₦airaland Forum

jerseyboy:
We are not ONE PEOPLE.
Each section has a very different and divergent view of what the Nigeria of their dream should be. Some want sharia and some want western values. This inherent conflict has resulted in what Nigeria is going through- a slow death and a listless existence. Those who tout Nigeria's potentials are apt to sweep away this fundamental and unworkable conflicts.

That Nigeria has survived as an entity is due to the willingness of Southerners acquiesce to Northern interest so as to keep 'safe' a posture born out of the Blackman's historic cowardice and lack of understanding of the principles of freedom and liberty that every man and woman in great societies value more than life itself.

And so as against the trend of societies progressing, Nigeria is regressing. About everything was better in Nigeria's yesterday than today. Power, education, poverty level, all better in the 70s than the 80s. 80s better than the 90s. Today we are in the worse shape since we attained independence. It is not a coincidence. We are in an unworkable vehicle.

word!

On vertical partitioning, even a cursory look at the cultures of the Southern parts of West Africa will suffice.

well written masterpiece from a great mind.

Wow! I'm belle filled.

I really can't find an answer to the question of why you are so clearly illogical but argumentative. I read your post with utmost concern about logic and historical correctness but I got swept away by the flood of lies. Your Marxist orientation is shallow and dangerously unfounded.

How did you define class war and class struggle? I think you have made us to accept that class war takes places within a particular domineering group ie the bourgeoisie. Did Karl Marx say so? I am sure you understand Karl Marx's position where he says in The Communist Manifesto: "Let the ruling class tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarian have nothing to loose,but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world unite!". Is this still about class war ?

If you want us to accept communist ideology you have a responsibility to reiterate Karl Marx ' positions very correctly. Don't twist it. Reading up HISTORICAL MATERIALISM will help.

Nigeria is dying for its lack of visionary leaders. Do you have a problem with successful people? If you really do,you are troubled.

Lenin came from a very educated background. What sense can we make of this? I am sure you aren't going to say he was an opportunist. He was a brilliant theoretician who turned Russia around. No one complained about that. All we remember him for is his contribution. Stop attacking successful people (politicians excluded)they aren't really actively responsible for our problems(I strongly doubt they are).

Visionary leaders really matter. Do we have them ? No.

outstanding!

untainted:
@OP, Sophistry and nothing else.
Unsuccessful attempt to attack Biafrra under the guise of intellectualism. (Mind you I am no supporter of Biafrra).
Very watery piece.

From your logic (actually lack of it), people like Mandela, Luther, Malcom X, Hugo Chavez,
Che Guevara, Castro, Sankara, Ghandi and the rest did whatever they did for purely selfish reasons.

By the privilege of their births, some like Mandela (a prince) just chose to be in prison for 'class' and not to free his people?
How many attended the same schools with Abiola, Obj and
even Fela and didn't make an impact even in their village?
Do you have a problem with successful people?
You are right to say education is the answer but a carpet condemnation
of all successful people reeks of jealousy and envy.

The ISM of one who writes in a manner far too terrific and truth-evading is not in doubt. You have pelted Malcolm X and others great marxists illogically. Why? I don't accept your stance.

jhubril:
I really can't find an answer to the question of why you are so clearly illogical but argumentative. I read your post with utmost concern about logic and historical correctness but I got swept away by the flood of lies. Your Marxist orientation is shallow and dangerously unfounded.

How did you define class war and class struggle? I think you have made us to accept that class war takes places within a particular domineering group ie the bourgeoisie. Did Karl Marx say so? I am sure you understand Karl Marx's position where he says in The Communist Manifesto: "Let the ruling class tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarian have nothing to loose,but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world unite!". Is this still about class war ?

If you want us to accept communist ideology you have a responsibility to reiterate Karl Marx ' positions very correctly. Don't twist it. Reading up HISTORICAL MATERIALISM will help.

Nigeria is dying for its lack of visionary leaders. Do you have a problem with successful people? If you really do,you are troubled.

Lenin came from a very educated background. What sense can we make of this? I am sure you aren't going to say he was an opportunist. He was a brilliant theoretician who turned Russia around. No one complained about that. All we remember him for is his contribution. Stop attacking successful people (politicians excluded)they aren't really actively responsible for our problems(I strongly doubt they are).

Visionary leaders really matter. Do we have them ? No.

And you can see a lot of folks already falling over themselves in awe and reverence at this "beautiful" write up.

olukenzo:
And you can see a lot of folks already falling over themselves in awe and reverence at this "beautiful" write up.

