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ontroversial former minister of aviation and Obasanjo attack dog, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has hit out at a prominent Northern leader, Alhaji Usman Faruk, a former military governor of North-West State during the General Yakubu Gowon regime, who said recently at the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna during Sheik Ahmad Gumi’s Ramadan sermon that Asari Dokubo needs to brush up on his history because the North essentially dominated the Yoruba people and conquered the people of the Niger Delta during the civil war and that "Awolowo attempted he failed talk less of one boy (meaning Asari)".

Faruk who also claimed that the North had a population of 120 million compared to only 50 million in the South said that the onshore/offshore issue was cheating the North.

This is even as the equally controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, yesterday described Boko Haram as freedom fighters to some when he said in a taped interview that "Someone's terrorist can be another person's freedom fighter".

In his response Fani-Kayode released the statement below;



I went through the story in Sahareporters and I must confess that the Elder from the north that spoke called Alhaji Usman Faruk is talking absolute nonsense and he has got his history completely wrong.

I do not share Asari Dokubo's views about bombing the north and splitting the country either but let us all try to be historically factual when we speak. The truth is that It was the 98 per cent yoruba Third Marine Commando under the able command of Brigadier General Benjamin Adekunle that liberated the mid-west and the southern minorities from the igbos during the civil war and NOT the north.

Secondly the north literally begged Awolowo not to declare Oduduwa Republic and go the way of Biafra even though that was his original intention. Thirdly if it hadn't been for Col. Obasanjo (as he then was) who was stationed as Commanding Officer in Ibadan at the time the Biafran forces, under the command of the gallant yoruba officer Col. Banjo, would have entered and swept into the west at Ore and the war would have been over very quickly. They sent Professor Wole Soyinka to Obasanjo and asked for safe passage but Obasanjo refused.

Fourthly it was the support that the south west gave to the north that allowed Nigeria to win the war. Fifthly it was the lie that Gowon and the northern leaders fed to Awolowo that he would be made President of the country after the war and after being effectively being made de facto Prime Minister under Gowon during the war that got Awoloo to support them. Had it not been for that strong support from the yoruba and particularly the efforts of the predominantly yoruba Third Marine Commando who pushed the Biafrans out of the mid west, the south south and back into the east and who evenually went into igboland, occupied it and took the surrender of the igbos, there is no way that Nigeria could have won the war.

No matter what side of the divide we are on in this matter we must get the history right because there are millions of young people on the internet and in the country today who do not know the truth and that can easily misled by this type of historical revisionism and falsehood. The arrogance of Alhaji Faruk is sickening and this is especially reflected by the contemptuos manner he reffered to the yoruba in his interview.

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Blackteeth: And people still walk on it. When it collaspes and people die, the government will be accused of killing them. Why cant these folks stay away from the brigde since the authourity doesnt want to intervene? It is true that the government has been ineffective but the citizens are not helping themselves either.

If u hv been there,u wil see beggars nd sellers on d brigde

He has been working in a bank for over 6years nd cannot afford to rent @least a room aπϑ parlour,the guy must b acca gum while still leaving under his parents'shed.
As fø̲̣̣я̅ u,there must b sumthng u ar still hiding cos a girl wȊ̝̊̅ℓℓ neva marry a guy he has no feeling fø̲̣̣я̅ based on boths financial grounds.u get to answer ur jamb question urself cos u dnt even K̶̲̥̅̊п̥̥̲̣̥w̲̅ wot exactly is wrong with ur head.

Guy u don dey kolomental,wot business has dese got to do here.......mtcheeeew

May b he still wanted to venture into children trafficking

Kobojunkie: Can the state sustain this?

Jamb question.....ar u a learner

ismhab: THE DUDE LOOKS LIKE 41 YEAR OLD GUY.

If u dnt hv beta words for mouth,go to He££,IDIOT

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[quote author=mxxpunkxx!]only illiterates do so . . if u really understand how an ATM works, then you would be wasting ur energy counting,
the machine has a sensor that pushes each bill into the dispatch tray, one bill at a time
another infra-red sensor scans each bill for thickness. this means if two bills are stuck together, it would not come out
rather it would pass into a reject bin. any bill that is badly torn is also passed into the reject bin
it does this so perfectly, it could never go wrong.
the only mistake an ATM could do, is debiting your account without paying
and it's not the machine's fault. it's caused by a timeout in network while transmitting banking messages from the machine to the relay server.[/quote]Ogbeni,swear with ur miserable life if u hv neva once counted ur money @ d ATM or a shut-up place after withdrawing.I'm sure d maximum amount u hv ever withdrawed in ur liƒέ would b #2000 or less

nasty45: which one be hijack again?nairaland una no go wound pesn...

Leave †ђξ guy abeg,sumbodi has rescued it.

Y u no call him itshekiri man....fools

Beer competition,I fink I can represent Naija in †̥hα̲̅†̥..... :[b][/b]D

shadrach77: when will wizkid be verified? And how did Brymo make the list?

