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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by buhariguy(m): 3:48pm On Nov 03, 2022
Realguyman1:
Every Monday sit at home is not an honour for anybody, but a terrorism threat from a proscribed terrorist group by the Nigeria government. The Nigeria government is supposed to be the one to crunch their activities not Peter Obi.

I ask a question that what if Peter Obi fixed on Mondays for any of his campaign days in the south east and those gunmen strike, what will you and the useless APC government that you support do for the poor masses that will be the ones at the receiving end?

But just like the typical APC supporter that u are, u start talking out of point.
this is just like boko haram declared sit at home in the whole of North East, no be juju be that.
And you said south east is more secure than north East.
That means idiotic pig terrorist are more more dangerous than boko haram, because boko haram can't even declare sit at home in one local government, not to talk the whole of North East.

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by buhariguy(m): 3:52pm On Nov 03, 2022
fx45:
1. An Igbo man is on the ballot and he's a good candidate. Naturally he should get a huge chunk of Igbo votes.
2. Tilumbu is old and senile. He's not electable. Plus the huge baggage of corruption and all kinds of fraud following him around. He's not what Nigeria needs at this time.
3. Replace Tilumbu with Osinbajo and watch the massive support he will get in Igboland. Tilumbu is bad market. The same way we warned you people about Buhari in 2015 is the same way we're warning you about Tilumbu now. He who has ears should listen
idiotic pigs said more than this in 2015, that buhari is unelectable and old and will soon die. But today buhari is stronger and healthier than you.
Tinubu is already the president,
Is too late. nothing you can do about it

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by emilo2bad: 4:16pm On Nov 03, 2022
thunder74:
These are my conclusions on this:
1. To use sit at home as an excuse for low turnout at the campaign ground on Monday since they are not popular in the East and Tinubu can not pull as much crowd as Obi did in Lagos.

2. IPOB said they are not the one enforcing sit at home order and don't know anything about UGM, probably APC may know those in charge and order them to stop enforcing it.

3. If you dont gerit, then, forget abourit
bro wait till the rally is held before this lamentation. all I see is fear in your write up

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by yetunsbay(m): 4:43pm On Nov 03, 2022
thunder74:
These are my conclusions on this:
1. To use sit at home as an excuse for low turnout at the campaign ground on Monday since they are not popular in the East and Tinubu can not pull as much crowd as Obi did in Lagos.

2. IPOB said they are not the one enforcing sit at home order and don't know anything about UGM, probably APC may know those in charge and order them to stop enforcing it.

3. If you dont gerit, then, forget abourit
off points.

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by yetunsbay(m): 4:44pm On Nov 03, 2022
Igbos if you're gallant oya come outside
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by Amumaigwe: 4:47pm On Nov 03, 2022
blamingthedevil:
APC Presidential campaign in Anambra and Imo will be Monday

Already preparing excuse for poor turnouts.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by mywells: 5:41pm On Nov 03, 2022
Is only Tinubu and shettima are the only neutral people in APC every other members are from PDP.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by fx45(m): 6:15pm On Nov 03, 2022
buhariguy:
idiotic pigs said more than this in 2015, that buhari is unelectable and old and will soon die. But today buhari is stronger and healthier than you.
Tinubu is already the president,
Is too late. nothing you can do about it
Where will Tilumbu get his votes from? Through rigging or vote buying
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by frank155(m): 6:19pm On Nov 03, 2022
Confirmedzombie:

This move by APC will clearly diminish Peter obi support in the SE.

Even a fool won't say this. If they like they should come 24/7. Just know that Peter Obi's support is going nowhere.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by Realguyman1(m): 6:30pm On Nov 03, 2022
buhariguy:
this is just like boko haram declared sit at home in the whole of North East, no be juju be that.
And you said south east is more secure than north East.
That means idiotic pig terrorist are more more dangerous than boko haram, because boko haram can't even declare sit at home in one local government, not to talk the whole of North East.
U are just giving a good reason why they said APC supporters are senseless with ur comments. Wetin come concern wetin we dey talk and wether Ipob declare sit at home in the whole of Nigeria? Where did I ever told u in our comments that south east is secured?

