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Kriss216:
2023 is near... They are now sounding like sensible people.

They can only deceive the gullibles and zombies not sane Nigerians like us.

who told u are sane...u wey dey see every sensible talk as a politics

attackgat:
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Chief of Public AffairsUnited States Southern Command

Director of Public AffairsJoint Force HQs-National Capital Region/Military Disrtict of Washington

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yammiri people too dey lie...Amanda wey marry ibo man... Mr azuibuke don become ibo woman.. lie lie people.. the woman naa American wey marry ibo man..she is not ibo by tribe.

Augustinecedar:
Lol
They are no different from the Fulani man. The Fulani don't forgive easily and are radicals, I no call name o, are hatred bigots and are also radicals. If you don't buy into their opinions, then you're are a potential enemy even amongst themselves. They can't stand intellectual analysis of political issues without throwing insults and hate

just imagine .... Hatred full ibo man heart... No tribe wey them no fit abuse....
The most poorest ethnicity in Nigeria....

donleo92:
I stand with you reno.

very nice... And also remember to stand with Reno on this too

b][/b]Tribute To The Yoruba
by Reno Omokri

People often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy.

And their culture is often mistaken for what it is not by others who do not understand them as a people. What some people ignorantly call cowardice, or sycophancy, is stooping to conquer. It is both a military and diplomatic strategy.

This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”. Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.

But are the Yorubas even cowards, as some people accuse them to be? Well, let us let the facts speak for themselves.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenaghen.
He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.

He returned to face almost certain death.

What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.

Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

In addition to the above, in my opinion, they are the least likely to maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.

I love how they retain their full culture when they travel abroad. It is a rarity amongst Africans. When you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.

A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second generation Yorubas who were born and brought up in England,

I have been traveling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider [/b]spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.

They may speak it privately in their homes abroad. but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.

It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.

Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.

[b]Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’

This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to Yorubas.

Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.

They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).

The reason why Yorubas are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners. They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.

There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa.

US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.

77% of all Black doctors in America, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.

I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). You guys are oni te si iwaju.

#TableShaker #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

CaptainAyub:
Spoken like the typical yerobber man who has never crossed Benin.
Your yerobber ppl are constantly fighting and shedding blood with hausa/Fulani every year in Yoruba land but you will pretend you don't know.
From Shasha,Fagba,Mile 2,LASU area etc but una go pretend una be accomodator

oga keep shot.. I am just back from the east... Too poor.. u guys should stop decieving nairalanders here... Anambra it's too ugly very very ugly... Just only 3 areas that are not up to 3kms they snapped from different angles...

olas24u:
How many streets do you have in the east named after other nationalities in Nigeria?How many yorubas work in your civil service ?Can you give your daughters easily without a trailer load of requirements?I l have lived in the east and you are not accommodating, you are not welcoming ,to get land Nko,even chinese ,indians cant live there why?

east is a curse land... Even the white man ignore there and go else where to establish business... They can never have a place look like ph, Abuja and Lagos in their dungeon territory....


They are the poorest among nigeria... They always want to compare them selves with the great Yoruba....

Non of thier lineage worth 1billion dollars
They are roaming the street of Lagos looking for apartment to rent so many landlord refuse to rent house to them... They hardly pay rentage... Very poor rat...
Look at the last VAT Figures... They are lagging behind...

Frigga13:
And they will buy out all your lands and turn you people to their slave without knowing your slaving for igbos.

All your work and salary will enter igboman bank account.. and you will come here to complain

Keeep hating.. nobody send you.

And your post was the typical ika talking.

Careless.

u are not buying anything from any body... Naa lease Dem lease am for u... All land belong to the indigenous and state government...We control the affairs of the state... We own our land... And it is not included in ur ipob map... So why are u telling me it's a no man's land... Let the owner go to court and claim it from the Yorubas ...
U are quoting out of hatred/emotions in other to defend yourself... Pls let change topic... Nigeria is for everyone...
I didn't take dis shit personal.. just saying the obvious truth...
Don't cross ur line with Yoruba....cus if u do I will ....
Pls no body should creat tribal thread... Let's discuss something that will be off a benefit to us all... thanks..

Frigga13:
Asgard ke

And Yoruba hatred towards igbos will bring Yoruba tribe down

Mark this.

