Penguin2:

Tinubu had no choice than to appoint an Igbo man.

I’m sure the last thing he wants this early into his presidency is the noise of Igbos in ears screaming “marginalization”. Lol.

Buhari excluded the Igbos, not just in security appointments but in other areas including his utterances, but I’m sure it wasn’t as easy as he had thought it would be.

Maybe his calculation was that excluding Igbos from such appointments would break them and make them bend the knee and start supporting him but it rather heightened the antagonism of Igbos against him. He initially thought he could ignore it but I doubt if it tasted good in his mouth.

Tinubu wouldn’t want to toe same path.

fergie001:
Thank you, I still told him that if the person has capacity (my exact words) , no P. Taoreed is a verys enior officer.

Creeper:


Thanks for the correction - I didn’t know that.

Is it the same Alani Akinrinade that ended up defeating Biafra with Alabi-Isama (I know OBJ got the credit), after Benjamin Adekunle was recalled to Lagos?

AngelicBeing:
l think so

senatordave1:


Which course

Creeper:


Thanks for the correction - I didn’t know that.

Is it the same Alani Akinrinade that ended up defeating Biafra with Alabi-Isama (I know OBJ got the credit), after Benjamin Adekunle was recalled to Lagos?

babaolofin:


Yes. He was Chief of Army Staff for few months under Shagari and then moved to Chief of Defence Staff. He was the person that led war but being the second in command Obasanjo took the credit.

osuofia2:

Work with those failures, you are evil

Gajagojo:
Do you know the meaning of the word WOULD

Hope15:
I think they must have pushed his hands with their refusal to work with Ribadu as NSA. The man wants Ribadu in that post, and they were seeming a roadblock. Something has to give, right?

blowjohn:
Omo!
This Tinubu no come play o.
Why does it feel like he's overworking?
So many things in just a few weeks.

senatordave1:


Buhari is not intelligent so what did you expect? The best way for tinubu to get Igbo support or at least divide their votes is firstly to spoil them with appointments.secondly,getting their top politicians to decamp and siting more projects in the east plus releasing mnk towards election time...the main reason a lot of SS are now supporting apc is because of appointments and defections.my state crs had the highest number of appointments in ss while a lot of top politicians in aks and bayelsa joined apc.ill prefer tinubu concentrates those se appointments in imo,ebonyi and worst case abia as Enugu and anambra will never support apc

MeineMutter:
Let us all remain Jegaed. Supplementary list will soon be pasted and we shall see those 3ribes’ names.

senatordave1:


Buhari is not intelligent so what did you expect? The best way for tinubu to get Igbo support or at least divide their votes is firstly to spoil them with appointments.secondly,getting their top politicians to decamp and siting more projects in the east plus releasing mnk towards election time...the main reason a lot of SS are now supporting apc is because of appointments and defections.my state crs had the highest number of appointments in ss while a lot of top politicians in aks and bayelsa joined apc.ill prefer tinubu concentrates those se appointments in imo,ebonyi and worst case abia as Enugu and anambra will never support apc

babaolofin:


There is nothing Tinubu or Buhari can do for the IBOs that will make them support the Yorubas or Fulani, nothing. I spent 6 years in the University with them in IBO land. They harbour vendetta against Yorubas.

MKO Abiola pleaded with them, they refused. Look at the noise they are making over two Yoruba appointments, just COAS & IG they are making noise.

Abiola gave them Secretary to FGN, they refused. They said a Secretary is the person that serves his master tea in the office. As at that time, the Speaker of House of Reps is an IBO. They wanted VP and Speaker House of Reps while Yoruba gets nothing as it was under Shagari when Ekwueme was the VP and Ezeoke was the Speaker. The Yorubas have tolerated them.

Penguin2:

Lemme tell you something, something you don’t know, the Igbos have a way of relating with a person or a people.

The antagonism of Abiola by Igbos was not because he was Yoruba, no, it was because of his attitude towards Igbos prior to his contesting the presidency.

He is always alleged to have infamously claimed that he “can do without the Igbos.” Whether this is true or not is debatable but one thing I know is that the Igbos never accuse someone of doing what he didn’t do.

So, that was why Abiola got antagonism from Igbos who got infuriated that he said he can do without them.

I am telling you as an Igbo man that we don’t hate Yorubas. Take it from me. We just hate the ones that hate us and openly champion hatred against us.

Obasanjo fought in the Biafran War and participated in the massacre of thousands of Igbos but Igbos forgave him and made him their friend because Obasanjo showed genuine disposition towards reconciliation with Igbos and we understood that he was merely doing his job during the war.

The only problem with some of you is that you have never tried to understand us nor see things from our perspective. You stand afar and condemn us.

Penguin2:


I told fergie001 that Tinubu was going to appoint a Yoruba man as COAS but he doubted me.

