₦airaland Forum

efighter:
Would Obaseki have been governor without Oshiomhole?

Iblad0994:
Sometimes I feel pity for the Igbos and how they relegated themselves in the scheme of things.

In politics, it’s about knowing when to build and switch alliance, and no permanent enemies. The SW is a region that have eschew the ideology of blame game. Even when we are in the opposition, we’ve always coordinated with tact and we know outright hatred in politics is devastating.

Now the Igbos, a majority who always have the SS in their bag are afraid to even contest for the primary presidential ticket of PDP, a party they have always been loyal to all their lives. The reason is that while other tribesmen are building bridges, the Igbo man believes the world is an island, and thinking he can achieve everything alone.

I don’t know about the loyalty of the North, whether they will vote for a SW or not, but I’m very sure the North will know that keeping power above 2023 might be dangerous for the unity of Nigeria.

As for those who said the Yorubas don’t show unity in voting, write this down, if the APC brings out a credible Yoruba man, then you should be rest assured he will get a block vote in the SW.

Anytime a Yoruba man is on the ballot, SW voting pattern changes and they give at least 85%:
Abiola had it.
Falae had it.
Obasanjo had it for his second term.
BAT/Fashola/Osinbajo will also have it.

bamosagie:
I don't know about SE but SS is definitely voting North

QuotaSystem:
The PDP are the originators of zoning. Their failure to respect zoning in 2011 when they denied the North the opportunity to finish its turn by forcing Jonathan on the party as a scam "consensus candidate", was the main reason for their defeat in the 2011 Presidential elections (as even disgruntled northern PDP members, including the chairman, worked against GEJ) which signaled the beginning of the party's downfall that they're still struggling to recover from.

PDP will therefore not dare repeat their 2011 mistake by denying the south its turn in 2023. APC is also fielding a SW candidate with the support of its CPC & ANPP northern wing (despite SW splitting votes ) .

It is only fair for power to move south after 8 years of northern Presidency. This country is on a delicate balance and we know an attempt to dominate the Presidency for 16 years is a recipe for national chaos, so we will definitely support the south.

2023 will be very interesting.

juman:
Free sowore.

He is fighting for common man.
This apc government is handling things badly.
Millions of Nigerians gerians are dying of extreme hunger.

jayfolarin:
The Dss station sowore is being held should be stormed by irate youths and they shouldn't leave until sowore is released.

Only 1000 angry youths and I can assure you sowore will be free that day!

Wake up Nigerians!! Power belongs to you not the politicians

Ediit: for the government trolls asking me to go lead the protest. You have no idea how powerful a leader-less protest is. An example is the Hongkong protest that has gone on for several months now. Wiith no defined leaders, just a group of angry youths protesting, the Dss and police have no one to kill or arrest in order to quench the protests

Like I said, think! The power belongs to you. Not the politicians

teadrake:
So they should stay there and die? We have many flaws as a nation but we're not barbarians. SA is country full of barbarian even their President is a notorious idiot. That unfortunate man has not said anything till date in condemnation of such an unfortunate attack which literally means he is in full support. They will soon hear it

dheilaw1:
Seyi Makinde might make me want to consider PDP in d 2023 general elections.. This man is really making me want to think there is still hope in this country

sarrki:
Mr president you are not being patriotic

In short words you are a disappointment to we that support you genuinely

richie240:
As in ehn, my brother I tire o. Today they are biafran tomorrow they are Nigerians ,next tomorrow they are biafrans again


After insulting Nigeria (zoo) and threatening to bring down d head of d president, d clown is still calling on d same "jubril" to save his rowdy lots.
Wonders shall never end!

Mercy2006:
Girl, this ur penchant for calling everyone who speaks against your nonsense a Yoruba Muslim is not only insulting but it's getting stale.Borrow urself brain small now.In ur small closed mind now,u think Yoruba Christians don't have a mind of their own,abi? You think when u igbos insult our tribe we just roll over and applaud you.No Yoruba will take ur nonsense lying down,be he a Christian or a Muslim.let that sink okay? Have read ur comments on this forum,and they leave a lot to be desired.By the way,what are you even doing here? Do your parents know you are always here spewing half truths or lies on daily basis? The picture you always paste like a demented person shows people protesting ur overbearing attitude in lagos peacefully,at least show the one where they are fighting you,mumu.Face ur education and leave these stuffs to the grown ups,OK?

