₦airaland Forum

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aworatak:
Every election cycle some hate filled souls come up with their usual rhetoric.
If you dig deeper those unfortunate lots don’t even have any property to their names.

softtorce:
During election in Anambran Abia n Enugu you shut your mouth n let fools claiming your land is no man's land take it over.

FreeThinkerPlut:
Enough. There is a kind of political arrogance that mistakes a host’s decency for a licence to conquer. It is on display in Lagos. It is on display across the South-West. And it is being sold by a clique of Igbo political operators who have decided that Yoruba tolerance is a permanent condition—something to be exploited, stretched, and finally ignored.

Let me be clear. This is not an indictment of Igbo people. It is an indictment of Igbo political irredentism—the strategy that treats Lagos as a political vacuum, that treats Yoruba hospitality as weakness, and that treats indigeneity as an inconvenience to be legislated away.

1. Yoruba tolerance is not a blank cheque.

The Yoruba have built a society where Muslims, Christians, and traditionalists live side by side. Strangers come, trade, build, and raise families. That is our way. But our way is not a suicide pact. Hospitality is a gift, not a transfer of ownership. And the moment a guest starts acting like the landlord, the party is over.

2. Lagos is Yoruba land. Period.

The “No Man’s Land” myth is a lie. It was never a legal doctrine. It was a lazy description of a cosmopolitan city. Lagos is Awori-Yoruba land. It has deep Yoruba roots. The Igbo came as traders, workers, migrants. They built empires. Respect. But building a business in another man’s house does not give you the deed. Cosmopolitan is not ownerless. Diversity is not dispossession.

3. If you think you are a Lagos indigene, go and apply to university.

This is the simplest test. Nigeria’s law recognises indigenes and non-indigenes based on ancestral origin, not just residence. At Lagos State University and other South-West schools, the fee schedule proves it. Indigenes pay one rate. Non-indigenes pay another. Sometimes double. Sometimes triple. Go and apply. The fee will tell you the truth. This is not a Yoruba trick. It is the same principle as the United Kingdom. Home students pay less. International students pay more. You may hate the system. But you cannot pretend it does not exist.

4. The Indigeneship Bill is dead on arrival.

A bill once tried to make anyone who lived in a state for ten years an indigene. Generous? No. Naive. Nigeria is not one people. It is many ethnic groups. If every state opened indigeneship to long-term residents, every state would face a demographic and political war. The bill was withdrawn. It should stay dead. You cannot legislate away ancestry because it hurts your feelings.

5. The double standard is shameless.

Many of those shouting “I am a Lagosian” would not accept the same logic in the South-East. Non-indigenes in the South-East are often treated as outsiders. They are not given full political rights or indigene benefits. So the demand is one-sided: full inclusion in Yorubaland, but no reciprocal openness at home. That is not justice. That is conquest dressed up as rights. That is not a plea for fairness. That is a demand for surrender.

6. The 2023 election was a warning.

Peter Obi won Lagos. That is democracy. But for many Yoruba, it felt like an ethnic takeover. The backlash was ugly. Properties were demolished. Businesses were targeted. Streets were renamed. That did not happen because Yoruba people are naturally violent. It happened because patience ran out. Politicians who stoke ethnic takeover narratives are playing with fire. And fire does not care who started it.

7. Remember 1966—not as a threat, but as a warning.

In January 1966, a group of young army officers, mostly Igbo, staged Nigeria’s first coup. They killed Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Northern Premier Ahmadu Bello. The North saw it as an Igbo plot to dominate. Six months later, the North struck back. Then mobs killed tens of thousands of Igbos. It was a horror. It was a crime. It was also a warning. When ethnic political ambition collides with a host society that does not share Yoruba restraint, the result is not a debate. It is a massacre. Do not mistake this as a call for violence. It is the opposite. It is a warning to every ethnic entrepreneur: do not push any people until they break. The North does not have the Yoruba’s live-and-let-live temperament. The Yoruba will tolerate a lot. The North will not. That is not a boast. It is a fact. And it is a fact that should terrify anyone who thinks ethnic brinkmanship is a game.

8. What should happen now.

Yoruba leaders must protect every law-abiding resident. Igbo leaders must stop treating Lagos as a political vacuum. And all sides should remember 1966—not as a threat, but as a warning against ethnic brinkmanship.

The bottom line.

Lagos is Yoruba land. It is also a Nigerian city. Those two facts can coexist. But they will not coexist if either side treats the other as an enemy. Hospitality is not surrender. Tolerance is not weakness. And Lagos will not be conquered. Full stop.

FreeThinker from Pluto

Christistruth03:
There is no Battle for Lagos.
Lagos is Yorubaland 100%.

owobokiri:
Another election circle, another tribally charged propaganda to sware the poor voters and get them to support their oppressors. As usual, base thinkers will conveniently reach for their favourite fall guys; the igbos. You woke up and found it worthy to blame all your failures in life on a tribe that does not control any part of the government. You are the president, you are the army Chief, the CBN chief, The Police Chief, The Customs Chief, The Immigration Chief, The Minister of Finance, The Chief at The Board of Internal Revenue. You control the Banking Industry, the Insurance Industry, the Betting Industry, the Petroleum Industry, the Solid Minerals Industry..., even in that Lagos in particular and the South West in general, you control all governments, all regulations! Yet, it is these "ubiquitous igbos" that control zilch that are the cause of your problems..?
Make that make sense..

