dougivilla: You must be thinking u made some sense here, shey?

CyberG:

You even tried to respond to NL chief ibo tribalist resident moderator. Some people will rubbish anything so far the lies about their tribe are not perpetuated. Rather than think of the benefit of changing course, ibo tribalists like Afam are concerned only about the logo, colors, broom not cock on APC, the visionaries and architects of the merger being from the SW and North while ibos have not even grown their cock party, etc will make people like Afam criticize the logo even if it dropped from the planet of perfection. Watch them criticize anything that shows the noisy ibos as mere ordinary people without any sound leadership, vision, political sophistication and administration of other parts of Nigeria and they will cry give us FailureGoodluck Azikiwe. If it is not them, it cannot be good enough, it is not on merit, they would rather let Nigeria break-up rather than smarter and more intelligent politicians and visionaries from other parts of Nigeria show that Nigeria can do so much better than it is NOW and under retardeenic Ebele Azikiwe.

take dat: Does having a beautiful logo guarantee followership or is it a prerequisite for good governance? Your attempt to ridicule and besmirch the party logo is poor!

Dede1:


I knew the inherently loudmouthed sons and daughters of tribal icons in Nigeria will pull out this write-up. It is unfortunate that these tribal jingoists were oblivious that when the aforementioned article was written, there was no entity known as Nigeria. During the period in discuss, people in the provinces of southern and northern protectorates were identified either by their ethnicity or province. One can begin to decipher the conjectural crap imbedded in this rubbish.

As for the drubbing the Christ the King's College, Onitsha handed to St Gregory's College, Lagos, there is no better way to express the duel than the manner used by Zik to elucidate the outcome of the football match. Before the soccer match commenced, some deluded juju musicians have gathered at the Palace of Olu of Ibadan singing how the boys from Onicha will disgraced on the field of soccer by the boys from Lagos because Europeans first handed them (Lagos boys) the knowledge of kicking the round object.

In order to salvage silly and tribal ego of the Yoruba, not as ordinary man on the street, Olu of Ibadan sent SOS to all nooks and carnies of Yoruba land and secured a match between CKC kids and semi-professional team called the Olubadan XI. Despite playing a tough match the previous two days, the kids from CKC humbled the semi-pro Olubadan XI side.

Aigbofa:

An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938, Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

bilms: Nigeria: Ondo Guber - How Mimiko, Akeredolu, Oke Stand
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By Dayo Johnson, 13 October 2012

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THE governorship election taking place in Ondo State on Saturday is not going to be a tea party for any of the three gladiators vying for the coveted seat of governor. Incidentally the trio: Olusola Oke of the PDP, Olusegun Mimiko of the ruling LP and Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the A C N, are graduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State.

For the first time in the history of the state, the three candidates eyeing the governorship position are representing the three senatorial areas of the state with each of them not only formidable in his locality but is ready to coast home to victory with every vote in his domain.

Oke, popularly referred to as "Oke is okay", represents the southern area where the immediate past Governor Olusegun Agagu hails from; Mimiko, fondly called Iroko of Ondo politics, is from the central; while Akeredolu; who goes by the name "the Chosen/ Aketi ", is from the northern area.

Of the 13 political parties presenting candidates for the contest, only the three are actually in the race while others are just there.

The opposition parties, that is PDP and A C N, are fielding heavyweights who are not leaving any stone unturned to uproot the Iroko of Ondo politics. It may actually be a big task for any of them because Mimiko himself is seeing this election as the fight of his life. It will either make or mar him politically.

While the PDP leaders, especially Agagu and the national leader of the A C N, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would want to do all within their reach to sack Mimiko from the Government House to save their faces, the governor will want to prove a point that he is firmly in control of the state politically.

ACN candidate, Akeredolu

The three parties and their chieftains from within and outside the state have been involved in electioneering campaign across the 18 council areas of the state within the last one month. While the A C N campaign centres on personality attack of Mimiko, Oke chooses to combine attack with an assurance of building on the achievements of the immediate past Governor Olusegun Agagu before he was sacked.

Mimiko too combines attack of the A C N and the PDP with an improvement on his three years achievements in all the sectors of the economy.