Arewa1408:
Then why are you requesting that he says something. I thought Kanu is your leader, why don't you have Kanu instruct SA President and Police chief to stop the xenophobic attacks??

Rilwayne001:
I just saw a video of Nigerians over there getting set to retaliate. I could see them dropping matchet from a car boot and they were speaking Yoruba. And this foolish troglodyte and his fellow dumkopf on Twitter are saying 5%.
Ogun kill una there

NOHOLDSBAR:
The retarded brainwashed albino terrorist monkey is at it again. He should go and declare war in SA.
This monkey can't help but blame Buhari for everything in his sorry life. When he can't get erection to finish his adult movie...Na Buhari's fault.

post=81887314:
The best time his Biafra should have materialized was the 6 years the drunken Jona was in power.
They would have gotten it on a platter of gold with no stress from the self proclaimed 'Ebele'!
But what happened, he kept mute, they were all enjoying stolen funds and he started shouting Biafra again the moment PMB became President just to cause unrest in the nation.
Porn.star Cownu!


Suddenly Jubril has turned to President Buhari?!
Cownu, the Unstable Mad man.

post=81887304:
This foolish porn.star bastard is the greatest hypocrite of all time.
Where was he during the ineffectual buffon, Jona regime when this xenophobia issue started.
Something they should have nipped in the bud years ago before it turn huge and bad like this.
They all kept mute cos they were busy milking our country dry and collecting taxes in billions of dollars from the south African businesses here.
With majority of them buying shares worth BILLIONS in these same South African companies.
And they all ran down the Nigerian companies that came as a competitor to them (HiTv et al......)

Same set of people that call their fellow brothers and sisters OSU OUTCAST having the gut to talk about another country doing the same thing.
He is only out to politicize everything.
Foolish cownu, the Troublemaker, that said out of all the people he caused to die through python dance, it was his dog JACK he missed the most.
*Spits*


The best time his Biafra should have materialized was the 6 years the drunken Jona was in power.
They would have gotten it on a platter of gold with no stress from the self proclaimed 'Ebele'!
But what happened, he kept mute, they were all enjoying stolen funds and he started shouting Biafra again the moment PMB became President just to cause unrest in the nation.
Porn.star Cownu!

harjorlarh:
No it's never too late to learn,but when u choose to learn ABC when ur mates are learning integration and geometry,u will definitely live with the consequences of being behind.2023 is long time to come and I know that SW still has a better shot than the SE

Ritchiee:
This is no news because you will always vote for PDP like zombies even if the candidate is a goat.

In the long run, a Yorubaman will still become the president..

helinues:
Give just like that? Mtcheeeew

Let them contests the Apc primaries if they have balls

happney65:
Yeye.I have asked you were there an agreement to support so so and so person in the 2015 election and the agreement was not abided with?Look let me tell you something you dont know..In democracy majority carries the vote.How many is the voting block of the SS/SE?You mean the SE that did not even come out to vote massively for their son in the last elections?seat down there and be playing ethnic politics.. If the North decides to hand over the APC ticket to a yoruba man come 2023,it is yoruba's that will win except if the north decides otherwise.At least till the 2023,5 Yoruba states will be controlled by the APC

Sit down there playing ethnic politics,If you want to win you go for the jagular..something Tinubu and co did with Buhari even though they knew Buhari was a disaster..

helinues:
Until we have electable and acceptable candidates from Igbo. Or are there any in the past elections?

candidtalk:
Bro, you sound intelligent so stop trying to pretend to miss the obvious because doing so suits your parochial argument. If you understand the 'business as usual' ethos that has ruled/ruined Nigeria since 1999 then you will know immediately that 1999 to 2015 (when GEJ was voted out) was about selecting 'gate keepers' who will keep it business as usual for those who felt Nigeria is their property. It would not have mattered who led Nigeria then, whether Igbo or Yoruba, because administrative talent was not what the PDP wanted but a corrupt pair of hands, wherever those hands may be from, that will keep the riches of Nigeria in the hands of a few.

Things are different now because PDP can now not force nearnderthals Yorubas like OBJ on us any longer and cannot prevent 'loaded' technocrats like Osinbajo, Fashola or Fayemi aspiring for highest office. Igbos like Elumelu or Agbakoba would qualify but you played yourself with running an agenda of hating and fighting others to a standstill. That talk of "what has Yoruba Presidency done for Yorubas" is idiotic because we are all well-educated to know that the wrong Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa/Fulani et al is a waste of time. That was what obtained in the past i.e kingmakers ensuring the worst in every region was empowered (OBJ, GEJ et al) to suit an agenda of continuous looting of our commonwealth.

