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You have probably heard the myth that the Lukumi Yoruba are cowards who are full of a particular type of braggadocio, known as Shakara.

But look at the behaviour of Habeeb Okikiola Badmus, AKA Portable.

Before his celebrity boxing match with Darlington Okoye (Speed Darlington), who did the most boasting?

Was it not Okoye.

After his defeat of Mr. Okoye, have you seen him prancing about gloating? No!

Rather, his vanquished opponent has been accusing him of using juju, saying that he could have beaten Portable had it not been that he pulled a joint out of socket (he did not pull his joint out of socket—Portable did!), requesting a rematch, and basically making himself a victim.

I have not even seen or heard from Portable since his victory. It is almost as if he lost. That is restraint!

Look, stop believing this stereotype about the Yorubas being cowards. As Portable has again proved, for the umpteenth time, it is not true!

The Nigerian Civil War was decisively ended by a Lukumi Yoruba man, Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo. Not only did he defeat the rebel Republic of Biafra, but he also captured their leaders, except Colonel Ojukwu, who ran away, and brought them to Dodan Barracks to surrender to General Yakubu Gowon on Thursday, January 15, 1970.

Before then, an ill-prepared, overwhelmingly Lukumi Yoruba-led, and manned unit of the Nigerian Army defeated the Biafran Army when they attempted to invade the Western Region.

That battle is the fiercest battle in Lukumi's history, and it is commemorated with the proverb 'Oleku Ija Ore'.

Furthermore, there is the example of Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death, even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba.

In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca, yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the bloodthirsty tyrant Abacha while he was away in Copenhagen.

He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.

He returned to face almost certain death.

Finally, there is the case of MKO Abiola, who returned to reclaim his mandate from Nigeria’s most brutal military dictator. He was arrested in 1994. He was offered bail but refused freedom in exchange for abandoning his mandate. This was a multimillionaire in US Dollars. Yet, Bashorun chose prison over freedom. He did not run away and abandon his people.

The Yoruba are a very tactful and diplomatic people. Some people mistake these attributes for cowardice or sycophancy. They understand how to stoop to conquer.

No Yoruba leader would abandon his people and side with their opponents during a war or flee and leave them to their fate after a battle. Others may behave like that, but not Omo-ti-Olu-Iwa-bi!

Portable has been the brunt and butt of jokes from various quarters, and most recently, by Arise Television's Reuben Abati.

What I can say is that by defeating Speed Darlington yesterday, Portable, as bouncy and controversial as he is, has done more to destroy the raise stereotype of the Lukumi Yoruba as cowards than Reuben Abati has done in his almost sixty-year existence on Earth.

Diplomacy should not be seen as sycophancy or flattery, and humility should not be taken for stupidity. Every man has a natural desire to feel important and respected. Meet that desire, and that man will eat from your hand. Learn to stoop to conquer, or you will be conquered stupidly!

Reno Omokri

Source: https://x.com/renoomokri/status/1913717975460512014?s=46

People will post anything. So he is the role model now

Posts like this dey give me headache

Yorubas are brave obviously. Portable suppose give am permanent marks for mouth for what this village boy Dali gton said about the Yoruba

Samueltemi337:
Posts like this dey give me headache

Take paracetamol

This reno no get work aswear,two irrelevant attention seeking people use boxing match to trend una dey come post shit,as an ibo boy do you know how many Yoruba boys I have beating in boxing since secondary school? I sabi guide die.

Goodmarlian:
This reno no get work aswear.

I agree say him no get work. But I love this part of his text.

Ojuku the coward is the only general on earth that ran away like a sissy after sending million of his people to hades.

Anything else wey Reno write no concern me.

The Nigerian Civil War was decisively ended by a Lukumi Yoruba man, Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo. Not only did he defeat the rebel Republic of Biafra, but he also captured their leaders, except Colonel Ojukwu, who ran away, and brought them to Dodan Barracks to surrender to General Yakubu Gowon on Thursday, January 15, 1970.

funmijoyb:
Yorubas are brave obviously. Portable suppose give am permanent marks for mouth for what this village boy Dali gton said about the Yoruba

Speed Darlington don dey cry since say na tribalism make Portable win. He talk say they rig the fight coz the judges are all Yoruba.

Fight wey everybody watch wey portable use blow break him shoulder bone for first round.

😂😂😂😂😂

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Skull mining and selling of body parts is really a devilish-bravery venture,,

Don't go close to MC Oluomo/Auxiliary's agbero oo..

They can easily sniff life out of you.

LegendHero:
Speed Darlington don dey cry since say na tribalism make Portable win. He talk say they rig the fight coz the judges are all Yoruba.

Fight wey everybody watch wey portable use blow break him shoulder bone for first round.

