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searchng4love:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/sanwo-olu-gets-more-support-as-dosunmu-onitiri-salvador-dump-pdp-lp-for-apc/

Watch out for them so they are not rats. Watch how they move, what they eye and their interest.

Just see how stupid Yorubas have been!!! These bastards in their backyard?
Threatening them


He'll will let lose. Let's just finish the election first

fergie001:
Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
March 13, 2023

Very BIG lie from the hell of liar.

If he didn't, what did he do to compel werefiele to obey the court.

All of you, your frivolity ends in may. And you'll all rust in your villages unknown

Ykc2:
is their yoruba soldiers fighting along side nigerian army during nigeria biafra civil war?if there was yoruba soldiers in nigerian army then that's means yoruba joind nigeria government to force igbos back to nigeria,as for lagos everything there was built with oil money as for capital

First, Major Banjo among others, fought and supported Biafra. Go see what was done to him.

As for oil money, developing Lagos;. Take this...



Me I'm an Ibadan boy and not a Lagosian but I found this to be an interesting read....

ENOUGH OF INSULTS, LET'S GET THE HISTORY RIGHT.....

LAGOS MY STATE.: WHO OWNS LAGOS?


"By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.

In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260. Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.

In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville, both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council, presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition, trade and commerce, infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -EXTRACTED

With the little facts above, I would like to educate some illiterates making stupid assumption from blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Osogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before Igbo citizens, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and in 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these stupid assertions.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

For the sake of our generation and posterity, we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa, all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba man from Osogun) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While I do not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe, for I do not believe in racial superiority; I will not also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over others.

COPIED.......


So, was Lagos built with OIL MONEY!!!?

PHZADDY1:
I sincerely used to think you yellow-bars have sense but Una just show us say aside from being the dirtiest tribe in Africa Una still dey very foolish still.

Sorry. Am not yellowbas.ma Yoruba.

I don't want ibos in my cities. They are SCUMS!!!!!!

Ykc2:
should we go to ekiti and pick yoruba person?did British people went to India to pick an Indian man or was he born and brought up in UK?you can contest for election any where you ve population of people backing you,when igbo man bought land in lekki Lagos at rate of 200 million naira for 1and half plot of land why didn't they refuse his igbo money?yous can't eat your cake and ve it

That land was built with Lagos wealth and has to be refunded.



Why not stay in your place

onuman:
Even credible leaders of Yoruba today say the truth till today that Nigeria's presidency has been on rotation basis between the old Northern region and the old Southern region, right from 1999 after Nigeria was politically restructured resulting in a lopsided political structure.
They told you that it's the turn of the Igbo in the SE to produce a successor to President Buhari. Who detests a just and egalitarian society? You?
Why would a Yoruba succeed President Buhari, after Olusegun Obasanjo took the presidential seat between 1999-2007?

Obasanjo is an ibo man who's father was a chief in Onitsha



So; it's the turn of Yorubas now plz

Ykc2:
Common

In the U.S and the U.K, they got effective law working.
Why couldn't you ever have a Yoruba man hills positions the ibos have held in Yoruba land first. To reciprocate

Me I'm an Ibadan boy and not a Lagosian but I found this to be an interesting read....

ENOUGH OF INSULTS, LET'S GET THE HISTORY RIGHT.....

LAGOS MY STATE.: WHO OWNS LAGOS?


"By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.

In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260. Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.

In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville, both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council, presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition, trade and commerce, infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -EXTRACTED

With the little facts above, I would like to educate some illiterates making stupid assumption from blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Osogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before Igbo citizens, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and in 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these stupid assertions.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

For the sake of our generation and posterity, we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa, all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba man from Osogun) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While I do not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe, for I do not believe in racial superiority; I will not also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over others.

COPIED.......

I don't know how else to present this matter again!

