₦airaland Forum

Ofunaofu:
Actually, Tinubu and those around him are the ones being shallow here.

Atiku proposed a return to subsidy on locally refined fuel, and suddenly Tinubu came up with this unrealistic and unsustainable 30day fuel discount of N1,355 per litre at NNPC filling stations.

But here’s the question which they are yet to answer, What happens after the 30 days? Another announcement? Another temporary gimmick? Or an actual plan?

Governance isn’t about reacting to your opponent’s ideas with publicity stunts; it’s about presenting sustainable solutions. Thirty days of discounted fuel is not an economic policy.

It’s a countdown to the next problem.

You guys make me laugh. Do you know how Singapore developed?

A benevolent dictator called Lee Kuan Yew was in charge for 30 years and, painful as reforms were, Singaporeans were not allowed to derail it.

Who is laughing today if not them with one of the strongest passport in the world, one of the most developed nations that Britons, their former colonial masters, are moving to for better lives. Constantly voted inside the top five best nation to live in globally as well.

How did they achieve it? Simple they had no adversarial ethnic blackmail, as we see at work with Nigeria, because Singapore has one indigene ethnic group. The Malays. They could therefore pull in the same direction and even sacrifice together for the greater good. As would be the case if, for example Yorubas had regional autonomy and did not have to answer to Nigeria .

What we have today is self-destructive as it allows you guys who do not like Nigeria and your fellow Nigerians, and are only currently pretending to seek good governance, are being destructive because all you want is for Tinubu to fail and take perverse joy in Yorubas being thwarted.

Empirical truth is that fuel subsidy was killing Nigeria and we must never go back to it..

Whereas the like of Atiku who is only desperate to be President is courting garbage that will take us back into the dark ages.

See below to note the guaranteed "direct answer" outcome of returning to fuel subsidy every national economic expert will confirm after it almost bankrupted us.

No chance of ever attaining Singapore-like development that took decades while we are three years and five months into badly crucial reforms we want to abandon yo return to the weaponised poverty of fuel subsidy that was eternal damnation to underdevelopment and economic stagnation.

Yorubas know where they wish to head and we know you people and some from the North are backwards enemies of progress.

You won't stop us. With or without the Presidency, we know what we want and will get it because we have evolved beyond you, are genuinely progressive and seeking to live in a geographical space that can be as developed as any other in the world. It will happen. Only a question of time . Mark it down.

There is no one with knowledge of economics, whether expert or layman, who would wish fuel Subsidy return upon Nigeria that desperate Atiku is touting except you vindictive "anyone but Yoruba President" lot who have traditionally always hated Nigeria and wished her the worst because you are not allowed to control our nation and dominate others.

BigkokoRep:
See them......It will hurt IGBOS more geng

This Italian Harry sha

I'm not mocking the unfortunate Tinubu supporter enjoying a taste of what they wish IGBOS. Just that one need pictures to illustrate the contradictory sides of a severe traumatized people

Who are the perfect image, if not you guys ,of a "severe traumatized people" who have always " fi owo kekere gba nla" I.e use small hands to collect hits from bigger hands?

Look at post independence history till today culminating in your "supreme leaders" serving Life in Sokoto prison. Na to dey collect wotowoto alway . You guys just never learn.


You think, over your constant and unprovoked attacks them, if Yorubas change it for you then you won't be done and dusted since your life and fortunes are in our hands?

Keep biting the hands that feed you. One day we will show you we are not your mates on any level at all.

FSBoperator:
Good that you are confirming that Ibos are invested in removing Tinubu by hook and crook.

But you will all fail and wail for the next 32ys.

They are self-destructive. What they cannot realise is that their thoughtless and incendiary actions against Tunubu will hurt them most.

Yorubas or the SW need them how? Whereas they feed their families in the SE with wealth made in SW markets.

I really pity them because the adage "act in haste, repent at leisure" was delivered with them in mind.

LottiOk:
D same way ipob members said Buhari Nd Buratai would be tried by ICC after dia tenure as president and Army chief. These folks love to fill d heads of dia gullible, shallow thinking followers with illogical narrativs to make dem happy.

Folks dat lack common sense will believe dis and are attacking others for not believing, claiming dat such folls who don't believe it don't have common sense.

D painful part is dat most of dem are my fellow Igbos who claim to be d smartest people in d world. Yet dis is d kinda things dey believe.

What a shame.

Ifele Emegbuom

Tufiakwa

They are delusional bro. Always have being, always will be.

loveth360:
You forgot to mention amotekum, OPC, Oduduwa when you were mentioning Boko Haram and Iswap.

You are beyond redemption as most of your brethren. Is Amotekun, for the protection of the SW, not an FG-sanctioned security force to improve the security of Yorubaland specifically?


