₦airaland Forum

vanitybutiwanti:
Are you aware that it's that so called 'Enslavement' that made this man IGP, I'm not yoruba but you guys talk as if you live in alternate universes, if he had not kept in touch with Tinubu after he helped him in 1998, do you think he would have been IGP today? It seems many of you commenting on nairaland are kids, in the real world grown men regardless of their tribes kiss asses for advancement and favours, life is not a bed of roses.

It is such a parochial view of life that's problematic for someone like me who is Igbo.

In our culture, we denigrate such behaviour and strongly believe that only our "Chi" charts the course of our lives, and that whatever level we will attain is not dependent on any man.

Yes everyone understands that people kiss ass and do all sorts to curry favours but the ultimate question is this - is such behaviour beneficial or detrimental to society at large?

You are unable to rise above individualistic thinking to understand that only when the collective is okay will the individual flourish.

On a final note, we have seen IGPs like Tafa Balogun thoroughly disgraced and die as a villain so if you think becoming an IGP is so wonderful, let's check back in a few years.

That's how the disgraced criminal called Abba Kyari would also have become IGP one day and people like you will see nothing wrong with it because "it's human nature to kiss ass, steal, kill and do whatever it takes" to get to the top.

What you fail to realise is that's a hobesian state of nature which every society must strive to move away from, collectively, if we are ever to become an enlightened and advanced civilisation.

I will ignore your comment about kids and whatnot cos it's inconsequential to the argument.

The servile culture of Yorubas is a big headache to some of us who are not from there.

So because someone helped you one time in your life you have to become enslaved to them forever?

I don't want to hear loyalty because there's a big difference between being loyal to someone and becoming enslaved to the extent that you cannot tell them hard truths or go against their wish or request because they helped you one time in life.

Anyhow, this should serve as a lesson - be wary of people who are quick to shower you with gifts and help that you haven't earned, they might have very sinister reasons, and most times "awoof dey purge belle".

Egbetokun by his statement has shown that he is unprofessional and not worthy of the IGP seat he's currently occupying.

jazzman7711:
SIT HERE ON NAIRALAND LISTENING TO YOUR FELLOW IPOB TRAITORS, THESE USELESS DROPOUTS AND WASTRELS POSTING RUBBISH HERE.

DON'T GO AND DO YOUR RESEARCH LIKE OTHERS, AND SECURE YOUR FUNDING, YOU HEAR?

IF YOU REMAIN ON THIS SITE, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, BECAUSE THIS IPOB-RUN FORUM IS MEANT TO DISCOURAGE YOU FROM HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS COUNTRY.

N50,000 shared to an unidentified 600,000 businesses is what you're bragging about, talking about funding like it's actually something significant?

Please what impact can N50K have on any registered business in Nigeria?

How is such an amount distributed without adequate information and sensitization of citizens?

Anyway, we know you and your likes. Seems you're the last man standing in you people's WhatsApp group cos the rest of your kind have been MIA for a few days now.

Na multidimensional poverty be your problem, drop your account let me send you something light for lunch

Where, when and how were these companies selected?

Is there any website where businesses can apply?

Which bank or banks is the FG partnering with to give out these loans?

Once there's no transparency, then it's another avenue for embezzlement.

What sort of blatant criminality is this?

May Tinubu not end Nigeria o

djseanjohn77:
FBI invaded Donald Trump's house without any prior notice, it is only in Nigeria that the masses are so dumb in playing politics with matters they know nothing about, assuming everybody is right, government is wrong in every situation. If they have a lead, and follow through the lead, do they also need warrant that will give heads-on to the suspect that will enable him wipe out all evidences?

Without a search warrant?

Anyway, Nigeria is a lawless jungle so I'm not really surprised.

bewla:
God blessed you for this
But I believe you no science is not magic abi
Let's take it easy on us
We get no where to go

Tell them everyone will have to make sacrifices

The north is been fool to believe in Arabic while everyone is moving forward they chose to remain there

Which sacrifices have the criminals in power made?

This is the same nonsense you guys did and Buhari wasted everyone's 8 years.

You've started pushing same rhetoric with Tinubu when it's glaring that he's being backed by foreign powers to the the bidding of world Bank and IMF.

You will all learn the hard way!

Wiifesnatcher:
Nothing is wrong with asorock, fuel subsidy removal is a big fish for any elected politicians and that's why Buhari the integrity scammer made himself a minister of petroleum


Having said that while Buhari and other dey cut the return and embezzlement of fuel subsidy with oil mogul, Tinubu and his goons plan to cut them off and those oil mogul revenge against him hence the daily increase in fuel price


If the subsidizing of fuel must continue then we must resume to the chop make I chop of the elected officials, nnpc and oil mogul, a NO signal to this would have been sealed if Tinubu had made other provision to checkmate the consequence of the fuel subsidy removal but rather he keep removing subsidy on electricity and increasing taxes on production and others and that skyrocketed everything including the floating of naira


An acclaimed accountant in Mobil suppose to know better, the only thing that will bring foods inflation down is bringing the fuel down to #300 per litre at least

Which subsidy was removed?