Non in the group of Osinbajo, Fashola, Fayemi or even Tinubu will fail to move Nigeria forward because they are all progressive men of ideas who will live (work with our corrupt environment) and let live as per delivering progress that will move Nigeria to the next level and take us away from a mono-economy slavishly dependent on oil income alone.

Dagrace01:
The North knows the level of their fragility without the Yorubas.. But that doesn't change the fact that their hunger for power won't make them make a costly mistake. But seriously? They know the Yorubas to be very triickish game players, and that's why they won't wanna thread on a fragile terrace. From my own opinion anyways, the North and the West shouldn't be d ones vying for power in 2023, the East deserved it no doubt, but the fact that they don't believe in one Nigeria is warrisome. I can't allow a person who intends to leave my house at any point in time to be my security or guard, my family will be in danger. Wilth time an egg will walk!

candidtalk:
You don't get it do you? Have we told you our votes alone will see a Yoruba man in Aso rock come 2023? No. Our powers of negotiation and bridge-building will. Remember how Igbos spoke as if Yorubas were done and vanquished after GEJ won in 2015 and empowered Igbos everywhere? What did the Yorubas do in response to that and what is the status quo today?

Contrast this to what Igbos have done since losing out in 2015 with 'Azikiwe' Jonathan. You Igbos, a great and major ethnic group in Nigeria, simply constituted yourselves into a nuisance queuing behind a failed london scammer called Kanu instead of adopting strategic and deliberate actions to return you to the forefront of Nigerian politics.

harjorlarh:
Building bridges and ipobians wanted to disgrace Buhari just last week at Japan,you people should be sincere to yourself,the Yoruba people have be aligning themselves politically for 2023 since 2015 and you guys have been threating secession since 2015,so because of 2023 u wanna build bridges??

Ritchiee:
I do not think that the Northerners are as daft as the Igbos think they are.An intelligent people will know when to call it quit.
Let them continue to wail.A Yoruba will become the president in 2023.

Ritchiee:
I would love Igbos too to rule but not in 2023 because a lot of Nigerians do not want them now for obvious reasons.
Let us take Nigeria out of this sordid situation or split.
Igbos are very competent but why don´t we give power to the most competent according to the history of Nigeria so as to drive development?.
My twopence,though..

helinues:
Just as 2011 never existed in you people's calendar...

Hahahahhahah

happney65:
What do you mean by southern unity?Did we have any agreement with anybody to support GEJ mainly because he was from the SS or what are you saying?Abi you were in Kosovo when the SW voted for GEJ in 2011 and two southern states voted for Atiku in 2019 Oyo and Ondo states as against our son that is Vice president

Do you think we the SW play tribal politics?No we dont..We simply play the politics you think is good for us henceforth what Tinubu and co did in 2015 even though it was wrong,he simply did what an average politician would do. abi you wont also do the same.. so when I see you people saying unity and saying the SW betrayed you am like was there an agreement to support GEJ for reelection in 2015 or what?Please dont angry me o

candidtalk:
And the Yorubas don't really care because we are the only ethnic group that keeps evolving politically in Nigeria. The North is still attached to central power because they myopically see this as crucial to their prosperity without realising it is the backward and conservative politics the leaders of the region practice that has condemned them to under-development.

The Igbos are inflexible mentally and cannot focus politically because their national and even world view remains limited to seeking enemies to fight instead of just accepting that politics remain about permanent interest and not permanent friendship or enmity.

The Yorubas are pragmatic and if one door closes we find another to open. DAWN initiative was devised to bypass how the PDP tried to choke the development of the SW under OBJ and then Yar Adua/GEJ. We are not Igbos to shout secession/Biafra alone or Northerners to think we must remain tied to the apron strings of Nigeria forever. We won't accept not being equal stakeholders in Nigeria as Igbos have settled for and we won't subscribe to being unfair to other Nigerians to monopolise the most influential offices in Nigeria for the benefit of ourselves and our 'big men' alone as the North does. Yorubas remain ready for whatever happens because people who seek solutions and progress always will manage to land on their feet whatever the future throws up.

http://dawncommission.org/

VillagePipu:
Not so, Igbos have no choice in this matter, they MUST support North. Even if the North pushes them away, they have nowhere to go.