₦airaland Forum

michelz:
Why highlighting the fact that he's Igbo?
That is unnecessary.
Didn't their fathers fight and unalive over hundreds of thousands to ensure that Igbos never leave? It is One Nigeria. No big deal.

If u know that,then why do u agitated for Obi or nothing? Every Nigerian politicians loved by the people should be voted for not to Bully anyone.

FSBoperator:
Can this happen in the SE?

No it can't, because most of the SW guys are chicken hearted,and always feeling inseure when they found them self out they land,

Ofunaofu:
Don’t say it can never happen in the south east, of course it can. Leadership doesn’t just fall from the sky. When you live in a community and actively participate in its socio-political activities, people naturally begin to trust and recognize you. That’s how leadership positions come.

But when you isolate yourself from the socio-political life of the community you live in, don’t expect leadership positions to come looking for you.

Zaccheus Okoro must have actively participated in the community he found himself in, and that is why the people of Ise/Ikere-Ekiti found him worthy of political office, irrespective of his tribe.

Fat lie. Our people will never allow this. We are too unwelcoming even to ourselves. There are civil servants of Igbo extraction that are in Lagos state civil service. Some have retired and earn their pensions.

But as soon as Abia was created from old Imo and some civil servants of Imo origin were posted to Abia, all of them were sacked.

I'm the only Igbo landlord on my street in Lagos. Anytime that I'm around my neighbours that are mostly Yorubas will feel happy around me. They say that I'm a detribalised Igbo man. In Aba where I work an ngwa man will not allow his fellow Igbo man to rest. He will remind you always that this is ala ngwa. We are not welcoming. Period.

This one nor resemble Igbo. Must be a nick name

[quote author=Ofunaofu post=139533548]Don’t say it can never happen in the south east, of course it can. Leadership doesn’t just fall from the sky. When you live in a community and actively participate in its socio-political activities, people naturally begin to trust and recognize you. That’s how leadership positions come.

But when you isolate yourself from the socio-political life of the community you live in, don’t expect leadership positions to come looking for you.

Zaccheus Okoro must have actively participated in the community he found himself in, and that is why the people of Ise/Ikere-Ekiti found him worthy of political office, irrespective of his tribe.


[Please, mention one Yoruba person who has ever won any political position in the South East or Igboland. The plain truth is Igbos are far more tribalistic than Yorubas. When the wife of late governor Akeredolu, Betty, went to her home state in Imo to contest for senate seat, it was her own people - Igbos who literally pursued her and sent her away. You people like to complain and criticize in others what you are very guilty of. SMH.]

The APC people of Ise/Ikere Ekiti voted who they wanted. Most incumbent politicians, some of them do get it wrong. It is not all about the money share to the party agents.

Some of the agent don't feel the presence of the politicians in their constituencies at all. The money share at times can be used to rebuild community health services centre, solar electrification, accessibility to good boreholes water, renovation of the primary school for the children.

Empowerment of women and youth, road and drainage in the constituency. They can work hand in hand with the LG Chairmen and dedicated councilors.

FSBoperator:
Can this happen in the SE?

Can you wholly invest yourself and your money in the SE as the Easterners do in other regions?!
I await your answer!

This is something other Igbo states cannot and will not allow—if a man or woman from Ebonyi State (even if their father is from Enugu, Anambra, Abia, or Imo) is running for a political office in one of those four Igbo states. My Yoruba people are liberal to a fault. Our excessive openness toward people who aren't 100% Yoruba will one day become our Achilles' heel if we don't check it.

naptu2:
Toyin Zacheus Okoro (his father is Igbo and his mother is Yoruba).

There's nothing Igbo about that man in the poster apart from his surname. That fellow has probably not been to the east before.

You people should stop calling him an igbo man. He's your fellow Yoruba man; that's why he could be voted for in a rural Ekiti, not even Lagos.

akpumping7720:
See this one. So because Awolowo chased Azikiwe back to the east for longer throat into the affairs of the Western Region, that means he is tribalistic abi? Your mind no go touch ground.