This was an ufc Africa event when an Igbo boy beat the brakes out of his Yaribaa opponent, note that there are several more fights on that event when Igbo fighters beat and dominated the Yorubas.

Using some joke of a fight between two clowns with one (Portable) having an obvious street fighting credibility to conclude Yaribaas have martial superiority over Igbos shows the level of stupidity in your gbegiri braincells, no wonder Reno the O'monkey dey carry una dey make juvenile banger boy tweets.

The UFC fight event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0fxyB0qUYM?si=p7zMGzD_e3-dGaH5

Jerrymanta:
This was an ufc Africa event when an Igbo boy beat the brakes out of his Yaribaa opponent, note that there are several more fights on that event when Igbo fighters beat and dominated the Yorubas.

Using some joke of a fight between two clowns with one (Portable) having a significant street fighting cred to conclude Yaribaas have martial superiority over Igbos shows the level of stupidity in your gbegiri braincells, no wonder Reno the Monkey dey carry una dey make juvenile banger boy tweets.

The UFC fight event

So what about when Portable beat Charles Okocha?

Say true, who get the world record for boxing and MMA between Yoruba and Ibo?

In the whole Nigeria, na Yoruba dey lead for boxing and MMA, no other ethnic come close.

No be today Yoruba don dey deal with Ibo. In every aspect of existence, Yoruba best you guys.

—Richest person na Yoruba
—Most successful politicians Yoruba
—Music Yoruba
—Movie Yoruba
—Education Yoruba
—IT and Unicorns Yoruba
—Industry Yoruba
—Boxing Yoruba
—UFC Yoruba
—Fastest Woman Yoruba
—Tennis Yoruba
—Culture Yoruba
—History Yoruba
—Regional superiority Yoruba
—International spread and recognition Yoruba

Challenge: Tell me 3 things in life as a collective that you think Ibo have better than the Yoruba.

You see everything I listed up there, I can defend them because at the top of all that category is the Yoruba. So if you’re giving your own example, make it proof-able.

LegendHero:
So what about when Portable beat Charles Okocha?

Say true, who get the world record for boxing and MMA between Yoruba and Ibo?

In the whole Nigeria, na Yoruba dey lead for boxing and MMA, no other ethnic come close.

No be today Yoruba don dey deal with Ibo. In every aspect of existence, Yoruba best you guys.

—Richest person na Yoruba
—Most successful politicians Yoruba
—Music Yoruba
—Movie Yoruba
—Education Yoruba
—IT and Unicorns Yoruba
—Industry Yoruba
—Boxing Yoruba
—UFC Yoruba
—Fastest Woman Yoruba
—Tennis Yoruba
—Culture Yoruba
—History Yoruba
—Regional superiority Yoruba

I posted and referenced a real fighting event between REAL fighters where Igbos outclassed Yaribaas and you're talking about comedy pillow fights between Charles Okocha and Speed Darlington of all people? Omo you daft sha

And of course you then deflect into another pointless self-dick measuring contest LMFAOOO, yaribaas are really slow sha!

Before Yaribaas sportsmen/women headlined anything in global sports, Igbos were the pacesetters. Dick Tiger was the first African to who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships. Tiger was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1965, while the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1966. In 1996, Tiger was voted as one of the best boxers of the 1960s, The later in 1998, Tiger was put in the book of "Best boxers of the 20th Century". In 2002, Tiger was voted by The Ring magazine as the 31st greatest fighter of the last 80 years.

The likes of Emmanuel Ifeajuna won gold medals in Olympics before any Yaribaas could dream of replicating such feat, Chioma Ajunwa was a first as well, no Yaribaa football player will ever touch Kanu Nwankwo or even Mikel Obi in personal titles and achievements in football, I could go on and on but my focus is pivoted on the idiotic notion fighting abilities are determined by two nuisances fooling around for attention.

Jerrymanta:
I posted and referenced a real fighting event between REAL fighters where Igbos outclassed Yaribaas and you're talking about comedy pillow fights between Charles Okocha and Speed Darlington of all people? Omo you daft sha

And of course you then deflect into another pointless self-dick measuring contest LMFAOOO, yaribaas are really slow sha!

Oga, no UFC fighter in Ibo history is greater than Israel Adesanya.

So why should I respond to your jargons?

If you watch the boxing fight of Portable live yesterday, you will see that almost 90% of the other guys boxing yesterday before and after portable fight are Yoruba and few foreigners.

In boxing, UFC, or anything else, Ibo are not even close at all to the Yoruba.

Below is the top 10 UFC African fighters, you can see there are two Yoruba on the list.

LegendHero:
Oga, no UFC fighter in Ibo history is greater than Israel Adesanya.

So why should I respond to your jargons?

If you watch the boxing fight of Portable live yesterday, you will see that almost 90% of the other guys boxing yesterday before and after portable fight are Yoruba and few foreigners.

