donstan18:
As usual, aside FFK and some few, hardly will you see a typical politician from the WEST hitting straight forward .

Just look at how he ended up saying nothing, busy beating around without condemning and supporting what should be condemned and supported.

To the gullible ones thinking Tinubu cares for them, do well to have it in mind that he'll choose the North over you lots just to get presidential ticket.

I'm sorry to say, ure illogical and irrational if this is what u can come up with.. I guess ure from the east where people/leader talk anyhow and boast anyhow..

Jagaban was careful with his choice of words. I think he sits on the fence on this matter but he did not deny his people.

beside let me ask u what will jagaban support or oppose do to SW gov movement to legalise ??

I guess u wish he condemned it so u will now use his word against his political ambition .lol

He just disappointed u. he already answered people like u in the epistle , that is if u can read rationally.


Respect to Jagaban.

AyakaDunukofia:
Bola Tinubu[/b]

The above excerpt is Tinubu's main position as regards Amotekun. He is a federalist and for him Amotekun would define and ignite that needed process toward federalism. All other statements there is to not alienate his Fulnani political mates.

I disagree with such approach. He doesnt want to alienate fulani political mates but his fulani political mates, one after another, are insulting his Yoruba political elders. What kind of reasoning is that?

AreaFada2:

Very wishy washy my dear. Pretending as though Malami didn't get clearance from Buhari.

Being overly diplomatic and political is obfuscation.

It's like trying to spread blame to others except Buhari.

Did he get the point of view of Buhari on the matter before this epistle?
Enough of speaking from both sides of the Mouth.

The reason for SS and SE to stay out of it. Otherwise they will soon blame "outsiders" for fanning the embers of hate between SW and the North.

SW want Amotekun. The North says no. How hard is it to succinctly say where you stand on it?

so assuming ure in his shoe and position u would have said Yes in support or No in against. that ll b very intelligent of u , don't u think so .

donstan18:
As usual, aside FFK and some few, hardly will you see a typical politician from the WEST hitting straight forward .

Just look at how he ended up saying nothing, busy beating around without condemning and supporting what should be condemned and supported.

To the gullible ones thinking Tinubu cares for them, do well to have it in mind that he'll choose the North over you lots just to get presidential ticket.

Lol honestly I stopped reading cuz I didn't understand what he s saying

ucham:

You are a wise man my brother. Please keep asking these questions so that those with discernment can understand what we are up against in Nigeria.

mental slavery is becoming too much in the South. you see even our leaders afraid to talk about anything that will upset the north because everyone think they are the key of Nigeria. we take turn asslicking the north. they forget peace is fought for not gifted

Iamgrey5:
Tinubu is speaking from both sides of his mouth on this.

Summary of what he said:

He is not saying that Amotekun is bad but he is not saying the government is wrong either.

However, both of them cannot be right at the same time because the government's position on Amotekun about the legality of it.


Federal Government had the luxury of consulting with the state governments directly to understand their operations before they chose that position.

Thanks bros. He is just trying to be politically correct instead of hitting the nail on the head. Nigeria needs to be restructured. It was part of the Apc manifestos. I stand by regional autonomy. Enough of this failed experiment, and yes to true federalism

danilmo:



so assuming ure in his shoe and position u would have said Yes in support or No in against. that ll b very intelligent of u , don't u think so .

Diplomacy is good and tact is desired but those two attributes have their place. On Amotekun, and regarding Tinubu, those two organs of eelationship do not fit in. What Tinubu needa at this juncture is Firmness. He failed to demonstrate the necessary leadership needed here.

Kwamecron:
When the lion step in the ring, every Animal calm and listen carefully.



I guess our fellow SE n SS ppl can now take a bowl for us now.




The Yoruba ppl are no coward, but the main brain of Nigeria Unity and existence.



When we demand the international community listen with kin ear.


The political brain of Nigeria has spoken.


U might lack his stand or understanding, but I advice you to seek an analysis.

Yoruba ppl don’t throw away the bathing water and the baby together.

fucking chest beater speaking. You people are back stabers without bearing and direction. It beat my imagination that you guys are the most learned clan and yet uneducated hausas keep you guys at Bay. Bunch of lunatic who think in their own way they are wise.

Kwamecron:
When the lion step in the ring, every Animal calm and listen carefully.



I guess our fellow SE n SS ppl can now take a bowl for us now.




The Yoruba ppl are no coward, but the main brain of Nigeria Unity and existence.