Why my people across Niger bridge dey hate too much..

U naa hate Tinubu wey never live for ur region before.. or take any money belong to ur people..

U naa hate Buhari before 2015 election... All because naa Fulani from the North...

Abeg u naa don dey hate osibanjo wey never do unaa any wrong...

But unaa fail to hate any of ur leaders wey don steal all unaa destiny finish...
Se Dem take hate swear for u people ? Abeg I no sure say dis unaa hate for other people naa ordinary eyes...

Una bi confirm children of hate ...

Frigga13:
Asgard ke

And Yoruba hatred towards igbos will bring Yoruba tribe down

Mark this.

continue ...

obynzo:
Oga see if the states had not sued FG(most of the governors who did this are in the APC) the ESA would have helped Nigeria absorb the FX shocks.

esa 60 percent portion was designed for the benefit of wash state... I repeat where did the fg kept the remaining 40% ... What did they used it for ?

Frigga13:
And west is too dangerous for humAn .. any human.

Ritualists and cannibals can never be good accomodators.. unless the life is worthless

Reno on point

asgard73 u don change monical... Ur hated toward great Yoruba go surely bring ur down fall.... Note dis

Olayetan:
Kudos but still haven't done half of what ambode did.

Imagine, ajah jubilee
Abule egba bridge
All alagbado roads down
Pen cinema
Oshodi interchange terminal
Epe
And so on

sanwo olu as done so well.. I can't differentiate who as done better.... Out of what u mentioned above sanwo olu completed 3... It is not about initiation.,,, But completion of a project matter most...Lagos vision is all about continuety... Ambode failed in that area but his not a bad governor... Lagosians love him....We all need to appreciate what sanwo olu is doing in Lagos...He has completed somany abandon projects by his predecessors...

Why my people across Niger bridge dey hate too much..

U naa hate Tinubu wey never live for ur region before.. or take any money belong to ur people..

U naa hate Buhari before 2015 election... All because naa Fulani from the North...

Abeg u naa don dey hate osibanjo wey never do unaa any wrong...

But unaa fail to hate any of ur leaders wey don steal all unaa destiny finish...
Se Dem take hate swear for u people ? Abeg I no sure say dis unaa hate for other people naa ordinary eyes...

Una bi confirm children of hate ...

obynzo:
You are a very big liar. Ngozi made that warning when the governors most of whom are now in APC(Amaechi, Oshiomhole et.al) took FG to court on the ESA fund they said that Money should not be kept in that fund but that it must be shared to the states. If that ESA was kept at least we would have been insulated from the FX crisis for about two years plus giving Buhari time to come up with policies to stem the slide.

abeg talk the thing wey u know... 40% of esa belong to the fg.....60% belong to the state's governors.. tell me where fg keep the remaining 40perxent that's main for the fg.

Ndi developer do not have any tangible real estate project for Lagos.... Naa Dem go dey say Dem develop ragos...

The refugee migrants ...

blamingthedevil:
Tinubu did you guys strong thing or Is Tinubu omnipresent in you guys medulla oblongata ?

To the extent that a whole Ohaneze Ndigbo has to write a letter to citizen Tinubu, who is not an elected official nor has he declared his intention to contest for the highest office in Nigeria.

What kind of Inferiority Complex is this?

Why are you guys always reminding us that that Bolaji Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is the next President of Nigeria?

Tinubu this
Tinubu that
Tinubu in the morning
Tinubu in the afternoon
Tinubu in the evening
Tinubu on Twitter
Tinubu on nairaland
Tinubu in the East
Tinubu in the West
Tinubu in Arewa
Afenifere- Tinubu
Ohaneze- Tinubu
Arewa- Tinubu
Wailers- Tinubu
Hailers - Tinubu.....
My Father- Tinubu
My Mother- Tinubu
My Husband- Tinubu
My Wife- Tinubu
PDP- Tinubu
APC- Tinubu

Now ....IPOB/Ohaneze- Tinubu

Tinubu must be omnipresent.


Is Tinubu Lord and Saviour?

Well,
The Difference between LAGOS DEMOCRACY and other 35 States since 1999 till Date is tinubu.

The Difference between SW DEMOCRACY and other Five Regions since 1999 till date is tinubu.

