to speak, he took the audience, which I was part of, down historical path, painting a vivid picture of how Ede was founded even as he traced, off the cuff, the names and dates of the installation of all the Timis of Ede. A resounding applause greeted his great insight.

I have followed, at a distance, the life of the Alaafin. I know that the Iku Baba Yeye has not forgotten all he learnt about boxing, a sport he picked up as a youth – watching the online video of his pugilistic skills that went viral a few years ago. The paramount ruler is also a world-acclaimed dancer and drummer, too.

Death pursued the Oodua Peoples Congress to my doorstep in Akure where I was a correspondent of PUNCH newspapers around 2000. It was Ogundamisi, Adam’s able lieutenant that lay ‘lifeless’ on the ground floor of the two-storey building that housed PUNCH newspapers’ outstation office at Adegbola Junction along the popular Oyemekun Road in Akure.

I had looked at the almost lifeless and bloodied man on the floor and taken him for a vagrant, sidestepping him unto the stairway en route to the topmost floor, where my office was. I think I saw one or two other OPC members on the ground floor, battered and tattered.

After I had worked for a while in the office on that particular Sunday morning, Ogundamisi, the bloodied man downstairs came knocking on my door. The sun ray must have woken him up. Being a Sunday, and for fear of attack, I always locked the iron burglarproof at the door.

When I heard the knock, I went to the door where I saw Ogundamisi, (I’ve forgotten his first name now), laboring to breathe. He introduced himself in impeccable English, and that got me to open the burglarproof for him.

He then related the story of how himself and Gani Adams in company with hundreds of OPC members – in a convoy of several vehicles – were attacked in Owo en route to Arigidi Akoko. Scores of OPC members were killed. The incident became the lead story of The PUNCH, the next day. The morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, could not take the dead as they were taken to other health facilities in the state.

Particularly, Ogundamisi was deeply worried about the safety of Adams. He said all the OPC members in the convoy fled in different directions during the night attack.

When PUNCH transferred me to Lagos in 2002, I followed the OPC in the media.

I recall that during the actualization of the June 12 struggle, it was NADECO and not the OPC that mobilized the Yoruba, nay Nigerians, against the military dictatorship headed by General Sani Abacha. It wasn’t the OPC.

Over the years, the OPC has grown from a money-for-security organization to becoming a monster in the South-West. A visit to police stations in any part of the South-West would reveal how mainly illiterate OPC members have been taking the law into their own hands, maiming and killing members of the society in the guise of providing security and settling dispute.

What is chivalrous in an organization that collects money and extorts to provide service? What is noble in an organization whose members are noted for raping, robbery, killing and ritualism?

Gani Adams, the headship of this the type of organisation has risen today to become the Aare Ona Kakanfo of the Yoruba. Yoruba ronu.

When Nnamdi Kanu emerged as the new voice of Igbo leadership, I laughed and asked one of my friends, Joel Nwokeoma, ‘is this how low the Igbo nation has sunk’? Joel is having the last laugh now.

Let’s wait and see who the Hausa/Fulani would throw up.

I read someone saying that in ancient Oyo kingdom, the position of the Kakanfo is meant for miscreants. There is nothing farther from the truth than this. In the old Oyo Empire of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Kakanfo was the head of the Eso, who were, according to Wikipedia, ‘70 junior war chiefs nominated by the Oyo Mesi and confirmed by the Alaafin. The Kakanfo later rose to become the supreme military commander and was required to live in a frontier province to keep an eye on the enemy, and to keep him from usurping the government. Forces inside metropolitan Oyo were commanded by the Bashorun, who is a leading member of the Oyo Mesi’.

Which war has Gani Adams fought on behalf of the Yoruba? I only remember Gani to have won for himself a multi-billion pipeline contract from the clueless Goodluck Jonathan government. I also remember Gani Adams unleashed terror on Nigerians in Lagos when the OPC marched for Jonathan during the countdown to the 2015 presidential election.

I have four witnesses who lived in my Iyana Ipaja area, and who are respectable members of the society.

Mr Ben Tomoloju (former Guardian Deputy Editor); Mr Paul Bassey (former Editor, Champion newspaper, former FIFA media consultant); the late Uncle Ben Bayo (former Creative Arts Editor, PUNCH) and a former colleague, Adekunle Salami (aka Slam) who lived in the Mulero axis of Iyana Ipaja in Lagos State.

