₦airaland Forum

OdudwaR:
I won't call them superb administrators. They're the masters of deceit who had religion, which is the opiate of the masses, at their disposal. So it was easy for them to use the brainwashing tool to galvanize religious people.

However, they lost most of those wars and offered little or no resistance to the colonizers when they came although they were able to use that to make the colonizers install emirs in places where they were defeated. Apart from Hausas, and parts of Nupes, they didn't really do much.

They studied Islamic History and Jurisprudence which were used to conquered and administered vast territories despite the fact that they were a minority non-indigenes.

The Sokoto Caliphate fought with the British Colonialists until they were defeated.
Try to read the History of Sultan Attahiru-1 and his fights against the British until he was purseued and killed in 1903 around Ashaka, now in Gombe State.
He and his lietenants died fighting.

Because of this heavy resistance and wars , the British after their conquest changed the title from Caliph (Kalifa Russulihah, Amir El Musulimi) to Sultan in 1903.

udemzeus:
Atiku Abubakar

Is it the same Atiku Abubakar that was the Vice-president between 1999-2007 or another one?

dignity33:
I disagree with Reno, all this your narrative was before not presently if it was ever happened . Reno we know you have ancestorial background with Yoruba even your name said it all. South West are full of Area Boys and thugs. Presently in Education they are lacking behind to compare South East. Obasanjo put many Yoruba on strategic positions in Oil sectors during his eight years which I'm aware of that

Obasanjo never ran Chevron, Mobil, Elf, Total and Shell.

These are private multinational companies that hire the best hands to work in their companies.

PlayMaker14:
Some weeks ago, I had a chat with one Bobo Chicago loyalist and told her straight up that her benefactor will only end up eating watery beans at Kirikiri by the time the AGF, Abubakar Malami is done with him.... She tried to refute that, but I had to school her thoroughly and made her realize that she's loosing her sense of belonging pitching tent with the bullion van ambassador.



Having said that, I will also lend my voice and advise the Iragbiji born cocaine lover to go into goat farming or revamp the Cocoa business in the South West with the stolen Lagos funds.

2023 is not for the drug baron and surprisingly, his wife have already started shattering his dreams with unguarded statements.

Who is your preferred candidate for 2023?

StaffofOrayan:
Till today, the biggest opposition to Yoruba nation are Ilorin!

This is false.

Ibrahimmrfish:
Fun fact,in 1830s.Sokoto caliphate was at war with Oyo,Damagaram,Borno,Abuja,Bussa,Igala,So defeating them in one battle was not an impressive act,cause they were facing enemies at all front.

By 1830, the Sokoto Caliphate was still trying to find it feet and naturally encountered resistance from neighbours who didn't want to be conquered and annexed into the growing Sokoto Caliphate.


The rulers of the Caliphate were suberb Administrators, who though they were minority non-indigenous tribe as at 1830, they succeeded in forging unity among diverse tribes under the banners of Islam.

Idiko1:
Yoruba peeps and their revisionist character are specimen to behold. If this Otefan battle was after the occupation of Ogbomoso and Osogbo by the Caliphate, it is debatable and may hold a drop of water. However if it happened before the fall of Ogbomoso and Osogbo, it is a product of delusional imagination.

Did you read the story at all?
The Otefan war happened in 1830. Ogbomosho and Oshogbo were never occupied and if you think they were , please State the date such occupation occurred.


The period between 1825-1855 were period of wars Western half of what we now call the Federal Republic of Nigeria and several kingdoms/empires were key players in that war.

Grace001:
So indirectly the government is telling Nigerians especially youths... To accept the status quo, don’t try to change it because if you do you will get killed

Nigeria must be one, whether you’re patriotic or not just pretend Nigeria must be one. If you try to agitate you will get killed or jail.

Nigerians must continue to love their oppressors that’s their destiny nothing can change it. Come 2023 you’re expected to vote another oppressors that’s your destiny. The next president will complain that debts couldn’t let him perform, same suffering and smiling continues

The government is telling you all to accept your fate suffering and smiling is the system and the way of life of Nigerians, no one can change it.