Please share my post good friend. I am sad that people don't see beyond words. They are quick to form a large circle of friends who can give a nodding approval to every emotionally flavoured article.

Totally agree with the o.p..
The moment we realize it stopped bin about the country/populace but about power, control and ambition pursued using the vehicles of tribe/ethnic and partisan politics, the better.

This isn't about Biafra or the West or APC/PDP, it's just the reality I.m.o

dmater:
The use of Nnamdi Kanu to buttress his points is totally out of sync.
And it is in fact no crime if at this time Kanu have chosen to champion the cause of his people.

It is becoming sickening that some people can't seem to complete their writeups without trying to cast stones on Kanu or the right of his people to self-determination.

u r a fool,if dah was d only thing u got frm d write up

porka:
Laziness!

When you are done with educating your children and they are successful will others who don't have the opportunity not tag you (and your children) as 'CABALS'?

Mentioning only a few people with pedigree to buttress a questionable hypothesis is an insult to millions of Nigerians who brazed the odds and became a success through their own efforts and the blessing of God.

Goodluck Jonathan, Tony Elemelu, Ayo Fayoye, Ali Baba, Cosmas Maduka and thousands upon thousands of hitherto ordinary people (and children of ordinary Nigerians) have risen through this same system and have become outstanding in their vocations.

You can't teach Femi Otedola who hire into his organization. He determines how to spend his money. There are other organizations with different policies from his. They reserve the rights to hire who they so wish. Many organizations with such 'elitist' policies have been ran aground by the so-called 'foreign-trained-super-employess/mangers' while several companies thriving even with what they have. Ultimately, the market will determine the fate of every business.

Go out and compete. You can't afford be intimidated even before you start. And don't attempt to teach hopelessness to young people.

I think the thrust of his write up is for us not to buy into the usual attempt by the 'elitist' to use the masses to pursue their selfish agendas.
It's typical 'Marc Anthony' type of politics..appeal to the sentiments of the plebs n mobs while pursuing his selfish ambitions.
Same thing we're witnessing now with the APC/PDP, Biafra agitations while the masses cry

I disagree fundamentally with OP's argument. People even say the racial issues in America are really "class wars" and that slavery was based off of money and the economy. While there is an element of truth to those statements, I think it's a ridiculous cover up to rid people of their sense of indignation.

These issues are real. There is tribalism, racism, sexism, anti-semitism etc. Its not just about "class" or money. It's not just the poor vs the rich.
History has proven that over and over.

So the "Igbo problem" is not a class issue. It's deeper than that.

Genea:
u r a fool,if dah was d only thing u got frm d write up

Insulting other people is the area of specialisation of uncivilised nonentities especially since they are empty-headed and lack proper grooming from home.

dmater:
Insulting other people is the area of specialisation of uncivilised nonentities especially since they are empty-headed and lack proper grooming from home.

like i said,u r a fool if dat was d only thing u got,read d write up again witout sentinents and u wud get d message d op's is passing on

Ishopbest:
Epistle

[size=13pt]"If you want to hide something from the black man, put it in books"[/size]
That is what others have said to abuse us

bonechamberlain:
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this is one of the greatest article in nairalands history,

just like Karl Marx said in the beginning of communist manifesto " the history of all hitherto society is the history of class struggle" , which is playing out in this organization called Nigeria.

like I have always said only a violent revolution that would lead to the according to Marx "the dictatorship of the proletariat" would change this country, and Africa.

this imported democracy is not for Africa

Even Warren Buffet confirmed it according to the quote in my signature

Smoke2015:
Nigerians, just like when Bill Clinton told the Americans during one of his election campaigns that it was the economy, I am also now telling Nigerians that it is a class war period.

Our sufferings and frustrations are not because we belong to any section of the country or because we are Igbos as the hapless Nnamdi Kanu and his ilk would have us believe it is simply because we remain the grass under the feet of a collection of elephants in a continous struggle for power both political and economic.

Our low level of education and enlightenment continue to put us in positions of servitude to be used and misused by the elites whose membership cut across ethnic lines and are kept together by their collective greed.
The Marxists pushed this position in the 70s and we refused to see it. I have been mulling these thoughts and have decided to expand on it as I now have incontrovertible evidence that our oppressors do not take their decisions based on the integrity or otherwise of the people they claim to represent but are driven by the urge for the primitive and continuos accumulation of power and wealth.

