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Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by EdiskyHarry: 9:31pm On Sep 07
You see this life? Becarefull of the evil you do and the evil you support . Look at hell rufai today
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by AMINDA: 9:32pm On Sep 07
DennisEche:
Elrufai used his mouth to say those things when he was a governor.
He openly claimed to be paying bandits not to kee Southern Kaduna people, he changed the equation of Muslim Christian system to Muslim Muslim, he degraded the southern Kaduna chiefdom and placed them under the Emirates. The man committed lots of evil.
The Adara king Is still fresh in our memories
Post the link where he said those things here. If muslim-muslim ticket was the problem, Southern Kaduna is now lining up to vote Tinubu’s muslim-muslim ticket.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 9:34pm On Sep 07
Dude..make I tell you something.

El Rufai might be everything you want to call him but NOT what SW propaganda pushes about him.

El Rufai is incarcerated, has GENERAL MISA spoken about the numerous insecurity challenges in the NORTH? Why is it that after a SENATOR and MATTAWALLE have been called out for TERRORIST support that is when GENERAL MUSA placed a Bounty of #30million on GENTLE DE YAHOO in the SE?

This is after leaving..

Asari
Tompolo
Bello Turuji
All the Kachalla
Sunday Igboho

..to amass weapons, create illegal groups etc etc et ?

General MUSA is tainted already and was a failure as Chief of Army Staff and MINISTER of DEFENCE.

What has El rufai said that WIKE didnt do worse in OBI AKPOR LGA? It was a GENOCIDE!!


So leave the matter and observe their dance in public.

Time is a Gentleman




DennisEche:
Elrufai used his mouth to say those things when he was a governor.
He openly claimed to be paying bandits not to kee Southern Kaduna people, he changed the equation of Muslim Christian system to Muslim Muslim, he degraded the southern Kaduna chiefdom and placed them under the Emirates. The man committed lots of evil
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by DickenClarq(f): 9:38pm On Sep 07
Where is the lie in what General Musa said?

If General Musa apologize to this rubb!sh God won't forgive him.


Whatever Nasir El-rufai is going through currently is the nemesis he allow under his watch. And his fool!sh support for APC.

The cries and prayers from the great people of southern Kaduna is what is hunting him.

May he know no rest or peace till he depart this Earth

May God save us
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by victoryenergy: 9:40pm On Sep 07
helinues:
So Elrufai was deliberately kept away from the opposition which could be premeditated stuff.

grin
El rufai is a security risk to Nigeria, he is sympathetic to terrorist, and once said he paid bandits, el rufai has also threaten foreign election observer's, that they will go home in body bags, do you know what that means??
as if that is not enough, he went on national TV to say he intercepted the conversation of the national security adviser, do you understand what also means??
so you want el rufai to make comments that is a threat to national security on live TV, and go Scot free ba?
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 9:42pm On Sep 07
Leave YORUBA propaganda merchants.

They know that the North and SE/SS have good alignment, but they used LIES and propaganda to paint a picture of civility and high morales which has been exposed to be a fraud.

The fact remains that EL RUFAI being incarcerated will snowball into things they cant phantom.

That is why I continuously tell them that

SOUTHERN UNITY was NEVER alive but is now permanently DEAD.

Even BUHARI choose two IGBO VP candidates before Osibanjo became VP. IF IGBOS didnt support Obasanjo and Yaradua, an IGBO man woulf have been the PRESIDENT by NOW and RONU noise will be paying vhildren #3,000 with asoebi and Caps to gather for ORGANISED protests.

I sincerely missed Abacha...he had their full antifote.
AMINDA:
I concede. Truce. As FCT Minister and governor of Kaduna, Elrufai had people from the Southeast in his cabinet. He personally recommended his friend, Osita Chidoka to Obasanjo who appointed him as Chairman of FRSC.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Sleekfingers: 9:45pm On Sep 07
discusant:
El-Rufai don see shege in the hands of Tinubu.
El-Rufai campaigned like mad for Tinubu.
He danced with Tinubu,
He answered questions Tinubu could not answer in London's Chatham House on behalf of Tinubu.
He never knew that supporting Tinubu is like supporting a tiger which will turn around to maul the supporter.
Tinubu had to shove him aside , because of his demands .
El Rufai is a complete dangerous man. Trust him at your own foolishness.
He will be released after the election. If not that guy is ready to flush Tinubu down the drain ..

