₦airaland Forum

Omoawoke:
No be by force

We say no to chinedu

Abi nkan mi wa nibe ni?

Labor party won Lagos.

What if GRV you call chinedu wins, what will you do?

flokii:
There is sense in what the OP wrote.. Tinubu ignored wise counsel back then and was giving out job slots and sensitive posts in Lagos govt. to outsiders. So many Yorubas in Epe, Badagry etc. that wanted to serve their state lost out because of that action whereas the Igbos don't give out employment to other tribes in their region.

Sanwo Olu too is towing that path with the way he compensated only Igbos after EndSars destruction.. I was watching the news and was like.. ki lo ma n se awa Yoruba?
They burnt a State in SW and all the people you're compensating are the outsiders. What should the Yorubas that lost properties do? where should they start from?

Honestly speaking, our leaders in South West need to retrace their steps and start making the welfare of Yorubas their top priority before any other.

Okay look at it now.. all those outsiders they left in Lagos civil service are the ones giving out information about Lagos Finances to other outsiders, now scheming to take over the leadership of Lagos by proxy half-blood.

Yoruba youths better wake up and start voicing out so these stray leaders will get back their senses. In the North, it's their own people first so why is South West different??

Leaders only care about their interest.
It's the same with SE leaders.

They divide us with Tribalism for their own selfish gain.
If Peter Obi decides to enter APC tommorow, Tinubu will happily welcome him with open hands, and might even give him a portfolio that you and average APC supporter won't ever dream of...

But here we are fighting like bots over who's Igbo or Yoruba.

We can do better.

So because Igbos have taken over the media now means they can sell any candidate to anyone using their platform.

Imagine saying a 40-year-old architect with no known leadership role either in politics or administration is better than a sitting governor...

well, I pray that LP wins some states so that we can see the magic they are bringing into Nigerian political atmosphere

akanke79:
Igbo man will never be Governor of Lagos state.You guys can do power sharing in South South and surrender your useless Eastern region to Fulani herdsmen,unknown gunmen,cannibals he no concern us.

are there any Igbo man running for governor in Lagos state?

Donjazet2:
I look forward to the day we stop seeing tribe in everything we do in this country.

I dream of the day a man of hausa heritage becomes the governor of ebonyi or imo State, the day a man of yoruba heritage becomes the governor of yobe state, the day an igbo man becomes the governor of Lagos state.
Infact I dream of the day, a man of Senegalese descent, (ie born in Nigeria to Senegalese parents) becomes the president of this country.

Tribal identity has to become a thing of the past, just like racism has largely become a thing of the past...

What should matter when it comes to leadership is merit.

I'm sure we are all elated when we hear a Nigerian has been elected or appointed to a very high position in the western world.

We're we not happy when Obama the son of a native Kenyan became the president of the most powerful country in the world??

We need to she's our tribal ideation and identities and see ourselves as one unified black race.

Enough of these diabolical tribal rhetorics being bandied about.
My current babe is of a different ethnic group and Lord knows I love this girl to pieces. Our differences are a learning curve. That's what life should be!

Not this tribe tribe tribe bandied about.

You would have said Anambra. Igbo people ke

fernandez1:
Honest write up…….. Doherty has my vote come 18th!

Who bi Doherty again Biko? We are still battling to decide between GRV and BSO, you bringing in another one?

SenatePresdo:
Labor party won Lagos.

What if GRV you call chinedu wins, what will you do?

They voted obi, the voting pattern definitely not going to be same for Lagos
Peter obi is a Nigerian but not Lagosian
Presidential is different from governorship

I'm beginning to see a new nairaland, where people are able to tell others the bitter Truth.

You can’t know him since is party isn’t base on propaganda campaign!

Flame77:
Who bi Doherty again Biko? We are still battling to decide between GRV and BSO, you bringing in another one?

Bridget95:
I wonder what scares the yoruba about the igbos in lagos.
No igbo is contesting the gubernatorial position in lagos. Why over heating tribal sentiments against the igbos who invested in your land because they feel you are sanner than the South-South.

Yoruba people should not loose the confidence people have in their region as a peaceful place for business and pleasure.

They are losing it already and the effect is starting gradually even though they wont feel it for many years but with time the reality will down on them.


I have paused every development and investment plans I have in Lagos and Ogun states. I know how many friends that have put up their lands for sale in Lagos and Ogun states because of these recent tribal attacks against Igbos in Lagos.