My people, I watched this documentary on Nigeria and it was very clear that the civil war, several coups and economic bastardization that we have faced since we gained independence have been direct consequences of this struggle. Let me illustrate, I have always wondered why Fela the Late genius hated with a passion the Military especially Obasanjo and Yar'dua. The link is very clear, his mother was part of the independence push in the 50s. She attended most of the talks both in UK and in Nigeria. She fought gallantly and even dethroned a sitting Oba in the wake of her powerful incursions into politics. But immediately we gained independence she went into obscurity, cheated out of the fruits of her struggle culminating in her final humiliation by the OBJ junta. This was Felas grouse, how can his mother be so treated by these 'vagabonds' after all she had done for this country.

So what did he do, he fell back on the masses, taking advantage of their illiteracy and a need for release as a result of their massive poverty and suffering to rail against another section of the elitist club with which he was a major member by reason of his bourgeois birth. He wore the pants, smoked the weed all in his bid to show that he belonged to the masses. He succeeded to an extent but in death, his people came for him and took him away from the masses. They rewarded his family with political appointments, immortalization of his family name and all sort. Even today the Lagos state Government has given up although on lease as I hear a major part of our national historical monument - the Lagos Prison for his family to manage and maintain through his eldest daughter who is in a relationship with a talented Architect.

People, please open your eyes to the games of our masters. Another illustration is that of MKO Abiola, the purported winner of the June 12 Elections. He always regaled us with stories of his poverty, his poor upbringing and all. He did all these to curry the support of the masses in his fight against his colleagues as he struggled for power. He was not poor even in his youth, he was educated by Felas father in a school meant for elites and their children. Obasanjo attended the same school, (hope you are seeing the link) sent abroad to study and came back to join the Lagos University Teaching hospital from where he moved to some multi national and still as a very young man bought his first company. As a bonafide member of the elitist club, his colleagues in the military gave him all sorts of contracts making him one of the richest Nigerians of all time. During this time, he made very shallow contributions to the welfare of the masses. Making gratitious donations which were in no way compared to the massive wealth he had amassed through his prostituting with the military membership of the elitist club. All these was to hoodwink us and make us believe that he was a trusted ally.

But all his charade was blown open when he was bluntly told by his colleagues that the Presidency was not 'for sale'. However in his stubbornness he continued, relying on the bridge he had built between himself and the people to deliver the Presidency. This failed him for he underestimated the power of his cabal of wolves, his ambitions were frustrated by the military junta and he jumped to the masses for help like they always do, but we had been thoroughly weakened by his activities and that of his cohorts in the elitist movement and he invariably lost his life.

The linkages are very strong. The same people and their children have been ruling us both politically and economically. They only jump at ethnic and tribal colorations when they loose out in their intra class struggle. Falling back on the poor people to fight for them, claiming to have been cheated because they belong to a certain tribe but conveniently forgetting to state clearly that they were just poor strategist in a club the majority of us will never belong.

Let's look at Ojukwu the leader of the Biafran Secessionist movement. His father was at the time the richest Nigerian. Ojukwu lived a life of privilege and attended the best schools. His education gave him a little advantage over the other members who were firmly divided into three class subdivisions within the elitist movement- the political, economic and military. Ojukwu played in all the spheres and did not understand why he should be subjugated to Gowon who played in only one space and was not as educated. The progrom in the North and the continued massacre of the igbos gave him the firm vehicle and platform to carry out what to me and some scholars was a purely egoistic Crusade which led to the killing of over 2m Nigerians. After the war, what did we hear, 'no victor no vanquished', Ojukwu had run away with his famous Mercedes Benz to live a life of luxury in exile. This kind of camaraderie was a slap on the face of all those who had lost their lives, suffered untold suffering and saw their destinies thwarted but what would you expect after a fight between 'two brothers'?

The competition between the elites led to massive recruitments on all sides. The North carried out their Northernization policy, using the famed Barewa College as a bastion for recruitment into the civil service and the military school in Zaria for recruitment into the military. The west embarked on theirs too sending their scions out to the UK on scholarships mostly to study Law. That is why you hear of people like Fani Kayode being a third generation Cambridge educated lawyer. The Easterners also had theirs with what was then called the Argonauts, this was the Azikiwe led young Igbo Turks who were mostly educated and trained in the U.S steeped in the radicalism of the civil rights movements. Today you will see their children and descendants still holding forte.

People like Bola Tinubu, El Rufai, Buba Marwa, Dasuki, Femi Otedola, Aliko Dangote, Keem Bello Osagie, Udo Udoma are all direct descendants and beneficiaries of the bastion of elitist control.


