₦airaland Forum

MESSAGE TO IGBO PEOPLE IN LAGOS.

One of the few lessons I learnt from today's gubernatorial election in Lagos, is that I have no reason to engage in local politics among the indigenous people of Lagos. I think this should be my last time to campaign for any governorship candidate in Lagos. I will urge all Igbo people resident in Lagos to withdraw from supporting or voting for any gubernatorial candidate of any party during gubernatorial elections in Lagos. We need to give the Yoruba people chance to select or elect whoever they like to govern them. We will support whoever they elected as their governor. Tribalism and ethnic sentiments are real in Nigeria.

If we want to campaign for a gubernatorial candidate, lets campaign for any candidate of our choice contesting for elective position in our various states of origin even though we lives in Lagos. This is not only applicable to Lagos but all the Yoruba and non Igbo states. Remember that we Igbo people has ability to relate with anybody even if they elected king Nebuchadnezzar, it is not our business but we will relate with the governor and still get what we wanted.

We might be tempted to support a particular candidate we felt is better than whom the indigenous Yoruba people felt is their choice. But we must resist every attempt to endorse anyone of them. It is time we start to disassociate ourselves from any Yoruba politician hoping to win an election with the block votes of Igbo people living in Lagos. Enough of this please. Let him go and convince his fellow Yoruba people to vote for him and stop hoping to win election with our votes. The Yoruba people must stop seeing every election in Lagos as contest between the Igbo people and the Yorubas.

It is also high time Igbo people begin to transfer their polling units to Southeast for those of us living outside Igboland but would like to participate in governorship election of our state. We will travel down to Southeast when it is time to elect president and the governors. But if we can't transfer our polling units to SOUTHEAST, let's stop voting during gubernatorial election in each state of the federation. But we can go out and vote for our favorite presidential candidate.

It is obvious that many Yoruba people that supported Peter Obi during presidential election did so because of fear of Tinubu's Muslim/Muslim ticket. They voted Peter Obi not because they like him, it is because he is more preferred than having Tinubu and Shettima in Aso Rock . If another popular Southwestern politician was contesting for presidency with Muslim/Christian ticket, they would have voted him than voting Peter Obi. Only few Yorubas are supporting Peter Obi based on his capacity and competence.

Today's gubernatorial election was a total waste of taxpayers money. This is not an election. Now I agree that NIGERIA is a failed state. Police couldn't even protect the themselves not to talk of protecting the voters .

As for me, let Peter Obi withdraw his court case against INEC and APC . Let him concentrate on snatching all Southeastern states from our good-for-nothing politicians and raise a crop of 21st century politicians that will govern all the states in Igbo land and turn them into livable and prosperous states.

Many Nigerians are not ready for real change. They wanted to change failures we have in Aso Rock as leaders but they never wanted to change same corrupt politicians operating in their states.

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Nice one @OP

Why is it only Igbos that are being attacked

Igbos should stay off our politics and reject politicians coming for endorsement

Me I don tire to advice igbos. Make una do anything wey una like.

Bold people build countries and bring about positive changes, not cowards. Nigeria's constitution made it abundantly clear that every Nigerian is free to vote and be voted for.

If the African Americans hadn't courageously challenged their slave masters, they would still be slaves today.

We would continually test our resolve to build a prosperous country as one people or end this madness called Nigeria because it's not working.

Bros, in summary, nobody will listen to you.

SmartPolician:
Bold people build countries and bring about positive changes, not cowards.

Nigeria's constitution made it abundantly clear that every Nigerian is free to vote and be voted for.

If the African Americans hadn't courageously challenged their slave masters, they would still be slaves today.

We would continually challenge our resolve to build a prosperous country as one people or end this madness called Nigeria because it's not working.

Bros, in summary, nobody will listen to you.

It’s clearly not working but the elites will not agree because of theft. Abeg people are tired.

We have never gotten anything right in this country. We are just bumbling along. What kind of existence is that?

Summery please cos I don't have time reading any nonsense from bigots....

Even president Buhari always vote in his home state of Katsina

Temidayo9:
Even president Buhari always vote in his home state of Katsina

We will keep voting in Lagos
Bring your war that what we really want
Cowards

SmartPolician:
Bold people build countries and bring about positive changes, not cowards. Nigeria's constitution made it abundantly clear that every Nigerian is free to vote and be voted for.

If the African Americans hadn't courageously challenged their slave masters, they would still be slaves today.

We would continually challenge our resolve to build a prosperous country as one people or end this madness called Nigeria because it's not working.

Bros, in summary, nobody will listen to you.

Is Igbo the only tribe in NIG,despite almost wiping off their race,the Indians in US still fight till date to protect what belongs to them,u called their land a no man's land and even promise to remove their Kings and u expect them to allow u do that?

mikelopez:
You are VERY MAD
Any day you write stupid message to Igbos again, I will personally track you and empty one cartridge on your coconut skull.
IDIOTS

You are in a public domain sir, mind what you say. You don't have to be too emotional... I understand your pains but I'm not one of those politicians, you can channel your aggressiveness to the right place.