Boko Haram and ISWAP are similarly sanctioned by FG to kill, main and terrorise ba? You lot have issues.

stanluiz:
Any restructuring that is not based on ethnic identity and linguistics especially with this current map is dead on Arrival .

You people and your penchant for always being difficult and covetous We already have six geo-political zones with a framework that works broadly.

With some tweaks, it can be refined to accommodate regional autonomy restructuring.

It was what Yoruba Governors demanded in 2021 yet your unreasonable and needlessly difficult leaders are now demanding an unwieldy ten when a template of six is in place already.

helinues:
They don't want Lagos state to be part of South West as it's developed by all Nigerians

Leaders of thoughtless

I highlighted some of their ridiculous demands in the thread below

https://www.nairaland.com/8762191/restructuring-conference-4-top-demands

Insane demand but is anyone surprised given their unreasonable and covetous nature? Lagos is physically in the SW region and not the capital of Nigeria.

On what grounds can a legal argument be made for it to be be anything other than part of the SW region?

It shows you the nature of these guys. Lagos is the smallest state in Nigeria. Meaning all their 5 SE State are bigger than Lagos. Anambra, for example, is at least a thousand square kilometres bigger than Lagos

Why not designate one SE State to be their own Lagos and then develop it over 10 to 20 years as the FG did with Abuja instead of wanting to die in a land you are not actually linked to by ancestry?


Simple these guys only see today. They don't understand the value of building anything or planning long term for future generations.

FSBoperator:
They are mad.

Completely insane.

loveth360:
Open the Link and Read with open mind.

He quoted awolowo and also said current Yorubas majority opinion.

We are not kids here.

But the truth is i still dey wonderful why you people fear self rule.

You want one Nigeria by fire and by force, but add if East by any chance leave, you south west must leave Because you can't live with Northerners without having East.

How do we fear self-rule? The reality is that, as a law abiding ethnic group, we respect the rule of law.

You think we do not want our own nation? We do but know the constitution forbids it. That is why Awolowo instituted a formal petition to have a secession clause included in our constitution so that regions that wish to leave the Nigerian union can do so peacefully.

Azikiwe opposed Awolowo and Azikiwe won at the hearing convened to determine which position should be adopted.

I.e Azikiwe backed the prevention of any region from seceding from Nigeria and also supported the criminalisation of attempted seccession as an act of treason. He won at the hearing and here we are today.

The Yorubas, consistently, have never dropped the idea of self-rule but we felt compelled to do it within the ambits of the law hence our choice of working for regional autonomy as we knew secession would be virtually impossible to achieve with the constitution of Nigeria and the North vehemently against it.

That determination remains today with how five APC Governors, and one PDP Governor, openly defies their APC President Buhari to make the demand below your governors can never make in a thousand years.

That is because they are too greedy, unprincipled, cowardly and disinterested in fighting for what is best for Igbos if that means they have to make personal sacrifices.

The Governors below are telling Buhari we are ready to resign as Governors and serve under a regional premier in the best interest of Yoruba land.

Show one example of your elected political leaders (not renegades like Kanu, Ekpa, Uwazurike etal) haven ever done similar.

Learn from Yorubas. We are not your enemies, not Machiavellian and do not plot against anyone. I know many of you believe that but such exist in your head alone. The military coups for example, has a Yoruba ever led one? No.

We are the least predisposed, till today, of the major ethnic groups, towards savage bloodshed of others. Metamorphosis of human nature shows those who have today given us UGM, IPOB ,ESN, banditry, terrorism, Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP, Lakurawa etc. Nil Yoruba involvement in wanton and senseless killings of innocent Nigerians

Work with reality instead such as how the SW is your biggest home outside your native SE in the entire universe meaning you must have met favour, grace and accomodation there to remain yet you tell the world a different story.

I'll begin respecting you guys the day your elected leaders can do similar to what is shown below instead of moving outside the SE in millions yearly far more than all other Nigerians, to the land of others, and seeking bills ( Ben Kalu) that remove indigene clause from our constitution so Igbos can become indigenes of all States of Nigeria yet you have the nerve to call others unity beggars.


https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JSyGrNCfW/

https://punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/?amp

loveth360:
I don't know why this people fears self rule.

Why are you people so troublesome and always looking to provoke others? Mainly the Yorubas? Wetin we steal from Una? Whether men or women, you are never about peace or progress.

Na trouble and division Una dey promote here daily. Especially against the Yorubas in some cold war against us most Yorubas aren't even aware of.

You deliberately excluded vital parts of what you presented to promote the "Yorubas are unity beggars" noise whereas we know who the the real unity beggars are because their actions never match their public claim.

