In the configuration of Nigeria, it is assumed that the north is predominantly Muslims while the south is predominantly Christians.

Now, whatever is going to the north, goes to a northern Muslim while whatever is going to the south is taken for granted that it should go to a southern Christian.

In the present Nigerian socio-politico space where religion is elevated to a high pedestal in the country’s political discourse, it’s going to take donkey years before a Yoruba Muslim will become the president of this country.

Because while his candidacy will not be appealing to the rest of southerners who are majorly Christians, the north would also not vote for him especially if he chooses a northern Christian to strike a balance. And if he dares to pick another Muslim just so he could appeal to northern sentiments, that would be suicide for such ticket.

This reason is Tinubu’s greatest stumbling block. It was Abiola’s stumbling block too because Christian Generals threatened to overthrow him if he got sworn in as confirmed by IBB which made him annul the election.

Again, while you would expect northerners to be ecstatic about a Muslim southerner taking up the saddle of the country, the reverse is actually the case as northerners never consider southern Muslims as Muslims enough. And southern Muslims have spent generations trying to prove their authenticity to them but it still has never worked. Northern Muslims still perceive their southern counterparts f practicing diluted version of Islam and that they do not follow, religiously, the tenets of Islam.

Northern Christians are in similar shoe too but theirs seem to not be as pathetic as Yoruba Muslims. If anything, northern Christians have produced Yakubu Gowon, David Mark, SGF David Lawal and Boss Mustapha, Theophilus Danjuma, etc. This is a feat never achieved by Yoruba Muslims. Again southern Christians do not see northern Christians as inauthentic Christians unlike what southern Muslims are going through.

So, this is an existential problem for Yoruba/Southern Muslims that they must find an urgent solution to if they must join their fellow southerners in enjoying some key and top privileges that is due south.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Apnt

Arewa Christians are

I used to propose that Nigerians should look beyond religion when choosing a leader but my position has changed.

In a multicultural society like Nigeria, every group must take its turn. I have learnt in recent months that claims of meritocracy alone in a diverse nation is a coy strategy of privileged groups to retain control.

In the United States of America, Biden did not nominate any white person as candidate for the post of an Associate Justice of the Supreme court. He was deliberate by nominating a Black woman so that black females can be represented there although many white judges were qualified.

To ensure peace and stability through inclusion, merit should be a criteria for selection of leaders but it should be activated in a way that promotes a sense of belonging among groups.

I want a Southern Christian,who is intelligent enough to solve some of Nigeria's biggest challenges, as president in 2023!

Abiola blew their chances.

ETHICALLYrlght:
I used to propose that Nigerians should look beyond religion when choosing a leader but my position has changed.

In a multicultural society like Nigeria, every group must take its turn. I have learnt in recent months that claims of meritocracy alone in a diverse nation is a coy strategy of privileged groups to retain control.

In the United States of America, Biden did not nominate any white person as candidate for the post of an Associate Justice of the Supreme court. He was deliberate by nominating a Black woman so that black females can be represented there although many white judges were qualified.

To ensure peace and stability through inclusion, merit should be a criteria for selection of leaders but it should be activated in a way that promotes a sense of belonging among groups.

I want a Southern Christian,who is intelligent enough to solve some of Nigeria's biggest challenges, as president in 2023!

Good to see that you have started to see reasons in the argument we have been making all along.

Merit should be enthroned, accepted.

But tell me that one zone in Nigeria that is bereft of highly intelligent and competent people. They may not be enthusiastic about politics but who said candidates of political parties must be some recycled politicians?

Till tomorrow, I will still be of the argument that zoning should be constitutional. Now, whichever zone it gets to, our duty as electorates would be to insist on political parties giving us the best of the zone. Now from available candidates from that zone, we will simply vote the person we consider more competent.

So, the argument that zoning would impede capacity is balderdash, self-serving and highly deficient.

C

There is nothing like Yoruba Muslim,stop this nonsense

Ignoramus.

Don't comment on what you don't know about. South West is not predominantly Christian. As a matter of fact, there is nothing like South when these communities came into being. They were brought together for the convenience of British rule.