1. In the first republic, Chief Obafemi Awolowo performed incredibly well for the Western Region.

Free Education
Scholarship
University of Ife
Rural Development
Agriculture
Infrastructural development
Industrialization
Culture
Arts
Sports

Just name it!!!

They were numerous.

That man did massively well for the YORUBA NATION.

Many men like Bashorun MKO Abiola would never have made it to school without the education policies of Chief Obafemi Awolowo's WESTERN REGION.

Till today, you can still see evidence of the things Awolowo did and you can see the effects on the YORUBA NATION

On the contrary, Nnamdi Azikiwe who was supposed to manage his EASTERN REGION and take care of that place, just as Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello did for Western and Northern Region respectively, SAT IN LAGOS.

He was running between LAGOS AND IBADAN teaching our people the virtues of "One Nigeria" and the "vices" in Tribalism.

Meanwhile, as Azikiwe was propagating his "One Nigeria message" he had converted NCNC into Igbo Party, he had fixed Prof Eni Njoku in Unilag, Prof Kenneth Dike in UI, Tafawa Balewa's government had been taken over by Igbos and Lagos City Hall and Ibadan City [ Mapo ] HALL were bustling with IGBO CIVIL SERVANTS.

Very ironically, do you know that by 1959 and 1963, if you were able to count ONE IGBO MAN WHO SUPPORTED AWOLOWO, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO FIND 100 YORUBA MEN NEARBY WHO SUPPORTED AZIKIWE?

2. As it was in the FIRST AND SECOND REPUBLIC when the battle was between IGBO ZIK AND YORUBA AWO, so it in 2023.

It is again IGBO OBI AND YORUBA TINUBU.

Again Asíwájú Bola Tinubu has A SURPLUS OF VERIFIABLE ACHIEVEMENTS to point out in Lagos.

You can see them

You can compare Lagos of 1999 with that of 2023 and confidently say that "Yes, things are very much better"

Unless you weren't old or sensible enough to know what Lagos was as at 1999.

Lagos was a JUNGLE in 1999. I can't forget.

Asíwájú Bola Tinubu did A LOT FOR LAGOS.

Again, like Awolowo and Jakande of the second republic, he gave unlimited latitude to the IGBOS.

The ZIONISTS sneaked into Lagos under the larger Igbo ethnic umbrella.

Peter Obi by the testimony of TWO SUCCEEDING GOVERNORS AND PEOPLE OF HIS ANAMBRA STATE WAS A FAILURE.

Like Azikiwe he abandoned Anambra and SAT IN LAGOS.

He doesn't bother about Anambra or any of the South-East states

He stays in Lagos and, like Azikiwe, he started to preach against TRIBLISM, BIGOTRY AND NEPOTISM.

Meanwhile, as Peter Obi was propagating his "One Nigeria message" he had converted LABOUR PARTY into an Igbo Party, fixed an Igbo man as LP coordinator for Lagos, fixed Chinedu as Guber candidate of Lagos, ensured that his media team is an ALL-IGBO affair, his campaigns had to be centered around areas of Lagos with predominance of igbot population and even now his Legal team is made up of nearly ALL IGBO LAWYERS.

Very ironically again, do you know that by 25thn February 2023, perhaps till today, if you are able to count ONE IGBO MAN WHO SUPPORTED BOLA TINUBU, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO FIND AT LEAST 100 YORUBA MEN NEARBY WHO SUPPORTED OBI?

The evidence is in the INEC result.

3. Today, we have Babajide Sanwoolu and Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour.

It is again IGBO CHINEDU AND YORUBA SANWOOLU

For Godsake there can't be any CRITERIA AT THE LEVEL OF QUALITY AND QUANTITY that any sane fellow can use as a basis of comparison that will make Chinedu more qualified over Sanwoolu for POSITION OF LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR

It is DEEPLY sacrilegious to even think about it!!!!

Sanwoolu has experience, achievements and verifiable things that he has done.

Chinedu has NOTHING except ENDSARS AND IPOB ACTIVISM to point at

No record of WORK except two INTERNSHIP in places we can't even trace.

