AlphaTaikun:

@Sweetplum, note this.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Chief Rafiu Jafojo won the UPN Guber election in Lagos State from 1979 to 1983 and they were both Muslims.
Most of the Ijebu and Awori Yorubas who are indigenes of Lagos State are Muslims with family members of other faiths!

Nobody raised eyebrows and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, raised their hands in 1979 and 1983 to endorse them. The Yorubas have had NO issues with these religious permutations. It is majorly where you have majority religions that there is usually religious bigotry and it is sickening to me and many right thinking folks. Asiwaju Tinubu is from the South and Shetima is from the North so APC has fulfilled the constitutional duty in having candidates for thee Presidential election. Tinubu's wife of over 40 years is a Christian woman. How much more tolerant can a Muslim be? Tinubu has been very tolerant to have allowed his wife who has an Ijebu-Yoruba father and an Itsekiri mother to practice her faith and this is pure LOVE. Senetor Oluremi too celebrates her husbands Muslim festival as-and-when due. This is the way Yorubas live their lives and NOT all this PURE bigotry from a section of Nigeria.

It is the so-Christians that have really embarrased everybody with their intolerance. This event has shown that many who claim they are Christians are NOT really so. Christians especially from the SE, SS, and the Middle Belt have a lot to learn from Tinubu and others in religious tolerance. Even the Buhari's 2nd-in-Command, the late 'Tunde Idiagbon [who had Fulani roots with some Yoruba family ties] was adviced by Gen. Muhammed Buhari now PMB back in the 1980s to leave his Christian wife alone to practice her faith and not force her. This is what some of the bigoted younger generation online don't understand. They just like to spread hate speech based on rabid emotions.


I'm NOT a Muslim, but I have read about many religions to get to understand them and be tolerant in life. Period.

Moh247:




Tinubu should stop answering these people jare... You have the right to pick who represents your interest

1: Sowore is AAC candidate and a Traditional worshiper

2: Obi is in LP and a Roman Catholic

3: Atiku is in PDP and he is a Muslim


.........

Only Ibos and Fulani take Religion in an extreme way

*A Yoruba man has enough Muslims and Christian family
*Kanuris have many Christians in North East same as Muslim
*Many Indegeneous Hausas are Christian and they cohabitate with Muslim around middle belt

How many Yoruba Christian did Peter Obi appoint as a Governor?! How many Yorubas serve under current Ibo Christian Governors, how many Ibo comiunity sells land to Yoruba Christians



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ThatFairGuy1:
Those who asked their ethnic people not to worship in Yoruba Christian own churches will come here and show fake support.

Thesame people who tagged Oshinbajo fake Pastor. Why the sudden change

They're doing this because of Pitobi, unfortunately some are buying it

ElSudani:


God bless you. It is amazing to see the rabid bigotry being displayed by some of these Christians. The type of bigotry we chide folks like Ishtak Akintola of Muric for.

Occurstaem:


You should first furnish us with the source your data. What's the basis of it and how did you arrive at it?
Let's have an open discussion

AlphaTaikun:

@Sweetplum, note this.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Chief Rafiu Jafojo won the UPN Guber election in Lagos State from 1979 to 1983 and they were both Muslims.
Most of the Ijebu and Awori Yorubas who are indigenes of Lagos State are Muslims with family members of other faiths!

Nobody raised eyebrows and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, raised their hands in 1979 and 1983 to endorse them. The Yorubas have had NO issues with these religious permutations. It is majorly where you have majority religions that there is usually religious bigotry and it is sickening to me and many right thinking folks. Asiwaju Tinubu is from the South and Shetima is from the North so APC has fulfilled the constitutional duty in having candidates for thee Presidential election. Tinubu's wife of over 40 years is a Christian woman. How much more tolerant can a Muslim be? Tinubu has been very tolerant to have allowed his wife who has an Ijebu-Yoruba father and an Itsekiri mother to practice her faith and this is pure LOVE. Senetor Oluremi too celebrates her husbands Muslim festival as-and-when due. This is the way Yorubas live their lives and NOT all this PURE bigotry from a section of Nigeria.