How do these elitists perpetuate themselves in power? Its Simple. Education and in some cases marriage. They have identified very early the importance of education hence the continuos push for their children and chosen ones to get the very best in education and tutelage. They go to the very best schools in the world and get the kind of exposure that common people's children will never get. In the olden days it was through scholarships opened to party members children and wards, today its making sure recruitment into choice jobs was strictly based on the level and quality of education preferably overseas degrees. Tell me how will a Shomolu man's son no matter how brilliant compete?

They have also perfected the art of intra class marriage. They marry themselves ensuring continuity and spreading of bloodlines although firmly within the elitist circle. Any attempt to marry out of this class is rebuffed and frustrated until the usurper packs his bags and runs away.

Clear illustration, look at the Management of Forte Oil and the pedigree of its Chairman you will see what we are saying. From the Group Managing Director to the Chief Financial Officer are children with strong pedigree that can be traced back two generations. They also parade very strong educational qualifications and tremendous exposure. So how will someone who went to Makoko Comprehensive and graduated from our ASUU strike bedeviled institutions compete favorably with these people. So you see, it's a class war my people.


Otedola himself comes from a strong pedigree that could be traced to the Awoist free education and scholarship platforms of the old western region. His father being one of the wealthiest people in the land emerged as the first 'sleeping' Governor of Lagos State and eventually today Femi is one of the wealthiest black men in the world. He is also perpetuating the elitist lineage by sending his own kids to the very best schools in the world, recruiting only the very best that his money can afford from a very shallow pool of labour and effectively limiting the rest of us no matter where we come from Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Ibibio to the servitude that remains our fate.

Now that it's rosy, we are not hearing that he is enjoying all of these because he is a Yoruba man o. By the time, he experiences a small hiccup, maybe a little intra class struggle he would fall back on his people and scream for war that these Hausa people want to take his firm because he is Yoruba.

This is where Nnamdi Kanu is getting it all wrong. The igbos are not suffering because they are Igbos, they are suffering because of their position in the societal hierarchy which decides who stays where no matter where you come from. Why do you think the South Eastern Governors will never support his position? it's because it may cause an imbalance of power and a restriction to resources. The Igbo elites will always look at Nnamdi Kanu as an orphan and treat him as such.

People, we are all suffering. Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbira, Ijaw. A poor man is a poor man. The same sickness in Onitsha is the same sickness in Kano. Have you seen the poverty in the North? Have you been to Makoko in Lagos? Have you been to the slums of Aba? We are fighting like fools because we do not know who the enemy is.

Biafra will not put food on the tables of the poor disenfranchised Igbo man, Biafra will not give him infrastructure, send his children to school or even give him a voice. The issue can never be Biafra, the issue is elitist suppression and full control of the levers of the economy emasculating the masses throughout Nigeria.

If you doubt me, let us allow Biafra go and you will immediately see the permutation replay itself with the rebirth of these same elitist people creating a new hierarchy and entrenching the same issues that led to the creation of Biafra. Another Ilustration, IBBs rash of new states did not solve the issues but indeed created a new set of minorities still suffering from lack. I was a minority in the old Cross River State and still remain. Minority in the new Akwa Ibom State with my grandfathers house still not joined to the National grid. So what are we talking about.

The solution is education. We must break the walls of illiteracy by liberalizing education. Let's enlighten everybody so that we all can at least see issues in its true form instead of its present coloration along ethnic and tribal lines.

It is a class war and the sooner we realize this the closer we will get to the Uluru.

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2015/12/itss-class-war-stupid.html

Lalasticlala, Dominique, Seun

EXCELLENT

cutebobo:
too lengthy

[size=13pt]You make the following statement seem true:
"If you want to hide something from the black man, put it in books"[/size]

mbulela:
Even Warren Buffet confirmed it according to the quote in my signature

are u part of that class.

olagamalin:
Hmmn, Passionate write-up...albeit its lengthy form. While I sober-reflect on this .....the writer failed to explain how education will bridge & liberalize the so-called class system. It goes with the reasons you brought forward..how will a graduate of a third world University with a strike-ravaged academic calendar get to favourably compete with those ivy league schools.......I daresay you made points, however not in entirety.

[size=13pt]There are all kinds of education. When I was at the M. Okpara univ or Agriculture (in Umuhia) in 1999/2000 and the VC was robbing the university, "educated" members of the university community where still pointing blaming fingers to the North for the perceived woes they faced.
How educated can we say they were in the end?