El Rufai is like most Nigerians. They talk foolishly and recklessly. E.g. Akpabio, Wike , Dino melaye, Monday Okpebholo, Adam oshiomole, Makinde , Kenneth okwonko , Peter Obi, Fadahunsi , Sowore , Isaac fayose , Reno omokri, Nnamdi kanu , Basir el Rufai, Rufai oseni , dele momodu etc
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by manmade(m): 9:47pm On Sep 07
helinues:
So Elrufai was deliberately kept away from the opposition which could be premeditated stuff.

grin
self confession is a very strong evidence against the Maker, if elrufai could be so foolish to indict himself that he unlawfully tapped into the phone lines of NSA and was eave dropping on his calls , he shouldn't put the blames on anyone
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Udomaogodo: 9:51pm On Sep 07
AMINDA:
We hear you. There we go again with the self-righteous politics. You never voted for Buhari nor Tinubu but you were not spared from the repercussions of the governance, whether good or bad. Will the unborn generation of the Southeast be exempted from paying the loan of the 15 trillion naira that is being expended on the Lagos coastal road? When you make enemies out of people in politics, always leave room for reconciliation. Otherwise, the ones for whom you have inherited their enemies will pop champagnes on your head as they leave you holding the short end of the stick.

If you say Elrufai's ordeal is penance for making Tinubu president, then I agree with you and I'm sure he is also happy to undergo it so he will come out brand new. But that is his only crime. He was the only person Tinubu practically knelt down to beg and he is also the only person Tinubu is desperate to keep out of the 2027 electioneering. E get why. Tinubu and his lackeys have still been unable to make any charge stick on him so this is no karma. Tables will turn and Elrufai will have his remontada. And if not, the debt will be carried forward. Heads or tail, Elrufai won't lose.
Your reasoning stinks.Tuee
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by edungene7: 9:52pm On Sep 07
Mallam seems not to have understood the temple of the music been played let him remain silent because I know APC intentionally locked him up because of the campaign season what ever he says now will be used against him.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by zegxy: 9:54pm On Sep 07
AMINDA:
The problem with some of you Southeasterners is that you inherit enemies of others whom you really don't know and who have never governed you without even knowing why. Are you aware that the "middlebelt" whom you're doing this posturing for have now moved on from Obi and are lining up to vote Tinubu’s muslim-muslim ticket? Tinubu’s strategy is to replace the Northern Muslim votes that made him president with the middlebelt that was Obi's base in 2023 while hoping it'll be enough. What's the strategy for Peter Obi and which new bloc of votes has he added to his 2023 numbers?
E go shock you. Why are you spewing lies relentlessly ?
Can you go to any market in your si called Middle Belt and campaign for your Tinubu whether you will come out with your skull intact
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by rapcy(m): 9:55pm On Sep 07
AMINDA:
I concede. Truce. As FCT Minister and governor of Kaduna, Elrufai had people from the Southeast in his cabinet. He personally recommended his friend, Osita Chidoka to Obasanjo who appointed him as Chairman of FRSC.
Oga go and sit down, you're here trying to promote elrufai, a man that is inconsequential and full of atrocities. Make him rot in the jail, he's even lucky Tinubu is a good man, he wouldn't have had the mouth to be asking for apology
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by donmik: 9:55pm On Sep 07
Make una allow me hear word.

