DabuIIIT:


Everybody should please check this out and see for yourself!!!!!!
@igboid,can you please transfer the whole thread here?!

Igboid:
These people are despicable and treacherous.
They must be fuming at Bisi Akande now.
He buried the dishonesty of this thread.

Gratitudes081:


You obviously missed the point of this thread.
The South West Leaders might have played some political royal rumble in the 7th Speakership National Assembly, but obviously the same thing played out when all that is required for the South East to secure the Senate President seat which is the number 3 position was just to re-elect Sen. Chris Ngige back in to the Senate, but the hatred of APC changed the scheme of things.

The point of this thread is crying for marginalisation, turning a section of the country in to a war zone and threatening the peace and unity of the country when the table turns around. Everybody should live with the consequences of their actions.

The South West accepted their losses, went back to the drawing table, build bridges and came out with political alliance that brought them to the corridor of power.

They didn't threatened Nigeria's unity or resulted in unnecessary killings and maiming of security personnel, destruction of government properties and killing their own people.

NB:

The point is nobody should threatened the Country Unity only when they are not favoured and kept mute when they are enjoying the National cake.

I hope this explains something.

Igboid:


Bla bla bla and more bla!

Any evidence that APC zoned the Senate to SE ?

APC that couldn't zone the speaker position to SE zoned the Senate to SE?

You want to make Ngige Senate president but you couldn't even give him any of the more lucrative ministerial positions?


Ndi Mgbu.

Atleast now you lots will stop parading this thread around like it's some holy Grail.
Bunch of dishonest and mischievous beings.

DabuIIIT:


Everybody should please check this out and see for yourself!!!!!!
@igboid,can you please transfer the whole thread here?!

Igboid:
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

“I quickly reminded him that, as at (sic) that date in the United States of America, while the Democrats produced the Senate President, the Republicans (the opposition) produced the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I boasted that ACN was capable of suggesting to him ten names of members from the South West from among whom to choose if PDP would be magnanimous enough to practice democracy the way it was being practised in the USA, from where we imported our presidential system.

“He seemed pissed off and stopped the conversation,” he said.

In the era being referenced by the former national chairman of the defunct opposition party, the controlling party in each of the chambers of the Congress in the United States was in the majority, which wasn’t the case with ACN when the Ila-born politician was making his claim.

He also revealed in the book that their political platforms had their sight on working against the then ruling party.

“In the aftermath of the 2011 elections, many of our people were dissatisfied. Under the PDP, our country has become thoroughly decadent. Those of us who saw the then ruling party as an extension of the military corrupt politics preferred to work with all the major opposition parties which would eventually lead to a merger if we were to uproot the entrenched PDP and its evil tendencies. The first party that came to mind was the CPC which like us, was resolutely opposed to the PDP.

“Immediately after the elections, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila led a team of ACN boys to Bola Tinubu and me to suggest support for Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, a PDP member from Sokoto, to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

In the meantime, President Goodluck Jonathan was pressing for a government of national unity, with a bid of sucking ACN into manipulative extinction.”

Another major revelation from the book is the involvement of a former National Security Adviser and a Sokoto prince, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in the presidential project of now President Muhammadu Buhari preparatory to the 2011 presidential election against then incumbent Jonathan.

Jonathan defeated Buhari in the contest, before Buhari triumphed in their replay in 2015.

Interestingly, Dasuki would go on to become Jonathan’s most senior security adviser, but also ended up spending 1,484 days in detention, while being prosecuted by the Buhari administration, for alleged corruption while serving in the Jonathan administration.

He was eventually released on December 24, 2019, after many court orders for his released had been spurned by the administration. He was accused of siphoning fund meant for arms to fight insurgency in the North-East.

The author, however, paid the embattled former security chief compliments for his role in facilitating a merger between ACN and CPC in the build-up to the 2011 poll, to defeat Jonathan.

He said, “The reaction of CPC to this letter (to CPC from ACN and published on the same page), began the failed negotiation between ACN and CPC which attracted further intervention by some national leaders like General Babangida, Atiku Abubakar and others.