Lol.

Una never wan face truth.

Didi2d:
Come to think of it lots of people including me supported and believed so much in tinubu to turn the country around for good.

Lol.

Nothing is truly more dangerous than stupid people in large numbers.

You and your likes will still vote the failure in 2027 thinking you're doing Igbos or obidients.

Fools always think themselves wise.

I hope the suffering suffocates you people so you will learn to eschew politics of ethnicity and religion - although I seriously doubt that you people can ever learn no matter what, cos as long as you think you can get your "person" into power regardless of how incompetent they are, you lots probably will.

Salewa97:
Ezekwesili should chill. Dangote has built an empire that’s benefiting the economy. If anything, let’s focus on how to support and grow local businesses instead of always looking for faults. Transparency is good, but let’s not forget the progress he’s made for Nigeria.

You're not making any sense.

FG claimed it borrowed billions of dollars, to be repaid by our common wealth, to fund 20% stake in Dangote refinery and suddenly they only paid for 7.2%.

You come here talking about support and grow, why should this not be immediately investigated, and how does that stop anything?

You lots hate transparency and accountability but you want to develop as a country?

Your comment is devoid of logic and common sense.

Magnumproperty:
Alex Otti should be given more time but BAT shouldn't ?
August 1 is almost here. We will all be alive to witness the drama.

Another batist using ethnic dogwhistling to redirect issues.

What does Alex Otti have to do with a protest Nigerians are planning?

Igbos have already told you we're not going to be part of any protests so what exactly is the colour of your problem?

OriOko88:
This is one of the major reasons that brought about reformation in the 15th century,and paved way for protetanism in Germany Britain and USA. The use of image to depicts Jesus will always be controversial in Christendom,but I it's shud be worthy of note that the drawing of the image of Jesus brought about fine arts, and the church buildings brought about civilization of architecture.

Technological civilization and Christianity go hand in hand. No Christianity not technology. The first universities in the world were founded by Catholic church schools. E.g Oxford University and Bologna University.

Those are not the first universities in the world.

BlindAngel:
We both have agreed on the name, she suggested it and i agreed, though it pains me that I wasn't the one that came up with the name fully, but we've already agreed and changing my mind right now will lead to an heavy quarrel and lot's of endless crying from her. That I'm wicked and heartless that after we've both agreed, I changed things.

She manipulated you into getting married, maybe even a relationship.

She manipulated you into not naming your own child.

Now she's manipulating you using pastor and you've capitulated.

You are a weakling unfortunately.

She will continue to manipulate you using her tears and other means, and any day you wake up, she will leave you.

You brought it upon yourself.

I feel sorry for emotionally weak men like you

helinues:
Toh

Just because I am educated, I can't work at bakery

Why should educated me be working as a block molder

God forbids for me as an educated person to work as a car wash man.

Some of those minor jobs are even profitable than the office work the so called educated ones are waiting for .

Hunger and hardship go definitely make the brain to reset

The bakery owner in this report cited the increasing cost of raw materials as the reason many of their colleagues are packing up.

Of course you saw that but in your WhatsApp group, you have been told to apply deflectionary tactics on every thread that indicts Tinubu your pay master.

Or to say toh.

But trust me, it's no longer working

Segzy19:
Obi no dey give shishi...
Now e don turn to Darocha....

I just dey laugh

.

He's been doing charity works like this since even before he ever joined Nigerian politics.

You have refused to open your ears and mind, and you will continue to suffer the consequences.

beyondPen:
True everybody knows we are feeling it. Though many of us Yorubas might not seem like BAT supporter but we might still seem like supporting him when you don't direct the fight to BAT rather than Yorubas

Lol.

You're already fishing for excuse to vote the drug bagman in 2027.

Let me give you more excuses: Igbos abused Soyinka, Igbos said they own Lagos, Igbos said Yorubas supported Tinubu, Omo wa ni o, etc.

Una suffering just dey warm up for that country walahi 🤣

I couldn't go past the first minute of the clip.

Anyway, it is Nigeria so nothing will happen.

Same way an outgoing senator said he encroached upon his wife to get favorable judgements for his friend's and did Nigerians do anything? The answer is no.

I pray the politicians continue in this trajectory so that the people will be pushed to the wall, even if it takes another 100years.

AfeezShomorin:
Abeg shut up, this is becoming stale!

This is no evidence that Peter Obie would have performed better

You're already warming your excuses up to vote the drug bagman again 2027

Even if the evidence slams into your face, you still won't recognise it.

