plusfield:
Okupe is very right on this but most yorubas on this forum are too myopic to see it. If the yorubas fail to clinch the national chairmanship of pdp, they should not blame anybody but themselves.
How can the other five geopolitical zones be begging one zone to discuss among themselves and come up with one candidate and yet, they refuse. Strangers are now begging brothers to reconcile.

When you want to talk please don't be like ffk who talk before thinking,point of correction Yoruba back obasanjo in 2003 google the 2003 election result.

For the the south west has always follow there leader who don't run away to other parties after each election but go back to reflect on the election results.Obasanjo coming back in 2003 was caution by tinubu but many refuse to listen,and today we ask questions base on fact figures,and we make our future more important than the present,that is why we are the most develop region today.hopefully when the developer go home for Xmas they will stay home for six months so we can come and beg you for food.

Also, okupe is right that the yoruba race have never got it right politically. Am happy he stated it here for the present indomie generation who feel like political masters, that Obasanjo in 1999 to 2007 was president without the input of yorubas. Yorubas actually backed Olu Falae of AD/APP alliance but the south east, south south and North central rallied behind obj whom his people rejected.

biacan:
Who takes bode serious

ivolt:


So which region has been getting it right politically?
What matters is meaningful development and not some
overrated party chairmanship position.

You and Okupe are being myopic.

greiboy:
it is not about lack of unity or not, but the end product

Name one southern tribe with a better representation in government than Yoruba since 1999.

Jaideyone:

you appeared very intelligent in your first paragraph until you goofed in the second when you said Yorubas never got it right politically. we chose to play opposition for 16yrs and we gt it right in 2015. that's takes courage. the south east has only been out of the equation for two years and they ate already wailing like life starts and ends with 2015 election.

if things don't favour us in 2019 or beyond we'll gladly go back and have a regional party that gave us meaningful development as against a ruling party that had 16yrs and failed the country

deomelllo:
Beats me why this useless clown and errand loser is equating their PDP market women drama with Yoruba people.

Abeg confine your rubbish to PDP and leave Yoruba people out of it.

Shouldn't okupe be telling us how the Yoruba people wrestled away the SW from PDP and now next in line to assume the presidency, even regardless of what's going on in Nigeria, the SW remains the powerhouse, the economic and intellectual center in Africa, nearly all the investments entering Nigeria today ends up in the SW and the SW economy is the 3 largest in Africa so who cares really.


Even sef, PDP died a long time ago, eve OBJ knew when he buried the PDP. This is nothing but some jokers trying to fan away aches from a burnt building.

engrchykae:
what type of representation are you talking of?
As federal minister or as state governor or the national assembly?

porka:



Most highly educated societies have diversity of thoughts.

porka:



Most highly educated societies have diversity of thoughts.

Born2Breed:


Opposition for 16yrs? I'm confused here. OBJ was there for 8yrs out of the 16yrs.

Fatherofdragons:
EWOOO but was it not ur brothers that have saying that they "yorubas" had gotten important positions in Nigeria such as VP, President, senate president etc, that they are politically wise and all,

but now that things aren't going ur way u say all u care about is meaningful development?.

Jaideyone:

you appeared very intelligent in your first paragraph until you goofed in the second when you said Yorubas never got it right politically. we chose to play opposition for 16yrs and we gt it right in 2015. that's takes courage. the south east has only been out of the equation for two years and they ate already wailing like life starts and ends with 2015 election.

if things don't favour us in 2019 or beyond we'll gladly go back and have a regional party that gave us meaningful development as against a ruling party that had 16yrs and failed the country

Jaideyone:
Yorubas were at the fore front of opposition to OBJ's government

greiboy:
every of the above, particularly the executive

engrchykae:
you must think everybody is a dunce,u chose from 1999 as if the political history of Nigeria started from 1999 and not 1960.
You lots claim to have the preserve of knowledge which results in living in a fool's paradise

greiboy:
ok from 1960

bear in mind "the clever one" that president at independence didn't have the same power as the current president

Also bear in mind that the various head of state and their vice

engrchykae:
Diya comes to mind

Xisnin:


You know nothing about Nigerian history, at no point did any candidate
ever got a 98% vote in the west. Even Awolowo lost to Nnamdi Azikwe's party
in the west, an impossible outcome in every other region in Nigeria.

Don't just say something before you feel like it, check for facts.

If you are serious about elections in western states, google is your friend.

Born2Breed:


Ha! That's a new one, Yoruba's playing opposition against another yoruba.

Ojiofor:


Who did the west vote for in 1979,83 elections and can you help us post the result of 1999 election to know the % of Yoruba votes to Olu Falae and PDP.
Zik won Awolowo and was robbed of victory,how does that translate to winning?

Xisnin:


Comprehend before responding to any post, this isn't about who the west vote for but the percentage
of votes as shared by the parties.

Even though many educated illiterates still blame Afonja for Buhari's 2015
victory, they forgot that GEJ got about 45% of the south-west votes.

Don't be lazy, google is your friend if you want to confirm the results of
previous elections.

greiboy:
Doyin have written a biased piece, not surprising though

Obj contested against another Yoruba in 1999. Till date no southern tribe in Nigeria have been afforded that privilege.

Yorubas supported obj in 2003 and Jonathan in 2011. Actually obj came to beg for the support of Yorubas in 2003. he knew buhari was going to win the northerners vote.

Yorubas have provided a vice president, speaker of the house and a president

let him name any other southern tribe that have been afforded these opportunities in Nigeria.

Pdp delegates from se and ss decided to elect their man as the party chairman. How does that affect Yoruba unity.?

What of the owner of ait (dopesi or what) isn't he from ss?. Isn't he also campaigning for the party chairman position?

Let him continue to be the spokesperson for Jonathan and not try to insult our collective intelligence.

By the way, let him and his bosses know that pdp will be a tough sell for Nigerians outside the se/ss with an igbo man as the vice president and party chairman. I am not a tribalist but a realist

Obagreatdatoye:
u sounded reasonably

porka:
Is Doyin Okupe still a PDP member?

Ojiofor:


Oh really,diversity of thoughts becomes a crime when it concerns Ndigbo.