“This eventually crashed at the threshold of the 2011 presidential elections which President Jonathan of the PDP won again.

“The efforts of the former National Security Adviser– Colonel Sambo Dasuki is worth mentioning in this political bridge-building attempt between ACN and CPC. Dasuki was then in support of Buhari becoming the presidential candidate of the alliance.

“Sambo Dasuki was coming around, begging us, to support Buhari’s presidential aspiration. Nuhu Ribadu, whom we had earlier chosen as our presidential candidate in the ACN, said he was ready to step down for Buhari. He said when he accepted to run, he did not know that Buhari was also interested in running.”

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/

aribisala0:
Ibos will celebrate if they believe Yoruba are in pain

That is the koko

naijaking1:
If the president is smart, and I believe he is, he will never marginalize the Yorubas or the SW.

The stability of this country was based on a tripodal arrangement between the north, east, and west at Independence. The current political instability is a result of neglecting this principle since after the civil as a way of punishing Igbos, ironically, the north grew too big, the south(west and east) grew smaller and weaker.

As Onye Igbo, I know that while Yoruba marginalization may be benefitial on the short run, on the long run, we'll loose more if Yoruba muscles are allowed to atrophy, and the Hausa muscle hypertrophies. For a start, the Igbos will loose an opportunity for a healthy and reasonable competition in academics, economy, and sporting events if the Yorubas are marginalized.

Let me also say that the majority of Yorubas, at least those in Government since after the war didn't see any thing wrong with marginalizing Igbos for their own short term gain, but we don't have to make the same mistake.

The Yoruba should be made chief judge, Speaker of the House, or attorney general, we must focus on the tripodal structure not the current lopsided state arrangements designed by the Hausa military to maxmize Hausa benefit from the federal government.

Desola:
Apejopo awon Asinwin.

Yoruba haters of Nairaland,inc.

Awon asinwin aburo were.

nku5:


Tinubu touts will avoid this

GEJ gave Yorubas like Adesina and Johnson very vital portfolios, did more projects in the SW than in SE/SS , even tried to make a Yoruba woman Speaker

Drogunov:


Hey, stop the lies. There was no projects done in the SW by GEJ. Just stop the lies. GEJ focused on the North but they still hated him. Leave the SW alone. They did not cause your political misfortune

nku5:


GEJ did a lot for the SW and North infrastructure wise but you both still hated him. He gave you the rail you are enjoying today, water projects, irrigation etc

Nigerians love the SW but Nigerians don't like Tinubu touts. There is a clear difference here so don't try and conflate issues

Igboid:
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/

Sunofgod:


http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/27267-yoruba-elders-meet-jonathan-over-marginalisation

Sunofgod:
GEJ should have just chased them out of the room.

Why even answer their questions.

SMH

aljharem:
this people are funny u know. Just i thought this people want to eat there cake and have it again

they all voted for ACN thus they want regional government ie fedralism

yet they still want the advantages of being in the mainstream politics

abeg make them go sit down

when it is time they should go meet tinubu there master

Afam4eva:
Al_harem has spoken the truth. You cannot eat your cake and still want to have. PDP controls the center.So, states that will benefit from the center are PDP states. They should go and meet oga Tinubu if they feel marginalized

HighChief4:
Jonathan should have requested for another SW leader to be sacrificed/sold before he could listen to them. These oily a[i]s[/i]s elders must be confused

igboboy1:


Haha i like the way OLODOwas are full of self praise. Yesterday was sophistication now it is enlightenment? ezigbo ndi ara ka unu bu

Pre election Yoruba cocaine pusher/god tinubu made mockery of Ijaws saying that Yorubas been having doctors and the likes since 1850's unlike ijaw wey start school yesterday. Well the aftermath proved to us u no need school to win election

Ofe mmanus pleas keep the sophistication, enlightenment and education to una region before una go begin dey enlighten the rest of naija with cocain, dey sophisticate us with tiger marks and teach us failure and mumu dirty habits,

Ka chineke mere unu ebere