MuchAdo:
Nice one @OP

Why is it only Igbos that are being attacked

Igbos should stay off our politics and reject politicians coming for endorsement

More from GRVs IPOB social media activities plus the twitter space recording being shared around on whassap where some commenter said they will chase the Obas away. The no man's land wahala did not help as well.

I don't know any tribe that would take those insults.

raskymonojendor:
More from GRVs social media activities plus the twitter space recording being shared around on whassap where some commenter said they will chase Obas away.

Did GRV say all that himself?

See the people that started this rubbish is APC politicians... They are the ones making it about tribe... There are many omoale that are tired of APC. the Igbos supported GRV cos of party affiliation and Peter Obi links. If you sow hate you will reap hatred. Before now did the Igbos not support SANWO, TINUBU and APC in Lagos??

Igbos are a tool... Use them in Lagos they have the numbers. But instead APC decided to fight them hence the election outcome. LP will depose some of the APC and PDP state House of rep members cos of this APC sowing division along tribal lines. Politics does not have permanent friend nor permanent enemy, just permanent interest.

After the presidential election where APC lost Lagos they decided to instigate the obidients, who are made up of 50% Igbos, 30% Omoale and 20% other tribes. and combined these make up over 80% voters in Lagos.

A sword has two sides if you hold the sharp edge you're in trouble, but if you hold the handle they are in trouble, APC decided to hold the sharp edge, with their political gimmicks by muddling up Igbos and obidients into one. But they are different people.

Ps: I am neither Igbo nor Yoruba. I am just speaking from a neutral point of view and in fairness to the situation.

raskymonojendor:
More from GRVs IPOB social media activities plus the twitter space recording being shared around on whassap where some commenter said they will chase the Obas away.

Exactly,Imagine a yoruba group saying they will chase anambra eze away from Anambra ?

tamdun:
Is Igbo the only tribe in NIG,despite almost wiping off their race,the Indians in US still fight till date to protect what belongs to them,u called their land a no man's land and even promise to remove their Kings and u expect them to allow u do that?

You are the one accusing them of calling your land no man's land

padi94:
See the people that started this rubbish is APC politicians... They are the ones making it about tribe... There are many omoale that are tired of APC. the Igbos supported GRV cos of party affiliation and Peter Obi links. If you sow hate you will reap hatred. Before now did the Igbos not support SANWO, TINUBU and APC in Lagos??

Igbos are a tool... Use them in Lagos they have the numbers. But instead APC decided to fight them hence the election outcome. LP will depose se of the APC and PDP state House of rep members cos of this APC sowing division along tribal lines. Politics does not have permanent friend nor permanent enemy, just permanent interest.

After the presidential election where APC lost Lagos they decided to instigate the obidients, who are made up of 50% Igbos, 30% Omoale and 20% other tribes. and combined these make up over 80% voters in Lagos.

A sword has two sides of you hold the sharp edge your in trouble but if you hold the handle they are in trouble, APC decided to hold the sharp edge with their political gimmicks by middling up Igbos and obidients as one. But they are different people.

Ps: I am neither Igbo nor Yoruba. I am just speaking from a neutral point of view and in fairness to the situation.

APC did not start anything gbadebo Rhodes past twitter posts is there for all to see

SpatialKing:
Did GRV say all that himself?

Tweet on social media and facebook. The whassap recording were from Obidients biggest twitter space members. I am currently listening on it sef. Some of the comment on that space can frighten the bar Jesus out of some people if you are not very liberal.

tamdun:
Is Igbo the only tribe in NIG,despite almost wiping off their race,the Indians in US still fight till date to protect what belongs to them,u called their land a no man's land and even promise to remove their Kings and u expect them to allow u do that?

One of our biggest problems in this country is that we don't understand what a country means. Perhaps we should return to that and understand what it means.

About removing their kings, I don't know where you got that from.

Again, we must continue to test our resolve to have a working country as a people or end this madness called Nigeria because this ain't a country.

SpatialKing:
Did GRV say all that himself?

The igbos did

elefind:
You are in a public domain sir, mind what you say. You don't have to be too emotional... I understand your pains but I'm not one of those politicians, you can channel your aggressiveness to the right place.

Op rather than advising lgbos not to participate in election, advise them to stop buying land and building houses in states outside the east. Advise mumu lgbos to start thinking of relocating home. Igbos return home and build ur land. Leave lagos and other states alone.

elefind:
MESSAGE TO IGBO PEOPLE IN LAGOS.