Below is the full excerpt. Adejumo was not speaking his thoughts. He was quoting Awolowo's famous announcement. Awolowo was making it clear, and it was truism at the time, that the East was crucially important to Nigeria.

Awolowo's specific thinking was that the Easr, West and North consisted Nigeria. If the East left then the West will too because the nation is compromised cannot be viewed Nigeria any longer and the West will not be willing, alone, to share nationhood with the backwards North.

Awo made it clear we are not the protagonists of division but the East left, because they feel such is best for them, we leave also rather than share nationhood with the North.

Roughly, it is same stance Yorubas have today. We are not shouting secession out of respect for the constitution of Nigeria but we are ready for regional autonomy anytime and anyday as Awolowo had being a staunch and unwavering fan of.

Stop coming here to use deception to get your daily fix of maligning and demonizing Yorubas you are obsessed with.

We know send Una like that. We are always in our lane and you are the ones always crossing it, suffocation our land and lives.

Don't even know what we have done to you to deserve your malevolent obsession, every single day, than those who committed pogrom against you. It would be like the Jews hating Brits more than the Germans.

Makes no damn sense unless the Jews are envious of, feel inferior to and are obsessed with the Brits

He recalled a statement attributed to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo concerning the consequences of the secession of the Eastern Region.

“Obafemi Awolowo said something. He said, whether by acts of omission or commission, if the Igbo are allowed to leave, then the Yoruba will not stay.

“How is it that people just don’t understand that question? The Igbo determined that to mean that Awolowo promised the Igbo that he would leave.

“Was Awolowo a soldier? Did he even have a gun? Was he the military head of the South West as at that time? Was he like an Ojukwu figure? Could he even declare anything beyond his household?

“But what Awolowo was saying was simple. Nigeria stands on a tripod. The North, the South, and the East. If you allow the East to go, it will just be the North and the West. And that will be a disaster for the West.

chiiraq802:
Obidients go say na foreigners and rented crowd. na only there own they ever dey genuine.

Lol. I read one say today, over the massive one million man march for Tinubu in Imo state, it is rented crowd who wear branded t-shirts etc while the "real and organic" crowd wear mufti

Wetin be dis na? See as the crowd all wear branded Tinubu agbada, t-shirts and skirt. Lol. Obidients are confused people.

Irony1:
Stop being a hypocrite didn't they invite the NDC guy for questioning?

So? What does your point have to do with mine which is no Nigerian political Party has institutional integrity or defining philosophy all members must worship like religion?

NDC in the North, probably hosting bandits members, is nothing like NDC in the SS for example so Obi cannot be responsible for what NDC members across Nigeria do.

Ditto with Tinubu and APC ,where AC SW is a totally different to APC in the North and even from state to state of the SW.or

I only commented out of disappointment for how Nigerian have poor capacity for doing reality and lack the ability to think critical ultimately leading them to shout APC, PD, ADC etc up and down when our Parties are not different and just vehicles individuals use to seek office many wish to use to loot anyway.

SisterAnn:
Susssshhhh... This is not a south vs north issue, so shushhhh. 😆😆😆

SisterAnn my foot.

seunowa:
Why Abuja? I think dis should be sited in any part of South West states and not Abuja since the security network is solely for Yoruba people....

May be to do with patronage from political wealth in Abuja unrivalled anywhere else in Nigeria. Politicians donate generously towards security in one form or the other.

Richtaiwo:
This is a chieftain of NDC

This is what we keep telling those boneheaded Obidients when they shout Tinubu over everything every APC member does.

Should we now declare Obi a gun-totting thug on account a member of the Party he leads is brandishing a gun publicly?

Kalashnikov49:
You and who is South...

That is the question...

Writi g LONG nonsense shows slowness of brain faculties.

I ask again..YOU and who is SOUTH

You've got issues bro. Many of you do.

maybet081:
Stop playing your Yoruba politics in the name of the SOUTH . Nigerians understand your games.

What politics am I playing in the name of the South? The point that you all keep missing, because you always have a bee in your bonnet, is that many Northern political leaders are arrogantly disdainful of politicians from the South and believe power must always reside with them.

That is why Atiku tried to replace Buhari, in a well-coordinated plot that included many other Northern leaders, to replace Buhari and make it a possible 8 years unbroken rule of Fulanis over Nigeria.

Seeing you guys turn this crystal clear message into "Yorubas seeking southern unity" just shows how malevolently vengeful you are towards the Yorubas.

How can Yorubas beg Southern unity those who are minus one and worth virtually nothing politically?

We know damn well we are the strength of the South and on our own, if it comes to fighting the North, we are ready to tackle them alone.