The evidence is clear if you look at the statistics both men had during their 8 year stint as governors, but like all batidiots, you hate statistics as much as you hate due process.

People like you exist in Nigeria in tens of millions, so that tells me there is no hope in sight for the country.

Keep enjoying emilokan in peace but don't ever repeat the rubbish you just sprouted.

Madridguy is prancing about on this thread with IPOB propaganda instead of facing the issue at hand.

Despite numerous denials by IPOB about the terrorism bedevilling the SE, you guys insist it's them.

The country's security architecture has failed because the terrorists have actually overpowered the armed forces and police, as well as citizens, to the extent that in many large swathes of Nigerian territory today, citizens are paying obeisance to terrorists, even some governors are doing same.

It's a shame how much the country has deteriorated since the unfortunate Buhari happened to Nigeria, same Buhari people like that dolt and his fellow zombies sang his praises.

sulaak:
Dele believes it's now the Igbo turn for the presidency. I don't believe that tribe or religion should be used as a criterion for leadership. Tinubu, Buhari, and GEJ are all good examples of how using ethnicity to select the presidency will always lead to failure.

I am in the opinion that Nigeria can never succeed under the current constitution and structure. The country should return to the regional political and parliamentary structure,

Your 2nd paragraph I agree with.

The 1st, not at all.

Unless you're of the school of thought of "na statistics we go chop?", the stats are clear that GEJ did relatively well on some key metrics like inflation, GDP growth, unemployment rates, etc.

So no, you cannot lump OBJ, Yaradua and GEJ with a complete failure and disaster like Buhari. Tinubu we cannot really say until his tenure has elapsed but the early signs are looking really bad.

To your statement about not choosing leaders based on ethnicity or religion, while that is objectively ideal, in a country with multiple ethnic groups numbering 10s of millions, the diversity has to be carefully managed.

Things like rotation of power, shared government, etc are viable ways of managing that diversity so as to ease certain primal fears and apprehensions, whether real or imagined.

As for the solution, the truth is that the oppressors WILL NOT willingly relinquish all their power and privileges for whatever ideal the citizenry hope for.

So you know what this means - it can only be taken by force by a true People's revolution.

Will Nigerians ever unite to make it happen? That's the million dollar question.

As always, time will tell.

sulaak:
The problem with people like you and Dele is that you think that Tinubu and Buhari have the support of their respective ethnic groups. Less than 11 million Nigerians voted for Tinubu in the recently concluded fraudulent (S)election. Yorubas didn't vote for Tinubu in an election that he stole and cheated, and I don't believe PO and Atiku won the election. All Nigerians will suffer the consequences of Nigeria's corrupt government, including the so-called prepared Igbos.

But APC won in all of the Yoruba states barring Lagos so your assertion is false.

Meanwhile, nothing in my post suggests what you're saying so I wonder where it's coming from?

I know for a fact that a significant number of Yorubas did not vote for the kleptomaniac and drug bag man called Tinubu, and that's good enough for me.

What you should be more worried about is why any normal human being would vote for APC in the 2023 presidential elections after the disaster Buhari brought upon the country, especially knowing fully well that Tinubu orchestrated his emergence.

You should be really worried that despite the current overwhelming hardship, some folks will still be swayed by ethnic and religious sentiments when another presidential election comes around.

Igbos have always mostly voted for a president who is objectively the best candidate in elections, at least in the current democratic dispensation but when the rain falls, we are not spared too.

So, no, Dele is not trying to say that Igbos are immune to evil govt, just that we are used to being schemed out in everything govt in Nigeria, hence, we have learnt and now excel at being self sufficient.

Same cannot be objectively said about other major ethnic groups, and this is with all due respect.

If you must apply interpretation, make sure you have full understanding and grasp of the issue.

Cheers.

sulaak:
Igbos hate themselves. They play the victim, insult and hate other ethnic groups and then wonder why they are excluded from political power

Lol, zero thinking, just regurgitating the same tripe.

We're used to it so no shaking.

Meanwhile, those that have enjoyed political power and are enjoying power, how has it helped their people?

By your logic, we can excuse the SE for the issues ravaging our society today, but what's the excuse of the North and SW who have so far benefited from the unjust and inequitable country called Nigeria?

The north is being ravaged by extreme poverty while the SW isn't faring much better (oya retort with Lagos in a typical zombified manner ).

Keep gloating over your false sense of power while the criminals and evil men you call your leaders continue to loot your common wealth.

By the time you come to your senses, it would have been too late, and you'll be gnashing your teeth in regret.

Until then keep gloating on social media, throwing vitriol at Igbos that have done nothing but love Nigeria (oya tell me about Nzeogwu at this juncture like the rambunctious loon you are).