All of una no d try for the country, even una principals
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by CharlesCNG: 9:57pm On Sep 07
AMINDA:
If you say Elrufai's ordeal is penance for making Tinubu president, then I agree with you and I'm sure he is also happy to undergo it so he will come out brand new. But that is his only crime. He was the only person Tinubu practically knelt down to beg and he is also the only person Tinubu is desperate to keep out of the 2027 electioneering. E get why. Tinubu and his lackeys have still been unable to make any charge stick on him so this is no karma. Tables will turn and Elrufai will have his remontada. And if not, the debt will be carried forward. Heads or tail, Elrufai won't lose.
El-Rufai “made Tinubu President”? Please stop rewriting 2023.

If El-Rufai made Tinubu President, he performed the miracle almost everywhere EXCEPT HIS OWN KADUNA STATE.

Under El-Rufai, APC lost Kaduna to Atiku in the presidential election. PDP swept ALL THREE senatorial seats and reportedly took 10 of the state's 16 House of Representatives seats. One conspicuous APC survivor was El-Rufai's own son, Bello, in Kaduna North.

That is not the electoral footprint of a man who “made Tinubu President.” In Kaduna, El-Rufai was arguably more liability than kingmaker.

And Southern Kaduna tells an important part of that story. Years of bitter political and religious tensions under El-Rufai left APC deeply unpopular there. In Kaduna South Senatorial District, APC finished THIRD in 2023—behind PDP and Labour.

So spare me this mythology that Tinubu owes his presidency to El-Rufai. Tinubu won the presidency DESPITE losing Kaduna, not because El-Rufai delivered it.

He governed Kaduna by repeatedly emphasising fault lines that a political leader should have been trying to bridge. Now Uba Sani has spent considerable political capital rebuilding relationships, particularly in Southern Kaduna, that had deteriorated badly.

And this is precisely why many of us in APC regard El-Rufai's departure as GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by AMINDA: 9:58pm On Sep 07
rapcy:
Oga go and sit down, you're here trying to promote elrufai, a man that is inconsequential and full of atrocities. Make him rot in the jail, he's even lucky Tinubu is a good man, he wouldn't have had the mouth to be asking for apology
He wasn't inconsequential when Tinubu begged "Dear brother Nosiru" to help make him president. He only became inconsequential after that.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 9:59pm On Sep 07
Wetin EL RUFAI talk or do when WIKE NEVER DO for RIVERS? Is it because WIKE supports TINUBU?

Una go learn THINGs. angry

rapcy:
Oga go and sit down, you're here trying to promote elrufai, a man that is inconsequential and full of atrocities. Make him rot in the jail, he's even lucky Tinubu is a good man, he wouldn't have had the mouth to be asking for apology
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by TokoEkambi: 10:00pm On Sep 07
Tenses:
We have flourished in the type of politics we play. We have emerged stronger than we were before the civil war.

PO will come and go but we down east will adopt another who has same attributes as PO irrespective of the tribe.

Posterity will be kind on us. We didn't vote for buhari and tinubu who have turned out to be the biggest idiots to have occupied Aso Rock.

Hell rufia should face his music 🎶 and let him dance well well.

Karma is a kinky bitxxxh.
Like your ancestors adopted Tofa in 1993? Never seen people who have taken foooooling themselves as a hobby. Lolz.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:01pm On Sep 07
I remember when EL RUFAI told him specifically to relocate to Abuja if he wanted to be PRESIDENT.

Tinubu relocated instantly.

Now they have betrayed him and are now insulting him senselessly.

Chai...I MISS ABACHA cool


AMINDA:
He wasn't inconsequential when Tinubu begged "Dear brother Nosiru" to help make him president. He only became inconsequential after that.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:03pm On Sep 07
But TINUBU betrayed Abiola na. Is that not clear in your ranting existence?..and Still begged Abacha for appointment.




TokoEkambi:
Like your ancestors adopted Tofa in 1993? Never seen people who have taken foooooling themselves as a hobby. Lolz.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by CharlesCNG: 10:07pm On Sep 07
manmade:
self confession is a very strong evidence against the Maker, if elrufai could be so foolish to indict himself that he unlawfully tapped into the phone lines of NSA and was eave dropping on his calls , he shouldn't put the blames on anyone
Self-confession can be devastating evidence against its maker.

