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yummy001:
I am an Okun man whose ancestors migrated from ancient Ile-Ife to Okun land in the present day Kogi West. What you have just stated is a very big lie because I am a full-blooded Yoruba man... The Yoruba ethnic group indigenous natives transcends even Nigeria and can even be found in Benin Republic, Togo and The Gambia. It is the same scenario for indigenous Hausas in other African countries who are not even Nigerians.

Thank you, you schooled the guy

ogododo:
...he could achieve the same Yorubacentric state capture by appointing a Yoruba person from the North? Thus, we have Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, a Yoruba man from Kogi State, as the new INEC boss.

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...The mistake the North would make, which would please Tinubu to no end, is to alienate these northern Yoruba appointees by calling them Yoruba while tacitly denying their northern identity.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19mLQ4fiLW/

This kperogi speaks with both side of the mouth...

He is promoting the propaganda that Tinubu is visibilizing the Northern Yoruba, he is then also in the same token advising the North not to think that way.

He is trying to eat his cake and still have it.

He didn't analyze Attagiru Jega and Mamoud Yakubu during Buhari regime. Why the sudden interest now during Tinubu's time?

He is promoting bigotry and at same time trying to excuse himself as a non-bigot.

He has been obsessed with any news about the Yoruba, but then turn around to blame it on other people's opinions.

He knew he has been a bigoted liar, especially coming from the same man who lied that Aisha Buhari had divorced Buhari before his death. He is a fake news monger who likes to use flowery English and long article to deceive his readers,

This is a man, like Sowore, who gets people's opinions and then publish them as facts after embellishing them with lies and half-truths.

Kperogi likes to warm his way into the heart of his fans whenever he misstepped by catching in on what is trending and coming up with no-substance, lengthy and bigoted, long articles to remain relevant.

The North Central needs to be wary of him and ensure they see through his deep-rooted hatred of them. He is stylishly telling them they are not considered as Northerner. And so they need to always counter his vituperation against them. This is not only about Tinubu. It is a subtle campaign of calumny against the people of Benue, Jos, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, and the FCT.

casualobserver:
We’ve always been saying the same thing in a way, you just suddenly realized it. To start with I was never interested in nor did I make any comment on the substance of his article. It seems it took you a while to realize that. Now it seems you’ve finally realized that he is only rated in Nigeria, which is what I had been saying from the start.

That you are a one eyed man amongst the blind does not mean you aren’t visually impaired. You still have only one eye, which means you don’t see well. You don’t have full sight and that has been my point abinitio.

Because I have 2 eyes, I can’t be led by a man with 1 eye so to me he will always be a defective man. To those who have no eyes they are free to make him their leader but they should also note that by having only one eye, he is also visually impaired just not as visually impaired as the blind and so he could lead them astray. That’s my point.

May I humbly ask of your own academic credentials while we are at this. Kperogi may not be in the class of those elite Professors you highlighted earlier, but portraying him as some kind of mediocre is what I won't stand for.

Sheggy13:
May I humbly ask of your own academic credentials while we are at this. Kperogi may not be in the class of those elite Professors you highlighted earlier, but portraying him as some kind of mediocre is what I won't stand for.

My academic qualifications are irrelevant. This is the internet I can say anything. Judge what I say by the substance of what I post. Is what I am saying right or not, on the internet that is what matters.

Kperogi is a mediocre in the eyes of those who understand what standards are. You are free to believe what you want.


Pick any name of the list of professors I gave earlier. I will give you a detailed cv of his reach internationally. I will find academics from the top universities who have referenced his publications in their papers. That’s how you know people of caliber.


I am sorry your opinion doesn’t matter. Facts don’t lie


Pick up my challenge and browse the internet and give academic papers, conference papers, research papers from reputable professors and academics ABROAD that have cited Kperogi. That’s the ultimate measure of your caliber or mediocrity in academia. Your opinion is no different from mine or that or an okada rider, it’s irrelevant. What makes the opinion valid is the ability to back it up with facts. What is relevant is being able to show, this academic from this reputable university cites Kperogi as his source. You will struggle. And that’s how you know a mediocre academic.


The truth doesn’t care what “you stand for” especially if you can’t back it up.


You are professor who presents a paper at an international conferences of the worlds best in your field in a reputable elite university or environment is not the same as a professor who presents a paper at a conference in ladoke Akintola university where your audience and peer reviews are local equally mediocre academics.

EarthKing:
The president having the power to choose the INEC president, has flawed them as an independent institution.

It's like Madrid choosing a referee in a game against an opposition and expecting the referee not to be bias.