U are just busy talking trash. Ipob are proscribed terrorist group and terrorist group are know for nothing but terrorizing people. So talk something reasonable to back ur statement on Obi being Ipob sponsor and stop talking out of point.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by buhariguy(m): 6:49pm On Nov 03, 2022
fx45:
Where will Tilumbu get his votes from? Through rigging or vote buying
at least 40% from all region
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by od501: 7:43pm On Nov 03, 2022
2Radii:
that means u re deaf or delusional grin

Ipob never ordered it but they ordered it to be stopped on their behalf...olodo grin

Educated f00l. Please show me where IPOB ever instructed that sit at homes should be observed every Monday, and I will show you where an official announcement where they categorically stated that it should be observed only when MNK appears in court.

It is low in people like you that encourages the FG to introduce cheap blackmail on that group. Leave IPOB! They are not he reason naira is 900 to the dollar.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by effido666: 8:23pm On Nov 03, 2022
Na this one them go use bring the whole Nigerian army come south east.......I see death around the corner
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by chrisvic007: 9:54pm On Nov 03, 2022
thunder74:

I am not an Igbo man sir, I am a full blooded ijebu man. I suggest we stop looking at ourselves from tribal perspectives. Nigeria shall be great.

What a pleasant surprise.
Ijebu eem j'ojo Anyways, no harm intended as I am ijebu myself. One love bro, nice to meet you on this forum

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by 2Radii: 10:14pm On Nov 03, 2022
od501:


Educated f00l. Please show me where IPOB ever instructed that sit at homes should be observed every Monday, and I will show you where an official announcement where they categorically stated that it should be observed only when MNK appears in court.

It is low in people like you that encourages the FG to introduce cheap blackmail on that group. Leave IPOB! They are not he reason naira is 900 to the dollar.
cry of the oppressed grin grin
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by Gandrova: 10:29pm On Nov 03, 2022
Jagaban of Borgu land ! A strong man with lion heart ! What hoebi dare not do!
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by od501: 10:55pm On Nov 03, 2022
2Radii:
cry of the oppressed grin grin

Rant of the deceived.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by OmarBashir: 11:10pm On Nov 03, 2022
Make e no be like sai Asiwaju no touch that ungrateful SE region, He campaigns in the SE or not he won't win any of the States.

Copied masterpiece below, it is a generational *odale* phenomenon right from their ancestors

Let history be told to your children so they tell it to their children.
We(Yoruba) have been Nigerian by choice.
Newsgrid *Uyo-NORTHERNERS AND YORUBAS KEEP AGREEMENTS:*

In a newspaper interview, Awo was asked to compare Zik and Sardauna. Awo had this to say about the two of them. *"If Zik gives you an appointment for 7, ask him if it is 7pm or 7 am. If Sardauna gives you an appointment he will accompany it with the appropriate a.m or p.m. By this simple statement, Sardauna defined Igbo politics .

As for Northerners, they keep their words. And there is history to prove such. In 1959 and 1979, Zik while negotiating with Action Group in 1959, he was also negotiating with NPC at the same time. While Awolowo was at Asaba waiting for Zik, Zik in kaduna cut a deal with Ahmadu Bello that secured him the nebulous position of Governor General to replace James Robertson in 1960.

This position allow Zik to inspect and take salutes at military parades on independence day. It later became president in 1963 when Nigeria became a Republic. Awo offered Zik the position of Prime Minister while he will be the minister of finance. Zik went with the Sardauna. Two years later, the agreement between Zik NCNC and Sardauna NPC broke down and NCNC now led by Michael Okpara ran back to AWO'S Action Group to form an alliance. The ink on the alliance had not dried up before ZIK/ OKPARA tore it into shreds. There was an agreement that both the NCNC led by Okpara and the Action Group led by Mrs Dideolu Awolowo ( Awo was in prison) will boycott the 1964 general election in both the Western region and the Eastern region. While the Action Group boycotted the Election in the Western and Midwestern regions, the NCNC led by Zik/Okpara breached the agreement by allowing Election to take place in the Eastern region. Prior to the 1979 Election , Zik announced to the world that he was quitting politics for good. On the strength of that, Waziri Ibrahim, a wealthy Borno business man set up Nigeria People Party. The party was popular in the east with the presence of the likes of Jim Nwobodo and Sam Mbakwe.

