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blabulu2000:
2023 election was a mental battle...

Yorùbás were ashamed of associating and campaigning for their own....

To mention Tinubu's name in a city where he was born became a taboo...

The Ibos decided who was good and bad...

The Yorùbás who wanted to vote for Tinubu went to polls quietly...

They couldn't even celebrate their victory...

In Lagos... Home of the president

How did we get here??

How

How

I thought we were practicing a democracy??

I thought what's good for @PeterObi having 90% of votes in the east is also good for @officialABAT having same in the west??

When did Yorùbás start caring about people's opinion on their choice

Who made Igbos the determinants of good and evil

These things must be corrected in 2027...
You cannot boldly campaign for an Igbo man in Yorùbá land and shut the owners of the land up...

We[b] saw Igbos chasing people away and beating them up in polling units for voting an outsider in their land...[/b]

We saw Igbos kill a Yorùbá person in Lagos...

Never again should we allow people to shut us up in our lands...

We must dictate where the stride flows...

Even though you are very right, and my brother a corp member was beating black n blue and his phone stolen in Ago palace(Lagos) by the igbo just because of P.O. He didn't do anything ooo.

But You people only switch to Yorubas when u need Yoruba support for your personal gain, when it's time to enjoy do you also reason your kinsmen. Are we not facing the same hardship in Lagos. If P.O enters today some Yorubas n Hausa will benefit from his govt more than some Core igbo tribe. I've risen above all this sentiment. Let's see y we need to vote Tinubu don't tell me because he is Yoruba

blamingthedevil:
Boundary adjustments on their on land? Are you educated at all. Do you think the land was given to the Yorubas? It is just geographic grouping, nobody gives anyone land

You have issues with comprehension

Latakia:
no vex if na because of your saviour yes daddy make u dey ask me this question

That your talkie dry pass Tinubu nyash wey flat pass abokkki slippers.

albert2512:
I am from Kogi(Okun), this people have their dialect other than yoruba. You know nothing sir.

You're not from Okun. We have different dialects, but that doesn't stop us from being Yoruba. Ekiti, Egba, Ondo, Ijebu, Ijesha are distinct Yoruba dialects, different from the modified Oyo dialect we all speak generally. Are Ekiti people non Yorubas according to your foolish logic?

OlujobaSamuel:
Having a dialect doesn't mean one do not belong to an ethnic group, eg, ijebu, egba, awori, ijesha, ondo, etc, has their dialect that you won't even get any idea when communicating around you, yet they are Yorubas.
NB: I'm not saying the Okuns are or are not Yoruba, I don't really know much about Kogi, just aware that there are some Yorubas there

Don't mind the slowpoke. Okun people are proud Yorubas. I'm married to one.

What kind of divisive jingoism is this? There is no difference between you and El-Rufai then! "We want a better Nigeria but that is if my brother is leading it. If he is not then Nigeria can go to hell"... this mindset has held us down as a nation and would continue until we do away with it.

Kpete... whatever you are one of Nigeria's problems

albert2512:
I am from Kogi(Okun), this people have their dialect other than yoruba. You know nothing sir.

The Okuns(A Yoruba sub-ethnic group) have their own own dialect same way other Yoruba sub-ethnic groups like the Ijebus, Egbas, Ekitis, Ijesas have theirs.. A dialect is a genre of a language.. If you go to England, different parts have their own dialects same way the Enugu dialect of the Igbos might be different from Anambra people..

It does not invalidate the fact that the Okuns migrated from ancient Ile-Ife just like most Yoruba sub-ethnic groups to the present day Kogi State. In fact, there is a town called Iffe(coined from the word Ile-Ife but spelt with the double "f"...) in Okun land. Please stop displaying your ignorance in the public space.

Lithiumite:
It's Yoruba dialect!! My wife is from isanlu in yagba east and they are Yoruba all through.

Your wife is not telling you the truth.

proeast:
This fool is worse than Reno. Who still listens to the gibberish he keeps uttering. Today, he says something else, tomorrow he completely reverses himself. Not once, not twice, but it has become his way of life.

Any country with such charlatans as opinion moulders or influencers will never progress. This fool is only looking for attention and hoping to get appointment.