But the ZIONISTS DONT CARE.

IT IS DEFINITELY NOT ABOUT MERIT!!!!

As the ZIONISTS online and offline are busy telling you not to be a Tribalist, the crooks are all over Igbo markets, Igbo catholic Churches, Igbo dominated residential areas and Igbo town unions campaigning on their IGBO STRENGTHEN FOR THEIR SON.

Even from far away ABIA STATE these people are mobilizing to come and defend CHINEDU to win Lagos

A mere boy who doesn't even qualify and who lacks capacity to start with.

YOU SEE HOW CRAZY THESE ZIONISTS PEOPLE ARE??

And they are doing it in Lagos YORUBA LAND

Meanwhile, what are our YORUBA people doing about it.

As usual, if you are able to count ONE IGBO MAN WHO IS SUPPORTING JIDE SANWOOLU TODAY, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO FIND AT LEAST 100 YORUBA MEN NEARBY WHO ARE SUPPORTING CHINEDU?

These Yoruba people don't even know a tenth about the Chinedu that they know about Sanwoolu.

THEY HAVE BEEN CARRIED AWAY BY ZIONISTS PROPAGANDA WHICH MAKES YOU HATE YOURSELVES AND YOUR LEADERS WHILE GLAMORIZING THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LEADERS WHO HAVE COME TO DESTROY YOU.

The ZIONISTS tell you not to do tribalism but that is what runs in their own blood veins

What does that tell you about the YORUBA PEOPLE?

LIBERAL FOOLS WE ALL ARE!!!!!!

©️ Adedamola Adetayo
11th March 2023

Omicronvaccine:
https://igberetvnews.com/1440680/issues-tinubu-somebody-regard-father-peter-obi/

This guy knows he's bound for JAIL.
unprecedented fraud in political elections

envoymedia:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpj7oypKIgQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

You mean that ibo wood father was a chief in Onitsha

That's why he was never made the head of Owu

The idiot more doing eye service

Omoawoke:


Tinubu should pick whoever is capable and competent

LP aka Lying Party

Please what’s the next lie you have in cooler for this week
LP fit kill person with lies.
Yesterday’s was that Sanwo Olu prevented prevented LP from visiting victims of the train accident
Today was a propaganda that Apc voters were protesting in ikorodu. Those were campaign Members protesting their non payments and they had every right to do it

We have had 19 states lie

Character assassination, defamation, lies, fakes news, playing the victim are their trade marks

I was wrong to think the party will be a force to be reckoned with in 2027 but it is a faulty foundation. No party can survive one year with this tactics
After Saturday election, they will be sent to the political oblivion they belong
Nonsense

All their senate and House of assembly elections must be scrutinized.
I wonder who on earth voted this guy bellow



I'm totally ashamed. I can't believe the intellectual capacity has this much difference between this two.

Although election is over, but I stumbled on this video and I ended up thanking God the true Nigerians saved the nation through their votes yet again.

Watch this video and please read the comments to see what's the verdicts Nigerians.

Whatch in the link below

https://fb.watch/jdDzlfsg2t/

BurialGround:
If you think a sick Tinubu with Boko Haram VP and other northern elements around him will improve your life and that of millions of NIGERIANS, you're only dreaming.

SO! THIS THING STILL DEU PAIN YOU?? I FEAR YOU GO FIT COMMIT SUICIDE O!!!

taiwolomo1:
you are talking shit! Who are u to scrutinise him. Did u vote for him? Imagine ur sense of entitlement. Someone u meant bad for

GOD bless and honour your parents

These hypocrites are at it again.

After failing in their bid to beat the Muslims.

They have no right to make any demand.
All their pastors and spiritual fathers, all have no right to make a single demand.

FOLLOW THE LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 2023 ELECTION BY PROF. M. JEGA( former Chairman INEC)

*Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, got only 37% of the vote, down from the 56% that Buhari got in 2019.