Immediately Awolowo launched UPN, Zik breached his own decision of no further participation in politics combined with Mbakwe and Nwobodo, drove Waziri Ibrahim out of NPP and adopted the NPP as an Igbo party, the same way the Igbos adopted NCNC ( National council of Nigeria and the Cameroun )as an Igbo party.

In frustration, Waziri set up GNPP (Great Nigeria People Party) and won 2 states. Zik contested on the platform of NPP and won 3 states. Awo contested on the platform of UPN and won 5 states while NPN with Shagari as presidential candidate and Ekwueme as VP, won 7 states.

Then arose a constitutional crisis as there was no clear winner. UPN, GNPP, NPP AND PRP formed an alliance called UPGA. Zik went behind and reached a separate agreement that enabled Igbos to be vice president (Ekwueme) and Anakwe or Ume Ezeoke to be speaker of the house of Representatives. Awo went to court on the interpretation of 2/3 of 19. He lost and the rest is history. As a reward of the betrayal of an agreement voluntarily reached in forming the UPGA coalition, many Igbos were given appointments in Shagari governnent. As in the past, the agreement or alliance between the north( NPN) and the NPP( IGBOS) didn't last two years before igbos became the worst critic of Shagari and NPN.

And when Buhari struck in 1983, the first person to hail and claim ownership of the coup was Samuel Goomsu Ikokwu from Arochukwu and member of Shagari government. A similar thing was repeated in 2007 when Ume Ezeoke as running mate to Buhari abandoned Buhari at the election tribunal in exchange for a job for his son in Yar'adua government as a special assistant.

In 1979, Philip Umeadi an Igbo lawyer was the running mate to Awolowo in the 1979 presidential election. He abandoned Awo as Ezeoke abandoned Buhari. It was philip Umeadi that prosecuted the Ogoni 10 led by Ken Saro wiwa on behalf of Abacha federal government while the Ogoni 10 were defended by the Yorubas and ijaws led by Gani Fawehinmi and assisted by Femi Falana and Oronto Douglas an Ijaw environmental lawyer.

During the Action Group crisis of 1962 to 1966, the first person to abandon the party and Awo and became the first ever Nigerian to seek Political asylum anywhere was Sam Ikokwu. He first sought it in Ghana and later UK. Sam Ikokwu was the secretary general of the Action Group. In 2011, Goodluck Jonathan, a man with Igbo names of Ebele Azikwe sought the Presidency of Nigeria on certain conditions given to him and which he agreed to. The first condition is that he will not run for a second term having utilised the rest of Yardua presidential term. To give credence to this, Jonathan made two statements, one in Ankara Turkey and one in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he will serve only one term. Jonathan broke the agreement and wanted a second term and was punished.

The second agreement he reached with Tinubu when he Jonathan went to meet Tinubu in his Bourdillon residence. The agreement reached enabled the Yorubas vote for Jonathan instead of Ribadu and secured Jonathan the presidency. It was the Yoruba votes that tilted the scale for jonathan in 2011.

El' Rufai described Jonathan as a man incapable of keeping any agreement. In 2013 Tinubu and others facilitated the formation of APC and Jonathan was punished.

There is a good side to the story. It led to the cementing of a relationship between the North and the Yorubas which has kept the Igbos boiling. Asp Alamesiagha saw it coming and made a prediction on it. The Igbos believe they are the natural allies of the North and domineeringly, a friend of the SS and SW. The Igbos totally dominated JONATHAN's govt ( 2011 - 2015).

The IGBOs lack the capacity to sustain Political marriages and so both the Yorubas and the North are very wary of the Igbo overtures. This narrative is painful but it is the truth. Even as at today, Peter Obi has breached the agreement he reached with the Labor party before securing the ticket. The North had always wanted a political arrangement with the Yorubas. But based on wars fought in the past and the annexation of Yorubaland to the North from near Ogbomosho to Jebba( Bode Saadu)and Lokoja( Katunga)by the British made such arrangement impossible.