Whereas you may say many states in the North are homogenous in nature, culture, language and belief, the same can not be said of the South. Yoruba don't have anything in common with Igbo. The same with Ijaws and other major ethnic groups.

For your information, Yorubas were predominantly traditionalists before they started experiencing the migration of Arabian/Islamic scholars into their midst. That was how they started converting to Islam. So, I can authoritatively tell you that Islam was the first foreign religion to come and be embraced by Yorubas. Long before Christianity.

With the migration of missionaries to the land vis-a-vis slave trade, many started converting to Christianity.as well.

If you take a census today, you will discover that greater percentage of real indigenes of Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo States are actuslly Muslims. Only Ekiti and Ondo States I can say are predominantly Christian.

One of the tools used by the missionaries to entice many Yoruba Muslims to convert to Christianity was education. Missionaries were the first to introduce and establish schools in Yorubaland and that explains why Christianity started to grow in the land.

As far as Yorubaland is concerned, religion has never being an issue. It was when people like you started migrating to the South West that you started creating this division. Even up till today, there is no family in Yorubaland you will not see Christians as well as Muslims, even among siblings of the same parents.

Since the beginning of this third republic, Lagos has been governed by 4 governors. Out of these, 2 are Muslims (Tinubu and Fashola) and two are Christians (Ambode and Sanwo-Olu).

Ogun has had 4 governors, 3 Christians (Oshoba, Gbenga Daniel and Dapo Abiodun) and One Muslim (Amosun)

Oyo has had 5 governors. Out of these, 3 are Muslims (Lam Adesina, Rasheed Ladoja and Isiaka Ajimobi) and 2 are Christians (Akala and Makinde)

In Osun, out of 4 governors that have governed the state, 3 are Muslims (Akande, Aregbesola and Oyetola). Only one is a Christian (Oyinlola)

In Ondo State, out of 4 governors that have ruled the state, 3 are Christians while 1 is a Muslim.

Only Ekiti has not being ruled by Muslims and the reason is obvious as stated before. Ekiti and Ondo are predominantly Christians.

Like I said, religion has never being an issue in Yorubaland. It was migrants and foreigners like you that is trying to created this division albeit unsuccessfully. You carry your myopic view from your state and think that is what should be obtainable in Yorubaland? Ignorance.

I am however not surprised. Are you guys not of the view that Lagos is a no man's land? Are you not claiming that you developed Lagos and without you Lagos can not develop?

I do not blame the Northerners when they decided among themselves that you will not have a say in what happens in their land. Didn't you guys said you will determine who becomes what, in Lagos during the 2015 election? Perhaps, we should start employing Northern treatment to you in the South West so that you will know where you truly belong in the annal of things.

Most of you can no longer go home because you have bastardised your land and culture. However, the land that received you and where you earn your living with peace of mind, you still want to cause division.

Enough of your nonsense. 2023 is around the corner and we will show you where your rightly belong.

Cram that

SEUNMSG DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY HERE

Penguin2:
In the configuration of Nigeria, it is assumed that the north is predominantly Muslims while the south is predominantly Christians.

Now, whatever is going to the north, goes to a northern Muslim while whatever is going to the south is taken for granted that it should go to a southern Christian.

In the present Nigerian socio-politico space where religion is elevated to a high pedestal in the country’s political discourse, it’s going to take donkey years before a Yoruba Muslim will become the president of this country.

Because while his candidacy will not be appealing to the rest of southerners who are majorly Christians, the north would also not vote for him especially if he chooses a northern Christian to strike a balance. And if he dares to pick another Muslim just so he could appeal to northern sentiments, that would be suicide for such ticket.

This reason is Tinubu’s greatest stumbling block. It was Abiola’s stumbling block too because Christian Generals threatened to overthrow him if he got sworn in as confirmed by IBB which made him annul the election.

