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North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Bekwarra(m): 9:39am On Aug 03, 2015
Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has faulted the claim by Arewa Consultative Forum on the reports of the 2014 national conference. The group particularly asked the ACF to “stop peddling the funny claim of the North being 80 per cent of Nigeria in land mass and with a higher population” because the “fallacies have been laid to rest.” A statement on Sunday by the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said, “All the over 600 resolutions taken at the conference were by consensus as delegates never had to vote once. The only issues that remained contentious were the percentages of increase in derivation, the minerals development fund and the disaster reliefs fund. “The point of disagreement was when some Arewa delegates insisted that they would only agree to the five per cent increase in derivation and same for mineral resources development all over Nigeria on the condition that the five per cent earmarked for disaster intervention fund should be only for areas where Boko Haram are operating, while other delegates frowned on making Boko Haram a derivation item. “The compromise struck was to refer the items to the president for a technical committee harmonisation.” Afenifere added that the allegation “laced with the usual feudal arrogance, outright misinformation, atavistic obfuscation and delusory myopia” would have been ignored “were it not that falsehood repeated time and again may start to wear the garb of truth.” It said, “Let us from the outset make it clear that the unitary order, which the House of Arewa, has used to limit the flourishing of the component units of Nigeria for decades, has now entered a terminal crisis with shrinking receipt from oil and like a one- legged man dancing “skelewu”, will sure hit the ground even if he has all the stage to himself. “And when the fall comes, ACF and co-travellers would wish we had done the needful. They should therefore perish the thought that Afenifere is cajoling them to allow a restructured Nigeria.” Afenifere said it was amused that ACF was still peddling the claim of controlling 80 per cent of Nigeria because it had thought the fallacies have been laid to rest in 2014 after some of their delegates had taunted their co-conferees from the South “with map of Nigeria drawn at the back of their babanriga showing the North as 80 per cent of Nigeria.” Odumakin recalled that during the national confab, delegates were unanimous that the figures of all the censuses held in Nigeria till date had not been credible due to hegemonic interferences with what should have just been an exercise to provide scientific data to aid planning and development. It was also agreed that the natural boundaries of the North and the South are Rivers Niger and Benue “but the British drew artificial boundaries to favour the North and punish the South for agitating for independence.” Afenifere also queried why the North would be using the issue of bigger land mass, which was allegedly cornered to its advantage, to harvest revenue from the central purse instead of cultivating it. The delegates, it said, also resolved that if the higher population claim were true, “why would a man say his neighbours should not send their children to the best schools because they have to cater for his own children who are more than theirs?”
www.punchng.com/news/north-not-80-of-nigerian-population-afenifere-tells-acf/

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Realisticman: 9:42am On Aug 03, 2015
Is there no facts available? Check out the map bellow on the issue of land mass .Then on the population let us also check the latest census. Or conduct a new one.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by archangel101(m): 9:42am On Aug 03, 2015
FTC grin

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Mogidi: 9:43am On Aug 03, 2015
Afenifere should be careful, if Tinubu finds out they're fighting for the Yorubas rather than Tinubu & Sons Lagos branch, they'd be in serioussssssssssss trouble.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Nobody: 9:45am On Aug 03, 2015
[size=18pt]When the Southwest APC plebs where defending the child voters in the north used by Buhari to rig his way into power against Jonathan I told them not to complain when in the near future the north uses Jega's partisan INEC register in place of census figures.


Every action or inaction has its consequences.

Odua your slavery is now engraved in stone.[/size]

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by dayo23(f): 9:45am On Aug 03, 2015
Mogidi:
Afenifere should be careful, if Tinubu finds out they're fighting for the Yorubas rather than Tinubu & Sons Lagos branch, they'd be in trouble.
Afenifere ain't fighting for Yoruba rather they are bunch of old men driven with hatred and jealousy, in as much as I agree with them on this. Go get something doing with your time

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by sunnyb0b0(m): 9:49am On Aug 03, 2015
Shit is about to hit the fan.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by kodded(m): 9:50am On Aug 03, 2015
undecided

i smell poo
undecided

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Bekwarra(m): 9:51am On Aug 03, 2015
Lalasticlala abeg help us park this motor for front page. Oshey my dear *hands him key*
Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by sunnyb0b0(m): 9:51am On Aug 03, 2015
Realisticman:
Is there no facts available? Check out the map bellow on the issue of land mass .Then on the population let us also check the latest census. Or conduct a new one.