Professor Placid Njokwu was the VC then. It took the villagers (out of anger when he cheated them of millions upon millions of government compensation money for their land) to pull the required strings that eventually sent him out of office.

If my memory serves me right, it was under the Sani Abacha that he became VC of that university.[/size]

feaworaoja007:
word!

respect.

gost:
SO TRUE SIR. I AM A MINORITY FROM CROSS RIVER CENTRAL, Reason i am educating all my younger once and i am saving like hell to send my kids to the best schools in the world. MY CHILDRENS GENERATION MUST BE BETTER THAN MINE, USING THE LEVERAGE AND UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF EDUCATION.

And you had to quote d whole write up, SMH for you

jerseyboy:
We are not ONE PEOPLE.
Each section has a very different and divergent view of what the Nigeria of their dream should be. Some want sharia and some want western values. This inherent conflict has resulted in what Nigeria is going through- a slow death and a listless existence. Those who tout Nigeria's potentials are apt to sweep away this fundamental and unworkable conflicts.

That Nigeria has survived as an entity is due to the willingness of Southerners acquiesce to Northern interest so as to keep 'safe' a posture born out of the Blackman's historic cowardice and lack of understanding of the principles of freedom and liberty that every man and woman in great societies value more than life itself.

And so as against the trend of societies progressing, Nigeria is regressing. About everything was better in Nigeria's yesterday than today. Power, education, poverty level, all better in the 70s than the 80s. 80s better than the 90s. Today we are in the worse shape since we attained independence. It is not a coincidence. We are in an unworkable vehicle.

respect..

One of the most insightful piece I ve ever read

Smoke2015:
Nigerians, just like when Bill Clinton told the Americans during one of his election campaigns that it was the economy, I am also now telling Nigerians that it is a class war period.

Our sufferings and frustrations are not because we belong to any section of the country or because we are Igbos as the hapless Nnamdi Kanu and his ilk would have us believe it is simply because we remain the grass under the feet of a collection of elephants in a continous struggle for power both political and economic.

Our low level of education and enlightenment continue to put us in positions of servitude to be used and misused by the elites whose membership cut across ethnic lines and are kept together by their collective greed.
The Marxists pushed this position in the 70s and we refused to see it. I have been mulling these thoughts and have decided to expand on it as I now have incontrovertible evidence that our oppressors do not take their decisions based on the integrity or otherwise of the people they claim to represent but are driven by the urge for the primitive and continuos accumulation of power and wealth.

My people, I watched this documentary on Nigeria and it was very clear that the civil war, several coups and economic bastardization that we have faced since we gained independence have been direct consequences of this struggle. Let me illustrate, I have always wondered why Fela the Late genius hated with a passion the Military especially Obasanjo and Yar'dua. The link is very clear, his mother was part of the independence push in the 50s. She attended most of the talks both in UK and in Nigeria. She fought gallantly and even dethroned a sitting Oba in the wake of her powerful incursions into politics. But immediately we gained independence she went into obscurity, cheated out of the fruits of her struggle culminating in her final humiliation by the OBJ junta. This was Felas grouse, how can his mother be so treated by these 'vagabonds' after all she had done for this country.

So what did he do, he fell back on the masses, taking advantage of their illiteracy and a need for release as a result of their massive poverty and suffering to rail against another section of the elitist club with which he was a major member by reason of his bourgeois birth. He wore the pants, smoked the weed all in his bid to show that he belonged to the masses. He succeeded to an extent but in death, his people came for him and took him away from the masses. They rewarded his family with political appointments, immortalization of his family name and all sort. Even today the Lagos state Government has given up although on lease as I hear a major part of our national historical monument - the Lagos Prison for his family to manage and maintain through his eldest daughter who is in a relationship with a talented Architect.

People, please open your eyes to the games of our masters. Another illustration is that of MKO Abiola, the purported winner of the June 12 Elections. He always regaled us with stories of his poverty, his poor upbringing and all. He did all these to curry the support of the masses in his fight against his colleagues as he struggled for power. He was not poor even in his youth, he was educated by Felas father in a school meant for elites and their children. Obasanjo attended the same school, (hope you are seeing the link) sent abroad to study and came back to join the Lagos University Teaching hospital from where he moved to some multi national and still as a very young man bought his first company. As a bonafide member of the elitist club, his colleagues in the military gave him all sorts of contracts making him one of the richest Nigerians of all time. During this time, he made very shallow contributions to the welfare of the masses. Making gratitious donations which were in no way compared to the massive wealth he had amassed through his prostituting with the military membership of the elitist club. All these was to hoodwink us and make us believe that he was a trusted ally.