When we demand the international community listen with kin ear.


The political brain of Nigeria has spoken.


U might lack his stand or understanding, but I advice you to seek an analysis.

Yoruba ppl don’t throw away the bathing water and the baby together.

Wow ,Tinubu is so handsome

Lostz:
mental slavery is becoming too much in the South. you see even our leaders afraid to talk about anything that will upset the north because everyone think they are the key of Nigeria. we take turn asslicking the north. they forget peace is fought for not gifted

Precisely! Tinubu's position further reinforces their false perception that they are "untouchable". He failed to hit them with the stick when they are caught in a compromised act.

You fvck em up first, and then you apologise much later.

Lets forget Tinubu and return to Amotekun.

If you are not with Amotekun you are a terrorist and there is no middle way, you must choose between Sango and Amotekun. Awon were!

Lostz:
mental slavery is becoming too much in the South. you see even our leaders afraid to talk about anything that will upset the north because everyone think they are the key of Nigeria. we take turn asslicking the north. they forget peace is fought for not gifted

So true!

MayorofLagos:


Precisely! Tinubu's position further reinforces their false perception that they are "untouchable". He failed to hit them with the stick when they are caught in a compromised act.

You fvck em up first, and then you apologise much later.

Lets forget Tinubu and return to Amotekun.

If you are not with Amotekun you are a terrorist and there is no middle way, you must choose between Sango and Amotekun. Awon were!

this country need to burn someday so we all know our place. respect earned will always last long. you don't beg to get respect .


we need to rebuild this country. I don't know how an attempt to defend one's life will lead to all this many headline

MayorofLagos:


Diplomacy is good and tact is desired but those two attributes have their place. On Amotekun, and regarding Tinubu, those two organs of eelationship do not fit in. What Tinubu needa at this juncture is Firmness. He failed to demonstrate the necessary leadership needed here.

lemme ask u this?? What ll b the effect of his yes or no.

Does saying yes or no has implications?? what are they.

Meanwhile Tinubu had already answered everybody in just a statement. He who is wise enough ll pick his own part and digest.

I wish u learn some certain principles from Tinubu, no wonder he has lasted as national leader up to this level, with his style, he hasn't lost any battle of recent.

This one na meditation.

So where there already ain't we.....Firstly am a pure Yoruba guy so no one should see me to say things cos am from a diff tribe....we Yoruba's should face the fact and be sincere with ourselves for ones....tinubu doesn't really fucking care and won't jeopardize his presidency ambition cos of one Amotekun....all wat he wrote there is soo much but points to virtually noting ...Tinubu is a politician and a good one at that so he knws the only way to be save on this issue is to seat on the fence.....for wat in particular "So his ambition for presidency won't be truncated.... And wat makes him believe is 100% certain he will be alive till 2023...this is the same man that placed us carefully into the hands of the northerners...." yes I said" cos that was wat he did. ..I did my NYSC in the northern part of the state and now I keep asking myself "why are the northerners so afraid of a possible Nigerian breakup".... I tink I now ave the answer and its simple " The COALITION called Nigeria favours only the North" ...60% of there states are as dead as a graveyard economically and all they wait for is FG allocation....lastly let me say this.....we are only patching things up and its just a matter of time before the imminent happens and Nigeria will sieze to continue....I will be here in 2023 wen the north will present there candidate and tell our so called jagaban to go Bleep himself....let's stop the jokes Oduduwa pple ....Tinubu is not a leader ....

immaculatesense:

Lol...dis makes me laugh...honesty am sorry for all i said to u...so sorry...ur not all I described... Far from it...accept my apology

sha do well to send the thunder o i chest beaters irk me. An illiterate herdsman called all yorubas primitive you didn't send thunder to him ,na my body you wan get power abi?, i am chilling and waiting for the thunder in this harmattan

Born2Breed:

Sorry your people as finally closed your chances of becoming president the more

Tinubu is wise

donstan18:
As usual, aside FFK and some few, hardly will you see a typical politician from the WEST hitting straight forward .

Just look at how he ended up saying nothing, busy beating around without condemning and supporting what should be condemned and supported.

To the gullible ones thinking Tinubu cares for them, do well to have it in mind that he'll choose the North over you lots just to get presidential ticket.

