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windofchange:
The talks that Lagos is a no mans Land by igbos has been flying around so he decided to respond.




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johnjose68:
Yoruba Ronu.

YORUBA TAKE CHARGE NOW!!!!

BECAREFUL OF THE IGBO JIHADIST. THAT IS THEIR WAY ALL OVER THE WORLD.

When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.

I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.

The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?

Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?

Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?

OKOTA BALLOT BOX

As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.

But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.

Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.

Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.

In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.

Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.

So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.

Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?

That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.

The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?

JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE

The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.

The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.

Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?

I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.

Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?

It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.

What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.

The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.

Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos

ryloy:
Indian Prime Minister Congratulates President-elect Bola Tinubu



https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1631588384165580803

FreeStuffsNG:
Awesome!

Thank you our Indian Brothers and Sisters.

The International community has tremendious respect for Asiwaju Tinubu that their Presidents have since sent their Ambassadors to him even before the election was comducted https://www.nairaland.com/7592434/how-international-community-courted-president-elect

They knew that Asiwaju lokan! The lp mob were in their toxic bubble when the rest of human civilization are light years ahead of the lp mob's hate, ignorance, envy and bigotry.

Congrats my President-Elect Asiwaju Tinubu.
check my signature for free stuffs!

renderme:
Source:
https://www.wam.ae/en/details/1395303135391

obembet:
Everybody don move on.

Even Reno, deji, kelvin odanz etc don rest and focus on Thier life.


Obidient stil dey look for lawyers





You guys can come back after 2039.

Once Tinubu finish 8 yrs, power will go back to North for another 8 yrs before till wil come back to south. By that time, obi don turn to 78 then.

So that's why obi is crying like a baby

wolesmile:
Now that Tinubu has won, when are you renouncing your citizenship?



In other news...
How come President Tinubu now speaks coherently immediately after he was declared winner?

About 20 mins into his acceptance speech which he was reeling almost offhand, I had my mouth agape and had to ask myself "Is this Asiwaju, or a clone?"

Goodlady:
My opinion on Mr Gbadebo Rhodes Vivor.

He's a fine Yorubaman of cross breeding. His dad's Yoruba and mom is Igbo.

He flowed more with his mom's people. His handlers thought him wrongly to capitalize on Igbos as usual hatred politics to get their support.

He won't win Lagos cos of the following reasons.

* He's selfish enough to sell Lagos to Igbos just to be governor

* He is not experienced unlike a Sanwoolu that's tested and trusted

* He already miscalculated like Obi thinking Yoruba votes in Lagos ll be btw those sympathetic to Obi and those for APC, PDP, other parties. But Yorubas are the most unpredictable that when they really want to fight, their brains move faster than a bullet. So Chinedu & Igbos should be ready to get shocks and later cry.

* Yorubas has seen the Igbo agenda of trying to hijack Lagos and are ready to stop it legally with their votes for Sanwoolu

* Sanwoolu performed well. You don't change a performing governor cos of vendetta whereas his allege boss that you all hated was for unjust reasons

* Igbos are chest beaters that has exposed their plans before the election. APC ll carry them on handicap again. Those that has promised thuggery, arming each other with weapons to go to polling units has kobalized themselves. They bought market. People like Macaroni the boy with mouth like pig mouth

* Igbos as usual campaigned the campaign of hatred which sane people disliked. Since more sane people are in Lagos, they ll rather vote a performer

* They forgot that Jandor is easily marketed than this autism sufferer called GRV

* They abandoned PDP instead of working together with them. A combination of Jandor and GRV ll v been fatal to APC. Rhodes contested Lagos west senatorial election in 2019. If he's stable, he won't be jumping from one party to the other like Obi who jumped from PDP - APGA - LP. It's a sign of political immaturity.

* PDP ll share their votes like Atiku shared well Obi's votes and they ll start crying rigging when their brains are dead to do simple arithmetic.

All these are genuine calculations and reality from how Igbos do things in a rash and naive way. Politics takes time, calculations and alignment. I v a joker for GRV but I ll rather quote this post to tell the joker. He's a seeing in 2D, not 3D so I worry about his architectural acumen.

If you are quoting, apply sense or you get more than you are expecting.

Obaaderemi2:
He is a Yoruba hater. That post alone should disqualify him. It should be on TV and radiowaves.
But I trust all those indomie generation woke Yorubas to still form "woke".