*In 2019 was a two-horse race between the APC and PDP candidates, 2023 was at least a four-horse race between APC, PDP, LP and NNPP candidates.

*It was the first time since 2007 that we had more than two major candidates in a presidential election and the first time since 1983 that we had up to four major candidates in such a race.

*The top four candidates in this election got 37%, 29%, 25% and 6% respectively. This compares closely with 1979 when Shagari got 34%, Awo got 29%, Zik got 16%, Aminu Kano got 10.28 and Waziri Ibrahim got 10%.

*The top three runners up in this race got a combined 60% of the vote.

*That is impressive, but then, they only have themselves to blame that they did not present a united front before the election. They only tried to present a united front to contest the results.

*It is a case of locking the stables after the horses have bolted. Would they have made 60% of the vote if they had united behind a single candidate? Anybody’s guess.

*Tinubu’s party went into this election controlling the Federal and 21 state governments. In the event, he won only 12 states outright.

*PDP’s Atiku Abubakar also won 12 states,

*LP’s Peter Obi won 12 states outright [FCT included]

* NNPP’s Kwankwaso won outright in one state.


So how did Tinubu win the race? Simple.

* The number of states that a candidate wins outright is important. Equally important is the number of states in which he came second.

*Also very important is, if he came second with only a narrow margin in most of them.

*Tinubu won 12 states outright [Zamfara, Jigawa, Borno, Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Benue, Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Rivers]. He came second in 19 states [Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe, Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa, Osun, Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Imo and Ebonyi].

*In many cases the margins of loss were very small, only 3,000 votes in Sokoto, 12,000 in Katsina and equally narrow margins in Osun and Lagos.

*Tinubu came second to Kwankwaso in Kano, second to Atiku in most of the states the latter won and second to Obi in Lagos, Ebonyi, Imo and Edo.

* This was exactly how Alhaji Shehu Shagari won the presidency in 1979. He won outright in nine states out of 19 [Sokoto, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Gongola, Benue, Kwara, Rivers and Cross River.] He won in Kaduna and Gongola even though his party lost the governorship elections there two weeks earlier, what in those days was called “the bandwagon effect.” Of the remaining ten states in Nigeria at the time, Shagari came second in 9 [Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Bendel, Anambra, Imo, Borno, Plateau and Kano]. Shagari came third only in Lagos, after Awo and Zik.

* Like Shagari, like Tinubu; you are victorious if your party is either first or second in almost every state.

Allegations that APC rigged the election also falls flat because it lost the biggest states, namely Lagos, Kaduna, Kano and Katsina, even though all of them have APC state governors, all of whom are staunchly loyal to Tinubu.

* In terms of vote banks, what is Imo, Edo or Adamawa to these states? Why should anyone go rigging elections in some small states when he could rig up figures in the biggest ones and win by a large margin?

* If they could help it, why should ten APC governors, APC National Chairman and Director General of the APC campaign suffer the embarrassment of failing to deliver their states?

*Why should Tinubu himself suffer the embarrassment of failing to win outright in Lagos, long alleged to be his political fiefdom?

*Allegations that APC rigged these polls do not hold the water of logic.

*But those making them still have the chance to prove them at the election tribunals.

I just feel I should share these as I found it somewhere.

Don't count Afenifere as being Yoruba. We got lots in our midst who are actually not yorubas.

I found this

https://saharareporters.com/2007/06/18/obasanjos-real-father-paternity-controversy

*This is Copied From "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" FORUM. I come in Peace ✌️*

Rubakoye.


*TINUBU'S’s ADVANTAGE OF DISADVANTAGE*

*By Ray Ekpu*

07 March 2023  
The Guardian Newspaper

Any person who is a lover of books must endeavour to read a book titled: “David and Goliath” authored by Malcolm Gladwell, the famous author of Tipping Point. David and Goliath is a practical yet philosophical exploration of the Advantage of Disadvantage as well as the Disadvantage of Advantage.