Even Tinubu that you are accusing gave your people appointment in his cabinet when he was the governor of Lagos State. A good example is Ben Akabueze. Your people are many at Alausa and other LASG parastatals. Ibos hold political positions in Amuwo, Ojo, Apapa etc. But because Tinubu contested and won the 2023 election to defeat your Temu Messiah and that has made him tribalistic right? Una mind no go touch ground.

Awolowo chased Zik away because of longer throat in a country that wants to practice unity and Democratic rule and we learn from him and become even more Dearing in chasing your people away even in business in our region too because we learnt very very well from Awolowo....is anything wrong with that?


I also pray that many of your people who are in UK seeking to be elected into public offices should be chased away because that their longer throat has cross the Atlantic and should be cautioned before it will loose control.


That's what you have propounded and it should be used on you very well so that you will never have the mouth to say one Nigeria again in your lifetime.


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Especially Ondo & Ekiti Global Citizens are Godly, civilized, liberal & lateral thinkers.

A New Nigeria is POssible!

Ezeama400:
We wish him well..

On one Nigeria we stand gidigbam!

Just like a Fulani man was elected as a Mayor of Enugu, a Yoruba man was also elected as a mayor of Port Harcourt.. This man will also emerge victorious as well..

God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

Stop distorting history.

No Fulani was elected as a Mayor in Enugu..
No non indigenes reside in Enugu

PHIPEX:
This country is supposed to be sweet but politicians succeeded in dividing us.

No politicians!

Nnamdi Azikiwe planned with his people in the Army to cause the problem in January 1966.
Thank God, they paid for it

HIGHESTPOPORI:
The South East don't hold you,come and buy form and contest

Only you and your blothers live in the SE

Kukutente23:
They hate us in the mud

The guy is Yoruba. It's not Okoro in TV ibo sense but Okoro as a Yoruba word

He is not a Yoruba man stop pushing false narrative

Counterigbolies:
your language dey always sound like say people dey fight

No wonder peace is far from u lots

It definitely doesn't sound like 'gba gbo gbemi gbada gbeke gbajumo....aaah!....yeeeee!' which yours sounds like..

Na nuclear war dey happen for una mouth when una dey speak that una language..

Na who no sabi una, una fit deceive.

yarimo:
This can never happen in any of south east state, this is very commendable from the people of ekiti state for the unity and support

We will never allow it to happen in the East.

lawani:
Igbo land is near to Yoruba land and they have cities. It is a given that successful Yoruba live there as they live in London, New York, Accra and etc. Many things can take a Yoruba to the SE from marriage to NYSC to job opportunities, artisanship and hundreds of other reasons. So how will some of them not be successful? I can list up to three I know that are dollar millionaires despite that I don't live in the SE but I will not mention anyone's name. If there are clearly three dollar millionaires that I have heard of, how much more those who are silent? If there are 500 dollar millionaires in the East or even one thousand and there are three Yorubas among them, is that not enough answer to your question?

Bros, you see that you find it difficult, if not impossible, to mention successful businesses owned by Yorubas in the southeast. I challenged you on this and you cannot mention one businesses.

Coming to even individuals, bros, I tell you with full assurance that you DO NOT KNOW any rich yoruba in southeast.

So I ask, how do you expect to be dashed an elective position in a place that you have little or no presence? I am not saying that there are no Yorubas in the southeast. What I am saying is that they have not invested much and also contributed much to their communities to earn consideration for elective position.

Yorubas who on rare cases own properties outside southwest, 98% of the times, sell them off when they leave the place. They generally do not retain them, unlike the Igboman. Go al over southsouth and check.

ayoncox:
The question is this, can the guys in the East or North allow this to happen

it can happen in the North but not in the east

Elusive001:
Bros, you see that you find it difficult, if not impossible, to mention successful businesses owned by Yorubas in the southeast. I challenged you on this and you cannot mention one businesses.