Let's conduct a new census with full biometric data captured.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by lordTK(m): 9:53am On Aug 03, 2015
These two socio-political groups are the greatest problem of Nigeria.... Slaves and slave-masters relationship.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by UmuEri(m): 9:56am On Aug 03, 2015
lordTK:
These two socio-political groups are the greatest problem of Nigeria.... Slaves and slave-masters relationship.
Facts

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by oladele97: 9:57am On Aug 03, 2015
The only thing I will say Is that 2014 confab was a waste of money and time

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by DaGC(m): 9:58am On Aug 03, 2015
Claiming 80% is just too much. Haba undecided
Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by IdisuleOurOwn(m): 10:03am On Aug 03, 2015
grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Realisticman: 10:03am On Aug 03, 2015
sunnyb0b0:


Let's conduct a new census with full biometric data captured.
I hope it will not generate the heat we don't expect. Nigeria is such a complex society that only the military can use their iron hand to conduct such exercise. Look at the constitution and even the national conference; what have the politician done since their sixteen years in the saddle?
Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by bjdon: 10:11am On Aug 03, 2015
PvtParts:
[size=18pt]When the Southwest APC plebs where defending the child voters in the north used by Buhari to rig his way into power against Jonathan I told them not to complain when in the near future the north uses Jega's partisan INEC register in place of census figures.


Every action or inaction has its consequences.

Odua your slavery is now engraved in stone.[/size]
Jega has given them PVC's. All the child beggers have one, there is no way a southerner can EVER win a presidential election in Nigeria again. You may as well all convert to Islam. The Jihad started by Uthman Dan Fadio is now completed, aided and abated by the ignorant, childish, Facebook generation. A generation that know nothing about anything.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by TheFreeOne: 10:16am On Aug 03, 2015
Afenifere added that the allegation “laced with the usual feudal arrogance, outright misinformation, atavistic obfuscation and delusory myopia” would have been ignored “were it not that falsehood repeated time and again may start to wear the garb of truth.” It said, “Let us from the outset make it clear that the unitary order, which the House of Arewa, has used to limit the flourishing of the component units of Nigeria for decades, has now entered a terminal crisis with shrinking receipt from oil and like a one- legged man dancing “skelewu”, will sure hit the ground even if he has all the stage to himself. “And when the fall comes, ACF and co-travellers would wish we had done the needful.

They should therefore perish the thought that Afenifere is cajoling them to allow a restructured Nigeria.” Afenifere said it was amused that ACF was still peddling the claim of controlling 80 per cent of Nigeria because it had thought the fallacies have been laid to rest in 2014 after some of their delegates had taunted their co-conferees from the South “with map of Nigeria drawn at the back of their babanriga showing the North as 80 per cent of Nigeria.”

It was also agreed that the natural boundaries of the North and the South are Rivers Niger and Benue “but the British drew artificial boundaries to favour the North and punish the South for agitating for independence.” Afenifere also queried why the North would be using the issue of bigger land mass, which was allegedly cornered to its advantage, to harvest revenue from the central purse instead of cultivating it.
Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Chiaka(f): 10:21am On Aug 03, 2015
Land mass with Zero input to Nigeria is nonsense! Who contributes what?? that's the real issue!

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Chiaka(f): 10:22am On Aug 03, 2015
80% and then they use child votes to make up number whats the sense in it? Mtchew!