Vice President Namadi Sambo led the National Chairman of the PDP Bamanga Tukur to the state to mobilise support for Oke who is the immediate past National Legal Adviser of the party, while Tinubu and National Chairman of the ACN Bisi Akande led other south west governors to the state for a three-day electioneering campaign for its candidate who is a former Nigeria Bar Association NBA President.

The choice of Oke as the candidate of the PDP has no doubt breathed life into the comatose party which has been engulfed in crisis since 2007 when the party was sacked.

Whereas some chieftains of the party are still not in support of his candidature, majority of them have beaten a retreat. His choice, despite the fact that Agagu equally hails from the southern area, is to neutralise Mimiko incursion into the senatorial zone believed to be the PDP stronghold.

In the A C N, the choice of Akeredolu greatly affected the popularity of the party following which many of the party chieftains, including some governorship aspirants, defected to the ruling LP and PDP in protest of his alleged imposition by leaders of the party from Lagos. His choice, despite criticism, was, according to the party leaders, to settle the northern area especially the Owo people, who have been marginalised after the tenure of the late sage, former Governor Adekunle Ajasin.

A critical analysis of the candidates shows that while Oke will put up a brilliant performance in the South where he hails from, Mimiko is banking on his achievements in the area to give the PDP candidate a good fight in his domain. Mimiko is planning to poach in this zone because many of his political appointees are from the southern part of the state.

Labour Party candidate, Mimiko

The councils in the South which Oke may win include Ilaje, Okitipupa with the help of Agagu, who is from there, and Ese Odo because of the Special Adviser to the President on Amnesty Programme and Niger Delta Affairs, Hon Kingsly Kuku, but the leader of ex-militant from the area, High Chief Bibopri Ajube, has vowed to work for the victory of Mimiko in the council area. The governor too may coast home to victory in the three remaining councils in the zone: Irele, Ile Oluji/Okeigbo and Odigbo.

Mimiko's associates ready to work for him in the zone include the environment commissioner Sola Ebiseni, the commissioner representing the state on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dele Omogbemi, a former commissioner on the Board of NDDC, Benson Enikuemehin, the member representing Ilaje/Ese-Odo federal constituency at the House of Representatives, Raphael Nomiye, the chairman of the council, Banji Okuomo and the members of the House of Assembly, Oyebo Aladetan and Gbenga Edema.

The votes from Ilaje may be won by the LP or be spilt with the PDP. But the people of the area will not entirely leave their own at this crucial hour. In Irele, the LP with education commissioner Remi Olatubora and former works commissioner Yele Omogunwa will be able to checkmate the only House of Representatives member of the PDP from the area, Albert Akintoye.

The ACN may pull some weight in Okitipupa where its deputy governorship candidate, Dr Paul Akintelure, hails from but he cannot go far. The contest in Okitipupa is between LP and PDP with PDP having the upper hand. It is believed that the A C N may have votes in Odigbo and Ile Oluji but it will be minimal.

Now to the central senatorial district consisting of Ondo West and Ondo East, Ile Oluji Okeigbo, Akure North and Akure South, and Ifedore where the incumbent hails from, this is not the stronghold of the two opposition parties and Mimiko is expected to win massively in this zone.

The governor is expected to garner majority of the votes in his domain going by the level of development in this area of the state. Infact, he is being vilified for the concentration of projects here but, while many do not see the political implication, Iroko knew that the payback time will come and October 20 may be the time. But the likes of the Special Adviser to the Osun State Governor on Environment, Bola Ilori, and Dr Bayo Ademodi, a member of the Afenifere Renewal Group, may pull some weight in Ondo West and East but they cannot rattle Iroko there.

Mimiko has never lost any election in his Ondo West and Ondo East base while Akure South and Akure North local government areas will go the way of LP because of the infrastructural development masterminded by the governor in the areas.

Oke: PDP flagbearer

With the likes of information commissioner Kayode Akinmade, the Chief of Staff Dr Kola Ademujimi, the senator representing Ondo Central Senatorial District, Ayo Akinyelure, and Taye Akinyele, a member of the House of Assembly, the hilly Idanre town will vote massively for the LP while the Deputy Director General of the Mimiko Campaign Organization, Clement Faboyede, and Gboye Adegbenro will hold tight to Ifedore council.

The opposition parties will struggle to have the required 25 percent in the central senatorial district despite the existence of the likes of the Director General of the Mimiko Campaign Organization, Chief Tayo Alasoadura in Akure North.