Peter Obi will perform when he becomes the president.

saphiere:
Lol. And such technology is yet to take down Book haram?

I really wish a woman was in power

Boko Haram are also using modern military technology and they don't depend on charms from Native doctors (who haven't made any advancement in centuries)

helinues:
No, you are one of the mere Igbo people residing in SS.

SS people have made it clear that they can stand on their own without attaching with any other region..

So which of the SS are you talking on their behalf?

What of the Akwa- Cross people?

samyj2477:
when one eastern Governor like IMO gov, delta or Ebonyi gov drops down dead, then all this nonsense will stop. Their family will go down with them. When it happens, then they will begin to take the Biafra struggle serious.

The DSS should investigate this man for trying to murder the Governor of Imo or Delta or Ebonyi State.

F117nighthawk:
It's just 2yrs away, we shall see, u will be shocked to your bone marrow, that change his party campaigned on in 2015 will CHANGE the Nigeria landscape come 2023,let him continue to waste and spend his money

You don't understand how democracy works. Your candidate will not necessarily get into a position because you are campaigning against and hating Tinubu.
Even if Tinubu backs out of the race, this doesn't translate into your preferred candidate getting into power.

Work towards the success of your candidate and leave Tinubu to worry about wastage of his time and money.

ordovicianonly:
Joker � you can never win primary election not to talk of becoming the president. Hausa man is not ready to give southerners the power to rule . Besides Tinubu will be the worst ever president after Buhari if given the chance . You can judge him by the way he is controlling all the resources of Lagos state since 1999 and if you as the governor disagree with him he will make sure the party witch hunt you eg he did it to Ambode and almost did it to Fashola . How can one man pocket the whole of south west with thuggery & godfatherism? Tueh my dogs can’t vote him not to talk of any sane Lagosian or Nigerians

Who do you think should become the president?

adm212144:
Hes right .i could remember vividly when he was celebrating his 60th birthday.We heard late ajimobi saying so I am older in age than the leader .Tinubu stories is everywhere I don’t think it need any proof .

You must be a teenager.
1) Tinubu's 1992 electoral forms with the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC), the forerunner of INEC put his date of birth as 1952.
2) You probably assumed that Ajimobi just knew Tinubu recently.
Both Ajimobi, Senator Akinyelure and Tinubu were contemporaries and colleagues in the Oil &Gas industry.

Tinubu retired as Treasurer of Mobil while Ajimobi was in Shell and later became MD of National Oil.

wink2015:
NIGERIA should not move from a fulani dictator to another dangerous yoruba man.

whom Edo state humiliated with the word EDO NO BI LAGOS !

If Tinubu gets the APC ticket, he will win the presidential election.
Many of the people who are vehemently opposed to him are only active on social media, some of them don't even have PVC and can't win elections in their own polling units.

F117nighthawk:
And u can be campaigning for him on social media too? We are waiting till 2023,u will all be put to shame

Start mobilizing for your Candidate.
Supporters of Tinubu from all over Nigeria are mobilizing for Tinubu but you are here wailing profusely on social media.

By 2023, you will be defeated once again and you will start crying 'riggging, marginalization or secession'

F117nighthawk:
Desperate to rule at all cost, he will never get there

Elections aren't won on social media

OfoIgbo:
While I understand and appreciate the issues of regional justice that Chief Clarke is pointing at, I also feel so disappointed for SS Igbos.

This is a huge prison for them, because when an opportunity goes to the entire SS, the minorities there will immediately blackmail the SS Igbos out of contention for the opportunity. This happened previously as is exactly why Peter Odili never became the president.

When an opportunity goes to the SE, our SS Igbo brothers are also kept out of it because they are not from the SE, meaning that the SS Igbos are held in a huge psychological prison, with an impregnable glass ceiling. How then will any SS Igbo become the president of Nigeria?