But all his charade was blown open when he was bluntly told by his colleagues that the Presidency was not 'for sale'. However in his stubbornness he continued, relying on the bridge he had built between himself and the people to deliver the Presidency. This failed him for he underestimated the power of his cabal of wolves, his ambitions were frustrated by the military junta and he jumped to the masses for help like they always do, but we had been thoroughly weakened by his activities and that of his cohorts in the elitist movement and he invariably lost his life.

The linkages are very strong. The same people and their children have been ruling us both politically and economically. They only jump at ethnic and tribal colorations when they loose out in their intra class struggle. Falling back on the poor people to fight for them, claiming to have been cheated because they belong to a certain tribe but conveniently forgetting to state clearly that they were just poor strategist in a club the majority of us will never belong.

Let's look at Ojukwu the leader of the Biafran Secessionist movement. His father was at the time the richest Nigerian. Ojukwu lived a life of privilege and attended the best schools. His education gave him a little advantage over the other members who were firmly divided into three class subdivisions within the elitist movement- the political, economic and military. Ojukwu played in all the spheres and did not understand why he should be subjugated to Gowon who played in only one space and was not as educated. The progrom in the North and the continued massacre of the igbos gave him the firm vehicle and platform to carry out what to me and some scholars was a purely egoistic Crusade which led to the killing of over 2m Nigerians. After the war, what did we hear, 'no victor no vanquished', Ojukwu had run away with his famous Mercedes Benz to live a life of luxury in exile. This kind of camaraderie was a slap on the face of all those who had lost their lives, suffered untold suffering and saw their destinies thwarted but what would you expect after a fight between 'two brothers'?

The competition between the elites led to massive recruitments on all sides. The North carried out their Northernization policy, using the famed Barewa College as a bastion for recruitment into the civil service and the military school in Zaria for recruitment into the military. The west embarked on theirs too sending their scions out to the UK on scholarships mostly to study Law. That is why you hear of people like Fani Kayode being a third generation Cambridge educated lawyer. The Easterners also had theirs with what was then called the Argonauts, this was the Azikiwe led young Igbo Turks who were mostly educated and trained in the U.S steeped in the radicalism of the civil rights movements. Today you will see their children and descendants still holding forte.

People like Bola Tinubu, El Rufai, Buba Marwa, Dasuki, Femi Otedola, Aliko Dangote, Keem Bello Osagie, Udo Udoma are all direct descendants and beneficiaries of the bastion of elitist control.


How do these elitists perpetuate themselves in power? Its Simple. Education and in some cases marriage. They have identified very early the importance of education hence the continuos push for their children and chosen ones to get the very best in education and tutelage. They go to the very best schools in the world and get the kind of exposure that common people's children will never get. In the olden days it was through scholarships opened to party members children and wards, today its making sure recruitment into choice jobs was strictly based on the level and quality of education preferably overseas degrees. Tell me how will a Shomolu man's son no matter how brilliant compete?

They have also perfected the art of intra class marriage. They marry themselves ensuring continuity and spreading of bloodlines although firmly within the elitist circle. Any attempt to marry out of this class is rebuffed and frustrated until the usurper packs his bags and runs away.

Clear illustration, look at the Management of Forte Oil and the pedigree of its Chairman you will see what we are saying. From the Group Managing Director to the Chief Financial Officer are children with strong pedigree that can be traced back two generations. They also parade very strong educational qualifications and tremendous exposure. So how will someone who went to Makoko Comprehensive and graduated from our ASUU strike bedeviled institutions compete favorably with these people. So you see, it's a class war my people.


Otedola himself comes from a strong pedigree that could be traced to the Awoist free education and scholarship platforms of the old western region. His father being one of the wealthiest people in the land emerged as the first 'sleeping' Governor of Lagos State and eventually today Femi is one of the wealthiest black men in the world. He is also perpetuating the elitist lineage by sending his own kids to the very best schools in the world, recruiting only the very best that his money can afford from a very shallow pool of labour and effectively limiting the rest of us no matter where we come from Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Ibibio to the servitude that remains our fate.

Now that it's rosy, we are not hearing that he is enjoying all of these because he is a Yoruba man o. By the time, he experiences a small hiccup, maybe a little intra class struggle he would fall back on his people and scream for war that these Hausa people want to take his firm because he is Yoruba.