What more do you expect from a yoloba man "they move with the wind "

dreu2fine:

Sorry your people as finally closed your chances of becoming president the more

I don't think any Edo person is fighting,lying, betraying and killing themselves like your people to become President.

danilmo:


so assuming ure in his shoe and position u would have said Yes in support or No in against. that ll b very intelligent of u , don't u think so .

What position? Hoping the North will give him presidency?

That's more important than the lives of Yoruba and other Nigerians being slaughtered?

Even if he became president, he will also try to be too intelligent and do nothing about herdsmen in the SW or South as a whole.

People like you will still defend him by saying he needs to secure second term first. In his second term over intelligence will require him to mellow so that Yoruba can get another chance to rule in the future.

Pa Awo put personal ambition behind SW interest. Otherwise he could have worked with the North in the first republic to gain central power. But he found them not progressive enough to work with centrally. So it would not benefit Nigerians at the rate of development he envisaged.

A truly selfless and intelligent Southern politician right now would again rather fight for decentralisation. Amotekun is a tentative step.

CyberWolf:
Aside NK Who does not speak for Igbos but his IPOB, tell me any other prominent Igbo man that is propagating this Amotekun? Sometimes you people talk like idiot just to look smart.

Please check the identity of all the comments on this matter in nairaland. Start with this first. You sound like the idiot.

Tinubu is the author; not the writer of this piece.

DONSMITH123:


https://punchng.com/breaking-tinubu-breaks-silence-says-amotekun-not-threat-to-national-unity/

“Until now, I have deliberately maintained a studied silence regarding Amotekun. Many have tried to goad my swift public reaction. Those who have taken this road did so not because they care about Amotekun or even the people it intends to help protect. They did so knowing this had become a delicate and emotional issue for many. These cynics did so with the adversarial hope that, in haste, I might misspeak or misstep in a manner they could twist to their political advantage.

This statement from Tinubu is very true !

It's really interesting and satisfying to see how disappointed Igbos are..

This is why I love Asiwaju Tinubu, he's always the most sensible, logical and strategic adult in the room.

God Bless Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Politics on his mind.......... He betrayed his people for politics...... And northerners would not vote for you.....

DONSMITH123:


https://punchng.com/breaking-tinubu-breaks-silence-says-amotekun-not-threat-to-national-unity/

. The question is are u in support or not? Tinubu is only using language to stand on the fence.He is only protecting his ambition because he knows whatever he says may be used against him or on his favour.My submission is that there is nothing special about his speech that is more or less limping on two opinions. He is not greater above the south west so Amotekun project is a Yoruba project with or without Tinubu

tinsel:

Please check the identity of all the comments on this matter in nairaland. Start with this first. You sound like the idiot.

So opinions on an anonymous forum is higher than prominent Yoruba men like Afe Babalola, Prof. Wole Soyinka, etc.? You really an idiot.

I fear for the future of this country o. Why are we the youths so hasty to jump on a band wagon without double checking.

We all know the reasons and aims of this initiative called Amotekun, it is a very laudable idea but we are yet to know to what extent it operations will be. Neither do we know how it will be coordinated. There are many questions that needs answering and many modalities to put in place.

For those of us that were around when the first OPC was started, you will remember it was more of a militia than a protector until sanity started coming into their operations, now its more a shadow of itself because of some overzealousness of its members which made people loose faith in them.

Coming back to this Regional Amotekun network, I'm yet to see anybody quote from the constitution (though flawed, yet still our law), an part to support or against this initiative.

My opinions and questions are as follows:

We operate a federal system of government not.regional (at least that's what my Government teacher taught us in school back then). So we shouldn't be expecting the government to see a regional setup as lawful or legal.

If the above is correct, therefore we need to take the Amotekun initiative back to be a state setup in order for it to go in tandem with the existing laws. Each state can name its own whatever it wants but In our hearts we know its a Southwest defense mechanism and we are free to have meeting based on that.

My questions are:

1. Let's say the Amotekun works out now because all the south west governors ascribe to it, what happens to the outfit if after another election, a governor say I'm no more interested or if there is a fall out between two states sharing borders, how would that be handled?

2. How would the Amotekun members and their operations be curtailed if they turn on the people of the southwest they were supposed to protect? if they turn mafia? taking laws into their hands?

3. How will they be funded, equipped and paid? Will all these also come from the federal allocations? or Will we the citizens be over taxed again to accommodate that outfit? Remember #30,000 minimum wage saga.

I love this idea. but
let all these be explained to us before we put out a project that wouldn't last the test of time.

Note:: This is my personal opinion, you have a right to yours.