If El-Rufai was reckless enough to go on national television and say, in substance, that “we listen to their calls,” and that someone tapped the NSA’s phone, then he cannot turn around and behave as though somebody manufactured the controversy for him. He supplied the words himself.

And that, to me, is classic El-Rufai. ARROGANCE. TOXICITY. RECKLESSNESS.

Three traits that have followed his political relationships for years.

Look at the trail of broken relationships and vicious public quarrels: Obasanjo. Atiku. Nuhu Ribadu. Uba Sani. Shehu Sani. People who were once allies, colleagues, protégés or political associates eventually becoming objects of bitter warfare. Even Ribadu and El-Rufai, once close allies in the Obasanjo years, have ended up in an extraordinary public confrontation.

Then look at the recent spectacle involving his own sons.

Bashir El-Rufai publicly attacked his elder brother, Bello El-Rufai, accusing him of betrayal and using extraordinarily degrading language against him.
Bashir sounded like an El-Rufai political press conference with Wi-Fi.

That is why I find this attempt to portray Nasir El-Rufai perpetually as an innocent victim rather difficult to swallow.

At some point, when one man repeatedly ends up in ferocious conflicts with former friends, former allies, successors, senators, presidents and even people once considered political family, perhaps the question should stop being:

“WHY DOES EVERYBODY KEEP DOING THIS TO EL-RUFAI?” And become: “WHAT IS IT ABOUT EL-RUFAI THAT KEEPS PRODUCING THIS KIND OF DESTRUCTION?”

In this particular case, nobody forced him to discuss intercepted NSA communications on television.

HIS MOUTH ENTERED THE EVIDENCE BEFORE HIS ENEMIES DID.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by TokoEkambi: 10:07pm On Sep 07
Kalashnikov49:
But TINUBU betrayed Abiola na. Is that not clear in your ranting existence?..and Still begged Abacha for appointment.
You guys need to be studied. The ability to bring up fantasies in your heads and believe such is legendary. Legendary in the sense that it is only found in kids below 5. Lolz.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by AdegbemiroX: 10:12pm On Sep 07
Tenses:
PO will come and go but we down east will adopt another who has same attributes as PO irrespective of the tribe.
Lobatan grin

With this mentality, e go hard for your region to get hold of Presidency. This is a slap on the faces of people like Umahi, Soludo & other political giants in SE.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:13pm On Sep 07
Crying is allowed.

Facts arent for babies like you that love Fantasies.

Go play with sand cool
TokoEkambi:
You guys need to be studied. The ability to bring up fantasies in your heads and believe such is legendary. Legendary in the sense that it is only found in kids below 5. Lolz.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by AMINDA: 10:15pm On Sep 07
Kalashnikov49:
I remember when EL RUFAI told him specifically to relocate to Abuja if he wanted to be PRESIDENT.

Tinubu relocated instantly.

Now they have betrayed him and are now insulting him senselessly.

Chai...I MISS ABACHA cool
That was when he was teaching them politics. Immediately they "won", he became inconsequential.

Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:15pm On Sep 07
Keep quiet.

Always writing NOVELs that showcase total emptiness
CharlesCNG:
Self-confession can be devastating evidence against its maker.

If El-Rufai was reckless enough to go on national television and say, in substance, that “we listen to their calls,” and that someone tapped the NSA’s phone, then he cannot turn around and behave as though somebody manufactured the controversy for him. He supplied the words himself.

And that, to me, is classic El-Rufai. ARROGANCE. TOXICITY. RECKLESSNESS.

Three traits that have followed his political relationships for years.

Look at the trail of broken relationships and vicious public quarrels: Obasanjo. Atiku. Nuhu Ribadu. Uba Sani. Shehu Sani. People who were once allies, colleagues, protégés or political associates eventually becoming objects of bitter warfare. Even Ribadu and El-Rufai, once close allies in the Obasanjo years, have ended up in an extraordinary public confrontation.

Then look at the recent spectacle involving his own sons.