The Difference between LAGOS ECONOMY and other African Cities since 1999 till date is tinubu.

The Difference between Progressive Politics and Wailing Hateful Politics since 1999 till date is tinubu.......

This is the Spoken and Unspoken Truth.


Let me join them to say God Bless Incoming President Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu


NEXT THREAD ON TINUBU

Bro I love what u wrote ... I will appreciate it if baba do not contest for 2023 presidential election...I will advise baba to follow up with mr osita advise...

My opinion though...

For me ,, I don't really want tinubu to contest... I just want southeastern man to attain that post so noise of marginalization can reduce...

But Dis people too dey abuse tinubu for no reason...d tin wey the man do them , I no know...

CaptainAyub:
Take it easy oga.
I have a bit of online respect for you or I'd have cursed you back.
Ogbonnaya Onu is a personal friend of my dad and his schoolmate is Izzi high school where you have Ishieke campus of Ebonyi state University now,so when I speak,I know what I'm saying.
Onu came to my family house and country home at least 10 times b/w 1999 and 2007,I've been a card carrying member of APP to APC from 99 till date just cos of my pops association with Onu.
Coming to the subject matter,Onu was ANPP party chairman in d run up to 2011 election when Buhari was pushed out of ANPP in favour of Mallam Shekarau who was then a sitting governor of Kano who ended up running on the ticket of ANPP while Buhari ran on CPC ticket.
Senator Julius Ucha(2011 ANPP governorship candidate in Ebonyi) was already ticked for Ebonyi ministerial slot but if you remember, Buhari took 6 months b4 he formed his cabinet so it ended up working in Onu's favour.
ANPP block raised an alarm that all the posts like SGF,Senate president and deputy, speaker and deputy were shared all between the newPDP,ACN and CPC block,that not one appointment for old ANPP yet.
Buhari now changed his mind overnight and replaced Senator Ucha's name with Onu as a prominent and most visible ANPP man then.
If Onu were Buhari's was still Buhari's darling,why didn't he give him SGF despite the calls made by Igbos then that he should do so?
And why didn't he give him any of the super ministries like Works, Housing,Power,Finance,Education,Agric,Aviation etc but instead left him at a lowly science and technology ministry?
If you still want to argue,enjoy,but try not to curse

ASGARD 73 SEE AS DEM DISGRACE U FOR HERE... Ur obsession with Yoruba matter will bring ur down fall

Penguin2:
First, about Peter Obi’s legacy in Anambra, I want you to go to Upper Iweka and shout that Peter Obi did nothing in Anambra. Even at the height of the political war between Obi and Obiano, Obiano has never, and I mean NEVER, questioned Obi’s legacy in Anambra because he knows Anambra people will come for him if he dares.

Second, about IGR, high IGR equals to high taxation. That’s a socialist principle. Peter Obi is a core capitalist with a believe in a market driven economy and not a tax driven economy. In Tinubu’s time as governor in Lagos, because of OBJ’s withholding of FG allowances to Lagos, Tinubu started taxing all taxable entity in Lagos just to survive. But Peter Obi being an economist knows that high taxes kills startups and SMEs. If Peter Obi wanted Anambra IGR to hit the roof while he was Anambra governor, he would have done. His not doing it is not lack of capacity but because of a believe in different economic principle of how a state should be run.

Lastly, about the boys Peter Obi has raised in Anambra, I beg to tell you that Igbos don’t build empire and we don’t play Baba Sope politics in the East. If anything, he installed Obiano to succeed him and when he wanted to go against Obiano Anambra people refused. Not because they have forgotten what Peter Obi did for them but because Igbos in entirety despise being tele-guided. Or can you tell an Igbo politician who has “raised boys” in the sense you wanna look at in comparison to Tinubu?

Take Peter Obi off your mouth. Your conscience knows, Nigerians know and the world knows that if Peter Obi rules this country that he will turn it around for good unlike Tinubu who will be more interested in “raising boys” than governance. Look at the mess Lagos is with the nuisance of motor park touts and “owomida” urchins; that’s what he will turn Nigeria into. God forbid!

u can lie to others not someone like me... Anambra get agbero pass Lagos.. u mean say all the agbero wey dey upper iweka naa tinubu bring them come there ?
U poor rat Eastern dungeon can lie more then lie Muhammad..