The topic should be about a rudderless and vindictive Sanwo Olu and his glaring failures as a governor. The topic should dwell on Tinubus and APCs monumental failures in government.
The topic should revolve around pressing issues like the epileptic power supply, the worsening management of refuse disposal in Lagos, the astronomical rise in the numbers of poor people as a result of bad government policies, the insufficient disposable income available to Lagosians/Nigerians as APCs austerity measures tighten the noose around our necks. The topic of discussions should focus on the bad roads, the dilapidated schools, the shabby health delivery system, the agbero menace and the industrial scale corruption going on in all farcets of government..

But you don't want that.. lol, you can't deal.
As a ruling party, you uave nothing in your scorecards positive enough to be used to brag.
Essentially, you failed woefully! So you delved into "Plan B"; blame the igbos. You now deliberately want to obfuscate facts. That's the only way you can win; hoodwink the people, blame other ethnicities and utilise rabid tribalism as your "cudgel of war"....
You would rather we frame the igbos as the problem, when the problem is the blundering party in power.
It is called "Base Politics", and it won't fly this time...
Let me remind those of you angling for some ethnic confrontations in Lagos of this truth; no one can perfectly predict how wars end..
Keep that in mind as you plot...

owobokiri:
Lagos belongs to the Eguns and the Aworis.
Get used to that. The notion that there is a uniformed lone ethnic group in the Southwest is purile. Dead on Arrival! It is a fallacy that has been framed as" the truth" by the highly compromised media houses quartered around the Lagos Ibadan express way.. Just as we have in other regions of the country, the South West is full of highly marginalised minorities struggling not to be swallowed by one avaricious majority ethnic group!
They need help and help they will get..

You can't say that PortHarcourt belongs to the Ikwerres and not the Igbos and expect us all to dash you Lagos and her minorities for free, when we can conveniently adduce your theory too ro save the indigenous tribes.
The ikwerres are far more related to the igbos than the Eguns are related to the Yorubas. Do your research.
So Lagos belongs to the minorities of the Eguns, the Aworis and others.
Go back to your Ogbomosho, Okitipupa and Oshogbo and let these minorities breath...

flokii:
The ownership of Lagos is clear as day.. Lagos belongs to Yoruba people.

The reason some miscreants wanted to rewrite history of Lagos was because a tiny part of Lagos State served as Federal Capital for Nigeria till a new capital city was built (Abuja). It's why we are telling our Yoruba people to wake up and stop handing benefits to outsiders in Lagos State.
Lagos has reverted to a full Yoruba State since over 2 decades, yet still our people keep allowing external influence in Lagos politics. It's not patriotism but self-sabotage. These outsiders occupy seat meant for Yorubas at Federal level, but still vote against anything that'll favour Lagos and Yorubaland in the National Aseembly So tell me how that is "liberalism" if not self destruction.

Lagos (Ilu Eko) is not for sale.. ring in in their ears, let it sink into their heads.

owobokiri:
Another election circle, another tribally charged propaganda to sware the poor voters and get them to support their oppressors. As usual, base thinkers will conveniently reach for their favourite fall guys; the igbos. You woke up and found it worthy to blame all your failures in life on a tribe that does not control any part of the government. You are the president, you are the army Chief, the CBN chief, The Police Chief, The Customs Chief, The Immigration Chief, The Minister of Finance, The Chief at The Board of Internal Revenue. You control the Banking Industry, the Insurance Industry, the Betting Industry, the Petroleum Industry, the Solid Minerals Industry..., even in that Lagos in particular and the South West in general, you control all governments, all regulations! Yet, it is these "ubiquitous igbos" that control zilch that are the cause of your problems..?
Make that make sense..

The topic should be about a rudderless and vindictive Sanwo Olu and his glaring failures as a governor. The topic should dwell on Tinubus and APCs monumental failures in government.
The topic should revolve around pressing issues like the epileptic power supply, the worsening management of refuse disposal in Lagos, the astronomical rise in the numbers of poor people as a result of bad government policies, the insufficient disposable income available to Lagosians/Nigerians as APCs austerity measures tighten the noose around our necks. The topic of discussions should focus on the bad roads, the dilapidated schools, the shabby health delivery system, the agbero menace and the industrial scale corruption going on in all farcets of government..

But you don't want that.. lol, you can't deal.
As a ruling party, you uave nothing in your scorecards positive enough to be used to brag.
Essentially, you failed woefully! So you delved into "Plan B"; blame the igbos. You now deliberately want to obfuscate facts. That's the only way you can win; hoodwink the people, blame other ethnicities and utilise rabid tribalism as your "cudgel of war"....
You would rather we frame the igbos as the problem, when the problem is the blundering party in power.
It is called "Base Politics", and it won't fly this time...
Let me remind those of you angling for some ethnic confrontations in Lagos of this truth; no one can perfectly predict how wars end..
Keep that in mind as you plot...

owobokiri:
Lagos belongs to the Eguns and the Aworis.
Get used to that. The notion that there is a uniformed lone ethnic group in the Southwest is purile. Dead on Arrival! It is a fallacy that has been framed as" the truth" by the highly compromised media houses quartered around the Lagos Ibadan express way.. Just as we have in other regions of the country, the South West is full of highly marginalised minorities struggling not to be swallowed by one avaricious majority ethnic group!
They need help and help they will get..

You can't say that PortHarcourt belongs to the Ikwerres and not the Igbos and expect us all to dash you Lagos and her minorities for free, when we can conveniently adduce your theory too ro save the indigenous tribes.
The ikwerres are far more related to the igbos than the Eguns are related to the Yorubas. Do your research.
So Lagos belongs to the minorities of the Eguns, the Aworis and others.
Go back to your Ogbomosho, Okitipupa and Oshogbo and let these minorities breath...