Bashir El-Rufai publicly attacked his elder brother, Bello El-Rufai, accusing him of betrayal and using extraordinarily degrading language against him.
Bashir sounded like an El-Rufai political press conference with Wi-Fi.

That is why I find this attempt to portray Nasir El-Rufai perpetually as an innocent victim rather difficult to swallow.

At some point, when one man repeatedly ends up in ferocious conflicts with former friends, former allies, successors, senators, presidents and even people once considered political family, perhaps the question should stop being:

“WHY DOES EVERYBODY KEEP DOING THIS TO EL-RUFAI?” And become: “WHAT IS IT ABOUT EL-RUFAI THAT KEEPS PRODUCING THIS KIND OF DESTRUCTION?”

In this particular case, nobody forced him to discuss intercepted NSA communications on television.

HIS MOUTH ENTERED THE EVIDENCE BEFORE HIS ENEMIES DID.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:23pm On Sep 07
No matter the propaganda they push, this in my opinion, is a major reason why El Rufai is in jail.

This was before Waziri decleared and by this time El Rufai and Waziri had mended fences.

Dem fear the guy pass death sef.




AMINDA:
That was when he was teaching them politics. Immediately they "won", he became inconsequential.

Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Fekumzi123: 10:25pm On Sep 07
discusant:
El-Rufai don see shege in the hands of Tinubu.
El-Rufai campaigned like mad for Tinubu.
He danced with Tinubu,
He answered questions Tinubu could not answer in London's Chatham House on behalf of Tinubu.
He never knew that supporting Tinubu is like supporting a tiger which will turn around to maul the supporter.
He's not in prison. Elrufai is in detention.
In detention for tapping phone conversation of NSA, Nuhu Ribadu.
Ribadu is detaining him not Tinubu.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Gaskiya77: 10:42pm On Sep 07
So many ill spoken words by El-rufai when he was governor. During the 2019 election, he threatens international election observers of returning in body bags.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by ayoncox: 10:48pm On Sep 07
discusant:
El-Rufai don see shege in the hands of Tinubu.
El-Rufai campaigned like mad for Tinubu.
He danced with Tinubu,
He answered questions Tinubu could not answer in London's Chatham House on behalf of Tinubu.
He never knew that supporting Tinubu is like supporting a tiger which will turn around to maul the supporter.
El Rufai didn't support Tinubu out of loyalty but out of need for survival. His original plot was Amaechi being Flag bearer and he becoming Vice but Tinubu beat them in the usual dirty games all of them play. El Rufai is like a snake or scorpion don't just keep him afar keep him caged and make him non relevant. Tinubu has to do this because the average northerners no too get sense, and the Likes of El Rufai being around he will spoil a lot of things through his mouth, and there are many goats in the north can't think for themselves
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by CharlesCNG: 10:50pm On Sep 07
Kalashnikov49:
Leave YORUBA propaganda merchants.

They know that the North and SE/SS have good alignment, but they used LIES and propaganda to paint a picture of civility and high morales which has been exposed to be a fraud.

The fact remains that EL RUFAI being incarcerated will snowball into things they cant phantom.

That is why I continuously tell them that

SOUTHERN UNITY was NEVER alive but is now permanently DEAD.

Even BUHARI choose two IGBO VP candidates before Osibanjo became VP. IF IGBOS didnt support Obasanjo and Yaradua, an IGBO man woulf have been the PRESIDENT by NOW and RONU noise will be paying vhildren #3,000 with asoebi and Caps to gather for ORGANISED protests.

I sincerely missed Abacha...he had their full antifote.
Please don't go there.

You are trying to turn every political disagreement into a Yoruba-versus-Igbo conspiracy, and that is exactly the kind of thinking that has repeatedly damaged Nigerian opposition politics.

Northern distrust of parts of the South-East political establishment did not begin with Tinubu, APC or some imaginary Yoruba propaganda machine. It has deep historical roots going back to the First Republic, the Sardauna era, the military crises and the civil-war period.