That is why we did what is shown below, when Buhari and Malami were allowing killer Fulanis overrun the South while your worthless leaders were looking like minus, without seeking partnership with you guys.

We don't need you let alone beg unity with you and went it alone when Nigeria was at her most perilous because we know you have negligible strength, conviction and worth.

Funny thing is that if the North decided to lead Nigeria forever, the only people from the South that would be able to challenge and stop them are the Yorubas. As usual, your cowardly leaders will hide and leave the challenge to your kanus, Ekpas, Ikonsos etal


https://punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/?amp

CSTRR:
Did tinubu not collaborate with a northern supremacists to remove goodluck Jonathan.?

I'll never understand the childishness of you lot from a certain region of Nigeria. It was the turn of the North for fck sake!!

GEJ had already used 5 years of that Northern slot and wanted another 4 to make it an unscontitutional 9 years.

The whole political establishment, that understood the importance of the rotation agreement in keeping the peace of Nigeria, worked for Buhari and not Tinubu alone.

Man up and grow up. I don't know men capable of crying for 100 years like you lot.

Igbophobia:
Tinubu is from Yorubaland

Yorubaland is where exactly? In Northern Nigeria?

Kalashnikov49:
You and who is South? Sharaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

Is something wrong with you guys from a certain region per your negative obsession with believing Yorubas are seeking affiliation with any Southerner, least of all you lot?

I made a Statement of fact. Tinubu is a Nigerian President from the Southern region of our nation with the clear point Northern Political leaders believe they are superior to leaders from the South and that they deserve to be in power always .

Post is crystal clear and you say "you and who is South" while your brother shouts "unity beggars". Do you guys not see , with your reaction, it appears you have lost it and perhaps need professional help?

Typing:
The North you insult actually made Tinubu President. The same North will show him shege next year

Whatever. Keep worshipping the North. So what if they supported Tinubu? Was it not the least they could do after the SW helped Buhari become President after three futile efforts?

Go and sit down bro. It is we in the SW who will show them Shege rather.

Non of you are even aggrieved Atiku, showing disdain for you in the South, seriously attempted to replace Buhari in 2023 which may have made it a possible 16 years of Fulani rule for Nigeria.

AMINDA:
There's no such thing as Southerners. Stop the unity begging already. Did the South vote Tinubu? Is he running an inclusive Southern government or a purely Southwestern one?

You always think childishly. Is Tinubu factually from the South or not? What concerns unity begging here?

The simple and central point is that Atiku, your ward, and many of his Northern peers believe they are "owners of Nigeria" who were" born-to-rule" with both tags being created for them specifically because of their historical behaviour.

How many military coups led by the North and how many by the South? With even one attempted by Northerners against Tinubu recently? Grow up guy. Face the truth.

Why will an imperialist born-to-rule Northern supremacist not believe he can address a Southern President as he wishes rather than as decorum dictates he should?

Afterall, Southerners are beneath them.

mycar:
Leave me alone, Go and ask Magnito

Lol. Have a nice weekend bro

You guys should desist from fake news. Nowhere in the video did Tinubu say as you claim :
“Give Me a Second Chance to Correct Past Abnormalities”.

Unless it is in another section of the video not covered here. In which case you should have supplied it.

Tinubu is doing nothing wrong.Singapore went through what we are going through, I.e tough but critically needed reforms over 30 years, to become the developed nation she is today.

Difference is Singapore has only one indigenous ethnic group called the Malay so it is easy for them to sacrifice and pull in the same direction.

Unlike Nigeria with over 400 ethnic groups that has four in particular , with the largest population in comparison to others, being adversarial, wanting to live differently, pulling in different direction always and literally enemies of each other's progress.

For example, Lee Kuan Yew initiated the "stop at two" population policy we all know Nigeria needs but can any President try it without the North rioting even as we all know it is part of their biggest problems destroying the region I.e bearing tonnes of kids they cannot fend for.

This is why I am a staunch supporter of regional autonomy. Nigeria will never work. The progressive and sophisticated Yoruba, albeit painfully, will sacrifice and do the needful to become a model of developed nations of the world because we know what we will gain will be worth the sacrifice whereas others, certainly the core North, are happy with stagnation.

This is why I am still shocked Atiku has Southern supporters even as I can understand he will get votes from his fellow Northerners.

DatNiggaDaz:


Keep kwayet data boi. I like how the truth from the politician that gave you Laptop is hurting and giving frustrations.

You don't like the truth and you will never. Were you not part of those that hailed the darling daddy as the infrastructure Master

I can imagine what you do for a living, from how you talk here, and how lowly you likely are in life. Not pleasant at all.

Yet the internet United us all. Agberos, thugs, miscreants, Street hawkers, Doctors, Fintech bosses and Professors etc.