I mentioned these names to buttress the fact that Nigerians, generally, and not the OPC, fought the military junta. These people were in one way or the other involved/affected in the June 12 struggle and they were never OPC members.

These people I mentioned can testify to the fact that the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos was the hottest frontline during the struggle to actualise June 12.

I was one of the voluntary youth mobilizers in my area, and I could have been killed by a heavily armed soldier who pursued me into a church on Coker Street, Funlayo Bus Stop, if not for God using the fact that I know the terrain very well.

People were shot before my very eyes at Iyana Ipaja during the struggle.

I trekked from Mulero to Iyana Ipaja in company with thousands of youths every morning to keep a date with fate against the haters of democracy.

I didn’t see any OPC mobilizer during those days.

It is wrong to say that the OPC fought for the actualization of June 12. Nigerians rose against Abacha, not the OPC, please.

The statures of the last two occupiers of the title, Chief Ladoke Akintola, and Chief MKO Abiola, make Gani Adam’s ascension to the title a huge insult!

Enter, the generalissimo that ran with his tail between his legs from some gun-wielding boys in Owo.

Yoruba, welcome the era of an Aare Ona Kakanfo, whose organization exploits, extorts, rapes, kills, maims and robs the citizenry.

Gani Adams’ ascension to the post of Aare Ona Kakanfo is a reward for thuggery, violence and all that is despicably wracking our nation.

Gani w-h-a-t?

The Alaafin got it wrong this time round!

bigpicture001:
...Over the past one year I have been on this platform. I have come to be addicted to it.often times we notice a lot of seemingly,very good intellectuals who are truly good with good progressive ideas on how to fix various problems which characterises the Nigerian society from crime,education,economy,security,health . so I crested this trend to turn the table around and give you the chance to be president..now let's know what your priory would be and exactly how you plan to execute them....i will be on hand to always remind of what your step by step obstacles would be....lets try.....

BudeYahooCom:
This abooki funny ooo, it took IPOB and Kanu to jolt your empty skull into embracing common sense 17 years after.

nwabobo:
Well, asking the sureties to appear first is the right thing to do. They'd simply go there and tell the Judge how they haven't seen him since the army invaded his house. That's when the army would have to be invited.

Sall:
This is harsh.

Sall:
I only supported the party I never voted for it APC.
Am for restruturing of the country.

Sall:
No arrest, no resignation,no prosecution despit this monumental revelation of corruption by the efcc.
Is this how APC government will continue to fight corruption in this country , its no wonder corruption has been fighting back.too bad.
Made very big mistake supporting this party.

Dedetwo:
Arrant nonsense!!! NCNC won both western and eastern regional elections.The tribalism in Nigerian politics started in 1951 carpet-crossing by Yari.ba peeps who won the election on the platform of NCNC and later switched to AG so that Yari.ba person should be first premier of western region. Yet NCNC repeated the feat in 1954 general election as NCNC defeated AG in western region.

FrancisDiote:
i am not a politician and dont support any.
But from my own point of view, in order to solve the problems of corruption, bridging the gap between poor and rich and solving the entire flaws in the current system called nigeria, we need a fresh start.

Either by restructuring or seperate ways we must start afresh with a new constitution that will take care of the current flaws in Nigeria.

It is alarming how PDP and APC have reduced the masses to common beggers without any voice or right in the current 1999 military constitution.

Only a fresh start will give the youth a chance at the top else we keep recycling our old school politicians.

Stingman:
Ilorin/offa emirate council slave...

What would you call the Kaduna declaration?

Why must you only live if your life is controlled by the caliphate?

FrancisDiote:
We need a fresh start with an unbiased constitution.

1999 is a military constitution. We need a true democratic contitution that will tackle poverty and corruption

Adetewa:
Returning to 1963 constitution is like returning to stone age or trade by barter.
The parliamentary system of government hold the francophone countries down till today, because No party can form government with out the coalition with other parties, and when the government is formed, this may not last long as far as any party can pull out of the coalition, to topple the government, even the majority in parliament can blocked the action of government at their wish, its a stupid system of government ever in the world where politicians bound together and hold their countries to ransom, go to Niger Republic now, there is the scenario there.