Kobojunkie:

There are about no signs that that small minority happen to have increased in number over the past 40 years. I would venture to claim that the number has actually been dropping since 1966 and what we hve today are a couple of folks desperate to spread the word and claim the majority to get noticed.

tpia.:

is nairaland now people's universe?

ezeagu:

Wow, are you serious? Okay, let me not argue, no arguing needed. Just look at the poll in this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-299456.0.html

citizenY:

@Nairaland politicians,

Honestly, we are all lilly livered armchair critics .we are all selfish, opinionated loosers who go no balls whatsoever.
We hide behind ethnicity to be throwing barbs at each other instead of facing reality.

My poser

1) If you really feel bad and hate another group so vehemently, arrange a walkout-- or call people of likeminds and get out

What if you have a gun pointed to your head?

2)If you feel you are bold, get your representative or senator to move a motion for any change you want in the polity
3) You know your oppressors are the people you elected/selected to go to Abuja and your state capitals and they are not serving right and
cannot confront them. You did not vote for them and you kept quiet

What if they are guarded by heavily armed mobile policemen?

4) When you have any difficulties- it is the fault of Hausaman/Igbo?Yoruba as the case might be
5) The cabal exploiting you is the same - military/political elite and they are located as follows

This is a clear lie!

-politicians and businessmen/contractors who steal your votes , corrupt the system and bank balances ( latest fad)
-lawyers and judges who manufacture judgments and injunctions for the ODili's and Ibori"s of our time

WHat do you expect an average Nigerian to do about that

- Ethnic jingoists in MEND/MAssoB /Afenifere/ Arewa etc etc who provide cover for all our phobias and ventilate them.

They are the only thing real about Nigeria, so face it and live with it!

- spineless people who occupy the civil service/ government positions in INEC, PTF/NDDC ETC.

More like THIEVES!

Nigerians, tell me who among these is not your brother, inlaw, uncle or tribesman or classmate. YEt you cannot face him , even at your village meeting.

NONE! When those people you allude to come home from abuja, they don't attend village meetings! So they are not my brothers or sisters. They will be lynched by the angry villagers!

NA for Nairaland you go dey blow grammar and throw abuse and champion assaults on each other. Your problem dey for your village, go cure am then come back make we move on, [/b]

citizenY:

I notice that you have not taken the following into consideration :-

We are responsible for our calamities if we refuse to take our destinies in our hands
We are the voters and these people represent us. The Problem starts from nomination
so join parties and the political process where you can effect change from within.

If the cabal i mentioned are not the ones exploiting you, identify the culprit. If your
representative did not gain from it, he must have been asleep and it will be your fault,
you chose the wrong person.

I am saying that we should not leave politics to the politicians. Let us all join and effect the desired changes.
Our fears usually limits our horizon and reduces us to local champions where a more purposeful national platform
is required and at all times we should identify our objectives.

citizenY:

I notice that you have not taken the following into consideration :-

We are responsible for our calamities if we refuse to take our destinies in our hands
We are the voters and these people represent us. The Problem starts from nomination
so join parties and the political process where you can effect change from within.

If the cabal i mentioned are not the ones exploiting you, identify the culprit. If your
representative did not gain from it, he must have been asleep and it will be your fault,
you chose the wrong person.

I am saying that we should not leave politics to the politicians. Let us all join and effect the desired changes.
Our fears usually limits our horizon and reduces us to local champions where a more purposeful national platform
is required and at all times we should identify our objectives.

Onlytruth:

Here is the result again:

Those for division - 71.2%
Those against division - 28.8%

My interpretation:
This survey is by no means scientific, but it reflects the views of the most active members of our society. No one comes to NL Politics section unless he/she is really interested in the politics of Nigeria. Mark my word, there are top members of the Nigerian ruling class on NL. They mask their identity of course, but they are here. So, that poll is important.

chic2pimp:

. . .The Third and Final Lie 'Mark my word,there are top members of the ruling class on NL' Oh come now who do ya think u are talking to? Kids? . Until u show evidence proving otherwise,that statement can only be seen as false.

Beaf:

So am I only dreaming am posting from Aso Rock?

Kobojunkie:

People actually believe a poll here on nairaland mirrors reality?? Roflmao!!!! If it was so, why do we continue to have what we have ooo?? Roflmao!!!

sjeezy8:

It starts from citizens themselves who eventually run for office.

Kobojunkie:

People actually believe a poll here on nairaland mirrors reality?? Roflmao!!!! If it was so, why do we continue to have what we have ooo?? Roflmao!!! 

chic2pimp:

Yes oooo. Your own palava even pass dream. U don kolo for head
Na so we see am ooooo

chic2pimp:

Yes oooo. Your own palava even pass dream. U don kolo for head
Na so we see am ooooo

Beaf:

--Saunters in, all cool; calmly drops fridge on the Pimps foot and orders Rafiu to lock him up till he's good---
If I think I'm in Aso, then I must be in Aso Rock.

@topic
The truth lies somewhere between Ezeagu's position and yours + Kobojunkie's. Currently, I am for restructuring our federal architecture toward 100% resource control and quasi-autonomous regional entities; failing that, we must seperate.

The most powerful motivation for my position is that there is actual hatred between regions / ethnic groups. How do you explain a country repeatedly dropping bombs on its own people, not even in a single event, but across several years.

Beaf:

^The big difference is that, in Nigeria it is 100% black dropping bombs on 100% black. To do the job effectively, without fail; they ship in goons from other ethnic groups.

What greater proof of hatred is needed?

Kobojunkie:

I don't think skin color changes hate. Hate is hate, whether it be from white to black or black to black. One cannot make a sweeping statement such as the one you made simply because a minority continue to bully others from other groups, and allow themselves ruled by their own hate, which is probably from deeper issues which they refuse to deal with. We have people of different ethnicities living side by side in harmony in so many states around that country. I have friends and family from different ethnicity and I can bet you that at least 50% of Nigerians would tell you the same.

Beaf:

No. The Nigerian reality is that an alarming proportion of the population finds it almost routine to bomb each other or embark on wholesale slaughter with whatever weapons come to hand. The few that are living side by side will not bring back the dead or save those who are next to die come the next ethnic, religious or resource clash.
A contract for our collective existence needs to be set out or we abandon the Nigerian project. Doing nothing costs lives.

I am interested in what alternative you have; I'm talking about practical solutions that will resolve the current ethnic / religous malaise.

udezue:

Sjeezy, your mama insults are juvenile and old school. Come harder or fall back coz it didnt work.