Both Lokoja in Kogi and Jebba in Kwara are Yoruba towns. Bringing the political establishments of the North and the West together by Tinubu was the marvel of the century. In fairness, it was the North that took the first step when the Kaduna mafia led by the late Shehu Yardua took the first step in 1983 by nominating a running mate for Awo. His name was Mohammed KURA from Bauchi. The second step the North took was ensuring Obasanjo became the presidential candidate of the PDP in 1999 at the PDP Jos convention against Ekwueme and also rebuffed Atiku entreaties in 2003. The Yorubas rewarded Yardua in 1991 by giving their votes in one of IBB transition programs instead of giving it to Jakande. Obasanjo, Yoruba, PRESIDENT of Nigeria ensured that Sunday Awoniyi , Yoruba from Kogi never became the chairman of PDP. Like Coker who turned down the position of the Secretary general of the NCNC because Herbert Macaulay was Yoruba and it is unfair for Yorubas to hold the two topmost positions, Obasanjo did same to Awoniyi on the claim that a Yoruba cannot be the president another Yoruba the chair of the PDP.

The Yoruba and the Northern Political establishments have been very consistent both in opposition to each other and now as friends. Igbo Political establishment if there is any, is not built to respect any Political agreement. Though painful it is a political truth. And this inconsistency that drives Igbo politics has turned the Igbo politics into a bane.

Before I proceed further, let me briefly dwell on the civil war where IGBO claimed that Awo reached an agreement to secede the West out of Nigeria. There was nothing like that. At the meeting in Enugu (Awo was accompanied to the meeting by Professor Sam Aluko and Demas Akpore the first and only civilian governor of the Midwest) to persuade Ojukwu not to secede, Ojukwu became rude and Awo had to remind him that he is a contemporary of his father. Awo and Louis Ojukwu were both born in 1909. Odumegwu and Segun Awolowo were born the same year. Ojukwu was bent on secession and even boasted that *"No power in black Africa can defeat Biafra".* Since Ojukwu was bent on seceding and could not be persuaded otherwise, the only statement Awo made was *"If by commission or omission the East is allowed to go, the West will follow".* It was never a statement of support but rather a warning to Gowon governnent not to allow the East to secede.

Madiebo the Biafra chief of Army staff in his book: *Nigeria-biafra civil war* He did not make mention of any support by Awo and by extension the Yorubas to Igbo secession cause, even though he made copious reference to the meeting between Ojukwu and Awo.

The statement of Buhari publicly referring to Tinubu as his friend is deep and goes far back. It is a banker's cheque. THE NORTH AND THE YORUBAS ALWAYS KEEP AGREEMENT.

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by 2Radii: 11:25pm On Nov 03, 2022
od501:


Rant of the deceived.
Sorry

No condition is permanent bro..

U will be well

U will surely be well grin
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by ezechi242: 8:04am On Nov 04, 2022
Perfectbeing:
And when there's high turn out you'll say they were paid. grin

We have seen videos when people fight for 2k
I APC rallies even in Lagos lol.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by od501: 8:53am On Nov 04, 2022
2Radii:
Sorry

No condition is permanent bro..

U will be well

U will surely be well grin

Same here sir, also always drink some water. I hear It has a way of improving low IQ.
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by 2Radii: 9:22am On Nov 04, 2022
od501:


Same here sir, also always drink some water. I hear It has a way of improving low IQ.
Whaoo

Ur doctor must be so competent ooh grin
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by chukskafor(m): 9:09pm On Nov 04, 2022
Error!!!
This is pure genocide.
A suicide mission if I may say.
Who planned this coup?
Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by kayusely70(m): 5:26pm On Nov 05, 2022
FreeStuffsNG:

Fine , thank you sir.
Ogun rally holds on Saturday, Nov. 26 .
Regards.
Thanks for your prompt response. I appreciate.

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Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Anambra And Imo To Be Held on Mondays by kayusely70(m): 5:43pm On Nov 05, 2022
OmarBashir:
Make e no be like sai Asiwaju no touch that ungrateful SE region, He campaigns in the SE or not he won't win any of the States.

Copied masterpiece below, it is a generational *odale* phenomenon right from their ancestors

Let history be told to your children so they tell it to their children.
We(Yoruba) have been Nigerian by choice.
Newsgrid *Uyo-NORTHERNERS AND YORUBAS KEEP AGREEMENTS:*

In a newspaper interview, Awo was asked to compare Zik and Sardauna. Awo had this to say about the two of them. *"If Zik gives you an appointment for 7, ask him if it is 7pm or 7 am. If Sardauna gives you an appointment he will accompany it with the appropriate a.m or p.m. By this simple statement, Sardauna defined Igbo politics .