Nigeria is in this mess because most of the people living in it have zero principle and zero character🤮🤮🤮

Reno is more intelligent than obi, we are happy with him for dealing with obi and obidense

RealityOfReason:
That's why it's a dialect. A dialect is a variant of a language. As long as their dialect is intelligible to the yoruba language (at least 40% understandable by an average Yoruba), we can call it a yoruba dialect. If you go to England, some English accents are far dissimilar to the standard English i.e. northern England accent.

Stop exposing your ignorance. Do some research

Komu1048:
Small boy I spent all my early lives in Kabba, almost if not all Yoruba town has their dialect. But they still speak Yoruba. So places like yagba, Kabba, down to Ekinrin n iyamoye are not Yoruba because they have dialect

Brenbentondiaz:
Ekiti, Egba, Ijebu, Ife all have their dialects. Confidently showing your ignorance in public space.

Stop hitting your head against the wall like a slowpoke.
You cannot know his tribe more than him. Okun is not Yoruba and you are still exposing your ignorance instead of doing your research.
Igalas have some similarities with Yoruba but that does not mean they are Yorubas.

d142475:
There is nothing like North-Central. Is it by force to be part of the Northern hegemony?

Stop being daft.
Kwara is among the 19 northern states and have always gone along with northerners.

What people like you fail to educate yourselves about the north is that you assume every northerner must be a Hausa person. An average northerner knows that the north is composed of several dialects and tribes.

iwaeda:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/01/nnpc-and-fresh-perspectives-on-ojularis.

Just say the truth Prof, I am sure those planning to remove our beloved President caution you not to spoil their target of Northern minority votes as usual, the one North myth when they are desperately looking for power. The reality is that there is nothing like 19 Northern state anymore, the middle belt has resurrected a long time ago and has come to stay, 8 years of killings and land grabbing didn't produce the desire results for the caliphate, this country must move forward for the benefit of all. We have forgiving you but trust me we will never be used again for the caliphate agenda only to be 2nd class citizens of the North

iwaeda:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/01/nnpc-and-fresh-perspectives-on-ojularis.

Rubbish talk and most of us,who don't belong to any Political Party, knew this man that is based in US Campus,is just cruising with Any Topics Goes ATG) to make himself popular!
Alas,he has crawled out of his shell to speak the truth!
Imagine - how can El- Rufai be against Buhari - Fulani Vs Fulani,is that possible, even though they are Minority but having tasted Power,they just Push the Hausas away!
Toh!

numericalguy:
You are 100% correct.
Judolisco is an illiterate ignoramus

u don't have sense, ekiti and ondo people have their dialect are they Yoruba or not?

Wallade:
Are you saying that Bayo Bashir Ojulari is incompetent?

read again

albert2512:
I am from Kogi(Okun), this people have their dialect other than yoruba. You know nothing sir.

oga, ekiti, ondo, Ijebu etc all have their dialect and they are Yoruba.... Oga na u no knw anything.... I'm also okun... Ijumu local government to be precised.... So nothing u wan tell me about my region

Wrote an epistle and ended up explaining nothing
Meanwhile..
"Bayo Ojulari, who is rumored to be Tinubu’s pick to succeed Mele Kyari as head of the NNPC, is not merely a Yoruba man but a Yoruba northerner from southern Kwara State. This distinction fundamentally alters the narrative".
Afamed,helinues and other Apcheat minions should come and explain this one o

Dalohad:
That your talkie dry pass Tinubu nyash wey flat pass abokkki slippers.

yes daddy thank you daddy

numericalguy:
Stop hitting your head against the wall like a slowpoke.
You cannot know his tribe more than him. Okun is not Yoruba and you are still exposing your ignorance instead of doing your research.
Igalas have some similarities with Yoruba but that does not mean they are Yorubas.

Those guys are right. You are the one that should try and get some education.

If I decided to speak my town dialect to an Oyo man, he won't have a clue about what I'm talking about until I interpret to him in central Yoruba language. My town is in Ondo state and we are Yoruba 💯. All Okun people identify as Yorubas but some trolls on NL that haven't been to Kogi West like to cause confusion.

idanone:
Am from southern Kwara and am a full blood Yoruba man, in politics our name is North Central, but in reality we are South West Nigeria.

Same here.