The northern senatorial district, which consists of Owo, Ose, Akoko Northe-East, Akoko North-West, Akoko South-West and Akoko South-East, is regarded as a free zone for the three parties to feed on. The PDP picked its deputy governorship candidate Saka Lawal from there just as the ruling LP deputy governorship candidate Alhaji Ali Olanusi, is from there.

It would have been the stronghold of the A C N if the party had allowed the emergence of its governorship candidate to be transparent. But Olanusi, though an old horse, has more political experience than the youthful Lawal who defected from LP to A C N and later crossed over to the PDP when he failed to be crowned the governorship candidate.

Lawal too is said to be a strategist and a mobilizer of youths who are in his age bracket.

Now the PDP and the LP are battling for the votes from the North with the two deputy governorship candidates cashing on their individual popularity and political patronage to the people. However, the LP won all the House of Assembly seats, the House of Representatives seats and the senatorial seat in the 2011 polls.

Akeredolu's choice frustrated the much-mouthed Akoko Agenda which the six Akoko councils had wanted to sell to the people of Ondo State to produce the governor but the A C N action has divided the councils. However, Akeredolu has been able to win back the heart of some of the aspirants of the party who were aggrieved and they have assured him of support in the areas. However, notable politicians from the areas, Dr. Olu Agunloye, Saka Lawal, and Olaiya Oni, have defected to LP and PDP.

The six Akoko councils have no stake in the opposition A C N and with the slot of deputy governor from both the PDP and the ruling LP, the councils may go either way or better still they may split the votes.

All said and done, the Muslim/Muslim ticket of the two opposition parties may work against them in the North because the district is predominantly Muslim. This may work for the LP which has a Christian/Muslim ticket.

Of the three graduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, who will wear the Ondo gubernatorial cap on October 20? The answer remains in the belly of time.
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SamAfrik: Why are Igbos so troublesome? Are u presently being maltreated in the west? Cos Im only interested in ur present welbeing not events dt occurred decades ago.

princenonny: Don't worry. We are catching up real fast. Even with the civil war, we are still nt shaken. Our borther is the current president of nigeria by default....in 8 yrs we wud surpass yorubas and hausas dat hv deliberately supressed us economically since 1970

princenonny: Don't worry. We are catching up real fast. Even with the civil war, we are still nt shaken. Our borther is the current president of nigeria by default....in 8 yrs we wud surpass yorubas and hausas dat hv deliberately supressed us economically since 1970

Bukkyade: if you still regard the president as clue,less, then you should have your head re-examined. Cause, the president is doing his best to make sure this government works, but people like you would not admitt. GEJ government wil surely rise over you and your sponsors.

solomon111: well,maybe you are blind to what Gej administration has accomplished.
He has accomplished in 2.5yrs what Obj couldnt do in 8yrs,and any laughable attempt to impeach him,will be regarded as an affront on the intelligence and national integrity of the SS.
Be warned.

pretty_boi:

Mr-know-it-all, contrary to what you think or believe,Nigeria will never break up or disintegrate. I am not God,but I know for certain that God has a blueprint for Nigeria. Now,you talked about how God isn't the one stealing all our resources & being so corrupt. Very true. God isnt the one corrupting our leaders & stealing our resources & impoverishing our people but note that God expects us to defend the unity of our country & not run away from our responsibility. Ask yourself something : "1.why did God make me a Nigerian?" "2. Did God make a mistake by making me a Nigerian?" I'm sure you know for CERTAIN that God NEVER makes a mistake. Now,if you keep going about spewing crap & praying for the downfall of your own country (which I think is SUPER-DUMB in the very 1st place) then it means that you're now standing up to God & telling Him He made a mistake by 1. Creating you & 2. Making you a Nigerian.
Do you honestly think if Nigerian broke up today,all the individual regions would now have non-corrupt leaders that really care about their people overnight? You must be dreaming if you think so.lol. Governors that are even from the states that they rule in today's Nigeria hardly even care about their own people that they are supposed to lead directly yet you're still so naive to think they would become saints overnight & start caring about their people if Nigeria breaks up. My problem with people like you & a majority of Nigerians is 1.gross indiscipline 2.mental slavery 3. Mental laziness. You guys all want to live in a great country,but you don't want to work for a great country. YOU THINK GREATNESS WOULD FALL INTO YOUR LAPS FROM HEAVEN? stay there & be dreaming o. Rather than us uniting to demand good,accountable & transparent leadership from our "leaders" while we also play our own roles,people like you want to just lazy about vomiting rubbish & calling for Nigeria's disintegration. I am not God o,but mark my words, as long as God lives, Nigeria can NEVER break up. THE EARLIER WE ACCEPT THIS & START WORKING FOR THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY,THE BETTER. Anyone who is praying for the downfall of Nigeria is just praying for his/her own death.