That is where electoral malpractice emanate from. Not even the snatching of boxes. The electoral law must put this into cognizance if we must make headway with our electoral process.

Are you just knowing that??

casualobserver:
My academic qualifications are irrelevant. This is the internet I can say anything. Judge what I say by the substance of what I post. Is what I am saying right or not, on the internet that is what matters.

Kperogi is a mediocre in the eyes of those who understand what standards are. You are free to believe what you want.


Pick any name of the list of professors I gave earlier. I will give you a detailed cv of his reach internationally. I will find academics from the top universities who have referenced his publications in their papers. That’s how you know people of caliber.


I am sorry your opinion doesn’t matter. Facts don’t lie


Pick up my challenge and browse the internet and give academic papers, conference papers, research papers from reputable professors and academics ABROAD that have cited Kperogi. That’s the ultimate measure of your caliber or mediocrity in academia. Your opinion is no different from mine or that or an okada rider, it’s irrelevant. What makes the opinion valid is the ability to back it up with facts. What is relevant is being able to show, this academic from this reputable university cites Kperogi as his source. You will struggle. And that’s how you know a mediocre academic.


The truth doesn’t care what “you stand for” especially if you can’t back it up.


You are professor who presents a paper at an international conferences of the worlds best in your field in a reputable elite university or environment is not the same as a professor who presents a paper at a conference in ladoke Akintola university where your audience and peer reviews are local equally mediocre academics.

If you can call him a mediocre can you at least show us your submission ...so that we can know ..


You call him mediocre cia he is saying the truth

Sheggy13:
True, there are some from those parts of Kogi West that categorically say they're not Yorubas, but that is not a general sentiment as you are making it out to be.

Concerning Ondo state, there are Ijaw communities and they are right to say they are not Yorubas. Yorubas all over don't argue that.

I don't know why they are arguing that! Even here in Lagos I have seen a YORUBA lady from Edo (Utsen) she hears a YORUBA name but she said she isn't a YORUBA and I have seen many from Okun Kabba axis also ...

So I don't know why they are arguing

Sheggy13:
True, there are some from those parts of Kogi West that categorically say they're not Yorubas, but that is not a general sentiment as you are making it out to be.

I said I have seen many from there that say they aren't YORUBA even some parts of ilorin also ....I didn't say all but most that I have seen hate to be identified as yoruba

yummy001:
I am an Okun man whose ancestors migrated from ancient Ile-Ife to Okun land in the present day Kogi West. What you have just stated is a very big lie because I am a full-blooded Yoruba man...

The spread of the Yoruba ethnic group indigenous natives transcend even the shores of Nigeria and can even be found in places like the Benin Republic, Togo and The Gambia. It is the same scenario for indigenous Hausas in other African countries who are not even Nigerians.

I don't know where your ancestors migrated but what I know is that I have seen many Okun that say they aren't YORUBA... This is my personal experience here In Lagos ..I ma not saying it's all! I said I have seen some OKUN

ariesbull:
If you can call him a mediocre can you at least show us your submission ...so that we can know ..


You call him mediocre cia he is saying the truth

You have been trying to turn the thread to ethnic bashing but people have been calling your bluff.

State your own opinion about the article abi at all at all nothing enter your head hence to choose to attack the contributors and not the subject matter.

ariesbull:
Why do we argue a lot ..I have seen many people from Kogi even Ondo that would tell you they aren't YORUBA ..I know of someone from Kabba that said she isn't YORUBA

Even the writer confirmed it ..so what's the baisi of argument with all these screenshots

I am telling you what I experienced and you are sending me newspapers cuttings

The fact that the writer quoted two people who doesn't have true knowledge of history about their people doesn't make it the truth. Anyone can write anything and that doesn't * mean it is the gospel truth.


The okun people I know all claim to be Yoruba.

ariesbull:
If you can call him a mediocre can you at least show us your submission ...so that we can know ..


You call him mediocre cia he is saying the truth

Your problem is you are being emotional. Academics do not deal in emotion. What does my qualifications mean to you? Does my saying I have a PhD (I haven’t said so) make a lie a truth or make anything I have posted any more credible? This is the problem with you people.

Your obsession with the irrelevance of my academic qualifications shows you suffer for the poverty of mind of many Africans who are seduced by titles and certificates. Which is why you find it hard to believe that a professor from a lowly ranked university in America is mediocre.

Question the validity of what I have posted and stop being obsessed with certificates and titles. By the way Wole Soyinka never had a PhD.