Ekiti by Origin, Kwara by State, SouthWest and Lagosian by heart and Northern by Geography

numericalguy:
Stop hitting your head against the wall like a slowpoke.
You cannot know his tribe more than him. Okun is not Yoruba and you are still exposing your ignorance instead of doing your research.
Igalas have some similarities with Yoruba but that does not mean they are Yorubas.

Mumu what is his tribe, FYI I am also an Okun man, Okun is still under Yoruba. There is no single Okun name that doesn't have its root in Yoruba even the Okun/Owe dialect. It's like someone saying I am Ijesha I am not Yoruba or I am Ijebu I am not Yoruba. Fools like you are finding it difficult while Yoruba is so great n u r finding loopholes upandan.

Instead of you to learn, you're displaying ur inherited ignorance. oloriburuku

Judolisco:
read again

Answer the simple question

idanone:
not all, we have Kwara North and we have ilorin who happens to be Fulani mixed with reminant Yorubas from the conquer capture then during the war. But in the real sense Kwara South are Yorubas with oba as king.

Okay.

yummy001:
The Okuns(A Yoruba sub-ethnic group) have their own own dialect same way other Yoruba sub-ethnic groups like the Ijebus, Egbas, Ekitis, Ijesas have theirs.. A dialect is a genre of a language.. If you go to England, different parts have their own dialects same way the Enugu dialect of the Igbos might be different from Anambra people..

It does not invalidate the fact that the Okuns migrated from ancient Ile-Ife just like most Yoruba sub-ethnic groups to the present day Kogi State. In fact, there is a town called Iffe(coined from the word Ile-Ife but spelt with the double "f"...) in Okun land. Please stop displaying your ignorance in the public space.

U r very right the iffe is a long Ekinrin to Kabba. That's where that first female Airforce officer that was killed by Aboki out of jealousy came from. Let them keep fuming in their mouth.

Exactly...What you explained is termed Dialect Continuum.

Tflex01:
Those guys are right. You are the one that should try and get some education.

If I decided to speak my town dialect to an Oyo man, he won't have a clue about what I'm talking about until I interpret to him in central Yoruba language. My town is in Ondo state and we are Yoruba 💯. All Okun people identify as Yorubas but some trolls on NL that haven't been to Kogi West like to cause confusion.

Wallade:
Answer the simple question

I'm saying Ojulari or anybody else should be selected based on competence and not based on tribe, ethnicity or region

numericalguy:
Stop hitting your head against the wall like a slowpoke.
You cannot know his tribe more than him. Okun is not Yoruba and you are still exposing your ignorance instead of doing your research.
Igalas have some similarities with Yoruba but that does not mean they are Yorubas.

okun is 100% Yoruba oga... We jst have our dialect same way ondo, ekiti and Ijebu have theirs....

numericalguy:
Your wife is not telling you the truth.

What more truth do I need...her name,surname,parents siblings,cousins,uncles aunts all yorubas but their dialect is different just like ijebu,ekiti or ondo but it's closer to mainstream Yoruba than akoko dialect in ondo state.

iwaeda:
Last week’s column on what I called the “relentless Yorubacentric take-over of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)” based on information I was given by a Yoruba supporter of Tinubu who is close to the circuits of power in the Tinubu presidency drew far more attention than I had anticipated.


Northern politicians like former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai who had defended, or at least had no problems with, Muhammadu Buhari’s never-before-seen provincialism (and who probably hated me for calling it out at the time) used my column as a crutch to get even with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who threw him under the bus after his full-throated support for his election. Well, such opportunistic pivots are part of Nigeria’s political theater.

However, anyone who follows my public interventions knows that I have no allegiance to any set of narrow, predetermined interests and that my public commentaries are animated by my well-considered estimation of what constitutes Nigerian society’s collective good.

That’s why I have a revolving door of critics and admirers—praised by one group under one administration, scorned by the same group under another. My principles remain constant, even if public sentiment does not.

Several of the people who applaud my critiques of a southern president revile and slander me when a northerner is president, and several of the people who are bent out of shape because of my critical columns on Tinubu praised my “bravery” and “truth to power” when I wrote similar columns under Buhari.

This isn’t the reason, of course, for revisiting my column (which I rarely do) because self-interested commendations and condemnations of the expression of critical opinions are natural to the territory of public intellection.