I will not bother replying whatever trash you quote me further with.

kedeojo:
Will it make an Igbo president or you people want to be second class to the northerners you so much despises as vice. Nzogbu nzogbu politics will do harm than good to you people.

And the "smart" politics by the North has made it an eldorado?

Or the omo wa ni politics of the Yorubas has made SW eldorado too?

You people think this is a matter of I win you, ela oju kan.

Una suffering never even start walahi

GloriousGbola:
why are you putting the picture of Bola Tinubu over a list of projects that preceded his administration, preceded APC, and are not even completely federal?

i have gone through your topic history so i understand the game you are playing here?

you should also put alex ottis picture on a thread the failed projects of Abia

Again, the bigot in you jumps out once you thought OP is Igbo. Why?

On a thread that clearly mentions when each of the projects was initiated?

See how everyone on this thread is rightfully condemning govt waste but you came here to measure tribal d.icks?

Your mind must be such a dark place, kai!

sulaak:
Dele Farotimi needs to shut up. If Igbo are that great, why is the SE a mess, or are the SE governors, not Igbo?

Tinubu and Buhari are hopeless leaders, but let's not forget that an Igbo leader in the name of Ironsi gave Nigeria the unitary system of government, which is the root cause of its problems today.

The likes of Dele Farotimi will turn Yoruba into a slave; he never offers solutions. I can stand the man.

Lol.

So Nigeria's problem now is unitary government ehn?

Your pain is that he talked about Igbos in a positive light

Dele has offered solutions in his books, countless videos and writings so talk another thing.

You have no point but are quickly aggravated once Igbos are mentioned, typical of the average Nigerian.

Igbo hate will consume you and your ilks in due course

That's how evil this country is.

An innocent person can be randomly kidnapped by the security forces, held for years without any charges and sometimes they die in custody.

Nothing ever happens and life goes on.

What a country!

RhinoChest:
Once again, didn’t the president of South Africa attend President Tinubu’s inauguration?

What Ms Aisha demonstrated was not needed. I don’t think you should celebrate the so called “snub”of a leader against your leader, even though you have grievances against him.

It’s like me rejoicing at a racist treatment against a black man I’m not good relationship with, because I have to be smart enough to realise that treatment will come to me at some point.

Anyways, this is why people who are in the middle before this election won’t even consider Ms Aisha’s party in 2027..

Yes o, because of one Aisha Yusuf, please vote the worst human beings you can find in the next election.

Vote the most incompetent and vile people on the ballot to pepper Labour, Peter Obi and Igbos.

In the end when the chickens come home to roost, you and your family will not be spared.

See how some animals have already started mentioning Igbo and Nnamdi Kanu.

Too many useless twaddles on here!


Meanwhile to the matter at hand, it was obvious from the getgo that Nigeria has no strong case against the man.

They used their usual gestapo style of kidnap, claim arrest and start fishing for incriminating evidence but it cannot work in this case because the man is not a Nigerian.

The incompetence and folly of this govt and its appointees is too glaring to ignore, what a calamity!

lekonso:
Honestly, how i wish they are given their biafra. They don't deserve to be part of Nigeria

Lmao.

I feel your pain

No let Igbos matter kpai you o.

Logout of nairaland, go outside and touch grass.

KingLennon:
Nobody fit talk say him mama food no sweet. Once the leader is from your tribe, you will defend him. But let's for once call a spade a spade; this government is not favourable at all

This is for small, unenlightened minds, and the sad fact is that this is how the overwhelming majority of Nigerians think.

And this is the same reason Nigeria cannot make any reasonable progress to join our counterparts in the 21st century.

Until we have a majority of Nigerians become enlightened (not talking about "educated" and until we customise this so-called "democracy" to fit out peculiarities as a people, we will remain in the 19th century.

I rest my case.

raskymonojendor:
The leader of the Ibo coup that destroyed the 1st republic is from Anioma, so Anioma is Ibo. What's the big deal. 🤷🏾‍♂️.

Asper Sanwo or Lagos. It's a brother's affairs. It's not for IPOB members like yourself to be chooking mouth.

I never hear other coups that happened in Nigeria tagged to the tribes of the coup plotters.

Never heard Fulani coup, Tiv coup, Kanuri coup, etc.

Everywhere on earth, we know coups are a purely military affair. But you ignorant, incorrigible folks insist the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.

I hope the country called Britain falls to the level of Greece and Cyprus in my life time because they are to blame for most of the events that historically led to the genocide of my people, including the media propaganda.

Meanwhile, until that genocide is revisited, and a proper truth and reconciliation programme is done, Nigeria cannot really move forward.

No be curse but that's how the laws of nature works.

Healing must take place before anything is rejuvenated.

Willed042:
Good for u but I never claimed to be one...did I?

And I also never mentioned anywhere that you claimed to be one.

If you have a point, make it and stop being a coward.

I won't bother responding to you anymore too.