In boxing, UFC, or anything else, Ibo are not even close at all to the Yoruba.

Below is the top 10 UFC African fighters, you can see there are two Yoruba on the list.

I've already responded to your gibberish

Before Yaribaas sportsmen/women headlined anything in global sports, Igbos were the pacesetters. Dick Tiger was the first African to who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships. Tiger was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1965, while the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1966. In 1996, Tiger was voted as one of the best boxers of the 1960s, The later in 1998, Tiger was put in the book of "Best boxers of the 20th Century". In 2002, Tiger was voted by The Ring magazine as the 31st greatest fighter of the last 80 years.

The likes of Emmanuel Ifeajuna won gold medals in Olympics before any Yaribaas could dream of replicating such feat, Chioma Ajunwa was a first as well, no Yaribaa football player will ever touch Kanu Nwankwo or even Mikel Obi in personal titles and achievements in football, I could go on and on but my focus is pivoted on the idiotic notion fighting abilities are determined by two nuisances fooling around for attention.

Adesanya was good but he has lost more title fights than any top UFC fighter recently, ditto Anthony Joshua who some Mexican fat kid pummeled around. Igbos like Ike Ibeabuchi, Dick Tiger etc were pacesetters in the game. Another established boxer in Britain is Igbo, Google Lawrence Okolie- he has a solid KO stat and lost only 1 fight yet in his weight division.

Meanwhile, if Yaribaas are this unbeatable and great beyond human imagination, why has the idiot in Aso rock along with his Yaribaa dominated government failed Nigerians in almost all sectors? Look at how insecurity is at it's worse under a Yaribaa government, na see finish remain for una

Reno abeg no vex again, unbehalf of Obi I apologize even though I no say obidients no try pre 2023 election's but shelve your sword.
On a lighter note, Ojukwu no try, he led Igbos to an avoidable war, he ran away to ivory Coast, came back and got amnesty, KANU led Igbos to crisis, ran away to London, he was tracked and brought back to Nigeria, Ekpa did same thing. These are symptoms of cowardice

Jerrymanta:
I've already responded to your gibberish

Before Yaribaas sportsmen/women headlined anything in global sports, Igbos were the pacesetters. Dick Tiger was the first African to who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships. Tiger was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1965, while the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1966. In 1996, Tiger was voted as one of the best boxers of the 1960s, The later in 1998, Tiger was put in the book of "Best boxers of the 20th Century". In 2002, Tiger was voted by The Ring magazine as the 31st greatest fighter of the last 80 years.

The likes of Emmanuel Ifeajuna won gold medals in Olympics before any Yaribaas could dream of replicating such feat, Chioma Ajunwa was a first as well, no Yaribaa football player will ever touch Kanu Nwankwo or even Mikel Obi in personal titles and achievements in football, I could go on and on but my focus is pivoted on the idiotic notion fighting abilities are determined by two nuisances fooling around for attention.

Adesanya was good but he has lost more title fights than any top UFC fighter recently, ditto Anthony Joshua who some Mexican fat kid pummeled around. Igbos like Ike Ibeabuchi, Dick Tiger etc were pacesetters in the game. Another established boxer in Britain is Igbo, Google Lawrence Okolie- he has an incredible KO stat and has never lost a fight yet in his weight division.

I asked you to list me any category where Ibo best Yoruba, you go dey mention 1962 history. What should I do with 1962 history? Make I use am eat akpu or wetin?

Anthony Joshua has held the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles twice. They no born Dick Tiger well to measure up to him in glory.

Mind you Hogan Bassey was the first Nigerian to hold a world title and he is from Calabar. So stop saying nonsense about Dick Tiger as the first.

E just be like saying because Rashidi Yekini is the first Nigerian to be the “Africa best player” in 1993 mean he is greater than Kanu in glory.

Lol dead this argument. When you talk about glory in sport, no Ibo man come close to Yoruba glory in both boxing and UFC world. Even if you wake Dick Tiger up, he won’t argue with this self evident truth.


You wan contest am?

osuofia2:
Reno abeg no vex again, unbehalf of Obi I apologize even though I no say obidients no try pre 2023 election's but shelve your sword.
On a lighter note, Ojukwu no try, he led Igbos to a avoidable war, he ran away to ivory Coast, came back and got amnesty, KANU led Igbos to crisis, ran away to London, he was tracked and brought back to Nigeria, Ekpa did same thing. These are symptoms of cowardice

As in, greatest level of cowardice.

Even Azikiwe is a bigger cowardd. During the war, he abandoned his people too and even worked against them.

LegendHero:
I asked you to list me any category where Ibo best Yoruba, you go dey mention 1962 history. What should I do with 1962 history? Make I use am eat akpu or wetin?

Anthony Joshua has held the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles twice. They no born Dick Tiger well to measure up to him in glory.