I challenged you to show where your professor is cited and regarded by his peers internationally. You can start with conferences, citations or peer reviews from the American press institute or American institute of journalism after all that’s where he works? If you can’t please don’t reply me and let the matter die. I have given enough time to the subject.

ariesbull:
I don't know why they are arguing that! Even here in Lagos I have seen a YORUBA lady from Edo (Utsen) she hears a YORUBA name but she said she isn't a YORUBA and I have seen many from Okun Kabba axis also ...

So I don't know why they are arguing

She simply doesn't know the origin of her people and that's too sad.

EarthKing:
The greater injustice is when good men refuse to speak in the face of evil. I've played my part by speaking up. If this is the kind of country you and your Tinubu wants to leave for next generation to come, so be it.

If after speaking up, you still end up casting your precious vote for any of these criminally corrupt politicians in future elections, then I would know that you intentionally want to leave this kind of country for the next generation to come.

casualobserver:
Your problem is you are being emotional. Academics do not deal in emotion. What does my qualifications mean to you? Does my saying I have a PhD (I haven’t said so) make a lie a truth or make anything I have posted any more credible? This is the problem with you people.

Your obsession with the irrelevance of my academic qualifications shows you suffer for the poverty of mind of many Africans who are seduced by titles and certificates. Which is why you find it hard to believe that a professor from a lowly ranked university in America is mediocre.

Question the validity of what I have posted and stop being obsessed with certificates and titles. By the way Wole Soyinka never had a PhD.

I challenged you to show where your professor is cited and regarded by his peers internationally. You can start with conferences, citations or peer reviews from the American press institute or American institute of journalism after all that’s where he works? If you can’t please don’t reply me and let the matter die. I have given enough time to the subject.

I agree oga academics... Show us your postulations and citations

ademijuwonlo:
The fact that the writer quoted two people who doesn't have true knowledge of history about their people doesn't make it the truth. Anyone can write anything and that mean it is the gospel truth.


The okun people I know all claim to be Yoruba.

From the post and the way the writer wrote .he is well versed and the articles is well researched that what you are spinning out here filled with emotions


The article is on point ! He did research well... And what he said about the Okun and Kabba axis folks are what I have personally experienced and his sense of geography and history is too notch far better than what you will put up there now or in future ... With all due respect

The few Okun folks I know hate to be called Yoruba and the Kabba even some Yoruba speaking parts in Edo also...don't like to be called Yoruba ...those around Utsen that speak Yoruba and bear a Yoruba name yiu dare not call them Yoruba also

And you dare not call all the Ondo folks Yoruba... Just like that Sahara reporter dude he can't be called Yoruba !

Even here in Lagos you dare not call the egun and these badagry folks Yoruba at all neither can you can. Tapa folks at Apapa axis Yoruba also...

We know these things and these people say they can't be classed as Yoruba

ariesbull:
From the post and the way the writer wrote .he is well versed and the articles is well researched that what you are spinning out here filled with emotions


The article is on point ! He did research well... And what he said about the Okun and Kabba axis folks are what I have personally experienced and his sense of geography and history is too notch far better than what you will put up there now or in future ... With all due respect

The few Okun folks I know hate to be called Yoruba and the Kabba even some Yoruba speaking parts in Edo also...don't like to be called Yoruba ...those around Utsen that speak Yoruba and bear a Yoruba name yiu dare not call them Yoruba also

And you dare not call all the Ondo folks Yoruba... Just like that Sahara reporter dude he can't be called Yoruba !

Even here in Lagos you dare not call the egun and these badagry folks Yoruba at all neither can you can. Tapa folks at Apapa axis Yoruba also...

We know these things and these people say they can't be classed as Yoruba

Those few do not represent the majority. Omoyele Sowore claimed to be from the ijaw part of Ondo but this part is the minority not the majority (Yorubas) and therefore they can't be used to draw an inference.

ademijuwonlo:
Those few do not represent the majority. Omoyele Sowore claimed to be from the ijaw part of Ondo but this part is the minority not the majority (Yorubas) and therefore they can't be used to draw an inference.

I still said some of these people don't see themselves as Yoruba ...I used the word SOME and not ALL .. can't you get it


Not ALL of them enjoy it be called Yoruba ...that's what I meant !

ademijuwonlo:
Those few do not represent the majority. Omoyele Sowore claimed to be from the ijaw part of Ondo but this part is the minority not the majority (Yorubas) and therefore they can't be used to draw an inference.

Just like Kabba and Okun and Egun ...the name is a Yoruba name... Omoloyele or it's Yoruba sounding but he said he ain't yoruba

Same the way I have seen many Kabba ,Okun, Egun even in Edo state region boardering Akoko that bear Yoruba and speak Yoruba but they will always tell you that they can't be called Yoruba

ademijuwonlo:
She simply doesn't know the origin of her people and that's too sad.