The flint: Master piece. I actually pity d yorubas most because dey wud have notin to survive on.

pretty_boi: The federal republic of Nigeria is going nowhere. Gosh I can't even imagine that a people pray for the downfall of their own country. See why Africa is behind the rest of the world?......FOOLISHNESS & SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS ARE OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS. I see a lot of hypocrites on this site always. I bet a lot of the people typing all these "let Nigeria break up" texts are not even typing it from their own hometown because they don't even live in their own hometowns. I bet a lot of the fools clamoring for their so-called "biafra" don't even live in the east,many of them might hav typed all this bullshhhyte from their houses in Lagos,Jos,Abuja,Port Harcourt,Ilorin etc & those clamoring for the so-called Oodua republic might be also typing from their houses in say Abuja,Calabar,Kaduna,Port-Harcourt etc same with those possibly clamoring for "Arewa republic" who might also have been typing jagons from their phones/pc's from the comfort of their homes in say Lagos,Ibadan,Abuja,,Calabar,Onitsha etc. Yet these stupid hypocrites open their mouths & pray for the downfall of their own country. If you really pray for the disintegration of beloved Nigeria,start by showing us how serious you are by relocating back to your village of origin & not living in some other state or someone else's state or land then people like myself can take you guys seriously. Until then, I can confidently tell you that "AS LONG AS GOD LIVES,NIGERIA WILL NEVER BREAK UP. MARK MY WORDS." Instead of us to gather all of these negative energies that you guys are using to pray for the downfall of your own country, we can channel it into demanding good & transparent leadership from our so-called "leaders" by starting a revolution or something & also contributing our own parts to developing our country as a whole: north,south,west & east rather than hoping that development would fall from heaven into our laps or praying for our own country to fall apart.

pretty_boi: The federal republic of Nigeria is going nowhere. Gosh I can't even imagine that a people pray for the downfall of their own country. See why Africa is behind the rest of the world?......FOOLISHNESS & SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS ARE OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS. I see a lot of hypocrites on this site always. I bet a lot of the people typing all these "let Nigeria break up" texts are not even typing it from their own hometown because they don't even live in their own hometowns. I bet a lot of the fools clamoring for their so-called "biafra" don't even live in the east,many of them might hav typed all this bullshhhyte from their houses in Lagos,Jos,Abuja,Port Harcourt,Ilorin etc & those clamoring for the so-called Oodua republic might be also typing from their houses in say Abuja,Calabar,Kaduna,Port-Harcourt etc same with those possibly clamoring for "Arewa republic" who might also have been typing jagons from their phones/pc's from the comfort of their homes in say Lagos,Ibadan,Abuja,,Calabar,Onitsha etc. Yet these stupid hypocrites open their mouths & pray for the downfall of their own country. If you really pray for the disintegration of beloved Nigeria,start by showing us how serious you are by relocating back to your village of origin & not living in some other state or someone else's state or land then people like myself can take you guys seriously. Until then, I can confidently tell you that "AS LONG AS GOD LIVES,NIGERIA WILL NEVER BREAK UP. MARK MY WORDS." Instead of us to gather all of these negative energies that you guys are using to pray for the downfall of your own country, we can channel it into demanding good & transparent leadership from our so-called "leaders" by starting a revolution or something & also contributing our own parts to developing our country as a whole: north,south,west & east rather than hoping that development would fall from heaven into our laps or praying for our own country to fall apart.

olufunmibi: In Nigeria, the ideological commitment
necessary to make federalism work is grossly lacking.Can't we just divide this country Nigeria into historically compatible and naturally unifiable entities? Well, the debate continues.