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| APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by ChessEnthusiast(op): 9:20pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
We have seen many lines put across on the simmering dispute in the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Very few of the analysis have been put in true historic context, thereby rubbing many observers the substance. We must understand why the current crisis in APC is inevitable and why the heat will not fizzle out. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was responsible, in part, for the victory of President Mohammadu Buhari, at the 2015 poll. Today, there is deepening political recession in the APC, compared to the economic meltdown that jolts the country. The APC is now factionalised along vicious power blocs, the El Rufai group; the Atiku Abubakar group and the Tinubu faction, both in perpetual conflict with one another. Behind each faction are puns and robots, sometimes blind, sometimes conscious, often oblivious of the core issues, or at times egoistic, anxious to settle personal political grudges with perceived rivals. Why? This should be expected for anyone with a deep sense of history. During the 2015 Presidential election, the APC became a rainbow of conflicting groups with different motivating factors but united on the minimum programme of kicking out the Goodluck Jonathan regime which had dragged the country down a dark, chilling tunnel. The APC uprising against Jonathan was not driven by any ideological movement, but by the same vested interests whose disagreement is based on what methods should be used to keep the masses under their stranglehold. In form, they were different, in content they were the same. For one thing, Jonathan was a product of the same historic game of intrigues that has continued to undermine the interest of the people. He became the “candidate of the South” and “Ijaw leader”, the accolades he fueled as a strategy for survival. But in reality, he was not put forward by the Ijaw or the South, based on conviction, as their beloved, trusted son but rather imposed by the same Northern caliphate through their crony, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. It was the same enemy of the people that brought him, to delude the people and attempt to stabilize the system, in the wake of the Niger-Delta uprising led by the Ijaw people. Jonathan promised to restructure the country, the most profound intellectual meal ticket any Nigerian leader ever offered Nigeria, but there were proven doubts about his will and capacity to pull through this promise. He was held captive by many factors, the chief being the control of the National Assembly by the same primordial forces the idea the National Conference was to challenge. In the first place, the National Assembly in terms of numerical strength was orchestrated by past military regimes to ensure the victory of the Fulani hegemony at all times. All the states and Local Governments in Nigeria were created by the military, usually the Fulani agents. The delineation of wards and constituencies were created by the same group to give the North an eternal advantage. The population figures, the voters registration all have been maneuvered to give the impression that the North only needs one section from the South to win the Presidential election. This is fueled by the illusion that the Yoruba and the Igbo or South-South can never work together. So, ab initio, it was trite and lacking in critical thinking to have assumed that the reports of the National Conference would be approved by the undemocratic National Assembly. The only thing that can bring the National Conference is mass action and defiance by the aggrieved. Unfortunately, the APC that produced Buhari did not go to the election with any promise to restructure Nigeria. It was basically an alliance between the Yoruba and the Hausa Fulani to capture political power. Either we like it or not, the Tinubu group represents a trend in the APC, but the most profound of that strength is the fact that it was seen as the most potent political group representing the Yoruba, being one of the biggest ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. It was the first time the Yoruba would forge any alliance with the Fulani North. Unfortunately, the Tinubu group went into the alliance without any Memorandum of Understanding, MOU. It was propelled by the euphoria to oust Jonathan without any concrete projection about the contradictions that would follow. The major source of the perpetual conflict in Nigeria, which is the National Question was not put on the table, not negotiations with the Fulani North on the positions that should be reserved for the Yoruba. The Tinubu group obviously was not painstaking enough. There were elements of crass naiveté. One of Tinubu’s greatest errors is not to cultivate a support base driven by ideology and political education. His political powers are often derived from cash, and unlike Awolowo, not nurtured by ideas and mind-conscientisation through knowledge. His group runs no political education classes and yet hopes to sustain a great tradition among his people. This is an illusion. What has kept the Tinubu group