It's not all about origin ...people evolve

The Australians andany New Zealanders came from Britannia but you dare not call them British today !

Beware of 419

simpleseyi:
The next President is going to be a Yoruba from Kwara to take the slot of the North Central. Dem go cry tire

Next president will definitely be from the North Central. The era when those born to rule people will be using us as mere numbers just to achieve their political goals is over. The Core North should be strategizing against 2047.

ariesbull:
This is what I have experienced...many YORUBA or so called yoruba sounding names from that region hate to be called yoruba even the writer said it also

I'm from ekiti part of Kwara State and I'm proudly Yoruba. I'm married to someone from kabba and she's also proudly Yoruba. Don't dabble into what you don't know jack about. You'll never meet any blue blood Yoruba person from the North Central deny their Yorubaness, except maybe that person is a defendant of slaves not originally Yoruba.
If you see anyone denying been Yoruba and he or she is from Kogi West, check his or her ancestry. The okun people know the descendants of slaves among them.

Mrfixitt:
In your small mind you think Nigeria starts and ends in your region. Wetin happen to Abacha go be child's play if Emilokan try am

Because we from Kwara no be Nigerians abi? Would you have burnt the country if atiku had won in 2023? Please make it make sense.

helinues:
Both Apc chairman and INEC chairman are from NC

North Central is locked for president Tinubu's reelection.

Same way SW and SS are locked. The opposition should just give up

Just as life has given up on you abi?

Northerners do not and have never seen yorubas as northerners.
The northerners can see what tinubu is doing and they will protest this vehemently.

Southerners will too. In the end, tinubu will have only yorubas to support him.

madridguy:
But if northern leaders fall for the ethnic traps laid in these appointments by rejecting their own sons because of linguistic or cultural labels, they will not only vindicate Tinubu’s divisive calculations but also weaken the North’s moral claim to unity. The region’s future strength will rest on its ability to see through the politics of symbolic baiting and recognize substance where others see difference.

Now here is a guy who loves democracy 😅

Dude, I'm from the South South, we will definitely not vote for Tinubu in 2027. It's only in your head that we're "locked".

I love how you want APC to be the only party in Nigeria and tinubu to be the only candidate for elections. This confirms that you guys want to install your dictatorship. Don't complain when the military take a cue from your madness and overthrows tinubu 😂

I know I won't

helinues:
Both Apc chairman and INEC chairman are from NC

North Central is locked for president Tinubu's reelection.

Same way SW and SS are locked. The opposition should just give up

na northern yoruba dem dey call them now ?

shioor

Bro, why are you making me feel like the victim here? People like me don't have the luxury of running to another nation. The best I could do is lending my voice to what I feel is right. Last I checked, it's one of the key prerequisite of democracy. If you have a problem with that, the joke is on you.

We saw how SA, did their election so seamlessly. But the reverse is the case in Nigeria. Our election process is trash! Take that to the bank.

omooba969:
If after speaking up, you still end up casting your precious vote for any of these criminally corrupt politicians in future elections, then I would know that you intentionally want to leave this kind of country for the next generation to come.

DeOTR:
I'm from ekiti part of Kwara State and I'm proudly Yoruba. I'm married to someone from kabba and she's also proudly Yoruba. Don't dabble into what you don't know jack about. You'll never meet any blue blood Yoruba person from the North Central deny their Yorubaness, except maybe that person is a defendant of slaves not originally Yoruba.
If you see anyone denying been Yoruba and he or she is from Kogi West, check his or her ancestry. The okun people know the descendants of slaves among them.

that is you and I am telling you what I experienced... My ex Seun is from there and she was saying that she isn't Yoruba mind you we were dating then here in Lagos
So some would see themselves as Yoruba
Some will not see themselves as Yoruba

As the wrote even observed which I totally agree and even many Yoruba look down upon them !

Look at the recent killing in Yoruba community .
In North Central . How many Yoruba spoke up ? What some said is "what do they want Yoruba people to do...by the way they aren't in South west " that's what some said here ...I read the post

So FANI KAYODE that said that he shouldn't be identified as Yoruba but another name is now a descendant of slave according to you !

Weather blue blood, pink blood etc... what I know is that some don't agree to be called Yoruba ! Even if they have Yoruba name! Just like the father of Bukola Sariki who was the former governors of Kwara Olusola Sariki said that he isn't a Yoruba man but from Mali making them Fulani so you can't call them Yoruba