As for Northerners, they keep their words. And there is history to prove such. In 1959 and 1979, Zik while negotiating with Action Group in 1959, he was also negotiating with NPC at the same time. While Awolowo was at Asaba waiting for Zik, Zik in kaduna cut a deal with Ahmadu Bello that secured him the nebulous position of Governor General to replace James Robertson in 1960.

This position allow Zik to inspect and take salutes at military parades on independence day. It later became president in 1963 when Nigeria became a Republic. Awo offered Zik the position of Prime Minister while he will be the minister of finance. Zik went with the Sardauna. Two years later, the agreement between Zik NCNC and Sardauna NPC broke down and NCNC now led by Michael Okpara ran back to AWO'S Action Group to form an alliance. The ink on the alliance had not dried up before ZIK/ OKPARA tore it into shreds. There was an agreement that both the NCNC led by Okpara and the Action Group led by Mrs Dideolu Awolowo ( Awo was in prison) will boycott the 1964 general election in both the Western region and the Eastern region. While the Action Group boycotted the Election in the Western and Midwestern regions, the NCNC led by Zik/Okpara breached the agreement by allowing Election to take place in the Eastern region. Prior to the 1979 Election , Zik announced to the world that he was quitting politics for good. On the strength of that, Waziri Ibrahim, a wealthy Borno business man set up Nigeria People Party. The party was popular in the east with the presence of the likes of Jim Nwobodo and Sam Mbakwe.

Immediately Awolowo launched UPN, Zik breached his own decision of no further participation in politics combined with Mbakwe and Nwobodo, drove Waziri Ibrahim out of NPP and adopted the NPP as an Igbo party, the same way the Igbos adopted NCNC ( National council of Nigeria and the Cameroun )as an Igbo party.

In frustration, Waziri set up GNPP (Great Nigeria People Party) and won 2 states. Zik contested on the platform of NPP and won 3 states. Awo contested on the platform of UPN and won 5 states while NPN with Shagari as presidential candidate and Ekwueme as VP, won 7 states.

Then arose a constitutional crisis as there was no clear winner. UPN, GNPP, NPP AND PRP formed an alliance called UPGA. Zik went behind and reached a separate agreement that enabled Igbos to be vice president (Ekwueme) and Anakwe or Ume Ezeoke to be speaker of the house of Representatives. Awo went to court on the interpretation of 2/3 of 19. He lost and the rest is history. As a reward of the betrayal of an agreement voluntarily reached in forming the UPGA coalition, many Igbos were given appointments in Shagari governnent. As in the past, the agreement or alliance between the north( NPN) and the NPP( IGBOS) didn't last two years before igbos became the worst critic of Shagari and NPN.

And when Buhari struck in 1983, the first person to hail and claim ownership of the coup was Samuel Goomsu Ikokwu from Arochukwu and member of Shagari government. A similar thing was repeated in 2007 when Ume Ezeoke as running mate to Buhari abandoned Buhari at the election tribunal in exchange for a job for his son in Yar'adua government as a special assistant.

In 1979, Philip Umeadi an Igbo lawyer was the running mate to Awolowo in the 1979 presidential election. He abandoned Awo as Ezeoke abandoned Buhari. It was philip Umeadi that prosecuted the Ogoni 10 led by Ken Saro wiwa on behalf of Abacha federal government while the Ogoni 10 were defended by the Yorubas and ijaws led by Gani Fawehinmi and assisted by Femi Falana and Oronto Douglas an Ijaw environmental lawyer.

During the Action Group crisis of 1962 to 1966, the first person to abandon the party and Awo and became the first ever Nigerian to seek Political asylum anywhere was Sam Ikokwu. He first sought it in Ghana and later UK. Sam Ikokwu was the secretary general of the Action Group. In 2011, Goodluck Jonathan, a man with Igbo names of Ebele Azikwe sought the Presidency of Nigeria on certain conditions given to him and which he agreed to. The first condition is that he will not run for a second term having utilised the rest of Yardua presidential term. To give credence to this, Jonathan made two statements, one in Ankara Turkey and one in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he will serve only one term. Jonathan broke the agreement and wanted a second term and was punished.