strong is nothing but the absence of an ideologically driven movement in Yorubaland. The Tinubu group also lacks a conscious Think Thank but rather relies on mercenaries who often are not loyal and usually untrustworthy which is responsible for the high rate of defection in his camp. However, as it is, his group will definitely not last long, if it does not change its tactics, but nevertheless, it remains the most formidable among the power-seeking political groupings in Yoruba of today. We must admit that why the Tinubu group had some iota of determination to uplift the country from stupor and usher in some elements of rebirth, this philosophy of rebirth is secondary to the Fulani oligarchy. What the group wanted was not just the return of power not to the North, but to the hands of the Fulani supremacist. It must be noted that the choice of Buhari by the Fulani North was deliberate. He was seen as the best candidate that could muster the needed paradigm shift of power from the South to the North. Though initially the Northern oligarchy did not want him, but soon after the primary, he was adopted as the strategic peg needed. He met the figure that could arouse public support in the entire North. Why the Tinubu group in APC were hungry for the exit of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), the Fulani North was desperate for political power, through any of the existing political parties, realizing that whoever got the political power would get every other thing. The Tinubu group also relied on the so called ‘honest intention’ of Buhari, without realizing that being honest does not remove the fact that a honest leader can at the same time be brutal, egocentric, paranoid and inherently tribalistic. Buhari is all of the above.It is self defeatist to imagine that Buhari would transform the economy. He had not written any major intellectual book in his 40 year public life career. He had not written any essay, not even half a newspaper page on any topic of interest for the past 40 years. His only asset is Pula, the Fulani philosophy for self-discipline and endurance. There is no great nation that can emerge without ideas. No great leader has ever emerged without personal intellectual power engineered by knowledge and prowess in the art of written words and demonstrated political skills. The performance of Buhari in the past one year is an indication that his 18 month glory as former Head of State could be attributed to the skill of his late lieutenant, Tunde Idiagbon. Buhari's appointment of Ministers without consultation with the leaders of geo-political zones, except with his own Fulani cronies was deliberate. He wanted the Ministers to be loyal to him and his Fulani leaders. He wanted the largely naive Ministers not to be at liberty to build fresh political alliances that could neutralise his interests. As it, Buhari is about to fulfill the mission with which he has been designed. He is going to spend only one term. The plan is to replace him with another Fulani oligarch. By spending only one term, the North will have one advantage: it will be able to rule Nigeria for the next 12 years, instead of 8 years if Buhari re-contests in 2019. It is in this line that Atiku Abubakar spoke in favourof restructuring. But that remains a personal statement and not the collective will of the Fulani North. The Fulani sees Nigeria as her inheritance. When people talk about Fulani supporting development and growth, they are mistaking. Development and growth means education and a deeper sense of the past. But to the average Fulani, that remain an outstanding threat to survival and the Fulani ability to manipulate Nigeria and shape the country in her own image. The Fulani came to Nigeria less than 250 years ago. The population is just 7million. The tribe imposed her will on most part of the North through the 1804 Jihad. Since then, it has survived through the mastery of intrigues and subterfuge. Fulani is ruled by fear of its extinction, having been famished in most African countries where the nationality once held sway, leaving Nigeria as the only country where the Fulani maintains her brutal stronghold on power. Her most potent weapon is “divide and rule.” It is in the interest of the Fulani to keep on postponing the doomsday in Nigeria. This is because the disintegration of Nigeria will expose the emptiness of the Fulani and possibly fuel Hausa uprising. The Hausa are perhaps the most traumatised ethnic group in the world. The Hausa land having been seized and taken over in an irreversible Fulani revolution, the Fulani Emirs today control the entire Hausa indigenous land and territories. It is to her convenience to be referred to as Hausa Fulani, but deep down, the Fulani is supremacist in nature, distrusts and hates the average Hausa person. As the battle rages, between Tinubu and the Fulani North, there will be deceit and deception. Tinubu will be deceived into thinking the problem is Buhari. He will forge a new alliance with another Fulani group only for him to be disappointed again and again. The only alliance the Fulani understands is the one that sees the partner as a slave and the Fulani as the master. At the centre of all is the nationality question, the battle by ethnic