₦airaland Forum

MaziUche0:
sjeezy8,

Herbert Macaulay was not a Yoruba. He was of Sierra Leone Creole descent. Do not peddle such lies. He was just raised in Lagos. It is like calling an Igbo raised in Lagos a Yoruba.

Like I said, I don't understand why people like Lagos so much. Calabar is a much more descent place.

Nchara:
http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_2449.html

MaziUche0:
Ok Lagos was "hot." But if it wasn't for Eastern "swag," that city would be nothing.

chyz:
Igbos and Niger Deltans were in lagos before Nigeria was one so whats your point? Also im still waiting for your evidence.dont run away from something you brought up.Be a man.

MaziUche0:
To be honest, as much as Igbos and "Niger Deltans" have contributed to that city, we should be getting more than just "cabinet" positions.

nellaluv:
shattap there, always yarning dust.
Small boy like you, got enuff benjaminz

O-GAY-WA:
Nice to see our young men getting married

chyz:
You are arguing about something that is unnecessary. Lagos/lagos state is a ethnically diverse place such as Port Harcourt/rivers state. If the Hospitality is the case and Igbos dont give cabinet positions to Yoruba then apart from lagos are oyo,osun, ogun, ekiti,ondo giving igbos more cabinet positions than imo,enugu,anambra, abia, and ebonyi are giving yorubas positions. if so, then show the proof or hold your peace!

sjeezy8:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010  

[size=14pt]Hausa/Fulani, Igbo traders, others meet with Daniel [/size]

Ademola Oni, Abeokuta


Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel

Daniel, who said this in Abeokuta on Monday, declared that there was no basis for such a negative development as being speculated and added that the state remained "a great promoter of inter-ethnic unity."

The governor spoke while receiving leaders and members of the various ethnic groups resident in the state, who paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House.

Speculations were rife over the weekend that some armed Hausa/Fulani had gathered in Ibafo and set to attack some locations in the state and Lagos, a claim the state police command had faulted, saying the people sighted in Ibafo were traders recently displaced in Mile 12, Lagos.

He said, "The Fulani will not make trouble because we are one and members of the same family and they are part and parcel of the peaceful co-existence and developments in the state.

"In Ogun, we have various tribes and ethnic groups living peacefully with one another as well as with the indigenes and there is no problem and we shall continue to foster inter-ethnic unity."

The governor, who reacted to the complaints of some of the groups about multiple levies being paid by their traders in the state, directed local government councils in the state to stop the collection of such reported illegal levies.

Daniel acknowledged that the disagreement between the traders and the local government officials had led to the acute scarcity of pepper and vegetables in the South-West last week.

The Secretary of the Hausa Community in the state, Alhaji Iunwa Garba,urged the governor help the group in the construction of itssecretariat, while praising the state government in ensuring peacefulcoexistence among different ethnic nationalities in the state.

Some of the ethnic nationalities in attendance included Hausa,Fulani,Igbo, Ishan, Isoko, Igede among others.

The governor described the visit as very symbolic in the quest for national unity and progress.

Daniel said, "This is a time of all manner of national challenges but we must not lose faith or hope. Nigeria, since creation, has challenges but all these challenges are temporal. We are resilient people and right here in Ogun, if we can create unity in diversity, there is no way it cannot happen in other locations as there is no second class citizen in our state. I hope the unity we are celebrating in this hall today will become nationwide."

He noted that the state government would two slots out of six had been conceded to non indigenes in the training of a group of professionals in China who would enjoy government's scholarship.

[size=13pt]"In Ogun, we are one united family. In my cabinet, I have the Igbo and Hausa people working with me and I will encourage our local government chairmen to bring in non-indigenes into their cabinet to consolidate on this unity", said the governor, who called for a minute silence in memory of those who lost their lives in the recent crisis in Jos.[/size]

Nchara:
^^^^^^^^
Yoruba was chief press secretary and later special adviser to Nnamani in Enugu state
Yoruba was special assistant to Orji Kalu.

michelin89:
The bobo fine nor be small.

Katsumoto:
Why do you debate in this manner? What has changing into muslims and marrying hausas got to do with this? Are all Yorubas muslims? Or are most yorubas married to hausa?

Why can't each group respect the differences it has with the other groups? Must they change into what you are before you accept them?