It may mean nothing to them now, but time will tell.



Yorubas of today are foolishly believing that what makes a city is land and houses and railways and bus stations.



Little did they know that without business and economic activities and the population, a city will become a town or countryside.



By the time they achieve their aim of scaring Igbos from seeing Lagos as a second home and Igbos stop investing massively in Lagos and in other SW states like they are doing now, they will understand better.


Every action brings a reaction, time will tell, we are learning and taking notes of our mistakes

flokii:
No Igbo is contesting but a half-Igbo with Igbo mom and Igbo wife is being pushed to take over Lagos on the platform of an Igbo party (Labour Party). Isn't that the same as Igbos attempting to take over Lagos from Yorubas?.. The pvssy he came out from is Igbo, the one he is entering steady too is Igbo so how won't Yorubas be worried??

The man is a yoruba man. There is no way he will make lagos an igbo land, only him cannot do that. He is a yoruba man and nothing can change that.

My Igbo people, umunne m. I plead with you anywhere you are now reading this article. If you cannot invest in igbo land for any reason please invest abroad at all cost. Pls don't forget at any point that the enemy is envious of your success and want to destroy it.

The yoruba have been drumming to take away or destroy your properties in lagos and they are doing it by burning markets. Pls take action and think home , never invest outside your region except abroad.

A word is enough for the wise.we are in dangerous times.

Donjazet2:
I look forward to the day we stop seeing tribe in everything we do in this country.

I dream of the day a man of hausa heritage becomes the governor of ebonyi or imo State, the day a man of yoruba heritage becomes the governor of yobe state, the day an igbo man becomes the governor of Lagos state.
Infact I dream of the day, a man of Senegalese descent, (ie born in Nigeria to Senegalese parents) becomes the president of this country.

Tribal identity has to become a thing of the past, just like racism has largely become a thing of the past...

What should matter when it comes to leadership is merit.

I'm sure we are all elated when we hear a Nigerian has been elected or appointed to a very high position in the western world.

We're we not happy when Obama the son of a native Kenyan became the president of the most powerful country in the world??

We need to she's our tribal ideation and identities and see ourselves as one unified black race.

Enough of these diabolical tribal rhetorics being bandied about.
My current babe is of a different ethnic group and Lord knows I love this girl to pieces. Our differences are a learning curve. That's what life should be!

Not this tribe tribe tribe bandied about.

For now it is a dream

Omoawoke:
They voted obi, the voting pattern definitely not going to be same for Lagos
Peter obi is a Nigerian but not Lagosian
Presidential is different from governorship

Most of the people that voted for obi are the people tired of APC.

GRV is from Lagos, many of his indigenous lagosian brothers will also vote him, plus majority of the obidients.

[quote author=christistruth01 post=121638206][/quote]Diswan don go dey search for propaganda on Twitter

Chai, tribalism will send people to hell without passing through the grave

Bridget95:
I wonder what scares the yoruba about the igbos in lagos.
No igbo is contesting the gubernatorial position in lagos. Why over heating tribal sentiments against the igbos who invested in your land because they feel you are sanner than the South-South.

Yoruba people should not loose the confidence people have in their region as a peaceful place for business and pleasure.

Idiot. So Chinedu is not a Biafran Igbo any longer?

SenatePresdo:
Most of the people that voted for obi are the people tired of APC.

GRV is from Lagos, many of his indigenous lagosian brothers will also vote him, plus majority of the obidients.

Chinedu?

Bridget95:
The man is a yoruba man. There is no way he will make lagos an igbo land, only him cannot do that. He is a yoruba man and nothing can change that.

My Igbo people, umunne m. I plead with you anywhere you are now reading this article. If you cannot invest in igbo land for any reason please invest abroad at all cost. Pls don't forget at any point that the enemy is envious of your success and want to destroy it.

The yoruba have been drumming to take away or destroy your properties in lagos and they are doing it by burning markets. Pls take action and think home , never invest outside your region except abroad.

A word is enough for the wise.we are in dangerous times.

The same India, Dubai, South Africa and co wey your umunne m dey spoil.

You will be rejected home and abroad, until una get sense and respect your hosts.

franchasofficia:
They are losing it already and the effect is starting gradually even though they wont feel it for many years but with time the reality will down on them.


I have paused every development and investment plans I have in Lagos and Ogun states. I know how many friends that have put up their lands for sale in Lagos and Ogun states because of these recent tribal attacks against Igbos in Lagos.



