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The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by searchng4love: 4:21am On Mar 27, 2023 |
March 27, 2023 The faux apologia of Seun Osewa Professor Chidi Odinkalu By Chidi Odinkalu On or around March 20, 2023, two days after the ballot into the offices of state governors and state legislators which took place on March 18, one Seun Osewa issued what he ostentatiously titled: “An Apology to the Igbo People of Nigeria.” A 40-year-old graduate of one of Nigeria’s best universities, the Obafemi Awolowo University, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Mr. Osewa is best known as the mind behind Nairaland, the rumbustious digital bulletin board where Nigerians trade all manner of things on the ether, from the sublime to the egregious. Addressed to “the Igbo People”, the statement claimed to “sincerely apologise for allowing a toxic political banner advert which said: ‘Lagos can never be run from Anambra; go and vote’ to run on Nairaland for several hours on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.” It described the advertisement as part of “an ethnically divisive political campaign aimed at securing Lagos State for the ruling party by instilling fear in Yoruba people, making them believe that Igbo people intended to ‘take over’ Lagos State”. Mr. Osewa ultimately blamed the advert on the absence of “clear policy against accepting negative and ethnically divisive ads on Nairaland” before generously disclosing that having made N16,000 (sixteen thousand Naira) from the advert, he will “double it and donate it to victims of political violence in Lagos”. It is not entirely clear what Mr. Osewa hoped to achieve with his “apology”. The response he got was anything but generous. Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, accused him of being among people who are “led by their pockets”. Techpreneur, Osaretin Asemota, dismissed the release as “performative nonsense”. Chibuzor Okoronkwo accused Mr. Osewa’s release of “putting more salt to the injury”. Mr. Osewa’s apology hardly helped its author. First, it came from a place that hardly abjured collective punishment on grounds of immutable identity. Ethnic politics may be de rigeur but, in Nigeria, Igbos don’t have a right to vote; citizens do. Those citizens come from any number of over 389 ethnicity and over 500 language groups. No ethnic group votes as a herd in Nigeria. Dozie Ikedife Jr. campaigned for Bola Tinubu just as Rinu Oduala supported Peter Obi. Second, Mr. Osewa clearly conflated ethnic identity with political opinion, ending up with a determinism that equates one with the other. It was immaterial the ruling APC had high level support from such people as the incumbent governors of Ebonyi and Imo states as well as past governors of Abia and Enugu states, all of them Igbo. The people who set out to suppress the votes of Igbos in Lagos did so by rejecting the political autonomy of the citizen requiring them manumilitari to either renounce their ethnic identity or immolate their civic agency. Third, Mr. Osewa appeared to assume that ethnic profiling can be attained with neat precision, which is far from the case because you sooner or later discover that many people look alike across lines of situational division. On the day of the state level election in Lagos, Iyanuoluwa Bolarinwa, a name that is unlikely to make the bearer Igbo, reported that she was “told to go back to Anambra”, one of the Igbo states, before being “rough handled, beaten and sent out because I look Igbo? Because I was not going to vote APC?” Popular Youtuber, Sisi Yemmie, reported that party political heavies precluded her and her husband from voting because they were said to “look like Igbo people”. Mr. Osewa’s “apology to the Igbo people of Nigeria” did not extend to people like Sisi Yemmie or Iyanuoluwa, neither of whom is Igbo but both of whom suffered violence because of the kind of poison that he sold. As if to add the salt of mirth to the injury and hurt from his advertisement, Mr. Osewa then promised to donate N32,000 (thirty two thousand Naira) to the “victims of political violence in Lagos”. Impressively, this part of Mr. Osewa’s release is the only one addressed to “victims”, an implicit concession that the class of the injured may have gone beyond the ethnic identity group of his target. Yet, he seems to assume that the victims are a coherent group, organised with a bank account in this season of no cash, and that their injuries can be cured by unconcealed hubris from the authors of their civic liquidation. On any of these metrics, Mr. Osewa was probably best advised not to have bothered to issue his release. Without it, many people may have been willing to overlook the advertisement on Nairaland. After this release, most people will have few doubts as to where to place him. Mr. Osewa’s flippancy is characteristic of the people who instigated the ethnic violence and profiling or see themselves as benefiting from it. They want to turn the page as if nothing happened and quickly move on, summoning everyone along with dubious appeals to fatuous patriotism. Mr. Osewa’s “apology to Igbo People” ended with him asking his readers to “NOT give up on Nigeria”,with the promise that “TOGETHER we will overcome”. The capital letters are original to him. It is not clear, however, where he gets his collective pronoun to voice a promise he’s not in a position to make. Like Mr. Osewa, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, basking in the afterglow of re-election, swiftly appealed to “a spirit of solidarity and togetherness that binds us as Lagosians”. His principal, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, claimed to be “pained by cases of ethnic slurs, which are capable of creating needless mis-characterisation reported in some locations”. The victims, understandably, are slow to make haste. They must bury their dead, bind their wounds, immortalise their scars, re-discover dignity, and then wonder whether they belong to the country that invites them to healing and patriotism only when it is convenient. In the cycle of Nigeria’s elections, patriotism can have a shelf life of the 90 minute duration of a football match involving the men’s national team. In any case, it must be furloughed in the year