What about dis..
I say this again , agberos in the east is way too much , more than the whole Agberos for naija .
I left Enugu for Onitsha and If I tell you weytin agberos take my eyes see for Agbani road to Ogbete .
They are always stationed where there is traffic and before you know it , they jump inside your bus , drag key with your driver and ask you to pay a ridiculous amount of money
I paid over 15 k in Enugu
On my way to Onitsha in awka , these imbeciles came on a state road oo and start asking for owo boys which I paid another 2k
In Onitsha ,make I just climb bridge o another 70k paid .
In Onitsha these guys are not branded with any govt uniform or any office ,na their garage them carry me go . My bus slept there for two days I nearly cried .
Make I pay carry my bus , I paid again 1k for tyre to be pumped after deflating my tyres , 3k for gate
But these people will always cry of victimisation I'm Lagos everytime !
Haba I have worked on the fiels virtually in all parts of the country and
ABA , Onitsha , Enugu , Owerri , bayelsa and pH is the worst place to work .
Not even the north with all their crisis .
Foolish people lipsrsealed
Pls confirm dis report.. I think say naa only Yoruba get agbero....

South east land of agberonism...

Penguin2:
First, about Peter Obi’s legacy in Anambra, I want you to go to Upper Iweka and shout that Peter Obi did nothing in Anambra. Even at the height of the political war between Obi and Obiano, Obiano has never, and I mean NEVER, questioned Obi’s legacy in Anambra because he knows Anambra people will come for him if he dares.

Second, about IGR, high IGR equals to high taxation. That’s a socialist principle. Peter Obi is a core capitalist with a believe in a market driven economy and not a tax driven economy. In Tinubu’s time as governor in Lagos, because of OBJ’s withholding of FG allowances to Lagos, Tinubu started taxing all taxable entity in Lagos just to survive. But Peter Obi being an economist knows that high taxes kills startups and SMEs. If Peter Obi wanted Anambra IGR to hit the roof while he was Anambra governor, he would have done. His not doing it is not lack of capacity but because of a believe in different economic principle of how a state should be run.

Lastly, about the boys Peter Obi has raised in Anambra, I beg to tell you that Igbos don’t build empire and we don’t play Baba Sope politics in the East. If anything, he installed Obiano to succeed him and when he wanted to go against Obiano Anambra people refused. Not because they have forgotten what Peter Obi did for them but because Igbos in entirety despise being tele-guided. Or can you tell an Igbo politician who has “raised boys” in the sense you wanna look at in comparison to Tinubu?

Take Peter Obi off your mouth. Your conscience knows, Nigerians know and the world knows that if Peter Obi rules this country that he will turn it around for good unlike Tinubu who will be more interested in “raising boys” than governance. Look at the mess Lagos is with the nuisance of motor park touts and “owomida” urchins; that’s what he will turn Nigeria into. God forbid!

you are fucking liar... Anambra doesn't have the infrastructure to generate any igr... No tangible or cooperate organization that worth it over there... Ok if Anambra government refused to tax is citizens .. what about vat... Why are they lagging behind ? U can not give what u don't have... Anambra it's a poor state... Very poor...The vat opened up all your lies about anambra igr...
That's how your forefathers came here as a house boy to our forefathers...

Funkeshuga:
huge part of Lagos is ijebu land inside which geographic record?


na so una claim anioma dey deny you, claim ikwerre dey deny you, claim part of Benue and kogi dey deny you


your papa no teach you about self esteem? you Igbo just want to be dragging stupidity with Fulani people

yeah he is correct on that part... Ikorodu , epe , ajah , lekki are all ijebu land in Lagos...
The guy can't differentiate between ajebu- olode and ijebu Remo..... Remo land end in lekki Lagos...
Yoruba it's an ethnic group with more than 21 tribes...

freeborn02:
So narcotics dealing is the same thing as money laundering.

my guy u be mumu all these was forged in other to bring down tinubu nothing like that happened... Pdp govt tried to probe him but didn't have any evidence to do so... They knew themselves that they are losing against him...