lords to control Nigerian resources with Tinubu and Buhari being mere figures in the contest that did not start today. As 2019 draws nearer, the Fulani North is likely to realign with only one Fulani political figure, while the heat will be focused on Tinubu and his group. In this battle, every Yoruba person, unless those ready to play the second fiddle, will be seen as the enemy. The Fulani, with the state structure now firmly in her hands, will be more brutal and vicious in the campaign to decimate the South West, seek deceptive alliances with other regions, in other to isolate and humble her traditional foe, the Yoruba South West. It is in this context that agents of the Fulani are being recruited, across the South West to prosecute this primordial and well know war. Interestingly, if history serves as reference, this well known persecution and treachery of the Fulani, will only make Tinubu more popular among the Yoruba people. In the years, ahead, even Tinubu’s traditional enemies in Yorubaland will rally around him and rise up in his vigorous defence. Awo did not become a god until he was jailed by the Fulani oligarchy. MKO Abiola did not become a Yoruba icon until he was humiliated by the same Fulani North. The Yoruba people have a deep sense of history. Eliminating Tinubu will only make matter worse for a country that has not known peace since her forceful 1914 amalgamation. What will further save Tinubu is for him to go back to his people, the Yoruba, seek alliance with genuine forces working for the restructuring of Nigeria, and stop relying on building castles in the air, with the hope that a section of the Hausa-Fulani will one day align and work with him to rebuild Nigeria based on utilitarian values. At the end, the Fulani is not calculating enough and now at wits end. It would have been to the eternal glory of this race If the Fulani allow the culture of debate and democracy to nurture instead of being paranoid and ready to destroy everything in order to remain as the most precious political group. http://www.newspunch.org/2016/10/apc-feud-tinubu-yoruba-and-fulani-north.html?m=1 lalasticlala myndd44
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| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by HARDDON: 10:51pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
What a read! Myopically, the southerners be fighting thenselves while d less educated but highly bonded fulani run d rule. unfortunately, yoruba never learn. Where is amaechi , the wet basket now? Where r d ministers? Hopefully, senate impeach dis northern president soonest |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by TheEastActivist: 11:08pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
We warn them... One last bullet that will waste the west is if buhari form alliance with the east in the next election. Imagine what will happen to this afonjas ![]()
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| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by abokibuhari: 11:15pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
From afonja to awolowo to akintola to abiola to bola Ige to tinubu and to ![]() ? They keep on betraying their own for nothing. The Yoruba's are ani **** |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by malton: 11:16pm On Oct 06, 2016*. Modified: 12:16am On Oct 07, 2016 |
This issue has been over flogged one time too many. I for one, am very angry how things turned out. Tinubu deserves a lot more than he is getting. But it is becoming rather increasingly obvious that some invisible hands are now using the Tinubu angle, not out of love for the man or concern for the Yoruba nation. Instead, they are doing it with the sole intention of driving home their hate agenda. Any discernible mind can see through this ruse. Their aim is to ride on Tinubu's back for a cause far more disastrous. I am all for an impartial consideration of the interests of others. I'm a moralist to the core, and my POV goes beyond self-interest to a standpoint that takes everyone's interests into account, regardless of religious, cultural or social differences. But, they will sort themselves out. And they will be alright. We don't need constant reminding. Tinubu is a gladiator as is the Yoruba race an attractive, intelligent pacesetter. I'm sure they will pull through it alright. I mean, Lagos-Ibadan expressway is still ongoing. The SW is still attracting investments and government projects. On top of that, it remains the fastest growing region in the country. What's more? Fashola, Osinbajo and Fayemi are still Yoruba to the core of it. Mistaking Tinubu's ordeal to mean a demise or relegation of the thriving Yoruba people is tantamount to making a mountain out of a mole hill. |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by HARDDON: 11:16pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
TheEastActivist:Like releasing Kanu from prison n start siting major projects in d area? I dont think igbo r that gullible, they wud play along until d final day , then drive a 20inch nail into his coffin |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by hurricaneChris: 11:18pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
