Okealaaye:


You call Tinubu, a man "made in the image and likeness of God" baboon! Imagine what they would have called a German who should call Tinubu baboon! You call Tinubu Bastard! A man who apparently hasn't offended you in any way personally! A man who is obviously better than you in any classification by which success is categorised! You may not know it yet, but all reasonable people know that you're hateful, cruel and without a good soul. I wonder what you'll call Tinubu in May next year when he becomes president of Nigeria, when his Portrait as president will hang on the wall overlooking your Eze Igwe in your Town Hall? Remember that you're not God who declares the end from the beginning! God has blessed Tinubu in all areas of human desires. So you curse him at your own peril!

Felixamos:


LOL... Me tell you to vote Obi??

Na me go give you sense?? Lol..

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Felixamos:
But people mumu well, well oh.. APC dey campaign to save Nigeria from APC and some brainless idiots here dey support them? Them do una? Another set of idiots na the mikanites...

I'll be voting for the first time in this coming election and the candidate I'll be voting for is Peter Obi..
No be say him dey perfect but when you put all the presidential aspirants together, na only Obi I dey see..

27Pushing30:


You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Felixamos:
But people mumu well, well oh.. APC dey campaign to save Nigeria from APC and some brainless idiots here dey support them? Them do una? Another set of idiots na the mikanites...

I'll be voting for the first time in this coming election and the candidate I'll be voting for is Peter Obi..
No be say him dey perfect but when you put all the presidential aspirants together, na only Obi I dey see..

27Pushing30:


You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Felixamos:
But people mumu well, well oh.. APC dey campaign to save Nigeria from APC and some brainless idiots here dey support them? Them do una? Another set of idiots na the mikanites...

I'll be voting for the first time in this coming election and the candidate I'll be voting for is Peter Obi..
No be say him dey perfect but when you put all the presidential aspirants together, na only Obi I dey see..

27Pushing30:


You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

Tzar:
Werey, were you not in APC in 2015? What did you do to avert the Buhari disaster?
Who did Buhari listen to while he mismanaged Nigeria?
Obasanjo, Jonathan, Tinubu, Pastor Bakare and many others kept going to Aso Rock until they realized that they were talking to a wall.
Have idiots like Atiku forgotten how Tinubu was sidelined and relegated by Buhari to the delight of enemies? How then did he expect Tinubu to help?!
I swear most Nigerians are MAD! with their selective amnesia!

Marvins009:
Why didn’t he turn Nigeria around when he was Vice President?

Tzar:
Werey, were you not in APC in 2015? What did you do to avert the Buhari disaster?
Who did Buhari listen to while he mismanaged Nigeria?
Obasanjo, Jonathan, Tinubu, Pastor Bakare and many others kept going to Aso Rock until they realized that they were talking to a wall.
Have idiots like Atiku forgotten how Tinubu was sidelined and relegated by Buhari to the delight of enemies? How then did he expect Tinubu to help?!
I swear most Nigerians are MAD! with their selective amnesia!

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Invest4growth:
Atiku is wrong here. Every leader wants to be independent. Buhari is on his own in government with his cabinet. He might be advised by Tinubu, no doubt but the advise may not be implemented. So it will be out be a fault of Tinubu that Buhari failed having assisted him.to power. There are so many contending issues that if not resolved asap, the incoming administration is bound to be hampered. Meanwhile, the insecurity could have been worse. Kudos to PMB but we could do better!

Manofnaija:


Do better through who?
If Tinubu have the people of Nigeria at heart and know what Buhari he helped to power failed the people. The best thing he should have done is to leave the party, like Atiku, Saraki etc.

27Pushing30:


You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

Okealaaye:

Adebanjo And Clark’s Distortion Of History

By

Jide Oluwajuyitan

On Nov 3, 2022

Culture and history are critical for the survival of any society. The former with its social, educational and spiritual dimensions, allows us to understand ourselves and why things are the way they are while the latter, as record of past events, allows us to find a pathway for the future.

Unfortunately, the ongoing battle for Igbo presidency by the duo of Pa Edwin Clark and Ayo Adebanjo is at best a distortion of our recent cultural and historical experiences. Their repeated warning of imminent disintegration of the country if there is no Igbo presidency by 2023 is seen by many as a strategy to remain relevant even at 94 forgetting the world is a stage.

Pa Clark has been reminded by many concerned Nigerians that if he so loves the Igbo, he should demonstrate such love by ensuring charity starts from home. He was part of the Gowon cabinet that set up David Mark-led Abandoned Properties Committee after the civil war. Instead of issuing inciting statements to mislead our youths who have no knowledge of our history, he as leader of Ijaw nation, should prevail on his people to release Igbo properties confiscated since 1970 by Ijaws who rightly claim ownership of the land on which the properties were erected. After all, the Igbo returned to Lagos after the civil war not only to take possession of their properties, but rents collected for them by their Yoruba hosts including Pa Subomi Balogun who was said to have handed huge funds to the late vice president, Alex Ekwueme upon his return to Lagos after the civil war.