I want to contextualise the recent presidential election bearing this philosophy in mind. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had said before the election that it was his turn to be President. It seemed like a statement of entitlement and that word emilokan has earned a place in our political vocabulary.

But he did not fully know what hurdles had been piled on his path from several angles. It was when he wore his battle gear and went into the field of battle that it dawned on him that he may have underestimated the roadblocks he needed to scale over on his way to Aso Rock Villa.
He may have been aware of the plot to shoehorn the Senate President Dr Ahmed Lawan into the office if all things were equal. But all things were not equal so the plot flopped because the god of fairness was on duty. If anyone deserved to be supported by President Muhammadu Buhari to succeed him it had to be Tinubu.
Tinubu it was who gathered together along with a few other persons, a number of rickety parties, stitched them together to form the all-conquering APC that had the vigour to defeat a sitting President in the presidential election of 2015. And Buhari became President.
And then came the currency issue, which was said to be targeting Tinubu, a kind of Frankenstein’s monster. If the currency matter imposed unbearable hardship of the people it was bound to reflect badly at the poll on whoever was the flagbearer of the ruling party. And in this case Tinubu would receive the anger of the voters at the polling booth.
Besides, the low rating of Buhari’s performance in office was likely to have, even remotely, a negative effect on Tinubu in the eyes of the voters. Well-informed voters would acknowledge that Tinubu held no office and could therefore not be held responsible for the faults of the Buhari government but other voters were likely to lump both the candidate and the government in power together and judge them harshly. That would affect Tinubu negatively.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had shown itself to be a fair organisation when it asked Christians to vote according to their conscience without necessarily bearing a religious bias. This seemed to give Tinubu, a Muslim who had chosen another Muslim, Shettima as his running mate, the all-clear.
Besides, his wife Oluremi is a pastor in one of the Pentecostal Churches, which is an indication that he is an open-minded person in matters of religion. Despite this, the religious hawks still thought that he did not give appropriate recognition to Christianity otherwise he would have chosen a Christian as his running mate.
They piled pressure both discreetly and blatantly for Christians not to vote for Tinubu. That may have had an impact on Tinubu’s defeat in Lagos by the Labour Party candidate Mr Peter Obi.
As the youths were massing up in various rallies for different parties in Lagos it may have crossed Tinubu’s mind that the EndSARS activists had made him a target of their attacks two years ago. They set ablaze some of his assets at his newspaper, The Nation and Television station, TVC. How would they respond to him this time that he is actually a candidate? Would they support or scorn him? That was a question to which there was no immediate answer but the fact that there was a youth revolution with Obi as the exponent posed an immediate danger to his electoral survival in Lagos and elsewhere.
Even the fact that the Igbos had been asking, fairly, for a President of Igbo extraction was a source of likely irritation to non-Igbo candidates. Some persons from Yorubaland including former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Afenifere had been campaigning for an Igbo presidency with Peter Obi as the candidate. This viewpoint was likely to catch the attention of fair-minded persons in a cosmopolitan city like Lagos with the virtues of exceptionalism. Is that why Obi did very well in Lagos? Possibly.
As the campaign progressed Tinubu was being dragged to court by various persons for various reasons. In addition, some media, especially social media, were also openly hostile to Tinubu. His inability to appear at the town hall meetings organised by Arise Television was also a problem that expanded into an open confrontation between the news organisation and his campaign organisation. It took the intervention of elders in the media profession for the matter to be resolved but the residue of that conflict remained.
When the presidential election results for Lagos were released Obi of Labour Party stunned everyone by beating Tinubu and the candidate of the PDP Mr Atiku Abubakar. The results: APC 572, 606, LP 582, 454, NNPP 8, 442 and PDP 75, 750. Amazingly the results for the Senate and House of Representatives in Lagos largely favoured the APC. All the three APC senatorial candidates namely Ms Idiat Adebule, Wasiu Eshinlokun Sanni and Tokunbo Abiru won the elections.
Also the APC won 20 of the 24 seats for the House of Representatives. So if the APC was so dominant in the two elections why was that dominance not extended to the presidential so that Tinubu who has been a fixture in Lagos for more than 20 years would win? My explanation is that the god of fairness never wanted him to win in Lagos so that it would not be said that he rigged it. You can only rig elections where you have reasonable control.
Without winning in Lagos the votes earned by Tinubu in other places look valid. Any talk about rigging in other places will look misplaced because if he did not rig in Lagos he would not be expected to rig in other places where he had no control. That is the advantage of disadvantage.
All of these problems were piled up on Tinubu’s path yet he won. That is the lesson from the battle between the giant Goliath and the shepherd boy David. The giant Goliath was six foot nine inches tall, wearing a bronze helmet and full body armour. He carried a javelin, a spear and a sword. An attendant preceded him, carrying a large shield. The giant asked the Israelites to choose one person to come and fight him. The shepherd boy David offered to confront the giant. And he won.
Mr Gladwell has explored several of such conflicts in his book and he believes that the act of facing imponderable odds in lopsided conflicts often produces greatness and beauty. Secondly, he thinks that we often misread such conflicts because the same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