Mind you Hogan Bassey was the first Nigerian to hold a world title and he is from Calabar. So stop saying nonsense about Dick Tiger as the first.

E just be like saying because Rashidi Yekini is the first Nigerian to be the “Africa best player” in 1993 mean he is greater than Kanu in glory.

Lol dead this argument. When you talk about glory in sport, no Ibo man come close to Yoruba glory in both boxing and UFC world. Even if you wake Dick Tiger up, he won’t argue with this self evident truth.


You wan contest am?

Another round of yaribaa slowness, I was clearly making the point that when you mention some of the Nigerian GOATS in ANY sporting category, Igbos have already been THERE AND DONE IT as the pacesetters before Yaribaas even begin reason any global sporting achievements...it doesn't matter if the achievements were accomplished in 1902, we still celebrate our heroes past today for a reason dummy. The Dick Tiger you stupidly disrespect is a HALL OF FAMER, but an ignoramus like you won't know that cause your history started in 2025. The Ifeajuna's, Ajunwa's etc were first timers in winning Olympic gold medals in Nigeria before any Yaribaa ever dreamt of replicating it.

Even the Joshua you brag about was a product of the British system, he never honed his boxing skills in Ogbomoso or ilupeju, but we fit dash una Joshua since he embraced his yaribaa genes, even though he arguably holds the most unimpressive records of losing more title fights compared to the other greats before him.

Yekini was an all-time great so I'll never disrespect his legacy, but real football minds know Kanu remains the undisputed most decorated Nigerian football player till date, even you won't dare argue that one.

Make we run wetin? I'm not here to stress my phalanges doing ethnic e-bragging with you, I'm too busy out here having a good weekend with my boys to be doing "my papa prick big pass your own" foolishness, now if you want to talk about personal accomplishment then we can go band for band with verifiable evidence (bank accounts, social media footprints showing our accomplishments etc), that I'm absolutely game for. I don't give a fucck what some Emeka's or Ademola's are doing with their own lives over some irrelevant ethnic supremacy nonsense.

Jerrymanta:
Another round of yaribaa slowness, I was clearly making the point that when you mention some of the Nigerian GOATS in ANY sporting category, Igbos have already been THERE AND DONE IT as the pacesetters before Yaribaas even begin reason any global sporting achievements...it doesn't matter if the achievements were accomplished in 1902, we still celebrate our heroes past today for a reason dummy. The Dick Tiger you stupidly disrespect is a HALL OF FAMER, but an ignoramus like you won't know that cause your history started in 2025. The Ifeajuna's, Ajunwa's etc were first timers in winning Olympic gold medals in Nigeria before any Yaribaa ever dreamt of replicating it.

Even the Joshua you brag about was a product of the British system, he never honed his boxing skills in Ogbomoso or ilupeju, but we fit dash una Joshua since he embraced his yaribaa genes, even though he arguably holds the most unimpressive records of losing more title fights compared to the other greats before him.

Yekini was an all-time great so I'll never disrespect his legacy, but real football minds know Kanu remains the undisputed most decorated Nigerian football player till date, even you won't dare argue that one.

Make we run wetin? I'm not here to stress my phalanges doing ethnic e-bragging with you, I'm too busy out here having a good weekend with my boys to be doing "my papa prick big pass your own" foolishness, now if you want to talk about personal accomplishment then we can go band for band with verifiable evidence (bank accounts, social media footprints showing our accomplishments etc), that I'm absolutely game for. I don't give a fucck what some Emeka's or Ademola's are doing with their own lives over some irrelevant ethnic supremacy nonsense.

As usual, you ran away like Ojuku after much vituperation.

If you don’t give a F why did you jump into this thread to make mouth before?

The Yoruba people are not you guys mate in anything. This is a self evident truth that will hunt your psyche as long as we both belong to same One Nigeria.

Have a nice weekend.

It is very sad when public Figure who should have decorum in their speeches end up talking like tout.

If this gets to front page, vawulence is inevitable .

Cowards

ROFLMAO.

That's the Lukumi spiritual director speaking.
Hahaha 😃

DECIDER23:
It is very sad when public Figure who should have decorum in their speeches end up talking like tout.

The idiot would soon be an ambassador working under a boss he boldly told the world was a drug offender and not fit to be president.

No, it just proves that alcohol is a hell of a drug. For both men.

Let’s calm down small.


This was not a serious fight… it was staged for entertainment…

Reno, you don try explain finish. Some people will still not get it.

If they are really brave as Reno claimed,
* how come a Northerner is rulling over them in Ilorin as their Emir?
* Why is Tinubu scared of Wike?
* Why did the North succeeded in informing Sharia law in Yoruba land and they couldn't do anything?
* Why did General Oladipo Diya knelt down and begged Major Almustapha?