Coming to even individuals, bros, I tell you with full assurance that you DO NOT KNOW any rich yoruba in southeast.

So I ask, how do you expect to be dashed an elective position in a place that you have little or no presence? I am not saying that there are no Yorubas in the southeast. What I am saying is that they have not invested much and also contributed much to their communities to earn consideration for elective position.

Yorubas who on rare cases own properties outside southwest, 98% of the times, sell them off when they leave the place. They generally do not retain them, unlike the Igboman. Go al over southsouth and check.

In this age of AI? Ask AI the names of successful Yoruba business men in the SE that are dollar millionaires. Mind you there are probably less than five hundred dollar millionaires in the SE and there are Yorubas who are silent among them apart from those that AI knows.

yarimo:
This can never happen in any of south east state, this is very commendable from the people of ekiti state for the unity and support

I am not from the south east, but when I was living in Imo state, I remember a Yoruba woman that was married to a prominent politician in Imo. She contested for Federal House and won election in Imo state. There's nothing impressive about this, after all, we are living in a country where the people don't choose their representatives. The siting governor chooses representatives for the people. In the case of the youruba woman, we heard that her husband was a good friend of the then Imo state governor. In this Ekiti case, you need to stop decieving yourself, the people didn't choose the 'so called' Igbo man. It's the governor's doing. It is obvious that the incumbent reps member that lost the primaries is no longer cordial with the state governor, and the 'Igbo man' that won is the governor's choice.
Don't reason like someone that doesn't understand Nigerian politics.
BTW, that man has Toyin and Okoro in his full name. What that means is that he is not a full-blooded Igbo man. He is 50% Yoruba and 50% Igbo.

MEGAWATCH:
Awolowo chased Zik away because of longer throat in a country that wants to practice unity and Democratic rule and we learn from him and become even more Dearing in chasing your people away even in business in our region too because we learnt very very well from Awolowo....is anything wrong with that?


I also pray that many of your people who are in UK seeking to be elected into public offices should be chased away because that their longer throat has cross the Atlantic and should be cautioned before it will loose control.


That's what you have propounded and it should be used on you very well so that you will never have the mouth to say one Nigeria again in your lifetime.


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You want to gaslight me with one Nigeria
You can do better braaa!

Very strange things happen on Nairaland. I have only created one post about this issue and that's the post below (after which I unfollowed the thread), but weird people are quoting me and posting strange things as if I said something else.

Nobody can put words in my mouth. It's a waste of time.

naptu2:
Toyin Zacheus Okoro (his father is Igbo and his mother is Yoruba).

naptu2:
Toyin Zacheus Okoro (his father is Igbo and his mother is Yoruba).

This one na yoruba oo nothing igbo about him make una carry una brother dey go , no come here come dey tell us cock and bull story

lawani:
In this age of AI? Ask AI the names of successful Yoruba business men in the SE that are dollar millionaires. Mind you there are probably less than five hundred dollar millionaires in the SE and there are Yorubas who are silent among them apart from those that AI knows.

Bros, you can mention what most probably does not exist. Bros, I am not a beer palour or newspaper stand analyst. I don't deal with market women gossips. I deal with facts, figures, verifiable data, and research based conclusions.

So I have to browse, scan, and infact walk round the whole southeast to get this information?

You are most probably from the southwest. I bet that you even know businesses owned by southeasterners in your region better than I do. Even at that, I can give you the locations of hundreds if not thousands of businesses owned by southeasterners.

You see that you don't know even one single business owned by a Yoruba in southeast.

Stop making assertions over things you know not. Stop mob mentality.

So where would the Yoruba man be elected in southeast? Oshogbo? Would Kemi think of going for an elective position in the UK if she resides and works in Nigeria?