This is where Nnamdi Kanu is getting it all wrong. The igbos are not suffering because they are Igbos, they are suffering because of their position in the societal hierarchy which decides who stays where no matter where you come from. Why do you think the South Eastern Governors will never support his position? it's because it may cause an imbalance of power and a restriction to resources. The Igbo elites will always look at Nnamdi Kanu as an orphan and treat him as such.

People, we are all suffering. Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbira, Ijaw. A poor man is a poor man. The same sickness in Onitsha is the same sickness in Kano. Have you seen the poverty in the North? Have you been to Makoko in Lagos? Have you been to the slums of Aba? We are fighting like fools because we do not know who the enemy is.

Biafra will not put food on the tables of the poor disenfranchised Igbo man, Biafra will not give him infrastructure, send his children to school or even give him a voice. The issue can never be Biafra, the issue is elitist suppression and full control of the levers of the economy emasculating the masses throughout Nigeria.

If you doubt me, let us allow Biafra go and you will immediately see the permutation replay itself with the rebirth of these same elitist people creating a new hierarchy and entrenching the same issues that led to the creation of Biafra. Another Ilustration, IBBs rash of new states did not solve the issues but indeed created a new set of minorities still suffering from lack. I was a minority in the old Cross River State and still remain. Minority in the new Akwa Ibom State with my grandfathers house still not joined to the National grid. So what are we talking about.

The solution is education. We must break the walls of illiteracy by liberalizing education. Let's enlighten everybody so that we all can at least see issues in its true form instead of its present coloration along ethnic and tribal lines.

It is a class war and the sooner we realize this the closer we will get to the Uluru.

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2015/12/itss-class-war-stupid.html

Lalasticlala, Dominique, Seun

IT IS NOT A CLASS WAR

It is a war between those who can reason properly
And
Those who don't want people to reason properly

Those who can reason properly want to make things right
While
Those who don't want people to reason properly want to keep things in the wrong way so as to use it to their advantage
They do this with the aid of idiotic people who they have suceeded in brainwashing not to thinking properly

Unfortunately those who want people not to think properly have been winning the battle
But
What's inevitable is that
Those who reason properly will eventually win the war
Because
Truth will always win against lies in the end

I'm appalled that some people fail to see the message first from op point of view.

I wish I have the energy and the luxury of concentration to elucidate this piece.

if only i can quote all who try to show their philosophical prowess and logical incomprehension in matters above their cerebral cavities.

Op tried to proof the proverbial phrase that when two elephants fight, it is always the grass that suffers the most. Nigeria being multi ethnic is not our problem but we are suffering because our leaders (especially public servants) are fighting supremacy battle in political space, economic space and even in the military (armed forces). this may continue for the next 50 to 100 even 500 years, i will give local and international examples below

i won't have the luxury to expand the terms i am going to coined but may write books on them.

The Game of Money (having the resources to be relevant in the society whether by hook or by crook):

this is a game or fight (anyhow u want to term it since both have winners and losers) holding sway in the economic circle. from corporations defrauding the masses to inter and even intra-corporation wars. the fight is all about who will make more money and have the resources to dominate the economic space (or become wealthy).

A perfect example was the cement industry war during the OBJ period where dangote tried to snuff live out of competitors until everybody ran and he became the highest manufacturer and distributor of cement in Nigeria expanding to dominate the african market thereby becoming the richest black man (He won the game). the biggest loser in that war was femi otedola of AP whose share price on the floor of the NSE plummeted to dust via market manipulation thereby limiting him access to funds (or what u call loans) that will finance his adventures in the cement industry. Remember that dangote was the president of NSE then. if u are not financially savvy u won't understand the gibberish i am writing up there.

In retaliation, femi otedola frustrated dangote out of the petroluem sector of which he holds sway. u will remember that during OBJ era of dashing state properties to his cronies through the guise of privatisation, dangote got one or two refineries which refused to work until government took them back during yaradua/jonathan era whereas femi got AP. thus each of them face their ministry and callings.

this is the hardest game since u don't have control over all factors that will increment ur resources as u wish. that is why INVESTORS and businessmen are control and market determination freaks. unfortunately everybody is a player whether u are aware or not.


The Game of Relationship (getting favours (help,support,money) from others):
some will think that this is a male/female thingy. No, it transcends that. we relate with people everyday in ways that affect us positively or negatively. yes man-woman relationship or what some people call love is also part of the game but it is never the core.

Relationships work in a give and take approach. to be relevant in any relationship, u must have a bargaining power or something to offer the other person else the relationship dies a natural death. most relationship die when a party feels he/she is not benefiting from the arrangement.