It is the so-Christians that have really embarrased everybody with their intolerance. This event has shown that many who claim they are Christians are NOT really so. Christians especially from the SE, SS, and the Middle Belt have a lot to learn from Tinubu and others in religious tolerance. Even the Buhari's 2nd-in-Command, the late 'Tunde Idiagbon [who had Fulani roots with some Yoruba family ties] was adviced by Gen. Muhammed Buhari now PMB back in the 1980s to leave his Christian wife alone to practice her faith and not force her. This is what some of the bigoted younger generation online don't understand. They just like to spread hate speech based on rabid emotions.


I'm NOT a Muslim, but I have read about many religions to get to understand them and be tolerant in life. Period.

ElSudani:


God bless you. It is amazing to see the rabid bigotry being displayed by some of these Christians. The type of bigotry we chide folks like Ishtak Akintola of Muric for.

Sweetplum:

Mr ElSudani, hope you are ok?
The post you quoted has me in it. Meaning you are shading me.
Take time o!

CommonSense1967:
Yes.
Most of the Indigenous people of the SW are Muslims. Even a lot of the SW Christians were previously Muslims or born into Muslim families.

AlphaTaikun:

@Sweetplum, note this.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Chief Rafiu Jafojo won the UPN Guber election in Lagos State from 1979 to 1983 and they were both Muslims.
Most of the Ijebu and Awori Yorubas who are indigenes of Lagos State are Muslims with family members of other faiths!

Nobody raised eyebrows and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, raised their hands in 1979 and 1983 to endorse them. The Yorubas have had NO issues with these religious permutations. It is majorly where you have majority religions that there is usually religious bigotry and it is sickening to me and many right thinking folks. Asiwaju Tinubu is from the South and Shetima is from the North so APC has fulfilled the constitutional duty in having candidates for thee Presidential election. Tinubu's wife of over 40 years is a Christian woman. How much more tolerant can a Muslim be? Tinubu has been very tolerant to have allowed his wife who has an Ijebu-Yoruba father and an Itsekiri mother to practice her faith and this is pure LOVE. Senetor Oluremi too celebrates her husbands Muslim festival as-and-when due. This is the way Yorubas live their lives and NOT all this PURE bigotry from a section of Nigeria.

It is the so-Christians that have really embarrased everybody with their intolerance. This event has shown that many who claim they are Christians are NOT really so. Christians especially from the SE, SS, and the Middle Belt have a lot to learn from Tinubu and others in religious tolerance. Even the Buhari's 2nd-in-Command, the late 'Tunde Idiagbon [who had Fulani roots with some Yoruba family ties] was adviced by Gen. Muhammed Buhari now PMB back in the 1980s to leave his Christian wife alone to practice her faith and not force her. This is what some of the bigoted younger generation online don't understand. They just like to spread hate speech based on rabid emotions.


I'm NOT a Muslim, but I have read about many religions to get to understand them and be tolerant in life. Period.

AlphaTaikun:

@CommonSense1967,

You're absolutely correct!

Islam has been in Yorubaland since over 500 years ago and it came via Mali Empire to the Oyo Empire through long-distance trading.
Iwo in Osun State was the initial epicentre of Islam 500 years ago... Long before Uthman Dan Fodio's Fulah great-grand parents were born. The Kanuris too have practiced Islam for over 1000 years via their contact with the trading routes of the Sahara to North Africa.

A 1950s census result containing religious beliefs of the folks that I read back in the 1990s had Muslims of Yoruba descent being in the majority followed by adherants of the Yoruba religion [Ifa]. In the 1890s census, Eko [Lagos Island] had more adherants of the Yoruba Religion [Ifa] than Muslims who came second, while the Christian groups among the Yorubas and some foreigners were very small. The different religions that are collectively part of Christianity are much more recent in history in Yorubaland. One thing that perhaps also helped
Islam to grow in many places was the acceptance of polygamy which the other foreign religions fro Europe were against

I'm not a Muslim so there is NO bias here. Just someone who agrees with historical FACTS... NOT infantile propaganda!

Cheers!

ElSudani:


God bless you. It is amazing to see the rabid bigotry being displayed by some of these Christians. The type of bigotry we chide folks like Ishtak Akintola of Muric for.

chrisvic007:


Stop writing thrash. When we see this type of nonsense we know who the purveyors are - Igbo people - and it is always found on Nairaland. Truth is there is no Yoruba Christian or Yoruba Moslem. We are Yoruba.