His argument was that Tinubu would appoint a northerner who would have hold of the army but I insisted it would be suicidal of Tinubu to hand the army to a northerner.

I do not think it’s tactical for any president to take the army away from his region. If I become the president tomorrow, my COAS might even come from my state😏.

DatIgalaDude:
The appointments reeks of nepotism.
Our leaders are all the same.

discusant:
Ironically, all the Service Chiefs retired by Tinubu are younger than Tinubu.
Tinubu is a octogenarian claiming to be 71 in a false Affidavit of age.
Mahmood Yakubu had stolen the presidential election for Tinubu but Tinubu has a very short time as president of Nigeria.

discusant:
Baboon doesn't understand that he cannot undermine the influence of his country's 2nd largest ethnic group, the Igbo, and succeeds in apex political leadership of his country. Go to Daura and ask Buhari how far with his 5% declaration.

juman:
Again none from north central.
As if we dont exist.

vicfajeze:
Walahi, dats the beginning of their downfall

seborrhic:
As expected.
Swift and fast.
Hope he also sacked that useless NSA.
Though he won a fraudulent election this man's actions have been impressive,swift and fast.
Buhari would have sacked them and left the posts vacant for 6months at least.
P.S Ribadu NSA,wao!

quickberry:
Idan😂

Penguin2:


See, let me tell you something, like I’ve always told you, I am yet to see what Tinubu will do to get the support of Igbos. I’ve scratched my head but I can’t seem to find one.

And trying to divide Igbo votes is useless. It won’t work. Has never happened before and I don’t see it happening anytime soon. Igbos are homogeneous people. We think alike, behave alike, like the same thing and always move in same direction. One candidate will always get our votes.

If Tinubu releases Nnamdi Kanu, it would be seen as a gimmick to curry our support. We would see it as deception and that’s why it would fall flat on its face.

Even if Tinubu succeeds in winning Obi over to his side, Obi would be ostracized as a sellout and that’s the day his popularity will die.

On a second thought, I think the only one for Igbos to start warming up to Tinubu is if he orders all his foot soldiers to stop all their anti-Igbo rhetorics. All the covert and overt attacks of Igbo businesses and interests, especially in Lagos, should seize with Tinubu issuing an address from heart to Igbos calling on them to shit their swords that he has realized the things he did wrong in the past against Igbos and is willing to make amends. Then lastly, all forms of attack on Igbos during elections should seize; with Igbos allowed to freely vote whoever they want.

If Tinubu can do the above, he will win the Igbos over. Anything else, would be a fruitless venture.

ebenholer2:

He will be automatically promoted and that is the reality. If buhari can do and go scot free, it is high time for the north to know that power is not made for them only. You gerrit😀

Penguin2:

Lemme tell you something, something you don’t know, the Igbos have a way of relating with a person or a people.

The antagonism of Abiola by Igbos was not because he was Yoruba, no, it was because of his attitude towards Igbos prior to his contesting the presidency.

He is always alleged to have infamously claimed that he “can do without the Igbos.” Whether this is true or not is debatable but one thing I know is that the Igbos never accuse someone of doing what he didn’t do.

So, that was why Abiola got antagonism from Igbos who got infuriated that he said he can do without them.

I am telling you as an Igbo man that we don’t hate Yorubas. Take it from me. We just hate the ones that hate us and openly champion hatred against us.

Obasanjo fought in the Biafran War and participated in the massacre of thousands of Igbos but Igbos forgave him and made him their friend because Obasanjo showed genuine disposition towards reconciliation with Igbos and we understood that he was merely doing his job during the war.

The only problem with some of you is that you have never tried to understand us nor see things from our perspective. You stand afar and condemn us.

greatestdestiny:

SGF is not enough right??🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

babaolofin:


When did Abiola made that statement? Was it after the IBOs rejected him or when he was not contesting for Presidency?

The IBOs did not forgive Obasanjo. It was because they have no choice. Alex Ekwueme supported by the IBOs created tension in Nigeria before the PDP primary for the 1999 election despite the North decision to allow OBJ to rule. Obasanjo was the only sitting President that participated in Primary for second term against Ekwueme. At the National Assembly, they are always in opposition to Yoruba cause.

It is now Obasanjo becomes god to the IBOs to challenge Tinubu. Without Okupe, Adebanjo and Obasanjo, OBI cannot get to where he is today.

I am not speaking from afar, I am speaking from personal experience. The IBOs can never support the Yoruba cause.

ganisucks:
And so it begins. After the meeting with Grey beard, Baba Lagos declared war on the cabal.

Made Ribadu the NSA chief. What an insult. A police DIG to command military generals. NSA doesn't command anybody. He reports to the President directly


I laff😅🤣😂