KillIgbohoN0W:
Na still Igbos go buy all those properties despite selling it for them at double the price they offer Afonjas

Igbo Amaka
Afonja Ajoka jarey

impostor funlani from the north.. pls don't fall for his trap...naa amajiri

pointblank247:
guy you are not very correct atall, Anambra does not have low budget at all, as for industries, you just made it clear that you don't know Anambra state. The Onitsha main markets, ochanja main matket, nnewi motor and motorcycle market just to mention but a few are generating IGR in billions not to talk of the industries

no tangible industry in anambra except innoson motor.... industry that can't generate vat...
Anambra that budgeted 143b for 2020 .. one of the lowest budget in the south...

post=108435092:
The spirit of Oluwale have dealt with many minds in Southwest, average Southwest governor is known for quoting humongous figures for budget they can't afford, Ogun 2021 budget was 338.6 billion while Anambra was 143.6 billion naira, we are in last quarter of the year, please can you show us how they were able to fund the 338.6 billion budget and what they achieve this year let compare Anambra with lower budget, I don't know when you guys go get common sense, quoting figures you can't fund, hoping on loan to fund your budget that's the height of stupidity in governance

oboy see as u just tackle urself... From ur analysis , it showed that ogun it's far richer than anambra state... Check out ogun recurrent expenditures more higher than anambra entire budget... 162 for recurrent expenditures ... Why anambra total budget is 143 in the year 2020.... Do u know the meaning of recurrent expenditures ? It is what keep the government functioning... It means services of debt , salaries and logistic e.t.c...

pointblank247:
you are right, very right. Fact is that just like it is very difficult to fathon the dept of the wealth of an average Anambra guy, so it is difficult to know the size of Anambra IGR. we don't shout and we don't show off until the container is overflowing, if you know you know

what about vat ? Guys u can't hide any thing here... Anambra don't have much industries.And it seems u don't understand how vat its being generated ..Anambra pop it's very low.. that's why they are having a low Budget they can finance without bailout...

ello29:
The system of running the government is making the state poor and to be over dependent on the federal government in almost everything. Until we restructure and do the right thing. Imagine in a big and giant country like Nigeria only three states can fund their budget. If this continue in the year 2030 every Nigerians will become lazy and depends on federal government. This is not good for a country. This is one of the major reasons the Nigerian naira keep falling and the poor economy.

so u don't understand the article

kilisi:
Oil dey your head! You sabi those guys well well.

That guy shouting I'm Yoruba on the first page is a confirm Fulani.
Don't ask me how I know but you can take that to the bank!

u naa don dey get the game well we'll for here.. that's why me i no dey take our gist here personal... But I dey abuse Igbo people here ... Dem be my inlaw wey I like.. in fact most of my friends are igbo and I love being with them...

Newton85:
I'm not a fan of this MC dude and his agbero boys constituting nuisance in Lagos but I just wonder why you mkpuru mmiris aren't doing everything humanly possible to curb Onitsha of its rabid agberoism while concentrating on Lagos? Do you people love Lagos more than Onitsha?

quote of the year ...

Mumu Read dis and see reason Southwest deserve A.P.C presidential Ticket in 2023 ...
Chronicles how Osinbajo eventually emerged

*Former gov attacks Adebanjo, Falae, others


Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

Former Governor of Osun state and ex-interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, yesterday narrated how Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as he then was, the presidential candidate of the party at the time, promised to pick Bola Tinubu as his running mate in the 2015 election.

Chronicling the events that led to the eventual selection of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Akande, in his autobiography, “My Participations”, published by Gaskia Media Limited, disclosed how Buhari who was then under pressure to drop the former Lagos governor, later reneged on the agreement.


In the book which was launched in Lagos, the octogenarian also took a swipe at the trio of Ayo Adebanjo, Olu Falae and Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, coming short of accusing them of selecting themselves to represent the Yoruba people during Goodluck Jonathan’s National Conference because of what he termed “generous allowances.”

Akande stressed that despite the pledge to make Tinubu his vice presidential candidate, Buhari later faltered, saying that he only said that he wanted the former Lagos governor to “partner with him.”


But the politician admitted that at the time Buhari was under enormous pressure, especially from some northern governors who insisted that a Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement was a no-go area.

He revealed that it would be the second time that Tinubu would be getting very close to becoming a vice presidential candidate, noting that the first time was in when Atiku Abubakar, who was then contesting as president later chose Ben Obi.