People with common interest and goals always come together for the sole reason of helping each other achieve their purpose in whichever area they wish to advance. Ur ability to form and maintain complex relationships where u benefits most makes u a master in this game. In this game u most have something to offer the other party (whether real or imaginary) else u become irrelevant to the person. to succeed in this game, u must be seductive, manipulative, charismatic, emotional and most importantly let the other party see what it will gain by associating or doing something for u. i won't go into more details but let me give two perfect examples.

Some will think that the perfect example is marriage but let me surprise u that parent/child relationship is where power plays are displayed the most. Most parents are controlling often trying to bend their children to their wishes while on the other hand some children are so manipulative that they use their parent to play expensive pranks. while parents need children who will be responsible enough to support them in old age and perpetuate their lineage (plus whatever money they will leave behind), children also need their parents to cater for their welfare as the tried to understand the system of things around them for survival. so each party benefits form the other in a kind of symbiotic relationship but it is not always balance though better than the second example.

the second and most complex kind of relationship is that formed by the rich and powerful within political, economic and military circles for their perpetual dominance. In this kind of relationship, the more space u occupy the bigger ur bargaining power without wish u cannot gain support and help from others. If u are giant in economic circle like dangote, u get more help to ur business as all nigerians bank contributed to give him up to $4bn loan facility to expand his operations outside Nigeria making him the richest man in africa. the same exist in military and political circles.

In Nigeria, people like OBJ, IBB, Atiku and others who operated in the military, political and economic circles combined wield a kind of power in relationships that even the British and American ruling class would envy. that is why both the APC and PDP were courting OBJ during the last election for help and Atiku is still pulling strings till today.

this is the trickiest and most complex of all (i should have mention religion but i don't want this post to be longer than this).

The Game of Power (holding positions and wielding influence in the society with the capacity to fight opponents):

You are not considered a player and cannot compete in this game without succeeding in the game of money and relationship (being wealthy with top connections). this game pans itself out from families, villages, associations out to the larger society. infact if u try to flex muscle when u own no big pass ur opponent, instant humiliation or annihilation awaits u. humans are civilised, past the level of fighting with their bare hands except the agberos and primitive fellows who still use bottles and sticks. the level of fighting is so sophisticated now that if u don't have resources, just forget about the fight. whether legally via the judiciary, with arms and ammunition, or any other way of subjugating and clearing ur opponent from the road to ur success.

I am sad that the OP posted this article. Not because it is untrue, but because posting it on this forum is like throwing pearls before Pigs. Most will not understand it. Some will take sides. Some will say the OP is completely wrong. Very few will understand that what the OP posted is the Gospel truth.

It has always been a Class war. An elitist affair. Strictly exclusive. Limited membership accessible via elitist education in the best schools.

Let me paint you the picture.

The typical elite in Nigeria send their Kids to King's College, Corona , Eton College and other boarding schools in the UK, Switzerland or New England.

These kids proceed almost automatically to Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Imperial College.

From there they get into top Firms like Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Accenture, KPMG, PWC, McKinsey etc.

This sets them up for credible entry into Power in Nigeria, because by this time, they have the connections both local and international, they have the academic pedigree, they have experience, and they have Strong family names to open. Doors for them.

The elite are not tribalistic. The masses are. It is only success that they use to discriminate, not your tribe, your religion, your sex, or what you believe .

Class elitism is all about Power and influence. Which is amoral.

If you still do not understand by this time that is a class struggle, your children will in some years time still come online on a forum lime this, and take your position.

The class struggle is real. It cuts you out of accessing opportunities, and they can prove that you are not qualified to take those opportunities.

Some companies state that they only accept applications from foreing trained individuals.

Some companies only award projects and business opportunities to people who have contacts in government and contacts abroad.

A word is enough for the wise.

Get proper education.

theDEVILisHERE:
IT IS NOT A CLASS WAR

It is a war between those who can reason properly
And
Those who don't want people to reason properly

Those who can reason properly want to make things right
While
Those who don't want people to reason properly want to keep things in the wrong way so as to use it to their advantage
They do this with the aid of idiotic people who they have suceeded in brainwashing not to thinking properly

Unfortunately those who want people not to think properly have been winning the battle
But
What's inevitable is that
Those who reason properly will eventually win the war
Because
Truth will always win against lies in the end

u have simply summarise it for those who need summary #these are the set of people i should be trolling with #

but both sides can still be referred to as class