I am returning to the issue because I felt compelled to clarify an important aspect of last week’s piece.

A trusted older friend pointed out that Bayo Ojulari, who is rumored to be Tinubu’s pick to succeed Mele Kyari as head of the NNPC, is not merely a Yoruba man but a Yoruba northerner from southern Kwara State. This distinction fundamentally alters the narrative

Had I known this earlier, I would not have written the column as I did. I have no desire to perpetuate the regressive, ethnocentric narratives that gained prominence during Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency where the North was invidiously dichotomized into a “core” and a “periphery.”

Northern identity, as historically defined, transcends ethnicity, religion, or geography within the former Northern Region. It is a shared geo-political and cultural construct.

A northerner is anyone from the former Northern Region irrespective of ethnicity, religion, or location within the region. Being a northerner requires nobody’s approval and isn’t invalidated by anybody’s disapproval.

As the late Sunday Awoniyi used to say, when Frederick Lugard delineated the North and included his people into it, his ancestors were not consulted; he just found himself a northerner and embraced it because it has defined him since his birth. (The only prominent Yagba people from Kogi State I know who say they are not Yoruba are Professor Etannibi Alemika and prominent journalist Tunde Asaju).

The North isn’t an ethnic group; it’s constructed geo-cultural and political identity that encompasses a diversity of ethnicities. It’s Nigeria’s most complex, ecumenical identity.

As I pointed out in previous columns, a real, Ahmadu Bello-type northerner would regard Yoruba people from Kwara and Kogi states, or even Igbo people in Ado, Oju, Obi and Okpoku local government areas of Benue State, as integral “regional kin” deserving of every privilege that is accruable to a northerner.

To argue that certain individuals cannot represent the North based on their ethnicity invites uncomfortable questions about the region’s cultural and political boundaries.

If Bayo Bashir Ojulari, an Ahmadu Bello University-trained engineer who identifies as a northerner by origin, cannot lead the NNPC because of his Yoruba heritage, then the resentment of Yoruba people in Kwara and Kogi seeking affiliation with the Southwest becomes understandable.

It becomes intolerably churlish to talk about “outsiders” “dividing” the North, as we like to do when fissiparous tendencies emerge within the region. Either we accept all as northerners, or we fracture the identity entirely.

This clarification is necessary because I do not want to be on record as having opposed Ojulari’s ascension to the headship of the NNPC on account of his ethnicity, especially after realizing that he is a northerner who just happens to share the same ethnicity as the government.
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/01/nnpc-and-fresh-perspectives-on-ojularis.

Indeed, Farooq MUST learn to do his proper research and due diligence next time so that he doesn't have to go back on his words after making wild or unfounded claims in his articles. Farooq has to write his articles after wide consultations and FACT checks have been concluded, then wait for at least 3 days before sending his posts out for publication online and offline. Give it up for Reno Omokri. A significant number of articles Reno writes and posts are fact-checked and clearly correspond to my own body of knowledge over the decades. Where Reno has gone a little off the trail, then he gets duly corrected on his online platforms with alternative facts. There's NO time for absolute nonsense here. Period.

U go explain tire. Yoruba and igbos northerners ok now

Lithiumite:
What more truth do I need...her name,surname,parents siblings,cousins,uncles aunts all yorubas but their dialect is different just like ijebu,ekiti or ondo but it's closer to mainstream Yoruba than akoko dialect in ondo state.

Judolisco:
u don't have sense, ekiti and ondo people have their dialect are they Yoruba or not?

Tflex01:
Those guys are right. You are the one that should try and get some education.

If I decided to speak my town dialect to an Oyo man, he won't have a clue about what I'm talking about until I interpret to him in central Yoruba language. My town is in Ondo state and we are Yoruba 💯. All Okun people identify as Yorubas but some trolls on NL that haven't been to Kogi West like to cause confusion.

That is why I laugh when ignoramuses talk the way you do. Having similarities among tribes does not mean you belong in that tribe.
Try and expand your knowledge a little bit

I know loads of Igalas and Ibiras that bear Yoruba names, does that make them Yorubas?
I know Igalas that bear hausa names, does that make them Hausas?
I know Igalas that bear Igbo names, does that make them Igbos?