Again, while you would expect northerners to be ecstatic about a Muslim southerner taking up the saddle of the country, the reverse is actually the case as northerners never consider southern Muslims as Muslims enough. And southern Muslims have spent generations trying to prove their authenticity to them but it still has never worked. Northern Muslims still perceive their southern counterparts f practicing diluted version of Islam and that they do not follow, religiously, the tenets of Islam.

Northern Christians are in similar shoe too but theirs seem to not be as pathetic as Yoruba Muslims. If anything, northern Christians have produced Yakubu Gowon, David Mark, SGF David Lawal and Boss Mustapha, Theophilus Danjuma, etc. This is a feat never achieved by Yoruba Muslims. Again southern Christians do not see northern Christians as inauthentic Christians unlike what southern Muslims are going through.

So, this is an existential problem for Yoruba/Southern Muslims that they must find an urgent solution to if they must join their fellow southerners in enjoying some key and top privileges that is due south.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

This is not Correct the Middle belt Christian President will naturally have a Southern Muslim VP and a Southern Muslim President will have a Middle belt Christian VP
that is how it is supposed to be done naturally

Tinubu is supposed to pick a Northern Christan Deputy for balance

Allow yoruba Muslims to be making noise..


I pity them,.. They don't know what is coming

Penguin2:

Penguin is a bird of reason!

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

This post is devoid of reason and is sponsored by Muric/Kperogi.

Nobody is preventing any Yoruba Muslim from running.

Afonja2:
Ignoramus.

Don't comment on what you don't know about. South West is not predominantly Christian. As a matter of fact, there is nothing like South when these communities came into being. They were brought together for the convenience of British rule.

Whereas you may say many states in the North are homogenous in nature, culture, language and belief, the same can not be said of the South. Yoruba don't have anything in common with Igbo. The same with Ijaws and other major ethnic groups.

For your information, Yorubas were predominantly traditionalists before they started experiencing the migration of Arabian/Islamic scholars into their midst. That was how they started converting to Islam. So, I can authoritatively tell you that Islam was the first foreign religion to come and be embraced by Yorubas. Long before Christianity.

With the migration of missionaries to the land vis-a-vis slave trade, many started converting to Christianity.as well.

If you take a census today, you will discover that greater percentage of real indigenes of Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo States are actuslly Muslims. Only Ekiti and Ondo States I can say are predominantly Christian.

One of the tools used by the missionaries to entice many Yoruba Muslims to convert to Christianity was education. Missionaries were the first to introduce and establish schools in Yorubaland and that explains why Christianity started to grow in the land.

As far as Yorubaland is concerned, religion has never being an issue. It was when people like you started migrating to the South West that you started creating this division. Even up till today, there is no family in Yorubaland you will not see Christians as well as Muslims, even among siblings of the same parents.

Since the beginning of this third republic, Lagos has been governed by 4 governors. Out of these, 2 are Muslims (Tinubu and Fashola) and two are Christians (Ambode and Sanwo-Olu).

Ogun has had 4 governors, 3 Christians (Oshoba, Gbenga Daniel and Dapo Abiodun) and One Muslim (Amosun)

Oyo has had 5 governors. Out of these, 3 are Muslims (Lam Adesina, Rasheed Ladoja and Isiaka Ajimobi) and 2 are Christians (Akala and Makinde)

In Osun, out of 4 governors that have governed the state, 3 are Muslims (Akande, Aregbesola and Oyetola). Only one is a Christian (Oyinlola)

In Ondo State, out of 4 governors that have ruled the state, 3 are Christians while 1 is a Muslim.

Only Ekiti has not being ruled by Muslims and the reason is obvious as stated before. Ekiti and Ondo are predominantly Christians.

Like I said, religion has never being an issue in Yorubaland. It was migrants and foreigners like you that is trying to created this division albeit unsuccessfully. You carry your myopic view from your state and think that is what should be obtainable in Yorubaland? Ignorance.

I am however not surprised. Are you guys not of the view that Lagos is a no man's land? Are you not claiming that you developed Lagos and without you Lagos can not develop?

I do not blame the Northerners when they decided among themselves that you will not have a say in what happens in their land. Didn't you guys said you will determine who becomes what, in Lagos during the 2015 election? Perhaps, we should start employing Northern treatment to you in the South West so that you will know where you truly belong in the annal of things.