The options are always these: shall I persevere or give up? Should I play by the rules or follow my own instincts? Or should I strike back or forgive? Tinubu did not give up; he followed his own instincts; he struck back with tenacity and doggedness. He did not give up in the midst of the crisis that he faced all through the campaign and election.
The crisis did not unfaze him. John F. Kennedy, the former President of the United States of America said something about the word “crisis” many years ago. He said that when written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. Tinubu saw the danger and ignored it. He also saw the opportunity and embraced it. That was the advantage of disadvantage.
Those who believe that it is God that chooses leaders must inevitably accept that Tinubu would not have been President-elect today if God had not sanctioned it. See the array of roadblocks put on his path yet he triumphed. There must have been three of GOD'S CHARACTER in his corner:
(a) The GOD'S compensation that ensured that the man who fought for the actualisation of June 12 elections and who fought Sani Abacha from here and abroad for democracy must be compensated.
(b) The GOD'S fairness – Nigerians from all parts of the country want to have a country that is united and inclusive. That is why they subscribed to the rotation of the presidency as an article of faith. After eight years of Buhari’s presidency it ought to move to the south. Southern Governors said so. Northern Governors said so but some politicians out of greed, said No to the idea. That is why the god of fairness did not favour them in the election.
(c) The GOD'S reciprocity: For the fact that some persons tried to block Tinubu from accessing the presidency when it is actually President Buhari who in obedience to the god of reciprocity should have been the champion of Tinubu’s project, he was bound to be rewarded. These three gods were in Tinubu’s corner. That is why he won, warts and all. They gave him the advantage of disadvantage, a winning formula.
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[07/03, 17:53] TUNDE ODUWOLE,I-QS.: *I commend Ray Ekpu for this Brilliant Piece. I come in Peace ✌️* Rubakoye.

*Owe Yoruba:*
*Eniti o nwa eni je baba e lowo, aa pade eni iya je lowo (A person who goes out looking for people who are owing his father, will come across those his mother is owing)*