Whether those perceptions are fair today is another question, but pretending Yoruba people invented them is simply historically unserious.

And this constant habit of blaming Yoruba people for every political setback affecting the South-East has become exhausting.

You even dragged ASO EBI into it. Why are you bothered by how Yoruba people spend their own money, celebrate, dress or organise themselves socially? Are they borrowing the money from you?

That is exactly the problem with this politics: grievance keeps replacing strategy.

Meanwhile, the North and South-West have built political relationships over decades through negotiation, coalition and repeated electoral cooperation. Politics is about building bridges, not endlessly insulting the people whose votes you may eventually need.

Perhaps the more useful question is not: “WHAT HAVE YORUBA PEOPLE DONE TO US?” But: “WHAT POLITICAL STRATEGY HAS ACTUALLY WORKED?”

Since 1999, Yoruba politicians have produced two presidents and a vice-president through different national coalitions. Yet you are the one complaining about marginalisation while simultaneously insulting an entire region and declaring “Southern unity” dead.

Maybe that contradiction deserves some reflection.

And please leave Abacha nostalgia out of it. Nigerians across different regions suffered under that dictatorship.

Ethnic resentment is not a political programme. At some point, strategy has to replace grievance.
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Akerele44(m): 10:55pm On Sep 07
Tenses:
We have flourished in the type of politics we play. We have emerged stronger than we were before the civil war.

PO will come and go but we down east will adopt another who has same attributes as PO irrespective of the tribe.

Posterity will be kind on us. We didn't vote for buhari and tinubu who have turned out to be the biggest idiots to have occupied Aso Rock.

Hell rufia should face his music 🎶 and let him dance well well.

Karma is a kinky bitxxxh.
Civil war Abi Biafra war…if u know the full meaning of naira and kobo all this campaign wey una dey campaign for obi una go know say e no dey necessary
Re: El-Rufai To Christopher Musa: Apologise Or Face Court Action by Kalashnikov49: 10:58pm On Sep 07
Anybody that YORUBA hate..is because they align well with IGBOs.

IBB
ABACHA
YARADUA
OBASANJO
JONATHAN.

are hated by YORUBA, not because of ruling or Governance standard, because they worked well with IGBOs.

Dont TYPE long gibberish, it shows you need to mumble incoherently to sound articulate. Which ypu are DEFINITELY not.


CharlesCNG:
Please don't go there.

You are trying to turn every political disagreement into a Yoruba-versus-Igbo conspiracy, and that is exactly the kind of thinking that has repeatedly damaged Nigerian opposition politics.

Northern distrust of parts of the South-East political establishment did not begin with Tinubu, APC or some imaginary Yoruba propaganda machine. It has deep historical roots going back to the First Republic, the Sardauna era, the military crises and the civil-war period.

Whether those perceptions are fair today is another question, but pretending Yoruba people invented them is simply historically unserious.

And this constant habit of blaming Yoruba people for every political setback affecting the South-East has become exhausting.

You even dragged ASO EBI into it. Why are you bothered by how Yoruba people spend their own money, celebrate, dress or organise themselves socially? Are they borrowing the money from you?

That is exactly the problem with this politics: grievance keeps replacing strategy.

Meanwhile, the North and South-West have built political relationships over decades through negotiation, coalition and repeated electoral cooperation. Politics is about building bridges, not endlessly insulting the people whose votes you may eventually need.

Perhaps the more useful question is not: “WHAT HAVE YORUBA PEOPLE DONE TO US?” But: “WHAT POLITICAL STRATEGY HAS ACTUALLY WORKED?”

Since 1999, Yoruba politicians have produced two presidents and a vice-president through different national coalitions. Yet you are the one complaining about marginalisation while simultaneously insulting an entire region and declaring “Southern unity” dead.

Maybe that contradiction deserves some reflection.

And please leave Abacha nostalgia out of it. Nigerians across different regions suffered under that dictatorship.

Ethnic resentment is not a political programme. At some point, strategy has to replace grievance.
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