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Anyway, let's forget all these banter, before it turns to something else. Lagos is part of yorubaland, and part of Nigeria. It's not 'no man's land' even as it is cosmopolitan in nature.

That said, we cannot removed the fact that Federal Government, and Non-indigenes, working with the native (Aworis) made Lagos what it is today!

However, Igbo do not own anyone gratitude for living in Lagos or any part of Nigeria; it is the fruit of labour of fathers who fought and shed blood that we be one. The more Yorubas think that Igbos own them gratitude for living in Lagos, the more the we remind them that Awolowo, Obasanjo and co were among those who fought that Igbo should remain in Nigeria.

If Yorubas or any other ethnic group for that matter feels threatened by the way of life of Igbos, they could ask for referendum to secede from Nigeria. We do not owe anyone apologies for living according to the constitution of Nigeria; if there are law breakers let them face the law as Nigerians, not as Igbos!

And if anyone calls Lagos a "No man's land", Yorubas shouldn't get worked up unnecessarily because these are everyday banter among normal people.

PentiumPro:
Lmaoo ibo man with blue chip company stock?
Odiegwu!

Now that's way above your station.

By the way, is that your pix on profile display?

Ekaka1:
Hey, hey, hey, are you guys still on about this issue. Some body has ordered lots of life vests and must fuel this.
I am even surprised that Buhari has joined those campaigning for Agbaje when we were told that the Oba was just jesting around with His Igbo friends. Pat utomi even confirmed it inferring that Jesting is the Oba's real job. I mean...lagos having a palace jester for a king ok oh... .
So Abeg make una forget all this talk jare and prepare for the next circus session with special presentation by Jagaban, Chief jester Akiolu and all the other palace clowns of Eko circus

I'll consider your suggestion.

I really don't like been found in companies of fools, let alone jesters, parading himself as king! Perhaps Oba Akiolu is the king of jester. Would like to see him feature in Nite of Thousand Laughs!

ehie:
Shitface...this is how am really feeling now

Actually I don't give a rat ar/se how you are feeling; it isn't my business!

ehie:
Law 42 48 Laws of Power

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual—the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them—they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

Within any group, trouble can most often be traced to a single source, the unhappy, chronically dissatisfied one who will always stir up dissension and infect the group with his or her ill ease. Before you know what hit you the dissatisfaction spreads. Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

identify and Shut the Hell Raisers Down

1. First, recognize troublemakers by their overbearing presence, or by their complaining nature.
2. Once you spot them do not try to reform them or appease them—that will only make things worse.
3. Do not attack them, whether directly or indirectly, for they are poisonous in nature and will work underground to destroy you.
4. Do as the Athenians did: Banish them before it is too late.
5. Separate them from the group before they become the eye of a whirlpool.
6. Do not give them time to stir up anxieties and sow discontent.
7. Do not give them room to move. Let one person suffer so that the rest can live in peace.
8. Once you recognize who the stirrer is, pointing it out to other people will accomplish a great deal.
9. Understanding who controls the group dynamic is a critical realization.
10. Stirrers drive by hiding in the group, disguising their actions among the reactions of others.

Who Should You Isolate

· Find powerful people who have alienated themselves from the group.
· People whose power has gone to their heads, and they consider themselves superior.
· Those people who have perhaps lost their knack of communicating with ordinary folk.
· Search out people who hold high positions yet who find themselves isolated on the board.
· Find the one head that matters—the person with willpower, or smarts, or, most important of all, charisma.


Why Isolate?

· They are vulnerable to you, and your presence becomes magnified.
· It can prove a powerful way of bringing people under your spell to seduce or swindle them.
· Here they feel weak, and succumb to deception more easily, which makes them vulnerable.
· Powerful though they may be, people like this can be turned to use.
· It is often better to isolate your enemies than to destroy them—you seem less brutal.
· They are like apples falling into your lap, easily seduced, and able to catapult you into power yourself.
· To dishearten the sheep beyond any rational measure.
· Cancer begins with a single cell; excise it before it spreads beyond cure.

How to Isolate

· Render their actions visible and they lose their power to upset.
· Separate your victims from their power base or their usual social context.
· The result, though, is the same, for in the game of power, isolation spells death.

What Kind of Isolation

· Physical (banishment or absence from the court).
· Political (narrowing his base of support).
· Psychological (alienating him from the group through slander and insinuation).

You see, 48 Laws of Power also provide countermeasure to it's own laws. If you are smart, you will know better than quote these laws in isolation. Let me school you a bit!

Law 42 (Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter) can only effective is used in conjunction with Law 15 (Crush your enemy totally!), provided you can even find the shepherd. Otherwise the collateral damage will result in a zero-sum game winner (you should also read up game theory)!