Hahahahahaha Please somebody should help me say " neighbour good morning" to whoever that wrote this gibberish. Suddenly he now realises that yoruba nation doesnt forget history. Lol They were reminded of how fulani humiliated Awolowo, they called their reminders "inconsequential" They were told how Abiola and his wife were sent to early grave by same fulani, they called them "bitter people" They also were reminded how the same fulani masters reduced Gen Diya, they called their reminders "%5ters" Today same thing is repeating itself, kuke the days of old. Throughout the history of the cesspool called nigeria, tgere hasnt been a conflict between yorubas and igbos, yet the see themselves as enemies, ready to kiss the dirty behind of a fulaniman, just to mock the other. Anyway, today jagaban is at the receiving end, let him understand that he's just a "willing tool" |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by id911(m): 11:21pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
Kai! The write-up is a masterclass. One wonders why the entire South can not come together to disengage ourselves from this ultra-conservative and unproductive North. Still thinking why... |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by TheFreeOne: 11:24pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
There were elements of crass naiveté. One of Tinubu’s greatest errors is not to cultivate a support base driven by ideology and political education. His political powers are often derived from cash, and unlike Awolowo, not nurtured by ideas and mind-conscientisation through knowledge. His group runs no political education classes and yet hopes to sustain a great tradition among his people. This is an illusion. What will further save Tinubu is for him to go back to his people, the Yoruba, seek alliance with genuine forces working for the restructuring of Nigeria, and stop relying on building castles in the air, with the hope that a section of the Hausa-Fulani will one day align and work with him to rebuild Nigeria based on utilitarian values. |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by basilo101: 11:43pm On Oct 06, 2016 |
I mean, these things were clear right from the onset, how on earth can the afonjas fail to see them from beginning, where is the sophistication? |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by malton: 12:00am On Oct 07, 2016 |
See them masturbating on this thread as though their bread just got served. You insult them to their faces and still call for an alliance. Like, who swore at you?! |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by Shym3xx: 12:12am On Oct 07, 2016 |
@ChessEnthusiast Interesting read. Who wrote this Op-ed? This person is very intelligent. I checked the link but the website looks somewhat too tacky for me. But have they got twitter page? |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by EternalTruths: 12:41am On Oct 07, 2016 |
Good morning Afonjas |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by landinfo: 1:22am On Oct 07, 2016*. Modified: 5:09am On Oct 07, 2016 |
ChessEnthusiast:Someburry shld tell this sponsored Afonja & all other sponsored Afonjas @ lagos-ibadan road, Shariareimbursers & the onliners that the North never gives a dam abt media-convictions infact they wine & dine with the Western powers so no shakings. ChessEnthusiast:Na wa oooo....every marriage/union go thru pains & diffuculties so nothing new in AP.shi.t ChessEnthusiast:Fufufufu....look @ all this Afonjas, so u pple knew that the useless party nothing to offer Nigerians & yet supported 2 vote them in just cause of the hatred for GEJ ![]() The thunder wey go strike una ehn still dey mt. Sinai ChessEnthusiast:Yes, GEJ promised effective restructuring but Afonjas' hatred coupled with their blind-thirst 4 power reduced themselves (to sla.ves) for paltry sums & not only that, they ditched the same National Conferences they have been championing for decades (they also campaigned against it), selling their birthright for what ~~~30 pieces of cowriesChessEnthusiast:Afonja, abeg spare me story & park well....sho, na 2day u know say Aboki na born 2 rule Foolish & idiotic comments, thinking say una go get sympathy Abeg fly enter Lagoon joooorChessEnthusiast:What has changed in History till date U guys might as well (since historians don die finish) ask the dead men from Afon 2 Akintola 2 Awo & MK dons about the consistent defeat una dey always suffer every now & then una enter satanic feast with Jezebel aka Satan ChessEnthusiast:Admit what Our collective money in tha hands of selective few Monopolistics tendencies create hunger, slavery, strife, etc (ask Dangote). Competition brings joy...no mattter how wealthy/rich a a man is, ifhis siblings are poor, then he himself is poor.Ibru may be a thief but he established all his 5/6 brothers to be.cum Billionaires, fight one Ibru & watch how 50 something Ibrus worldwide put the fight upon themselves (that is what it means to be rich by empowering pple not stealing Lagos money to give ur pple paltry sums in the name of salary)----ant work Baboon chop clean mouth ChessEnthusiast:Story Story.....Story once upon this time don passs abeg ChessEnthusiast:& this is what I hate abt the Afonjas....pretentious humans known as the world "acclaimed" 2-faced