This division of Yoruba along religious divide was created by the mad hunch backed albino you refer to as your saviour. In reality, there is no extended family in Yoruba land that will not have a mixture of Christians, Moslems and traditionalists.

The last gubernatorial elections in Osun state ought to educate you that Yorubas have risen above primordial religious sentiments. Osun state has a preponderance of Muslim population, yet they voted a Christian - Christian ticket.

Be that it may, the south west will vote massively for Tinubu in 2023, including the good peoples of Oyo and Osun state. It will shock your hatred filled mind.

Whichever way you look at things, Tinubu is your next president. Nobody will join you to vote against their son

pappydeewhy:
you are a Muslim but I will advice you to check Wikipedia for religion composition in each of the six sout West states.

diadem10:
Tinubu's campaign team are not doing a good job. What's this?

Emphasis should be laid on competency, not religion.. Yorubas don't kill people because of religion.

Instead talk about Tinubu's competency and his legacies in Lagos state. His pedigree and everything...

Competency should always take the cake regardless of your religion. Your religion doesn't make you a competent person.

OlawaleBammie:
Ironi

If u stil say 53 to 55% a go gree

kayperry:



Between islam & xtain which got into Nigeria 1st, which religion did colonial masters bring to Nigeria, these are history a primary school students should know buh so called graduate go on national tv spewing dumbshit ... SS & SE is predominantly a xtain state with @least 90% xtains, asides that fact No state in entire south is predominantly a muslim state, its no brainer why muslim muslim ticket dominated the north and if xtain xtain dominate the south it only justapose the dominating population within the south. no be only 65% he should have rounded it up to 70%

omotoniwa:
what are you saying. In ondo christain are 90% Muslim are 10% in ekiti christian are 99% Muslim are just 1% in oyo christain are 60% Muslim are 40% in ogun christain are 80% Muslim are 20% in Lagos christain 60% Muslim are 40% you can also do your findings to know the truth.

TheOgaBoss:
if the situation were reversed and both candidates were christians will u still speed this trash?

MDM2021:


Ishaq Akintola, Farooq Kperogi and Shittu must be Ibos. Keep deceiving yourself.

chrisvic007:


I know what I'm saying. Ishaq Akintola has an association protecting the interest of Muslims, there is nothing wrong in that.

Farooq Kperogi has not done anything meaningful for Muslims, he is only playing with words to show his academic prowess.

None of these persons has ever mentioned "Yoruba Muslims". It is a creation of nnamdi kanu and made popular on Nairaland by his blindfolded and poorly educated followers.

BatinHisoki:
Igbos is the only tribe in Nigeria that's too tribalistic and us religion in everywhere. You'll see Yoruba Muslims cohabitating with Yoruba christians, you'll see Fulani Muslims with Fulani Christians, you'll see Hausa Muslims with Hausa christians, you'll see Igala, kanuri, ebira Muslims with their Christians living peacefully without any discrimination. But when it comes to Igbo it's not the same. The igbos only respect and show love when you can benefit them

tellmemore15:
Ondo Christian 80% muslim 20%
Ekiti Christians 80% muslim 20%
Osun Christians 65% muslim35%
Oyo Christians 50% muslim50%
Ogun Christians 60% muslim 40%
Lagos Christians 60% muslim40%

That is the statistics. There is no state in Yoruba land where Muslim indigenes are more than Christian indigenes, except the conquered territories that is ilorin and some part of kogi

MDM2021:


If Colonial masters brought Christianity to Nigeria, who brought Islam? The Yorubas were originally traditionalists. It's on record that Ife, known as the cradle of the Yorubas, has just one day, out of 365 days, on which no sacrifice is offered. Go and get education, little boy.

BenYeshua:
We have six south west State.
Ondo= Christian Majority
Ekitit= Christan Majority
Ogun= Christan Majority
Only osun and Oyo have a heavy presence of Islam and majority of them are not even committed they still attend Christian prayer center (Ori oke). No wonder Northern Muslims consider Yoruba Muslims infidels