MaziUche0:
Each day, I am starting to see a united Southern Nigeria as more feasible than anything else. As much as people do not want to admit it, the Yoruba need the Igbo and the Igbo need the Yorubas. Many people form each respective group may hate the other, but the fact in the matter is that we need each other.

I see a day when the Igbo and the Yoruba will form one single group just like the Hausa-Fulani. It will be like the Igbo-Yoruba.

[size=16pt]Arewa in Lagos[/size]

Author: Date: Jul 23rd, 2010. | Category: Metro, News. | Follow comments: RSS 2.0. | You can leave a response below. |
[b]The chairman, Arewa United Group, a political group of northerners in the Lagos Action Congress, AC, Nigeria, Architect Kabir Ahmed has been speaking on why the group had always supported the Lagos State government’s policies.
Born and raised in Agege area of the state, the Chairman, Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring authority, LASPEMA, spoke on his group’s agenda and why the National Assembly should enlist the 37 LCDAs in Lagos, among other issues. Excerpts:

What’s your political background in Lagos?
I started politics as far back as 1990. I contested for the position of vice chairman, Agege Local Government under the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC and lost. In 1996, I contested again under the umbrella of the defunct, UNCP as vice chairman to Hon. Enoch Ajiboso, the present Commissioner for Agriculture in Lagos State and we won.
In the advent of this fourth republic, I joined the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and I worked along with my kinsmen to ensure the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as governor then.

What elective post did you contest for then?
None. I played the role of a mobilizer and motivator of the Arewas in Lagos politics.

So, what was your role in Tinubu’s government?
I was appointed the chairman of the Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring Authority, LASPEMA, a position I hold till date. I was appointed in 2002.

What has been the role of your Arewa United Group in Lagos politics, especially when you tilt towards Action Congress?
We have actually been carrying out a lot of activities politically to support the government and good people of Lagos State. For example when the late President Umaru Yar’Adua ordered that Governor Fashola should revert to 20 local governments and cancel the 37 LCDAS, we stood our ground against the decision at a press conference. We made the late President to know that we northerners in Lagos know better and we were aware of the enormous advantage of more local governments in Lagos.
Our stand was based on the fact that the newly created LCDAs have been able to stand the test of time and were duly constituted through the normal process in the State House of Assembly after referendum by the people. The president came out two days later to say that the state and the federal government would dialogue over the issue, and that was the end of the issue.
We contribute meaningfully to the development of Lagos State because our grand fathers and fathers were born here, we and our children were equally born here, we pay our taxes here.

What’s your present view on the Lagos Local government issue?
The 37 LCDAs have come to stay, all I will advise President Goodluck Jonathan to do is to tell the National Assembly to formalise them by listing them in Nigeria’s Constitution and empower them financially. Jonathan should toe the line of democracy.

How do you see the appointment of other tribes like Hausa, Igbo, etc into Lagos cabinet?
It is the policy of the Action Congress to detribalize governance by carrying everybody along, provided you can deliver. Moreso, we have a governor who is ready to carry everybody along regardless your religious or ethnic status. Even at local government level, Hausas and Igbos occupy councillorship, supervisory and Special Advisers positions. That’s the beauty of politics, to us Lagos is home, we cast our votes here with our wives despite being in purdah and our children.

In recent times, we learnt that there was problem within your group, what happened?
Every organization making progress must fifth columnists, not forgetting that the 2011 elections is around the corner, so they would do everything possible to destabilise you. Other parties are also prying on us, being the ruling party in the state, trying all tricks to wrest power from us. They can never succeed, Insha Allah.
I must ell you that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is trying to use some perennial motives to bring disunity among the Arewa group knowing that we give block votes to the Action Congress.[/b]
You can imagine them going to the extent of involving the Boko Haram group from Ketu-Mile 12 market to invade our meeting to create disharmony. I’m using this opportunity to implore the state government to keep serious watch in terms of security.

Are you saying Boko Haram people are in Lagos?
Yes, there are synopsis of such. These fifth columnists, I told you about have been discovered to be the ones behind the food scarcity in Lagos by instigating those in the trade to go on strike on flimsy excuses.

But they called off the strike?
Yes, it was due to the efforts of good Arewa leaders in the affected markets. People like Alhaji Dandama, Alhaji Mamuda and Alhaji Haruna in Ketu-Mile 12 Market; Alhaji Gagare Moh’d in Ojo-Alaba and Alhaji’s Sule Yaro and Rabiu Wagagu in Oko-Oba abattoir.