Countermeasure to law 42
Singular use of law 42 can be countered using simultaneous application of Law 17 (Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability ) and Law 22 (Use the surrender tactic --- transform weakness into power!). A single countermeasure to your preferred law 42 is law 44 (Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect).


And if you really must use law 42, beware of law 19 (Know who you are dealing with --- do not offend the wrong person)!

Don't mess with the wrong guy!

PentiumPro:
Sorry, it's way above your station.

hehehehe, salivating over penny stocks is your station, right? Carry on, I prefer to roll with the blue chips!

PentiumPro:
No sir! Thanks but no thanks, I will rather buy Access Bank shares selling at a discounted value of 6.9k
The likely dividend pay out and bonus issues value will have better ROI than any piece of land in Igbo land.

So why are you complaining about owning land in Igboland. If you can't afford it, stop whining! By the way, what the big deal about 'Access Bank' shares. In fact what's the big deal about bank shares?

PentiumPro:
Instead of showing us something to contradict the OP, they are busy with emotional verbiage and insults.
Kontinu, we have thick skin against Igbo insults.

I have land to sell at Owerri, along Owerri - Onitsha road. It's just 1.8 million for a plot? You go buy, let me link you up!

ehie:
Igbo Matter no dey d end..

have you notice they never address allegations of other Nigerians owning land and being in position of power in their land ,[s] they instead deflect it with abuses and accusations?
when they answer such questions then Oba Akiou will apologise


because they are locked in their collective greed twisted archaic reasoning (45 years old) it is like fighting with a man man in the village square

1. 1 thing i have learnt is that as long as we take the igbos seriously a dream of a bountiful and great Nigeria will never materialize because their mindset is not our mindset...
2. we should treat them like a mother treats a rebellious child who is determined to turn out bad
3 Greed is their soft spot so we can use it in dealing with them.
4.Never trust them [/s]

I have land to sell at Owerri, along Owerri - Onitsha road. It's just 1.8 million for a plot? You go buy, let me link you up!

tblacker:
No need to join you there...

You don't want to join Oba Akiolu there you meant?

tonytony208:
No, it is the fear of being eaten by man eaters. Don't forget that Igbo's eat human beings. I would rather stay among those who behave like human being than live among wild animals that look like human beings.

Fair enough!
So stop complaining. We'll continue to enjoy the best of two worlds!

Lagos is No Man's Land, go and jump into the lagoon!

johnpalmer774:
You are a Big fool and slowpoke for that statements , How many Kings in your Village has been arrested for criminal incitement even when they have done something Worst more than this, Mr Man accept the reality and move on , if you refused to forgives the worst u can do is to Vote against APC , and i can assure u that all your ibos Votes in Lagos still won't be enough to send AGBAJE to government house in Alausa.

My brother, actually every one can see that it's your Oba that's the big fool here. But you could be a bigger fool for failing to see what's right under your nose!

Again to whom brain is given, sense is expected, oba or no oba~

dunkem21:
Can I buy you a bottle of champagne?

Na Orijin dey reign now.

aderonila18:
You don't get it, it's not that the man doesn't want to apologies, he is forbidden to do so.

Tell that to the marines, I'm sure they will believe you!

He's mortal, flesh and blood and not above reprieve! Human institution, such as place immunity on rascals and scoundrels gave birth to the likes of Hitler, Saddam Hussien, and their likes!

Oba ti shi!

He should apologise or be dethroned for inciting genocide!

aderonila18:
It's not about being prideful, do you want calamity to befall his people. It is an abomination for an Oba to apologize publicly , he simply can't do it even if he wants to

Then he should be removed from the stool, let him apologise as the human being he is!

Oba shouldn't go around behaving like a tout if he know he cannot recant and apologise! To whom brain is given, sense is expected!

aderonila18:
It is an abomination in Yoruba land for an Oba to apologize publicly. It will have negative effects in his people, so forget Oba apologizing because it won't happen. The best thing that can be done is others apologizing in his behalf which is what APC leaders are doing

Then it is foolishness on Buhari's part to ask people to forgive a man who think he's is above reprieve! APC cannot apologise on his behalf, he's not a member of APC! What Buhari should be calling for is his dethronement and and arrest for criminal incitement with the intent to encourage mass murder!

Mr. Akiolu, your people say you are god and cannot descend to human level. Okay ooo. You don't deserve forgiveness, continue in your macabre dance of foolishness, the surugede, dance of spirit!

Let's see how far this goes!

Forgive and move on?

Has he shown remorse? Has he apologised yet for his unprovoked barbaric and savagery genocidal incitement?

Until he does so, he's murdered sleep and will never have peace!