Most of you can no longer go home because you have bastardised your land and culture. However, the land that received you and where you earn your living with peace of mind, you still want to cause division.

Enough of your nonsense. 2023 is around the corner and we will show you where your rightly belong.

Cram that

Can you stop

Penguin2:
In the configuration of Nigeria, it is assumed that the north is predominantly Muslims while the south is predominantly Christians.

Now, whatever is going to the north, goes to a northern Muslim while whatever is going to the south is taken for granted that it should go to a southern Christian.

In the present Nigerian socio-politico space where religion is elevated to a high pedestal in the country’s political discourse, it’s going to take donkey years before a Yoruba Muslim will become the president of this country.

Because while his candidacy will not be appealing to the rest of southerners who are majorly Christians, the north would also not vote for him especially if he chooses a northern Christian to strike a balance. And if he dares to pick another Muslim just so he could appeal to northern sentiments, that would be suicide for such ticket.

This reason is Tinubu’s greatest stumbling block. It was Abiola’s stumbling block too because Christian Generals threatened to overthrow him if he got sworn in as confirmed by IBB which made him annul the election.

Again, while you would expect northerners to be ecstatic about a Muslim southerner taking up the saddle of the country, the reverse is actually the case as northerners never consider southern Muslims as Muslims enough. And southern Muslims have spent generations trying to prove their authenticity to them but it still has never worked. Northern Muslims still perceive their southern counterparts f practicing diluted version of Islam and that they do not follow, religiously, the tenets of Islam.

Northern Christians are in similar shoe too but theirs seem to not be as pathetic as Yoruba Muslims. If anything, northern Christians have produced Yakubu Gowon, David Mark, SGF David Lawal and Boss Mustapha, Theophilus Danjuma, etc. This is a feat never achieved by Yoruba Muslims. Again southern Christians do not see northern Christians as inauthentic Christians unlike what southern Muslims are going through.

So, this is an existential problem for Yoruba/Southern Muslims that they must find an urgent solution to if they must join their fellow southerners in enjoying some key and top privileges that is due south.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

trash
what's even Yoruba Muslim or Yoruba Christian for Christ sake they are all tactics politician used on people like this OP
a good person is a good person irrespective of tribe and religion

ETHICALLYrlght:
I used to propose that Nigerians should look beyond religion when choosing a leader but my position has changed.

In a multicultural society like Nigeria, every group must take its turn. I have learnt in recent months that claims of meritocracy alone in a diverse nation is a coy strategy of privileged groups to retain control.

In the United States of America, Biden did not nominate any white person as candidate for the post of an Associate Justice of the Supreme court. He was deliberate by nominating a Black woman so that black females can be represented there although many white judges were qualified.

To ensure peace and stability through inclusion, merit should be a criteria for selection of leaders but it should be activated in a way that promotes a sense of belonging among groups.

I want a Southern Christian,who is intelligent enough to solve some of Nigeria's biggest challenges, as president in 2023!

very apt

Ajibade123:

trash
what's even Yoruba Muslim or Yoruba Christian for Christ sake they are all tactics politician used on people like this OP
a good person is a good person irrespective of tribe and religion

leave them ooo they were all crying yesterday when one person created a thread about Ebonyin as hausa on ebos land, some of them said ebos is ebos, you can't divide us bla bla calling mod to delete the thread, they can't take half of what they dish out to others, if we start our own now they will be crying, tagging USA,aljazerra,cnn,UN. FOOLSSSSSSSSS FYI there is nothing like yoruba Christians or Muslims,its just a tag created by these useless online yeebos miscreants

Why are the Yorubas always blaming and shouting Igbos are not united. Breeze don blow, fowl nyash don open.

A confused country indeed

Some people's hate for igbo is another level.

Wonders shall never end.

Ebonyi is doing jihad on igbo through ipob igala igbo, bini igbo and delta igbo need to spend time together than diving into Yoruba matter

God bless Yoruba