It may mean nothing to them now, but time will tell.



Yorubas of today are foolishly believing that what makes a city is land and houses and railways and bus stations.



Little did they know that without business and economic activities and the population, a city will become a town or countryside.



By the time they achieve their aim of scaring Igbos from seeing Lagos as a second home and Igbos stop investing massively in Lagos and in other SW states like they are doing now, they will understand better.


Every action brings a reaction, time will tell, we are learning and taking notes of our mistakes

See this mumu. If you like, give out your wife, in addition to selling your property, that's your cup of tea.

Honestly, una dey very stupid. Imagine prediction of doom, on top say una wan comot. What sort of foolish delusion is this, for God's sake!

Luckysbab:
Idiot. So Chinedu is not a Biafran Igbo any longer?

you are brai.nless

Bridget95:
you are brai.nless

At least, we both now agree Chinedu is more Biafran than Yoruba.

Case settled.

Sane yorubas are the best. They know the truth. But the same 1diots that their areas were destroyed will still keep voting apc. Add urchins to that.
Afonjas are very insecure.

Joebayo217:
Some Yorubas na greediness dey do dem I have visited up to 4 state in SW . Yorubas should stop selling their land to igbos greediness will end this tribe.almost a whole place igbos don collect ham from Yoruba due to their greediness.[b]you can't go to South East and buy a land their if you're not Igbo [/b]the processes is not easy but make Yoruba see Money they will even sell their birthright

...


You guys have continue peddling this lie and it have started sounding like truth..

Point out any you a person that wanted to purchase land in the east and was denied because he's Yoruba..

flokii:
No Igbo is contesting but a half-Igbo with Igbo mom and Igbo wife is being pushed to take over Lagos on the platform of an Igbo party (Labour Party). Isn't that the same as Igbos attempting to take over Lagos from Yorubas?.. The pvssy he came out from is Igbo, the one he is entering steady too is Igbo so how won't Yorubas be worried??

....

The mother of osun state governor is Igbo,the wife of the Oyo state governor is Igbo yet igbos have not taken over those states..

When igbos supported Jimi agbaje in 2019 you also wailed,is Jimi agbaje mother and wife also igbos??

You guys are just too daft for my liking..

Spit.

Luckysbab:
Chinedu?

Yes, chinedu.

He will win, and nothing will happen.

gartamanta:
*LAGOS 2023: TINUBU AND SANWO-OLU MUST CARRY THEIR CROSSES*

by

Moses Oludele Idowu

Let me begin by way of clarification: I am not a card- carrying member of any party and have no loyalty to anyone. My loyalty is to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Of late I have been inundated with several calls, posts and solicitations imploring me to support the re-election of Babajide Sanwo- Olu, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State. The way these calls and posts and bombardments through various formats and platforms are staged it is like Lagos is under imminent attack from foreign takeover and external invasion.
It is these irritatingly vacuous and asinine propositions by opportunists and third - rate social media activists and mediocre intellectuals that I want to demolish in this intervention. The manipulation of information, the deployment of ethnic sentiments and religious sympathies; the dubious and maniacal insinuations and rearranging the facts to suit intended sinister purpose by people who neither love Yorubas nor care about religion is what irritates me and which I want to expose here.
I have been closely associated with Lagos since 1995 and until recently I have lived there. So I am aware of the entire history of the Fourth Republic as per Lagos State and all the administrations that have ruled Lagos since 1999.
This is why I am a bit disturbed at the campaigns of calumny flying around about the supposed takeover of Lagos by a certain tribe. If you have ruled a place consistently for 24 years under the same party and you are still afraid of takeover then it is a proof that you failed in your assignment or you didn't do all that was required of you. It is not for you to run from pillar to post or demonise another tribe but to calmly see your own failure. If you train a child for 24 years and now that child wants to rebel and change his parentage it is actually not his fault but the parent's.
That is the truth they are not telling you which I will tell you here.

Few days ago the ubiquitous and noisy Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN) Lagos State Chapter through its executive unanimously adopted Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the candidate and asked people to reelect him for a second time.
With due respect and in all humility I stand to tell you that what you did was wrong. It is not your place to adopt a candidate or seek for the re-election of a candidate of any party. As clergymen you are supposed to be neutral and maintained neutrality. And if you must be partisan then it has to be private not using the corporate organ of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
The Labour Party candidate is also a Christian too, so on what basis are you showing partiality between two candidates?

