₦airaland Forum

yemaldo:
He should hold apc gov. responsible for federal roads?

mcdc:
MY BROTHER , HAS ELECTRICITY NOT IMPROVED IN THE WEST? WHAT OF THE RULE OF LAW? 9 ADDITIONAL UNIVERSITIES, ROAD NETWORK...........LAGOS BEBIN . FUEL SUPPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO DO THEY WHAT TO CHANGE? HOW OLD IS NIGERIA AS A NATION AND HOW LONG HAS GEJ BEEN IN POWER?
HE HAS TO START FROM SOME WHERE ..............................THE CHANGE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IS NOT FOR THE MAN ON THE STREET.

customized13:
Not all southwesterner supports buhari, as a matter of fact, buhari will loose southwest.

FreeGlobe:
The south west voted massively for obasanjo's 2nd tenure. Now what did he do in the SW during his first tenure?

BlackTechnology:
Face reality

The Yorubas know that Buhari won't achieve anything but they will follow Buhari because

1) they can manipulate GMB to get what they want

2) they believe that power will return to them after Buhari

Mynd44:
Here we go with your ethno-religious bias again.

Sorry, I don't reply posts like this. Come ul with a better argument and I can reply it

omonnakoda:
The SW voted for Jonathan in 2011. He won every state except Osun
The SW were the main people fighting for him to be sworn in when Yar'adua died. Were they not jealous at that time.
What did they get in reward?
Emotional people always shun analysis for sentiments

RevDesmondJuju:
Tinubu is not a genius but a very good student of history. Today, the APC relies on the media to circulate their diversionary propaganda of hatred. Focus on the central govt and not my stooges in govt house; that bad road is Jonathan's fault, that good federal road was built by us; Dieziani is a thief, fashola could have done more if they did not steal our $20 billion dollars, etc.

FreeGlobe:
The south west voted massively for obasanjo's 2nd tenure. Now what did he do in the SW during his first tenure?

omonnakoda:
The SW voted for Jonathan in 2011. He won every state except Osun
The SW were the main people fighting for him to be sworn in when Yar'adua died. Were they not jealous at that time.
What did they get in reward?
Emotional people always shun analysis for sentiments

ilugunboy:
I see a lot of you here use this word wrongly in the place of "Lose"

Loose refers to something not properly fasten.

GMB will surely win SW by a very huge margin...feel free to quote me after the election.

FreeGlobe:
The south west voted massively for obasanjo's 2nd tenure. Now what did he do in the SW during his first tenure?

Mynd44:
Not really....

Politics is performance based. What has GEJ done in the south west that they should come out to vote for him? Do you people even listen to yourselves?

What are his policies?

Look at the infrastructure.... Mention 3 Federal roads in the South west that is in good shape and I will name 10 that are horrible...

Electricity

Fuel price....

Trade...

Employment...

Security...

Religious intolerance...

Toutish allies

All these and threads like this where the people are insulted is what leads to the people turning their backs.

A friend and I took a tour of Abeokuta to Otta and Sango... The number of GEJ posters is amazing. It is almost as though he does not exist. Same thing in Ibadan.

Can you show reasons why they should vote GEJ?

FreeGlobe:
The south west voted massively for obasanjo's 2nd tenure. Now what did he do in the SW during his first tenure?

AreaFada2:
You mean the train running from Lagos to Kano doesn't benefit SW. Or have you guys ceded Lagos to our Igbo cousins already?
Lagos-Shagamu-Ore road nor dey SW again?
Murtala Mohammed Airport renovated is not in SW?

Did OBJ, a South-westerner do any of these?

yemaldo:
Was it jealousy alliance when they voted for jonathan in 2011?

lacasa:
Your comment has closed this thread


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yemaldo:
South west voted massively for jonathan in 2011,what did he do?

yemaldo:
South west voted massively for jonathan in 2011,what did he do?

lacasa:
Your comment has closed this thread


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Mynd44:
Obasanjo's reelection was massively rigged. And lets face it Obasanjo was not the president who sat down and watched terrorists take over huge potions of Nigeria or kidnap young girls and sat on his hands.

Mynd44:
The trains? Ask yourself this, how many people use these trains? Are the number of people who use the trains as much as those on the roads that have been neglected?

Lagos-Shagamu road is Lagos-Ibadan road dude. Quit the lies

Shagamu-ore road. One in 79 federal roads. Do you want to know the state of the remaining roads?

Do you want me to post pictures of your Ikeja international airport? Leaky roof, broken down conveyor, broken down escalator, broken down, air-conditioning systems, dysfunctional toilet facilities....

Do you want to see it?

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[size=18pt]Yorubas are the Problem with Nigeria – By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi[/size]

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

i. The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
ii. Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
iii. The Yoruba Factor and “Area-boy” Politics.

See also The Adulteress’ Diary by Lamido Sanusi

My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was ” Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors” published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled ” The Igbo, the Yoruba and History” (Aug. 21, 1998).
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. [size=18pt] After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention. [/size]
When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.
Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.

Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.

When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other “nationalities” that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.

I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.

iii.The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution.

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.

Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.

After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems.

By Sanusi Lamido SanusiBeing Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

yemaldo:
South west voted massively for jonathan in 2011,what did he do?

omonnakoda:
I am not even talking about whether he performed or not but as somebody who was planning to seek reelection. If he wanted to play the North -versus south Card he should have united the South. Instead he gave the highest priority to the likes of Tompolo and Asari.
All those PDP people who lost elections in 2011 in the SW or at Tribunal how did he compensate or empower them so as to pose a challenge to Tinubu in the region. As a politician you must compensate each region so you have some people on ground for you.

Even in the Niger Delta is Bayelsa the larges oil producer? Instead he was taking oil wells from RIvers and giving Bayelsa. He allowed Tompolo to scuttle EPZ.

Leaving performance as president to one side The guy is not a good politician and has scored too many own goals. He should have humbled himself and settled with Amaechi. Why did not rehabilitate Dimeji Bankole etc

gratiaeo:
southerners in southwest voted GEJ in 2011 not Yorubas

AreaFada2:
Lol, which one be lie again for Lagos-Ibadan Road? If my journey is taking me to Okitipupa and I travel from Lagos via Lagos-Ore Road passing by Shagamu on the way, how should I describe the road? Lagos-Shagamu-Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode-Ore road or what? Na wa for you o.
I pass through the roads & airport frequently enough to know.

The online pics you want to show, they can easily be from IBB's or OBJ's time, how would I know? Political animal hating can fabricate anything. People who can even defend Oluwolise WASC certipikate from a frincifal sef.

Mynd44:
The trains? Ask yourself this, how many people use these trains? Are the number of people who use the trains as much as those on the roads that have been neglected?

Lagos-Shagamu road is Lagos-Ibadan road dude. Quit the lies

Shagamu-ore road. One in 79 federal roads. Do you want to know the state of the remaining roads?

Do you want me to post pictures of your Ikeja international airport? Leaky roof, broken down conveyor, broken down escalator, broken down, air-conditioning systems, dysfunctional toilet facilities....

Do you want to see it?

atlwireles:
Some of you live in a different planet.

FreeGlobe:
lmao at this weak response. Jonathan should also massively rig this election then. So obasanjo was the president that sat down and watched political assassinations happened during obasanjos era? plane crashes? corruption, political unrests, etc. you just exposed your hypocrisy and sinister motives. smh

Jakpon:
...and what has Gej done for the southwest that would make them vote for him again? When was the last time he went to commission a project there?