Jamb Question

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.....thanks bro,barcelona are just afraid of madrid nd mourinho,even for 50M we wont sell SONG

Hold on to ur UNSUNG abi na song u call him....nd stop thnkn like a cockroach,y wuld barca b afraid of madrid nd his so-called boys,get life IDIOT

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Oliver like me: Well, mine happed like dis and i called it 2go love,
i met dis girl on 2go, after some chat we excharge numbers and she angry 2 my girlfriend, we have been 2gether 4 about 5 mouths now, on july 15 dis year, she came 2 my place and we were 2gether from 3 in the af2non til 8 in d night, so i told her to start going home cus it late, she said dat i should follow her to her dad place where she stays, so i did, few blocks b4 we wil reach her dad place, i told her 2 go home cus i don't want questions 4rm her dad, she said ok but b4 i leave i should romance her a little which i agree, we went 2 a dark corner where nobody wil reconize us, we started romancing, we spend about 2hr romancing suddenly i saw some1 pointing touch light at us approching fast, immiadiatly she said, eaya i don enter trouble O, my daddy. I reply yur dad, she said yes , i told her dat since he has nt com 2 close 2 us, we should run and hide but she said no dat i should stand and told her dad dat am excouting her, i don't knw what took my leg 2 run, i discharge b4 she knw it, as i was runing i fell into pit, i came out of d pit and went hom, i did't sleep house dat very day, thinking dat her dad we com dat night, cus she is d only child her dad have and her dad is an retired Army, i left my mum place 2 work around 5:30am the next day, i went online whether she is online bt she is nt, i was 2 afraid 2 call her, i was restless 2ru out dat day, later in d evening she send me txt 2 com online which i quickly did.
She told me dat that man was nt her father and i have loose her dat we can nt be 2gether again, i ask her why, she said my action show dat i can't stand 4 her in time of trouble dat am nt man enough 2 b her man.
Am miss her now very badly

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Boyloaf: sometime around december 2009, my gf who av dated for 4years was abt to crumble my hrt!
Firstly, she went out clubbin wit a new toaster n called me around 12am dat she was comin to my place after clubbin, meanin i shud stay awake 2 open d gate to my compound; she came 30mins after d call n i allowed her in. I calmly xplained to her how hurtin i was due to her recent actions n at d end of my speech, i told her ''I LOVE U'', she did nt respond, i repeated d quoted phrase, then she shouted at me sayin ''AND SO WAT?''
Secondly, i went to see her at her crib, met her already dressed n ready to go out, asked her where she was up to, and she said ''a show'', i asked wit who? She did nt respond, then i said i came to spend weekend wit her, but she wasn't concerned abt dat, she got out of d room, asked me out n locked her door, as i was tryin to plead her to remember how far we've come togeda, while holdin her hands, unxpectedly, she turned around n pushed me n i fell to d ground like a baby, ''SMH'' hurtin my arms in d process, afterwhich i allowed her to go for her show wit whoeva. After sometime minutes of her departure , she sent an apology text but i did nt bother to reply.
Thirdyly, we were togeda at my place, d toaster called her fone, n she asked him to drive down to my area, went out to meet wit him, i followed her to where d guy was, n asked her there n then to choose between me n d guy who she wanted to follow, n shockinly, she chosed d guy, n i left n went into my apartment. That was how d relationship ended.
BUT after some months, she came bak begin me to accept her bak dat it was d devil's hand work. But as usual, i calmly told her, it was too late to apologise.

Guy u hv really suffered....sowi poor boy

All Nairalanders no sabi simple question,abeg make u no dey criticize our first-lady Õoooº°˚ ˚°º

She don born evrythng wey dey inside her finish,thats y dem cari giv her d surplus wey dey heaven

;Dgud fø̲̣̣я̅ him if H̲̣̣̣ε̲̣̣̣ wants to live a perfect life Ω̴̩δω.....human being aя̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ dynamic

We shall introduce a 10man-committee to look into †̥hα̲̅†̥.....shikenah

[color=#006600][/color]she hot or nt ♍ΑKΕ̲̣̣̣̥ we D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ run nii

toluxa1: Blackberry still not able to connect to my email.

Samethng with me too,I had to connect my FB account with it so †̥hα̲̅†̥ i CªИ̲̮̣̥̅̊ access it

[quote author=Ejiné]I th ;Dink a committee should be set up to help look into why Mikel Obi is underrated by outsiders \[/quote]Ąße̶̲̥̅̊G̶̲̥̅ no b Jolantan get Chelsea Õoooº°˚ ˚°º
Mikel cannot improve in his playing style,he is just an opportunist

''I'm in love with u'' is used when u ar still soliciting for love,while ''I love u''is used when dere has been a mutual relationship btw both parties.

isangedigh: Bloody frat boi

IDIOT....W̶̲̥̅̊hα̅t̶̲̥̅̊ does frat has gotten to do with dese.try nd get life,OLOFOO

Jamb question

U get to follow ur heart nt all d advices pple ar giving u here,......to find Mrs Ryt is nt by watching her for 50years cos sum pple can live with bravado for sum periods

Ur two eyes nEed to plucked out......aπϑ if wot she is saying is d truth,GEJ aπϑ his S̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡ called first Lady don Bleep up

Chanchit: Pastor tunde bakare shou ld reject ed that letter, on the grounds that it was poorly written.... That is nigeria for you, dame patience wei don use her grammer spoil my tv speaker sef don become permanent secretary....

Pastor Tunde Bakare should rejected that letter.while u were in primary school,u must have been taught †̥hα̲̅†̥ a person's name shuld always start with a Capital letter.
Secondly,ur composition was awful......kettle calling pot black