The SS Igbos have not exactly helped their cause by being too clannish and developing that minorities mentality. An Ikwerre man hardly sees himself as Igbo, and will very readily do harm to another Igbo clan as he doesn't see that Igbo clan as related to his clan. Obigbo massacre is a case in point.
An Ogba man sees an Ngwa man, exactly the same way he sees a Yoruba man. He will hardly acknowledge any relationship with the Ngwa man. All these help to ensure the SE man can't accept a SS Igbo man, representing him.
You want someone that behaves, acts and looks like you, to represent you. Not someone that hardly acknowledges any kinship with you.

Truth be told, at the moment I will not want an Ikwerre, Ogba, Ika or any such clans to represent the Igbos in Aso Rock. Ample occurrences have made me cold on that idea, the last of which is the Obigbo massacre. I know Igbos generally are now developing that stand point.

We know some of these anti-Igbo SS Igboids became the way they are through external forces that are hellbent on ensuring the Igbos are not united.

If Igbos are united, I doubt if the SE Igbos will have any qualms with a SS Igbo representing us. But enough suspicion has been injected into the relationship, resulting in the SE Igbos only wishing for a SE Igbo presidency.

Also due to the clannishness of some SS Igbo groups, a Rivers Ndoki man will rather have an Anambra president than a Rivers Ikwerre president.
A Rivers state Egbema man will prefer an Imo president than an Ogba man not minding that Ogba and Egbema are in the same LGA in Rivers state.
This is mainly because some of these SS Igbo clans have chosen to see the world as minorities, and are now more comfortable being insular and clannish.

I think to release the SS Igbos from the psychological political prison they currently abide in, within Nigeria, then there has to be real restructuring, so that they are placed with their genetic and cultural brothers and sisters to eliminate to issues of malevolent forces, forcing them to develop as minorities and encouraging them to severe cultural links with their brothers. It will also eliminate the political marginalisation that has been forced on them, by being placed where they clearly don't belong. They should be with their cultural and genetic brothers. Otherwise the fate of Peter Odili's presidential ambitions will be the eternal fate of any SS Igbo's presidential ambitions.

This is a great fallacy. Any strong Ikwerre, Ndoki, Etche or Ika politician may contest and win the presidential election.

koning:
This analysis is not totally accurate. Sir Alex Ferguson is Scottish, but not English. He is however British.

That's exactly the situation with IFEANYI Okowa and all Igbos from Ika and the rest of Delta. Ika is to Igbos, what Abriba, Ohafia or Nkanu are to Igbos.

Ika is an Igbo clan situated outside core Igbo states. Do not forget that States were artificially carved out.

Igbos are those who accept the Igbo identity and they are right to do so.
Those who reject the Igbo identity are also right.
The same can be said of other tribes.

slowice:
Some don't get it still. The North is fond of using igbos in rivers and delta to replace igbos of the southeast. This is a cunning way of denying the se of good in Nigeria which they (North) ve mastered. Mr Clark is simply stating the obvious, a wicked act that must stop.

This is funny. Neither the North or Pa Edwin Clark can decide who is Igbo or not.
The North definitely is not replacing anything.

OpinionCounts:
I am not talking of strangers living in ikwerre land speaking ibo....I am talking about the pure ikwerre man and his language itself, it is not ibo and will not even be understood by any ibo person, the reverse is also the case, unlike the other ethnic groups I mentioned that speak total ibo language.
Ikwerre used to be said to be ibo before because then they were one big LGA together with the ibo speaking ethnic group Etche and Omuma, it was known as Ikwerre/Etche LGA, but after Etche and Omuma was separated, we now had ikwerre LGA, Etche LGA, and Omuma LGA, this took away the ibo speaking groups from ikwerre. What we have now as the present day ikwerre does not speak and can only barely understand ibo.

But I'm open to learning from you, if you can mention the ikwerre that speak ibo. Not strangers residing in ikwerre.