This is too interesting, 9ja too much


*Peter Obi is not the candidate of LP :*

According to Section 77 (2&3) of the electoral act 2022, Peter Obi is not a member of Labour party. As a result,he is not qualified to contest the February 25,2023 presidential election. Section 77 (2) says every political party must have/maintain a register of its member in soft and hard copy. 77(3) says each party SHALL MAKE THAT REGISTER AVAILABLE TO INEC NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE FIXED FOR PRIMARIES, CONGRESSES OR CONVENTION. PDP screened all presidential candidates on April 29th,2022. Peter Obi participated in that screening and was cleared. Obi even displayed his provisional clearance on social media. He resigned from PDP on Thursday May 26th,2022 to join Labour party on May 27th,2022. Labour party conducted her presidential primary on May 30th, 2022 and it produced Obi after Prof. Pat Utomi voluntary withdrawal for Obi.
According to the section 77(3), Labour party ought to have submitted the party register to INEC 30 days before the presidential primary. By calculation, 30 days to May,30th,2022 was April 30,2022. As at April 30th,2022 when labour party had submitted the party register to INEC, Peter Obi was a member of PDP. So, Obi name was not part of those in the party comprehensive register that was submitted to INEC. The question is, can a candidate who is not a valid member of a political party contest for presidential election? Can a political party nominate non member to participate in presidential election? The tribunal will be of fireworks and shall be interesting in days to come.
*Provision Of Sec 134(2) CFRN 1999 As Amended: A Question of Interpretation Vis a Vis 2023 Presidential Election*



Over to political analyst.

*"Eni ti o ba ntu inu Ile ju, oma ri ayan fun fun oo"*

*"He who that digging to deep in cleaning his house will discover white coakcroach."*

The Judiciary is up to the task.

A Message by Dr.Ernest Okorobia.

I am married to an Ibadan woman and we have 6 kids all of whom are graduates now.
I am from Orlu and to be precise,Nkwerre.

All my children speak Yoruba and Igbo so fluently and my only son studied Yoruba up to Master's Degree.
It is so unfortunately sad that we the Igbo people are the most selfish human beings in the universe.
We give what we cannot accept.
I will just summarize some points here.
When BAT was contesting,we did all we could to discourypeople from voting for him.We used age,health,past,Lagos Wealth etc to cause havoc on his person and his party,but behold,God is greater than us.Ashiwaju won.
As if that was not enough,we are back to Lagos and trying to discredit a performing Governor whom we all know that is doing well and some of us have gone too far on this.
I asked my uncle who has a business in Amuwo Odofin,"Uncle,is SanwoOlu also too old?Is he also sick?Is he also a drug baron?Did he falsify his age?
He was dumfounded and couldn't answer any of the questions above.
All he could say was,we need an Igbo Man as the Governor of Lagos State and we must do everything in our capacity to achieve it.
I really felt sorry about this and I had to drive off
He claimed to have spent over N1B in this Lagos for Igbo Man as Governor Project and will still spend more.
We need to wise up as Igbo people.We are really going too far with these Yoruba People's tolerance.

sarrki:
Gbadebo vivour of labor party visits Obasanjo at Ota

They are both from Anambra

tolue42:
I've said it severally on this platform that those old currencies are still with banks ( in commercial banks vaults).

So werefiele lied of it being destroyed

You finally made crummy page!!

Now stop jealous of hajias

I tell you. #5M will do. It's just beautification

Nice2023:
Jimichukwu!


Hahahhaha.

This tribe are the most wicked and tribalistic people I have ever known in this world.

They are ruthless with their attacks especially those of them supporting APC.

What is it that they haven't done to make others look less of themselves,yet their candidate is going to lose this weekend no matter what they do.

That is simply a promise.

Show me a SINGLE Yoruba man that was ever a commissioner, honourable or senator in your land ever since it was created and I'll agree with you that Yorubas are tribalistic

Zeezenho:
Mugu we all built lagos.as an igbo man I have right to via for governorship of lagos if I wish to.same applies to a bini man living in anambra.

If you are not comfortable with igbo man in lagos go change the constitution or better still go to court.

Lagos is for every one.

You are gradually running MAD.

People migrate from non-developed states to a well developed states, so if Lagos were not developed when your grandparents were migrating to Lagos, what for

Mrtaye:
If na ipob go commot agberos for Lagos roads then so be it

If OPC can be allowed to remove the agberos in Anambra

MEMOIR OF MUMTAAZ

Good day all,
As I delve into this humble submission, I crave your noble indulgence for a non relenting tolerance till the end.