Following Pa Clark passion and drive for Igbo presidency, many have also wondered when the love between him, his people and the Igbo nation started. I am sure concerned Nigerians just want to be sure Pa Clark is not driven by opportunism just to remain relevant because what we have on record is that he and his Ijaw nation, for fear of their more aggressive and resourceful Igbo neighbours, have since independence sought refuge under Hausa-Fulani in faraway north. Not too long ago, I think it was Tanko Yakassai , one of the founding fathers of Arewa Consultative Forum, who reminded Clark of this historical fact .

As for Ayo Adebanjo, he apparently just couldn’t stand the success of his son. When he claimed ownership of the carcass of AD after Obasanjo’s deadly blow to the party in 2003, Tinubu left him with his trophy to form the AC that later metamorphosed into ACN, the platform he used to retrieve Obasanjo’s stolen governorship victories in Yoruba strongholds of Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. Adebanjo reluctantly praised his son for saving the West from Obasanjo.

But Adebanjo became green with envy when Tinubu aligned his ACN with Buhari’s CPC and other parties to form the APC that took Yoruba mainstream political tendency to the centre for the first time since independence in 1960. Adebanjo vigorously campaigned against APC in 2015 just as he did in 2019 when he railroaded Afenifere to supporting Atiku and Peter Obi ticket against Buhari and Osinbajo, his son. Pa Adebanjo lost out on both occasions precisely because Yoruba voters are never led by the nose.

This is why many believe his current endorsement of Obi as the only man who would restructure the country will probably not count for much. This is because, unlike 2015 and 2019, the stakes are higher in 2023. For the Yoruba, “omo eni ki buru, kale f’ekun je”(your child cannot be so disobedient that you drive him to the lion’s den). That was the message of last Sunday’s public endorsement of Bola Tinubu by Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the respected and undisputed leader of Afenifere who believes Tinubu, his son, is better equipped and better prepared to tackle Nigerian problems than Peter Obi.

Unfortunately, while trying to cry louder than the bereaved, Adebanjo and Clark have not clearly defined what they mean by Igbo marginalisation. If it is in terms of the breach of federal character principle as President Buhari has been accused of doing with his lopsided appointment into sensitive positions, Igbo maximized the same opportunity under Balewa and Ironsi 1959-1966 and between 2011 and 2015 when they hijacked Jonathan government.

However, if by Igbo marginalization, Pa Clark and Adebanjo, meant exclusion of Igbo from the presidency, we also have no evidence Igbo political leaders have at any time expressed regret for the choices they have always made. What history tells us is that Igbo might have not been at the driver’s seat, they and Hausa Fulani jointly ruled Nigeria between 1959 and 2015. (General Alabi Isama “the Tragedy of Victory’)

And we cannot escape history.

In the 1959 election, Igbo dominated NCNC came first with about 2.6m votes, followed by AG with 2m votes and Ahmadu Bello’s NPC coming a distant third with 1.9m votes. Rather than form an alliance with AG and lead the country, Igbo leadership settled for NPC as an obedient beautiful bride. Their choice earned them juicy cabinet positions including the portfolios of Finance, Works, Transportation, Education, External Affairs, leadership of Nigeria railways, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Nsukka and Yaba College of Technology among others.

In 1979, Igbo NPP came third after NPN and UPN. As it was in the first republic, Zik/NPP declared themselves the beautiful bride. NPP leaders including the revered rebel leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu who returned from exile after the war decided the way forward for the Igbo was a working alliance with NPN. Again the deal earned them the Senate presidency and speakership of the Lower house among other juicy cabinet portfolios.

In 1993, Igbo supported Tofa against MKO Abiola. And when Abiola against all odds won the election, some Igbo leaders led by Arthur Nzeribe and others, fearing there will be nothing to ‘chop’, provided dubious intellectual support for Babangida to annul the election. And when Abiola was incarcerated for winning an election, Igbo leaders including the revered Odumegwu Ojukwu who served as Abacha’s envoy to Europe to de-market MKO Abiola on account of his many wives, kept demonizing him in the media until his mysterious death.

In 1999, Igbo rejected Olu Falae , the Yoruba candidate to join the northern establishment and their retired military generals to impose Obasanjo who was roundly rejected by the Youruba, as president. And while vindictive Obasanjo marginalized Yoruba for eight years, the stars of his administration were prominent Igbos including Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chukwuma Soludo, Oby Ezekwesili, the Uba brothers and others. The joke among Igbo was with Obasanjo as president, Igbo nation needed no president of Ibo extraction.

President Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan’s government 2011-2915, with Anyim Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, like Obasanjo’s administration before it, was an Igbo government. Okonjo-Iweala, the de-facto prime minister, did not deny allegation Igbo took over her ministry and parastatals under her but tried to educate Nigerians that Igbo secured their positions on merit.

For the Igbo political elite, there are no regrets for their preference to serve our nation as ‘the beautiful bride’. The only people losing sleep over perceived Igbo marginalization are attention-seeking Pa Edwin Clark and his friend Pa Ayo Adebanjo who on Arise TV on Monday justified his support for Peter Obi by claiming that apart from him, there is no other living Yoruba that has so faithfully served the Yoruba nation.