How do you know all these, do you live among them?

KingOKON:
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I concur.
Every patriotic Nigerian should seek to pacify the Ibos just like they did Yoruba in 1999
Only selfish people like Tinubu will seek vain glory instead of a harmonious nation

The topic is about Igbos, S/East, Ohaneze and Pa Edwin Clark.
it has nothing to do with Tinubu, why making unnecessary enemity?

Even if Tinubu doesn't contest, it doesn't mean an Igboman will automatically becomes the president.

KingOKON:
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I concur.
Every patriotic Nigerian should seek to pacify the Ibos just like they did Yoruba in 1999
Only selfish people like Tinubu will seek vain glory instead of a harmonious nation

The topic is about Igbos, S/East, Ohaneze and Pa Edwin Clark.
it has nothing to do with Tinubu, why making unnecessary enemity?

Igbochief001:
Are u not supporting tinubu for presidency ? ...how can u support tinubu and drag saraki ...mba nu ..it can't happen na

This thread is about Saraki (a fine politician in my opinion).

I would have loved Saraki to be the PDP candidate but the power brokers will not likely to support him and he doesn't have the political clout that you are ascribing to him partly because of his identity crisis.

Most Northerners consider Saraki and Ilorin people as Yorubas and will not support them to take Northern slot.
Ironically, there are many Ilorin people (partly of DISTANT Fulani ancestries) who are trying to be more Northern than Northerners.
The South equally won't like them to take the Southern slots.

If Saraki were to come from Oyo, Osun, Kebbi or Sokoto States, he will have greater clouts than this.


In my candid opinions, at certain times of national crisis fuelled by ethnic tensions, people like Saraki with multiple ethnic ancestries or minorities like GEJ are needed to serve as bridge builders and mend fences because there are not likely to promote ethnic hegemony that cause further tensions.

Igbochief001:
Can u deny the reason you attack saraki is not because he is going against tinubu ?

How is Saraki who was massively defeated in his Senatorial election who can't even win any party presidential primary election be going against Tinubu?

naijadrivablog:
Well for contesting sake but Saraki will not be favoured to be President of Nigeria.

Why Sir?

Akudaisi:
look at the map I sent there is Opobo right down in the mouth of the Atlantic, we don't need and we will never need one get that into your ewedu skull

This depends on whether Opobo will be part of Biafra or another country.
Your resorts to insults is plain childish.

Fahdiga:
So speaking the truth now means hatred according to you

Which truth that is very partisanly and peculiarly tailored against a particular citizen in a most bias way?

KingOKON:
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In those places how many of the Governors have promoted touts like Tinubu?

Can identify touts associated with Fashola unlike man that are linked with Tinubu

You are just shifting goal posts.


Who is a tour and how do you define 'association with to it's?


Listen and listen good, it's better you start wooing people to support Atiku than complaining daily that Tinubu wants to contest for the presidency of his country.

Akudaisi:
Bros a law is a law 25 miles to the Sea is not a invasion to anyone country or border or whatever ever,we can move up our Goods to from the Atlantic ocean to Azumini river because that's the law of the sea

The law is for littoral States and once there is another sovereign State between your River and the Ocean (even if it's 5km) you will need the permission of

FatherOfJesus:
Lol, na only these ijaw and warri people dey carry this Nigerdelta for head, there’s nothing like Nigerdelta dude. Wake up, that country no fit stand

Niger Delta that has more population ,more land mass with 6 States, long coastal line, developed economy (GDP of Rivers,Delta, Edo, C-River) and Oil &Gas than Biafra can not stand?

otosa:
ask yourself, what benefits is going to have upon the life of Nigerians? most especially under this constitution. I bet it with you Tinubu can not do better because the system wouldn't allow. Therefore, we can not gambling with 4 years again under Tinubu. If there is no amendment on our Constitution, No election in 2023. Or can you tell me what I don't know how Tinubu will rule better with 1999 Constitution?

2023: No referendum, no election in Biafraland!