PentiumPro:
Why do we have 100% indigenous Ibos in virtually all the Ngawa-land except sprinkle of non indigenes in Aba?
Why is orlu and Nnewi virtually Ibos
Why is Abakaliki and the surrounding villages a no go area for non Ibos?
Why is udi and Uga 100% indigenous Ibos?
Nobody is going to allow you to derail the thread.

Buy land, build and house and live there!

Who is stopping you apart from your fear of leaving your 'comfort' zone!

PabloAfricanus:
Funny how some people have double standards and don't even know it.
I thought the Igbos have no respect for elders and constituted authority?
Guess who would have been the first to react if the Igbo leaders had started by throwing it back at the Oba to his face and in his palace?
You're all applauding them for respectfully accepting BS calmly and even laughing over it!
In less than typical Igbo version, they showed sophistication by not reacting and taking the awesome insult in good faith.
Now some of ya are even tagging the Oba a victim of the Igbo's trap for releasing clips and tapes!
Haba hypocrisy!
Would u have preferred one of them engaging the Oba in a tackle or slaps? Or replying him in like words there and then?
You guys should get a grip!
As for the Igbos...it is not bravery to be a strong man in another man's house while becoming a stranger in your homeland. If there was ever a time to look eastward and start strategizing its now! Except ofcourse you enjoy being the butt of jokes and insults from all and sundry.

Well said!

veraponpo:
It takes two to tango.

Oba Akinolu may not be right on this but the attitude of our Igbo brothers and sisters could frustrate one.

Having helped them more than what their region has done for them, instead of being grateful; their actions seem to be undermining the essence of our existence through their incendiary statements. Calling their hosts cowards- what do you want after that-fight to show we are not cowards.

Oba Akinolu is their match and that is why the situation seems difficult now.

A gentle king could be disobeyed easily but did they say anything at the palace? No. They dare not.

It was after leaving the palace that chest beating, ultimatum , etc started surfacing.

Who then is the cowards? Ta lo fe gbenan woju ekun lai f'eje we ( who wants to put light at the face of a tiger without being bathed with blood)

Remember, 'He who makes peaceful resolution difficult , has made violence inevitable.'

We own you no gratitude; we prefer to be in our own country! There is nothing to be grateful to share a country with pathetic, envious, backstabbing lowlifes such as you!

LubricatingOil:
"That short man called Ngige, we gave him power and he went and joined Awolowo’s people; the people that killed the Igbos" Arthur Eze

http://ynaija.com/ngige-joined-awolowos-people-who-killed-the-igbos-see-10-of-the-most-ridiculous-things-said-at-the-pdpanambra-rally-yesterday/

Arthur Eze is a nobody! Get over it already!!

If he refuses to apologise, we will begin an open season on him, and we shall desecrate any and everything he stands for. He's messing with the wrong people and at a very wrong time!

Sloan:
No need to give the SE anything because they don't want it. There is no need to force it down their throat!

For once, you've spoken the correctly.

I only hope Rochas is rejected to by our people, let him go and become Buhari's special adviser on Almajir Matters! Imo don't need him bumbling governance ala Aregbesola's style!

steppin:
"Pat Utomo", all the agberos in Oshodi will joke with your life, senseless buffoon!

I like to throw the guy (Pat Utomi) down from Onitsh bridge into the River Niger!
Of course I will do it with funny face so he knows it's just a joke, even as he's descending in response to gravity!

If the Oba is jester, then he should abdicate the throne and try for jesting with Basket Mouth, Ali Baba and co!

Obaship is for serious business, not for jesters!

LubricatingOil:
Here is what a prominent ibo politician said in front of Jonathan in Anambra State.

"That short man called Ngige, we gave him power and he went and joined Awolowo’s people; the people that killed the Igbos" Arthur Eze

http://ynaija.com/ngige-joined-awolowos-people-who-killed-the-igbos-see-10-of-the-most-ridiculous-things-said-at-the-pdpanambra-rally-yesterday/

Show me a SINGLE condemnation from any ibo man.


Keep fooling yourself. We are waiting for you on Saturday.

And what make Arthur Eze prominent? Is he a monarch? Heck I have said worse things than Arthur Eze, and I even more prominent than him. But I am not a monarch, let alone of big cosmopolitan city such as Lagos!

As per waiting for you on Saturday, let's hope your cowardly ar/se will show up at the poll! keyboard warrior!

Khalessi:
Ngige hope you have your own life jacket

I hope the guy is not deluded, "no matter how long a tree stay in the river, it cannot become a crocodile." When Akiolu pushes him into the Lagoon for Ambode's loss, I hope he doesn't shed crocodille's tears!


Igbos, let's keep calm and vote Jimi Agbaje!