I am also aware of several Yoruba Groups and Yoruba Nation activists who have been busy writing, posting, soliciting for the need to prevent Lagos from been captured by outsiders. Thus, they want us to vote the APC candidate and reject the Labour candidate whom they claim is an agent of the vehicle of complete Igbonisation of Lagos.

I sympathize with genuine Yorubas who feel sincerely bothered and worried that Lagos State is about to become a no- man's land which is what the Labour Party's victory would signpost.
However, the seeming loss of Lagos didn't begin today; it began long ago. It began when someone because of his ambition and greed began to sell through his agents every choice estate to developers, non- indigenes and even non- Yorubas. He didn't consider then that the effect will come back someday to haunt him.
Yorubas have been losing Lagos for a long time. I could see it but others of my tribesmen can't see it.
Now I am afraid it is late. The consequences of your foolish actions are now here.

I will speak exhaustively another time of how Yoruba began to lose Lagos but let me just mention few cases that our duo will remember.

* *Excluding Lagos from Yoruba Struggles*

If you observe for a long time Lagos usually stand apart from other Yoruba states. It rarely identifies with other Yoruba states in their struggle or share the collective aspirations and desires of the Yoruba Nation.
They see other Yorubas as grabbers and usurpers who want to eat Lagos wealth. Observe that during the Constitutional Conference Lagos stood apart from other Yoruba states in their position. " Gedegbe leko wa" - was their slogan meaning, Lagos stands apart.

When the Southwest was besieged front and left by Fulani invaders and herdsmen terrorists and the governors met for a common position was Lagos part of it?
Only a deputy governor represented Lagos State at the meeting. And when the Amotekun was set up Lagos was not part of it. Tinubu has always loved to govern Lagos as a fiefdom and not share it with anyone.
Good. So fight the battle too alone. Why are you now appealing to Yoruba sentiments. So go face the battle alone. "Lagos stands apart?", Good, so stand apart and fight your electoral battle without appealing to Yorubas to help you.

* *The General Adebayo's Letter*

Before his death the late General Adeyinka Adebayo wrote a passionate letter to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Since I read that letter I have kept a copy of it. It was a beauty of a statement by someone who have seen it all, a patriot and a passionate Yoruba man conscious that all politics is first local.
What Adebayo warned about has already befallen the Yorubas now in the Southwest. How many industries today existing in southwest are owned by Yorubas? How many existing in Lagos are owned by Lagosians and Yorubas?
The paper industry used to be exclusively owned by the Yorubas. Go to Mushin today and see who now control it.
The banking system used to be the turf of the Yorubas. Today another tribe has displaced you lock, stock and barrel.
How has your policy impacted this or brought it about?
What have you done about addressing the genuine concerns expressed by that illustrious army general in the last few years?
Why is it only about election you are concerned about and returning to office? Of what use is a Yoruba control of Lagos when it is the Yoruba administration that has impoverished its own people?
Whether you are aware of this or not your policies have driven many Yorubas to find succour elsewhere outside Lagos. And don't forget that for every Yoruba man that leaves Lagos two Igbos or northerners come to take his place. That is why you now have the dangerous demographics that you have today. That is one of the factors that resulted in the Waterloo of February 25 and the worse is yet to come except you do the right thing and take the right steps. It.is still not too late if you know what to do but it is not by deploying ethnic sentiments; it has gone beyond that. Pray you will find the wisdom to know what to do before Saturday.

* *Policies Alienating Yorubas*

Another factor in the crisis that has befallen the APC is the policies, deliberate policies that tend to drive natives away for reasons best known to them.
I will give few examples.
Under Bola Ahmed Tinubu virtually every Igbo governor had a plot in Lagos State but Tinubu denied a fellow Yoruba governor this opportunity.
Lam Adeshina was governor of Oyo State and he helped Tinubu covered his tracks at a time when he claimed to have attended Ibadan Government College which is untrue. It was this governor who ensured that the records was not found.
Yet how did Tinubu pay back? He applied several times for a plot in Lagos without Tinubu acceding the request even when he gave Igbo governors the privilege. Anytime Lam Adeshina came to a meeting in Lagos he must return before night to go and sleep in Ibadan.
This is the same Tinubu who is now claiming to love Yorubas than Oduduwa.
Whenever he is threatened he always resort to ethnic card like when the APC cabal was trying to deny him the ticket. But how much does he really love Yorubas?
There was riot in Ibadan and markets were destroyed and Yorubas killed. Did you hear his voice? Did he donate anything?
But he has donated for rebuilding Katshina market, Kano market except Yoruba land.
This is the man who is now appealing to Yoruba not to allow Igbos to takeover Lagos.
Who cares?