Akande confirmed that Tinubu was instrumental to the emergence of Osinbajo as running mate to Buhari after he was formally dropped and asked to submit three names from the South-west from which Buhari would pick one.


According to the book, Buhari at a point during the formation of the APC started to admire Tinubu for his business acumen and his ability to organise people, key features that got then candidate Buhari close to the APC national leader.

“In April 2014, I was in Abuja when Buhari called me and asked me to persuade Bola to run with him. Governor Masari was the one who came to call me. When I followed him into Buhari’s private lobby, Bola Tinubu was already seated there.


“So, when Buhari tabled the matter, I cautioned them that this must not get out beyond the four of us. ‘How could he be talking of a running mate when he had not secured the ticket?” I mused.

“I thought such information, if leaked to the general public, might affect the conduct of the party’s congress at the presidential primaries, if not its choice of candidate. I thanked Buhari for thinking so highly of our friend.


“Bola later told me that Buhari’s emissaries had been coming to him, but he tried to dodge the gesture and not to show interest. We agreed that we would reopen the matter when Buhari had secured the ticket,” he explained.

However, he expressed surprise that thereafter, when Buhari became the party’s candidate, things changed, with former APC chair, Odigie Oyegun, who was supported by Tinubu to become chairman of the party, asking for names from the geopolitical zones from where Buhari will pick his running mate.


“He said it was from this list that Buhari would choose a running mate. I objected. I turned to Buhari. ‘General, where are you choosing your running mate from?’ He answered, ‘The South-west.’ ‘Oh! I didn’t know,’Oyegun said. He apologised.

“I didn’t know why Oyegun made that proposition and at whose behest. As the chairman of the party, maybe some people pushed him to do that,” he noted.

Akande continued: “Then, I called Buhari aside. ‘Is our arrangement still standing?’ I referred him to our discussion in April. He said yes! “


According to him some members of the party eventually agreed that a committee should be set up to search for Buhari’s running , a move himself and former Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiohmhole, opposed.

“Adams Oshiohmhole , then Governor of Edo State, stood up and said we were being dishonest. He said he was a serving governor and many of those in the Elders Committee had been governors.

‘’Did we set up a committee to give us our running mates?’ He asked. ‘It is not fair!’ He further said what we were pushing was a dangerous act and that we should allow Buhari to choose his running mate. So, we left,” he narrated


Akande stated that he later came to know that some people constituted themselves into a group, called the Northern Interest Group, and they prevailed on Buhari not to allow a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

According to him, it was the following day after the Elders’ Committee meeting which was deadlocked, that Buhari phoned Tinubu to give him three names from which he would pick a running mate.

“We were all in Abuja and Tinubu rushed to me with this information. He wanted to know whether the understanding we reached with Buhari had changed. I called Buhari and he told me he now needed three names from us. I was angry with him.


‘‘General, this was not what we agreed upon,’ I said in annoyance. ‘You are changing our agreement?’ He knew I was getting angry. He said he was under pressure from some governors from the north, including those who were Muslims. I told him the slot belonged to the South-West and among the Yoruba, religion is not a factor in leadership,” he said.

Akande added: “Oshiomhole was surprised about the narration. ‘If indeed you promised to make Asiwaju your running mate, it would not be fair to renege,’ he said. Buhari now said he never meant it that way. What he meant originally was that Tinubu should partner with him.”


The former Osun governor explained that he didn’t know what that meant because before they discussed the issue of Tinubu as the partner or vice-president’s ticket, a merger had been accomplished and they had already partnered.

“We were registered in July 2013, and he called me to prevail on Tinubu to be his running mate in April 2014. Buhari knew I was upset but we tried to manage the situation. Perhaps he was overwhelmed by all those pressures. We decided to let him go,” Akande said.


He insisted that once it became apparent that Buhari would be the presidential candidate, he was interested in making Tinubu his running mate.

“In our years of interactions and engagements, he seemed to have come to know and admire Tinubu.

“He constantly seemed to admire Tinubu’s business acumen; his courage in politics, his large heart, his native intelligence, his readiness to forgive those who have betrayed him but who now show remorse, his empathy for the under-privileged, his capacity as a tactician, and a strategist of the highest hue, his loyalty to the ideas of Nigerian unity and good governance, and his steadfastness to his friends,” he added.