I didn't know it was this bad.

plaindealer:
The anti-Yoruba bigot is deleting his bigoted rubbish, it's too late.

plaindealer:

To all the civil servants working in Lagos, thank you for your service 🫡.

I have said this at several engagements & would reiterate it here, you are part of LABOUR. I believe in dignity in Labour, improved quality of life and increasing ‘livable’ wage.

Èkó E dìde!!

~ GRV. pic.twitter.com/YLxOBCHsKS

— Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (@GRVlagos) March 1, 2023

See video.

The anti-Yoruba bigot can not even speak Yoruba.

OMG.

How did this happen?

plaindealer:
The greatest attribute of a true leader.

The self acclaimed no1 African bad gal shared new photos on her Instagram page decked out in designer wear, with a Burberry cape, bag and shoes.
The singer is currently in Turkey and gearing up for a performance on Sunday.

Source:
www.instagram.com/tiwasavage

politicoNG:
…Labour Party kicks



https://punchng.com/obi-will-go-down-as-nigerias-most-dangerous-politician-apc-pcc/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1677870022

specialmati:
satan is still studying the kind of spell this APC party cast on nigerians

fergie001:
A follow-up to this: Six States Ask Supreme Court to Declare Tinubu’s Victory Null and Void



SOURCE

purespikes:
Seun Osewa, you allow too much vile and hate. Some news and comments should not be allowed here

chosengocap:
I think we all underrated the man who could...

Forge his birth date
Forge his school certificate
Forge his identity and name
And nothing happened.

We all underrated a man who could. . .

Get away with making people impersonate bishops and pastors
Get away with drug cases even in the US
Get away with picking a Muslim vice while he is a Muslim.
And we did nothing. . .

We all underrated a man. . .

Who pocketed the media for years and controlled the narrative.
Pocketed Lagos for over 20 years and decided who governs her.
Controlled APC and brought in Buhari to rule after he has even given up.

I think we underrated or did not pay attention to how

His greatest critic, FFK, became his biggest defender.
The "almighty" Wike with his band became his puppet.
The one-time respected lawyer Festus Keyamo became his errand boy.

Maybe, just maybe, we underrated him too much and never saw that he can buy INEC, buy the electoral system, and control even the police and judiciary.

We urged him on with our silence and even hailed him as a City boy.

But in all these. . . He underrated the present youths, and that is his greatest undoing. If we allow this to stand, we should expect this to be only but the beginning. If we win this, we will put an end to impunity and thuggery, and intimidation. This robbery should not be allowed.

rxmusa:
Let children of anger and hate die.
Tinubu is our President for the next 8 years Insha Allah.

Melezenawii:
https://twitter.com/Dawakiii/status/1631261531420729346

FreeStuffsNG:
FULL LIST: APC wins Lagos senatorial elections, 20 of 24 house of reps seats

Kunle Daramola

MARCH 2, 2023 7:21 AM



https://www.thecable.ng/full-list-apc-wins-lagos-senatorial-elections-20-of-24-house-of-reps-seats/amp

Omoawoke:


This is a wake up call to south west.

We must come out massively and vote sanwo olu on Saturday. Take no chances. Vote and make sure you votes count. Tell every single of your friends to come out and vote sanwo olu.
Dont use hate or irrational decision to vote and hand over lagos for somebody to test run. LAGOS is the 4th largest economy in Africa and not an experimental ground. Dont sit at home, come out and vote massively

Would you vote Chinedu G Rhodes Vavous and hand over a whole Lagos to a biafra apologist and tribal bigot that insulted his own people and cant even speak yoruba?? NO!!!!!

Obidient is different from GRV

Zanotee:
Never saw his poster for one day. But voted for him.
I am happy .

donphilopus:
https://www.channelstv.com/2023/03/03/breaking-supreme-court-orders-old-n200-n500-n1000-notes-to-remains-in-circulation-till-dec-31/

Tezboi:
Lol.... Dem never see nothing, dem go something

Dapagun:
See what he said

Pityoobi:
Honestly they have distorted some many facts presenting them and passing them as true with many falsification…the unborn doing research on the net may come across many of it as facts.

renderme:
Fact Check-TIME magazine cover featuring Peter Obi is fabricated




Source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-peter-obi-time-magazine-idUSL1N3581Y2

Nuhskhut:
Sanwo-
Olu should be in for second term

Mynd44:
His own family?
Wahala dey ooo

Afamed:
The only rigging that took place in this election was done in the east.

Everything was 100/100 for their Pandora fraud