The policies of APC took properties of the natives and gave them to the highest bidders. Yorubas were evacuated in Badia under the name of redevelopment and who got the prime land thereafter?
Yorubas were evicted from Tejuosho market and a new ultra modern market built which the poor Yorubas cannot afford. Did your government give them the loan or empowerment to be able to take them? Today Igbos largely have also taken it.
These are the Yorubas you want to vote for you on Saturday, the same Yorubas you have impoverished through your market- driven philosophy and neo- liberal economic policies.
What about the Ilajes? You destroyed their shanties without building a replacement for them.
What about the owners of Makoko and other indigenous lands that your government, backed with touts and police evicted by force of arms to God- knows where?
These are the votes that would be missing on Saturday.
Your government drives away street traders and arrest them for street trading while the touts who extort money from motorists are left unmolested and unaddressed because they are "cooperative mobs." Those are the Yorubas who may vote against you on Saturday.

How about the Housing Estates? Who owns the choice land in Lagos Island today? In Banana Island, Osborne Ikoyi, Lagos Atlantic etc. You have sold everything that can be sold in terms of landed estate, so future Lagosians will wake up to pay the debts that you have generously incurred for them.

What happened on February 25 was not just an Igbo affair or even youth revolt. It was a Yoruba revolt too. Many Yorubas are aggrieved the way APC and especially Bola Tinubu has managed Lagos State in the past few years. That was the tsunami you saw last Saturday.
You can still prevent the hurricane that is coming if you do the right thing even as late as it is, not by appealing to ethnic sentiments. It doesn't mean anything because you really didn't love Yorubas and the people now know it.
It is left for you to do the right thing before it is late. Saturday will soon be here.
Please stop appealing to Yoruba or ethnic sentiments. Use your records of achievement in the last 24 years if they are good enough.
Be prepared to carry your cross. It is now pay back time.

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franchasofficia:
They are losing it already and the effect is starting gradually even though they wont feel it for many years but with time the reality will down on them.


I have paused every development and investment plans I have in Lagos and Ogun states. I know how many friends that have put up their lands for sale in Lagos and Ogun states because of these recent tribal attacks against Igbos in Lagos.



It may mean nothing to them now, but time will tell.



Yorubas of today are foolishly believing that what makes a city is land and houses and railways and bus stations.



Little did they know that without business and economic activities and the population, a city will become a town or countryside.



By the time they achieve their aim of scaring Igbos from seeing Lagos as a second home and Igbos stop investing massively in Lagos and in other SW states like they are doing now, they will understand better.


Every action brings a reaction, time will tell, we are learning and taking notes of our mistakes

....


Please don't only pause,but terminate any plan you have to invest in South West..

As it stands now south west is no longer safe for igbos to invest,they have already started burning markets dominated by igbos,guess what when they are through burning markets their next target is your investments..

The hate and jealousy is real..

If you you don't want to invest in the east then take your investments outside nigeria..

Please don't make a mistake that you will regret tomorrow..

gartamanta:
*LAGOS 2023: TINUBU AND SANWO-OLU MUST CARRY THEIR CROSSES*

by

Moses Oludele Idowu

Let me begin by way of clarification: I am not a card- carrying member of any party and have no loyalty to anyone. My loyalty is to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Of late I have been inundated with several calls, posts and solicitations imploring me to support the re-election of Babajide Sanwo- Olu, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State. The way these calls and posts and bombardments through various formats and platforms are staged it is like Lagos is under imminent attack from foreign takeover and external invasion.
It is these irritatingly vacuous and asinine propositions by opportunists and third - rate social media activists and mediocre intellectuals that I want to demolish in this intervention. The manipulation of information, the deployment of ethnic sentiments and religious sympathies; the dubious and maniacal insinuations and rearranging the facts to suit intended sinister purpose by people who neither love Yorubas nor care about religion is what irritates me and which I want to expose here.
I have been closely associated with Lagos since 1995 and until recently I have lived there. So I am aware of the entire history of the Fourth Republic as per Lagos State and all the administrations that have ruled Lagos since 1999.
This is why I am a bit disturbed at the campaigns of calumny flying around about the supposed takeover of Lagos by a certain tribe. If you have ruled a place consistently for 24 years under the same party and you are still afraid of takeover then it is a proof that you failed in your assignment or you didn't do all that was required of you. It is not for you to run from pillar to post or demonise another tribe but to calmly see your own failure. If you train a child for 24 years and now that child wants to rebel and change his parentage it is actually not his fault but the parent's.
That is the truth they are not telling you which I will tell you here.