According to him, without Tinubu, the “APC miracle” would have been more difficult if not impossible. “All these made Buhari to admire and respect him,” he said.

He narrated that what prompted the push for a Tinubu as vice president for the first time under Atiku was that anytime they said they needed money, Atiku would say “Bola please help us”.

“Bola (Tinubu) was the only one spending the money among us. The rest of us were poor. Tinubu also put all his energy and resources into the formation of the AC and we felt he deserved a spot on the ticket,” he wrote.


He also wrote about Tinubu’s frustration with the entire rigmarole, eventually opting to leave Abuja for Lagos.

“I don’t want to be part of whatever you are discussing now, ‘he said. ‘I don’t trust Buhari anymore! Even if we give him names, he may decide to go outside the list. So, let him choose on his own. He was unhappy with Buhari.

“I told him that was not the attitude to adopt. We were trying to toy with some names and I wanted him to participate in the discussion. After some time, Amosun, Aregbesola and I were considering some names. Then I decided to call Tinubu again.


‘We negotiated with Buhari in 2011 and gave him a name to choose instead of Pastor Bakare,’ I spoke to Tinubu on phone. ‘Who was that person?’ l asked.

‘It was Yemi Osinbajo,’ Tinubu declared. I asked Aregbesola to find out where Osinbajo was. He called him on the phone. ‘Yemi, where are you?

‘Don’t you know your case is coming up tomorrow?’ ‘l am in Abuja to argue your case.’ Osinbajo answered at the other end. ‘Which hotel are you staying?” Osinbajo told him.


“I got a blank sheet of paper and wrote Yemi Osinbajo on it. I instructed Amosun and Aregbesola to deliver that note to Buhari immediately. It was almost midnight. Then the two of them left.”

He continued: “I was waiting for Buhari to call me after he must have received my message. He did not. It was Tinubu who came to me at the wee hours of the morning. He was not in a good mood and was worried that Buhari might visit our efforts with bad faith.


“Let us go back to Lagos”, he said. Why? I asked. “Maybe Buhari has his own agenda,” he said. Even if we give him a name , he might not use the person. Maybe he just wants to use us for whatever his agenda might be.”

“I reassured him that Buhari will not disappoint us and that he would agree with our choice as the vice presidential candidate of our party,” Akande said.

Taking a swipe at the trio of Adebanjo, Ajayi and Falae, Akande said it was surprising that the elders could not find any younger Yoruba to send to the conference to represent the interest of the ethnic group.


“ They believed, even in their old age, that they were the only people who could have gone there. Sir Ajayi, who was close to 90 at the time of the conference, has since joined his ancestors. Chief Adebanjo celebrated his 90th birthday in 2018. Chief Falae is in his 80s. Note that Jonathan paid the conference delegates generous allowances.

“Chief Olu Falae, a trained civil servant, who after retirement became decorated into leadership by his former military bosses, has since been trying to blindly straddle Nigeria’s complicated politics,” he opined.


He characterised Adebanjo as a blank politically-minded leader who recognises readily and always that he never has what it takes to aspire for high political positions.

“He constantly harbours lumps of yellow hate-bile in his heart for any co-political leader with brighter chances for any major public office within or outside his political party,” he posited.

Akande further noted in the autobiography that the APC did not have ‘restructuring’ in its manifesto for the 2015 elections but promised to support devolution of powers from the centre to the States.


“It is therefore mischievous to place the responsibility for effecting restructuring on the APC or its presidency and not to appreciate that it would require deft negotiations among such members from different ethnic nationalities and constituencies or zonal and religious background before any political party or any ethnic nationality could successfully issue any fiat on the National Assembly to make laws on power devolution or on restructuring, whatever it might connote,” he argued.

Asgard73:
Nobody is surprised.. he’s a yoruba man after all.. a typical one.

It’s expected..

Tinubu go get 100 Alfa’s .. 100 pastors.. 100 marabouts from Senegal .. 100 ifa priests .. another 100 orisa..

If fani is that desperate..

Tinubu will do anything everything.

Yoruba sef

Asgard83 ur food don ready ooo
Come dey abuse ur Yoruba master as usual..