One of the few lessons I learnt from today's gubernatorial election in Lagos, is that I have no reason to engage in local politics among the indigenous people of Lagos. I think this should be my last time to campaign for any governorship candidate in Lagos. I will urge all Igbo people resident in Lagos to withdraw from supporting or voting for any gubernatorial candidate of any party during gubernatorial elections in Lagos. We need to give the Yoruba people chance to select or elect whoever they like to govern them. We will support whoever they elected as their governor. Tribalism and ethnic sentiments are real in Nigeria.

If we want to campaign for a gubernatorial candidate, lets campaign for any candidate of our choice contesting for elective position in our various states of origin even though we lives in Lagos. This is not only applicable to Lagos but all the Yoruba and non Igbo states. Remember that we Igbo people has ability to relate with anybody even if they elected king Nebuchadnezzar, it is not our business but we will relate with the governor and still get what we wanted.

We might be tempted to support a particular candidate we felt is better than whom the indigenous Yoruba people felt is their choice. But we must resist every attempt to endorse anyone of them. It is time we start to disassociate ourselves from any Yoruba politician hoping to win an election with the block votes of Igbo people living in Lagos. Enough of this please. Let him go and convince his fellow Yoruba people to vote for him and stop hoping to win election with our votes. The Yoruba people must stop seeing every election in Lagos as contest between the Igbo people and the Yorubas.

It is also high time Igbo people begin to transfer their polling units to Southeast for those of us living outside Igboland but would like to participate in governorship election of our state. We will travel down to Southeast when it is time to elect president and the governors. But if we can't transfer our polling units to SOUTHEAST, let's stop voting during gubernatorial election in each state of the federation. But we can go out and vote for our favorite presidential candidate.

It is obvious that many Yoruba people that supported Peter Obi during presidential election did so because of fear of Tinubu's Muslim/Muslim ticket. They voted Peter Obi not because they like him, it is because he is more preferred than having Tinubu and Shettima in Aso Rock . If another popular Southwestern politician was contesting for presidency with Muslim/Christian ticket, they would have voted him than voting Peter Obi. Only few Yorubas are supporting Peter Obi based on his capacity and competence.

Today's gubernatorial election was a total waste of taxpayers money. This is not an election. Now I agree that NIGERIA is a failed state. Police couldn't even protect the themselves not to talk of protecting the voters .

As for me, let Peter Obi withdraw his court case against INEC and APC . Let him concentrate on snatching all Southeastern states from our good-for-nothing politicians and raise a crop of 21st century politicians that will govern all the states in Igbo land and turn them into livable and prosperous states.

Many Nigerians are not ready for real change. They wanted to change failures we have in Aso Rock as leaders but they never wanted to change same corrupt politicians operating in their states.

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Eye don clear for this one

Now back to your Biafra project ..

raskymonojendor:
Tweet on social media and facebook. The whassap recording were from Obidients biggest twitter space members. I am currently listening on it sef. Some of the comment on that space can frighten the bar Jesus out of some people if you are not very liberal.

So, how about Mc Olu treats to Igbos
And other APC supporters claiming that once APC wins they will evict Igbos out of Lagos..

This thing is not even hard.

If you are an Igbo in Lagos, you can still vote against APC silently by not coming openly to taunt Yoruba that “Lagos is no man’s land” and openly campaigning against the Yoruba preferred candidate at every election.

The Hausas in Lagos will never come out to say “Lagos is no man’s land” and you won’t see them openly dragging politivs with the Yoruba on their land. They go silently to the polls and vote who they want and they don’t come online to be dragging it with Yoruba.

Imagine a scenario, if 1 million Yoruba all move to Anambra today to reside in and openly in violation to the Igbo choice of LP/APGA for example to start voting APC and calling Anambra no man’s land consistently. How do you Igbos think you will react?

tamdun:
Exactly,Imagine a yoruba group saying they will chase anambra eze away from Anambra ?

What is the correlation here? Some of you are so daft it hurts.

Did Igbos say they want to remove your Oba?

SpatialKing:
So, how about Mc Olu treats to Igbos
And other APC supporters claiming that once APC wins they will evict Igbos out of Lagos..

Oluomo threat is a result of the earlier threats from obidients. I totally condemned it but for every action, there is an opposite reaction.

Only few Yorubas are supporting Peter Obi based on his capacity and competence.

What utter rubbish !

What capacity ?

What competence ?

What legacy ?

tamdun:
APC did not start anything gbadebo Rhodes past twitter posts is there for all to see

APC brought it up, didn't stop there, labelled all obidients as Igbos trying to fight them, if they played clean politics and used SANWO's record APC would have won with a land slide.

I had an interview with Some Igbo guys in Alaba, what they said was for president it's LP they will vote and for State it's APC. but cos of the politics APC played they decided to do LP again

tamdun:
The igbos did

What evidence do you have that the Igbos did!

Is MC Olu speaking for the entire Yorubas when he threaten the Igbos?

How about Yorubas claiming that once Sanwo Olu wins all Igbos win be evicted from Lagos?