The second agreement he reached with Tinubu when he Jonathan went to meet Tinubu in his Bourdillon residence. The agreement reached enabled the Yorubas vote for Jonathan instead of Ribadu and secured Jonathan the presidency. It was the Yoruba votes that tilted the scale for jonathan in 2011.

El' Rufai described Jonathan as a man incapable of keeping any agreement. In 2013 Tinubu and others facilitated the formation of APC and Jonathan was punished.

There is a good side to the story. It led to the cementing of a relationship between the North and the Yorubas which has kept the Igbos boiling. Asp Alamesiagha saw it coming and made a prediction on it. The Igbos believe they are the natural allies of the North and domineeringly, a friend of the SS and SW. The Igbos totally dominated JONATHAN's govt ( 2011 - 2015).

The IGBOs lack the capacity to sustain Political marriages and so both the Yorubas and the North are very wary of the Igbo overtures. This narrative is painful but it is the truth. Even as at today, Peter Obi has breached the agreement he reached with the Labor party before securing the ticket. The North had always wanted a political arrangement with the Yorubas. But based on wars fought in the past and the annexation of Yorubaland to the North from near Ogbomosho to Jebba( Bode Saadu)and Lokoja( Katunga)by the British made such arrangement impossible.

Both Lokoja in Kogi and Jebba in Kwara are Yoruba towns. Bringing the political establishments of the North and the West together by Tinubu was the marvel of the century. In fairness, it was the North that took the first step when the Kaduna mafia led by the late Shehu Yardua took the first step in 1983 by nominating a running mate for Awo. His name was Mohammed KURA from Bauchi. The second step the North took was ensuring Obasanjo became the presidential candidate of the PDP in 1999 at the PDP Jos convention against Ekwueme and also rebuffed Atiku entreaties in 2003. The Yorubas rewarded Yardua in 1991 by giving their votes in one of IBB transition programs instead of giving it to Jakande. Obasanjo, Yoruba, PRESIDENT of Nigeria ensured that Sunday Awoniyi , Yoruba from Kogi never became the chairman of PDP. Like Coker who turned down the position of the Secretary general of the NCNC because Herbert Macaulay was Yoruba and it is unfair for Yorubas to hold the two topmost positions, Obasanjo did same to Awoniyi on the claim that a Yoruba cannot be the president another Yoruba the chair of the PDP.

The Yoruba and the Northern Political establishments have been very consistent both in opposition to each other and now as friends. Igbo Political establishment if there is any, is not built to respect any Political agreement. Though painful it is a political truth. And this inconsistency that drives Igbo politics has turned the Igbo politics into a bane.

Before I proceed further, let me briefly dwell on the civil war where IGBO claimed that Awo reached an agreement to secede the West out of Nigeria. There was nothing like that. At the meeting in Enugu (Awo was accompanied to the meeting by Professor Sam Aluko and Demas Akpore the first and only civilian governor of the Midwest) to persuade Ojukwu not to secede, Ojukwu became rude and Awo had to remind him that he is a contemporary of his father. Awo and Louis Ojukwu were both born in 1909. Odumegwu and Segun Awolowo were born the same year. Ojukwu was bent on secession and even boasted that *"No power in black Africa can defeat Biafra".* Since Ojukwu was bent on seceding and could not be persuaded otherwise, the only statement Awo made was *"If by commission or omission the East is allowed to go, the West will follow".* It was never a statement of support but rather a warning to Gowon governnent not to allow the East to secede.

Madiebo the Biafra chief of Army staff in his book: *Nigeria-biafra civil war* He did not make mention of any support by Awo and by extension the Yorubas to Igbo secession cause, even though he made copious reference to the meeting between Ojukwu and Awo.

The statement of Buhari publicly referring to Tinubu as his friend is deep and goes far back. It is a banker's cheque. THE NORTH AND THE YORUBAS ALWAYS KEEP AGREEMENT.
A stimulating historical recollections! Perfectly crafted! Nothing more to add! Kudos to you brother!!!

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