Few days ago the ubiquitous and noisy Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN) Lagos State Chapter through its executive unanimously adopted Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the candidate and asked people to reelect him for a second time.
With due respect and in all humility I stand to tell you that what you did was wrong. It is not your place to adopt a candidate or seek for the re-election of a candidate of any party. As clergymen you are supposed to be neutral and maintained neutrality. And if you must be partisan then it has to be private not using the corporate organ of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
The Labour Party candidate is also a Christian too, so on what basis are you showing partiality between two candidates?

I am also aware of several Yoruba Groups and Yoruba Nation activists who have been busy writing, posting, soliciting for the need to prevent Lagos from been captured by outsiders. Thus, they want us to vote the APC candidate and reject the Labour candidate whom they claim is an agent of the vehicle of complete Igbonisation of Lagos.

I sympathize with genuine Yorubas who feel sincerely bothered and worried that Lagos State is about to become a no- man's land which is what the Labour Party's victory would signpost.
However, the seeming loss of Lagos didn't begin today; it began long ago. It began when someone because of his ambition and greed began to sell through his agents every choice estate to developers, non- indigenes and even non- Yorubas. He didn't consider then that the effect will come back someday to haunt him.
Yorubas have been losing Lagos for a long time. I could see it but others of my tribesmen can't see it.
Now I am afraid it is late. The consequences of your foolish actions are now here.

I will speak exhaustively another time of how Yoruba began to lose Lagos but let me just mention few cases that our duo will remember.

* *Excluding Lagos from Yoruba Struggles*

If you observe for a long time Lagos usually stand apart from other Yoruba states. It rarely identifies with other Yoruba states in their struggle or share the collective aspirations and desires of the Yoruba Nation.
They see other Yorubas as grabbers and usurpers who want to eat Lagos wealth. Observe that during the Constitutional Conference Lagos stood apart from other Yoruba states in their position. " Gedegbe leko wa" - was their slogan meaning, Lagos stands apart.

When the Southwest was besieged front and left by Fulani invaders and herdsmen terrorists and the governors met for a common position was Lagos part of it?
Only a deputy governor represented Lagos State at the meeting. And when the Amotekun was set up Lagos was not part of it. Tinubu has always loved to govern Lagos as a fiefdom and not share it with anyone.
Good. So fight the battle too alone. Why are you now appealing to Yoruba sentiments. So go face the battle alone. "Lagos stands apart?", Good, so stand apart and fight your electoral battle without appealing to Yorubas to help you.

* *The General Adebayo's Letter*

Before his death the late General Adeyinka Adebayo wrote a passionate letter to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Since I read that letter I have kept a copy of it. It was a beauty of a statement by someone who have seen it all, a patriot and a passionate Yoruba man conscious that all politics is first local.
What Adebayo warned about has already befallen the Yorubas now in the Southwest. How many industries today existing in southwest are owned by Yorubas? How many existing in Lagos are owned by Lagosians and Yorubas?
The paper industry used to be exclusively owned by the Yorubas. Go to Mushin today and see who now control it.
The banking system used to be the turf of the Yorubas. Today another tribe has displaced you lock, stock and barrel.
How has your policy impacted this or brought it about?
What have you done about addressing the genuine concerns expressed by that illustrious army general in the last few years?
Why is it only about election you are concerned about and returning to office? Of what use is a Yoruba control of Lagos when it is the Yoruba administration that has impoverished its own people?
Whether you are aware of this or not your policies have driven many Yorubas to find succour elsewhere outside Lagos. And don't forget that for every Yoruba man that leaves Lagos two Igbos or northerners come to take his place. That is why you now have the dangerous demographics that you have today. That is one of the factors that resulted in the Waterloo of February 25 and the worse is yet to come except you do the right thing and take the right steps. It.is still not too late if you know what to do but it is not by deploying ethnic sentiments; it has gone beyond that. Pray you will find the wisdom to know what to do before Saturday.