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by uniklinkum(m): 10:27am On Aug 03, 2015
PvtParts:
[size=18pt]When the Southwest APC plebs where defending the child voters in the north used by Buhari to rig his way into power against Jonathan I told them not to complain when in the near future the north uses Jega's partisan INEC register in place of census figures.


Every action or inaction has its consequences.

Odua your slavery is now engraved in stone.[/size]


If you are not a foool with saucepan for brains. You would have seen that yinka odumakin another GeJ sidekick like you is the one foaming in the mouth. Tell me more about slavery that your region that have always go with the north, expect the last election where all and sundry close ranks to kick out the most useless president in the whole planet. Anyway fools like you are forever irredeemable.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Kingspin(m): 10:38am On Aug 03, 2015
The north as no clue on how best Nigeria should be govern. Any attempt to make the man in Taraba, Niger or Kano state do the samething as a man in Rivers, Lagos or Anambra(South) states is doing contributing immensely in national revenues is tag anti-North plan. You cannot have free oil money forever. Use the free money ur getting today and reinvest to diversify the state economy for the better future of all Nigeria. Like true federalism like national confab suggest that every state should develop according to the potentials they are made-up that is if ur state is very good for cocoa, palm oil, onions, yam, mango etc production. The federal govt shall fund such development for a specify number of years to attend commercial level after which they can be declare independent. Who is saying that is a wrong move? For states to attempt be independent in the future atleast to pay state civil servants and in some cases run other state expense. We lack peace, we will also lack development. Restructure the entire system now for the future.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Yorobastard(m): 10:39am On Aug 03, 2015
Wait ooo...I tot they said the population is over 170 million....where are the remaining 30 million...

By the way why won't the North claim 80% when the have more land mass than any other part of the country

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Nobody: 10:39am On Aug 03, 2015
Some people can be funny. How can the north be 80%?

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Bekwarra(m): 10:47am On Aug 03, 2015
dayo23:
Afenifere ain't fighting for Yoruba rather they are bunch of old men driven with hatred and jealousy, in as much as I agree with them on this. Go get something doing with your time
Afenifere are not fighting for Yoruba, I guess it's Tinubu and his cohorts that are fighting for Yoruba. The Way you and your ilks argue at times. Let me recommend Antonio Gramsci's work "The Intellectual" for you. Once you believe in something or support something, you never question it. To you Tinubu and Buhari are gods that can do no wrong.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Bekwarra(m): 10:51am On Aug 03, 2015
Like Prof. Bayo Okunade would say, Nigeria's problem is having 3 major ethnic groups.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by ERODEDEAST(f): 11:19am On Aug 03, 2015
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uniklinkum:



If you are not a foool with saucepan for brains. You would have seen that yinka odumakin another GeJ sidekick like you is the one foaming in the mouth. Tell me more about slavery that your region that have always go with the north, expect the last election where all and sundry close ranks to kick out the most useless president in the whole planet. Anyway fools like you are forever irredeemable.
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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by ERODEDEAST(f): 11:23am On Aug 03, 2015
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dayo23:
Afenifere ain't fighting for Yoruba rather they are bunch of old men driven with hatred and jealousy, in as much as I agree with them on this. Go get something doing with your time
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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Nobody: 11:24am On Aug 03, 2015
Southwest 19% ??

I smell ojoro

Igbos are 65% of Lagos population

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by uniklinkum(m): 11:27am On Aug 03, 2015
Lemon12:
Southwest 19% ??
I smell ojoro

Southbeastern yet your people rush to the south west like there Disneyland.

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by basilo101: 11:28am On Aug 03, 2015
Since the federal character is by state of origin, federal allocation shud also be by state of origin. State of origin shud be captured in d nxt census with full biometric data

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Re: North Not 80% Of Nigerian Population, Afenifere Replies ACF. by Super1Star: 11:30am On Aug 03, 2015
Realisticman:
Is there no facts available? Check out the map bellow on the issue of land mass .Then on the population let us also check the latest census. Or conduct a new one.

Remove yoruba speaking areas from Kwara and Kogi.

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