GENESIS
Nigeria is an organized project by few to use the majority. Simply, oligarchic.
The amalgamation of 1914 was to benefit the colonialists and her indigenous faithful. Many think the indigenous faithful are the Hausas (maybe now the core Fulanis), nay, all the beneficiaries of this project; Nigeria are the indigenous faithful. These are referred to in the political parlance as the 'indigenous foreigners'. They are Nigerians but work for their colonial masters in the form of neo-colonization.
This was the agenda were the 3 B's or C's was the order of the day;
Bible - Buisness - Bullet or Christianity - Commerce - Colonization.
These shouldn't be offensive to anyone but critical view is expected.

FALLOUT
The answer is there for us.
Nigeria has been struggling for survival.
At the beginning, it seemed jolly. Naira was above several currencies of the world even the pounds and dollars!
The heterogeneity (too much of ethnic and tribal groups) of the Nigeria project came to play and the centre couldn't hold, things fell apart.
The military struck, then, the civil war.
Three R's introduced, yet, the trilemma continues.
The rest is history.

ARTIFICIAL BONDING
Democracy brought back. As usual, it's was still same old gimmick.
The freest, fairest and most credible elections was annulled in 1993. MKO Abiola was denied.
Obasanjo was arranged to appease the Yorubas.
Still, we're at crossroads.
All things remain comatose.
Several hands were tried from Yar' Adua, Jonathan and Buhari.
We're still crying for salvation.

DIE IS CAST
It's an eyesore that a situation worse than the present one in Nigeria is tantamount to futility.
This present situation must not be repeated or seen as better by a succeeding administration. AAMEEN.
To achieve a new/better wave, constructive and sensitive bargaining must set in.
Nigeria has the heterogeneity challenge.
The three dominant tribes of Yoruba, Hausa and Ibo (Wazobia) are never same in tradition and culture. So, living as one needs thorough anthropological approach in managing the nation's affairs.
With this, there are numerous under tribal splinters with peculiar traits of life philosophy.
To manage this multi-dimensional tribal differences, we need a bred astute administrator of versed wealth of experience of the Nigeria project.
Our major challenge is on this heterogeneity for all cardinal attempts and solutions to tackle any challenge pose at our socio-political issues.
The way we see things aren't the same considering our ancestry and origin.
The place the Nigeria identity can be easily gotten and identified with is no place than Lagos State.
Here, all the Nigerian fractions can be located.
The Ibos can be majorly found in Ajegunle, Alaba, Àgùdà in Surulere, etc.
The Hausas in Idi-Araba, Agege, Mile 12, every named Sabo area of the State. In most cases, people of the North West, Central and East are grouped as Hausas in Lagos.
The South East and South South are also seen as Ibos in Lagos.
If Lagos can manage them since till now, no doubt that Lagos is the minute; small Nigeria.
Lagos gives liberty and freedom in association, possession and habitation making these extractions rising to the top in civil service, politics, corporate (private/personal) establishments and individual businesses.
A State like Lagos can boast of this feat at any point in time making some tagging it 'a no man's land!.
If Lagos can achieve this, those at the helms own the accolades. Therefore, modern Lagos can't be dissected without the mention of the JAGABAN himself; the LION OF BOURDILLOURN.
True, he's not a saint. He's human of course. He's not infallible but corrigible.
He has made his mark with any high score Lagos scores.
At this juncture, here's my recommendation to consolidation.
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RECOMMENDATION TO CONSOLIDATION
Amongst all vying for the presidency, we need a Nigerian figure, thoughtful thinker, strategic strategist and dogged leader.
To arrive at this, God willing, the choice of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the RECOMMENDATION TO CONSOLIDATION.
- Shaykh Buusayri Ọlawuwo (CEO) Mumtaaz Approach Int'l., Lagos, Nigeria &
Chief Imaam, Ire-Akari Muslim Community, Igbokuta, Imọta LCDA, Ikorodu LGA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Khamees 1st Sha‘baan, 1444 H. (23/02/2023).17:57.

I pray they ALL lose lolesely