* *Policies Alienating Yorubas*

Another factor in the crisis that has befallen the APC is the policies, deliberate policies that tend to drive natives away for reasons best known to them.
I will give few examples.
Under Bola Ahmed Tinubu virtually every Igbo governor had a plot in Lagos State but Tinubu denied a fellow Yoruba governor this opportunity.
Lam Adeshina was governor of Oyo State and he helped Tinubu covered his tracks at a time when he claimed to have attended Ibadan Government College which is untrue. It was this governor who ensured that the records was not found.
Yet how did Tinubu pay back? He applied several times for a plot in Lagos without Tinubu acceding the request even when he gave Igbo governors the privilege. Anytime Lam Adeshina came to a meeting in Lagos he must return before night to go and sleep in Ibadan.
This is the same Tinubu who is now claiming to love Yorubas than Oduduwa.
Whenever he is threatened he always resort to ethnic card like when the APC cabal was trying to deny him the ticket. But how much does he really love Yorubas?
There was riot in Ibadan and markets were destroyed and Yorubas killed. Did you hear his voice? Did he donate anything?
But he has donated for rebuilding Katshina market, Kano market except Yoruba land.
This is the man who is now appealing to Yoruba not to allow Igbos to takeover Lagos.
Who cares?

The policies of APC took properties of the natives and gave them to the highest bidders. Yorubas were evacuated in Badia under the name of redevelopment and who got the prime land thereafter?
Yorubas were evicted from Tejuosho market and a new ultra modern market built which the poor Yorubas cannot afford. Did your government give them the loan or empowerment to be able to take them? Today Igbos largely have also taken it.
These are the Yorubas you want to vote for you on Saturday, the same Yorubas you have impoverished through your market- driven philosophy and neo- liberal economic policies.
What about the Ilajes? You destroyed their shanties without building a replacement for them.
What about the owners of Makoko and other indigenous lands that your government, backed with touts and police evicted by force of arms to God- knows where?
These are the votes that would be missing on Saturday.
Your government drives away street traders and arrest them for street trading while the touts who extort money from motorists are left unmolested and unaddressed because they are "cooperative mobs." Those are the Yorubas who may vote against you on Saturday.

How about the Housing Estates? Who owns the choice land in Lagos Island today? In Banana Island, Osborne Ikoyi, Lagos Atlantic etc. You have sold everything that can be sold in terms of landed estate, so future Lagosians will wake up to pay the debts that you have generously incurred for them.

What happened on February 25 was not just an Igbo affair or even youth revolt. It was a Yoruba revolt too. Many Yorubas are aggrieved the way APC and especially Bola Tinubu has managed Lagos State in the past few years. That was the tsunami you saw last Saturday.
You can still prevent the hurricane that is coming if you do the right thing even as late as it is, not by appealing to ethnic sentiments. It doesn't mean anything because you really didn't love Yorubas and the people now know it.
It is left for you to do the right thing before it is late. Saturday will soon be here.
Please stop appealing to Yoruba or ethnic sentiments. Use your records of achievement in the last 24 years if they are good enough.
Be prepared to carry your cross. It is now pay back time.

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Luckysbab:
The same India, Dubai, South Africa and co wey your umunne m dey spoil.

You will be rejected home and abroad, until una get sense and respect your hosts.

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Hushpopi isn't Igbo..

Maybe afonjas were spared during xenophobia in South Africa..

akanke79:
Omo Igbo pretending to be Yoruba

No the article makes a lot of sense. Yoruba needs to start helping their own. Urgently, if not the non Yorubas will take over Lagos.

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all these dumb writers, Tinubu did nothing in lagos with free education, health and innovation but obi that did nothing should be rewarded with Presidency because he's from southeast and a Christain ba?




Yorubas that fall for these evil agenda will have themselves to be blamed if they lure you to vote sanwoolu out


we political scientist in Yoruba land are warning you people, be wise do not let Igbo give you nonsense write up, there region is nothing to write home about yet they're foolishly telling you about your developing nation



Yorubas abeg get sense, igbo have always say it that Yoruba people no have sense, let's prove to them we'd next week sat by reelecting Sanwoolu



please don't be delusional

Brimstone77:
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Hushpopi isn't Igbo..

Maybe afonjas were spared during xenophobia in South Africa..

The cultists that spilled one another's blood all over the other time were from what tribe?

It's not Yoruba men that will leave their business, to go and start insulting SA men as lazy, right in their own country. Una lack emotional intelligence; take it or leave it!