So who are the members of the Arewa group?
It comprises Hausas, Fulanis, Kanuris, Nupes, Tapas, Ibiras and other northerners based in Lagos.

Eziachi:
You now see, why its always greener on the other side of the fence. You seems to enjoy rambling on about a first class Oxford graduate in his early 20s, that led his people as he just turned 30 under the most difficult and harrowing event that has never happened before them to learn from.

Now I had pushed the issue to you personally, asking you to gauge how old you are now and list out your own personal achievements and kindly compare it against his and tell me what the result is. But You’re rather trying to wriggle out of it by talking about an unrelated issue.

Do not ever belittle anyone unless you had done better them, when compared with you as a person. This thread is all about the state of where Zik was buried by Nigeria.

~Bluetooth:
i think so too cuz up till date,all the south west governors and other yoruba still look up to him;and i think he always help them out if they give him his

recognition irrespective of political affiliation.i know tinubu do go to ota farm frequently to see him which his what he likes.

Katsumoto:
Thats not arrogance. MKO was president-elect; he was about to be cheated out of his position. Why should MKO go to OBJ? At that time, OBJ did not hold any aces. OBJ was the one who insinuated that MKO should have come to him as a Yoruba and Egba elder; so MKO had every right to remind him that they were not mates.

sjeezy8:
But what did Mko do to Awolowo- is it not d same thing?

Katsumoto:
Thats not arrogance. MKO was president-elect; he was about to be cheated out of his position. Why should MKO go to OBJ? At that time, OBJ did not hold any aces. OBJ was the one who insinuated that MKO should have come to him as a Yoruba and Egba elder; so MKO had every right to remind him that they were not mates. 

Andre Uweh:
Quit being silly, it is not about who won fair and square, but it's about Azikiwe's final resting place mr Big brain.

Katsumoto:
You are right, many yoruba's hold him responsible for assisting NPN to rig the the 79 elections. The hatred increased after June 12.

Eziachi:
I think you should rather think of his age at the time and your own very age now and then ask yourself some personal questions, then come back and lets talk about it again.

Andre Uweh:
At first OBJ was in support of MKO. According to him, he was even dancing as the results of June 12 elections were being counted. I think, shortly after that, MKO did something that angered OBJ.
Anyway, it's an Egba issue. What one Egba lost, another Egba gained.

MaziUche0:
Why should I start a fire, when I can roast my meat on the fire that was already created?

It is not an assumption it is a fact. The same way your people give praise to Awolowo, is the same way we give praise to our dear leader Ojukwu.

Zik turned his back on the tribe in order to gain power. He gave up on our dream of Biafra and so we gave up on him.

bk.babe97y:
Even Ojukwu hated Nnamdi Azikiwe, so wut the hell u talking bout, Willis?

Eziachi:
And how old was Ojukwu before 1966?
Some of you just crack me up, all in the name of scoring cheap meaningless points.

asha 80:
Contradiction is smelling here.

Katsumoto:
No one likes OBJ in the West except Akala, OGD, Omisore and other miscreants of the same ilk.

dayokanu:
Maybe people like Adedibu, Akala, Oyinlola, Bode George.

I dont think any part of Nigeria hate OBJ more than the Yorubas

dayokanu:
OBJ is the worst thing to happen to the SW, A theory was even propounded that he is not a Yoruba man

He ruled Nigeria for 11yrs he did nothing for the Yorubas.

dayokanu:
OBJ 50/50 in the South West? How come he couldnt even win his own ward in 1999? OBJ is the butt of jokes and public ridicule. The bridge leading to his own town he couldnt complete.

Ibadan-Oyo-Ogbomosho-Ilorin road couldnt complete in 8 yrs

Minus money and bully tactics, OBJ cant win on his own street.

Regarding Akintola, You know the was premier between 1959 and 1966 All achievements of the government between then should go to him

michelin89:
That girl has the ugliest backside I have ever seen.

seanet02:
@marcdunu, so cancelling an election that was considered the most free and fair is a civilized manner? @sjeezy and who can stop him mr. Government tell us what makes your godfather step aside and when he did, whom did he hand over to?

seanet02:
i want to go to Mosque, may join you later. Bye