baskards.....u mean u forgot 1984 (30yrs kpere) so quickly all for VP juicy post & baby appointments ChessEnthusiast:U can't eat ya cake & have it....Just Negodu Can u see why I refererred to these guys as the 2-faced Baskards that they are Imagine, just say the marriage fit no hold again na I'm this Afonja remember say Bubu no go pry school, no write article/journal~~~ee nefer reach 2 yrs oooo, this Afonja remember where hin hide hin brain sha![]() The best thing to happen to anybody na to work for the same office or yard with an Afonja & u go run ask office/mortgage bank make them borrow u money (na to use am build house ONLY for ur family alone knowing say na for only office u & them go wear one trouser put. B4 I forget, remind this guy say them nefer born the Afonja wey go use & dump Aboki instead na them go use u clear toilet ChessEnthusiast:Una say Jona aka SS no go rule cos hin favour Igbos, so Aboki continue to chop no clean mouth for the next 50yrs after all na since 1914 oyibo give una power ChessEnthusiast:After them finish with una, na hin u remember history ba ![]() Europeans & Asian enter America pursue the Red-Indian aka the Yankees, Euroepans do same for Aussies aka Aborigines, Europeans, Dutch & Indians do same for S/Africa also Aboki do same for Kwara so Afonja give me story wey I no sabi abeg ChessEnthusiast:Witch battle, there was never a battle in the 1st place abeg Afonja don't misled pple....Thief.nubu was @ most a steeping stone for other important affairs to the North ChessEnthusiast:Sophisticated chest-beaters ChessEnthusiast:Nothing go happen....if he is smart, he shld rest jejelycos Jona dey humble even though hin files full Asotable that time. This Bubu nobe Jona wey dey forgiving, this guy go put all of them for prison throway Keys for ISIS lion's den & the bobo go from hero to zero to rat poison or injection or be given the tea treatment ChessEnthusiast:Na wa oooo...still going back to the same vomit Why these Afonjas hate history & like to do the proverbvial saying;"""Slaves who love their masters chains were taken to the city square & a hole was cut open for them on both sides of their ear""" ChessEnthusiast:Yes, Aboki no get sense, no go schoool, no dey calculating BUT 9ja dey their hand since 1914 till date ![]() Mehn that type of sense na him guys need we be say without me, u no go see food chop even when u say I no get sense oooo |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by mandax: 1:46am On Oct 07, 2016 |
Presidential election campaign was about to begin in 2014. Every Fulani that mattered attended every important Owambe party, including funeral services and even chieftaincy installations in Yoruba land. Election day in 2015, Yoruba gave Fulani Buhari winning votes to return power to Fulani. Election over, you can hardly find Fulani in Yoruba Owambe parties. President has been to Osun state. |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by timeman: 3:49am On Oct 07, 2016 |
TINUBU helping the media make a fortune. So they wish it lasts forever. Suddenly, everyone is loving him to pieces. I always SMILE with PRIDE whenever i see Afonja Slaves gloat & scream Afonja!. They're obviously condemned to slavery, only to look up to Afonja for freedom, they continually cry at the feet of Afonja to lead their fight to freedom. By your slavish destiny, you shall serve Afonja both in lagos & other SW regions both day & night. The rhetorics of Awo & MKO is fast becoming a cliche in every sense of the word. Awo & MKO's demise had an undertone of the WEST without which the North couldn't have done nothing. And besides, who toppled Gowon,Buhari,Shagari? Killed Murtala,abacha?. It tells that the north do worse things to themselves than anyother. Igbos should spare us their tales about Awo/Mko, but remind themselves of the 650,000 in the north as well as the over 3million in the east. Without the yorubas this nation is all doomed. No time for radarada. All hail Afonja Kiss the truth! |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by ikechu1: 4:11am On Oct 07, 2016 |
Yolobs hAve been used and dumped. They were warned but they formed "sophisticated". Mschewwww please move on from story and give us something else. We are tired of rubbish articles |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by Malawian(m): 9:57pm On Oct 07, 2016 |
TheEastActivist:Oga, i gwa gi eziokwu, it will be more possible for us to ally with the yoruba than with the fulani. Onwero ihe anyi na ndi ahu na akpa ozo. We can always match the yoruba for wits and may even end up exalting each other through such competition. We cant rub minds with people who would rather break your skull altogether. |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by obaaderemi: 4:56pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
basilo101:It is the same divide and rule tactic the north has always used to separate the yorubas and the osus.if u swallow this bait,and rejoice over it,u have fallen into the snare of the herdsmen against 2019.its all a plan |
| Re: APC Feud: Tinubu, Yoruba And The Fulani North, By Irohin Oodua by obaaderemi: 5:43pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
ikechu1:Why did u read? |
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