preceding elections. The reality is no one ever moves on from this kind of violence. The perpetrators see benefit for themselves in the humiliations and exclusions that they can inflict, which come with munificent benefits in propinquity to power thereafter. Far from being humbled, their impunity emboldens them. The victims nurse their traumas, which many of their generations will inherit from them. This is why election violence in Nigeria is chronic. As the Report of the Sheikh Lemu Presidential Panel on post-election violence (which remains classified) of 2011 makes clear, violence and ethnic profiling have “continually featured in almost all elections in Nigeria since the first election that was conducted in 1922. The temptation is to suggest that election violence is deeply embedded in the Nigerian political culture”. This should make it obvious that ethnic profiling and accompanying violence of the sort that characterised these elections and necessitated Mr. Osewa’s faux apologia is not a fate for Nigeria. It is a century-old choice. The divisions that sustain this pathology are so essential to the DNA of power and politics in Nigeria that those declared winners do not have any incentives to bring it to an end. The narrative of inter-ethnic zero-sum game is profitable. In strictly material terms, you can see their point. For Mr. Osewa, the cost is a promise to contribute N32,000 to a non-existent fund or entity. In a country in which the citizens or politicians are ready to bring this nonsense to an end, Mr. Osewa will not have the courage to rub this salt into the injury that he propagated. 10 Likes
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Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by searchng4love: 4:21am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Seun don buy market: In strictly material terms, you can see their point. For Mr. Osewa, the cost is a promise to contribute N32,000 to a non-existent fund or entity. In a country in which the citizens or politicians are ready to bring this nonsense to an end, Mr. Osewa will not have the courage to rub this salt into the injury that he propagated. However Odinkalu is an emotional person whose bark is worse than his bite 13 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by darling2424(f): 4:25am On Mar 27, 2023 |
What do i have to say to this🤭🤭 |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by omonnakoda: 4:30am On Mar 27, 2023 |
searchng4love:And surrendered the front page to Obidients I will offer simple and practical advice. Whether good or bad you have apologised . Take it down. Its continued presence is offensive to probably everybody You do not have to wear apology Like a tattoo or tribal marks for ever 18 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by searchng4love: 4:33am On Mar 27, 2023 |
omonnakoda: Well I guess we're seeing the beginning of the cancel culture in Nigeria if we don't respond decisively to the aggressive behaviour of the Obidient touts 14 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by wahalawahala: 4:33am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Seun go be like which kind wahala be dis😔 14 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by searchng4love: 4:34am On Mar 27, 2023 |
darling2424:Post Obi's pictures as usual and cry over Asiwaju's Mandate. 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by omonnakoda: 4:35am On Mar 27, 2023 |
searchng4love: They understand only one language,total uncompromising head flattening blows MC Oluomo speaks the language they understand,as does Buratai and Buhari By the way that Odinkalu mumu is on Nairaland. With several hypocritical monikers 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by darling2424(f): 4:38am On Mar 27, 2023 |
searchng4love: I see you gattttt nofin to say,so you know what💨 1 Like |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by raskymonojendor: 4:39am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Seun you see your life outside. When is Peter Obi going to apologize for printing posters and billboards in Anambra of Ngige being sandwiched in-between Awolowo and Tinubu......
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Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by ola6: 4:40am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Seun is allowed himself to be cyber bullied by useless obedient people. I got no pity for him. @Seun, keep asslicking them sogbo. You are talking about a people that aren't happy for you. If its not their advantage then its unfair or rigged. 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by abdulhadi101(m): 4:43am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Wow, beautiful written. 1 Like |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by SmartPolician: 4:45am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Everyone errs - that's what makes us humans. Seun has apologised; let's move on and focus on more important things. For him to write this epistle on the controversial Nairaland ad, it means Professor Chidi Odinkalu visits Nairaland. Prof, if you are reading this, I tell you this: leave Seun Osewa alone. Do more important things like joining politics in Imo State. Afterwards, make efforts to save your dear state from the Supreme Court governor. Prof should be more worried that a man who knows zilch about leadership is his governor, yet he keeps rigging all elections to make sure his APC stays in power and continuously loot state resources with reckless abandon. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by Ibrahimcoomasie: 4:48am On Mar 27, 2023 |
We told Seun that this election was an Igbo agenda. This two Igbo nationalist guys below are some of the biggest Peter Obi's supporter and influencer on Twitter. All of a sudden, Peter Obi their tribesman is now a saint after he showed up to contest for presidential election. 14 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by Ibrahimcoomasie: 4:48am On Mar 27, 2023 |
And 8 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by BabaRamota1980: 4:49am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Obidients are violent creatures, and we will treat their fck up with spontaneous heat, comparable to hell fire. 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by opamoses1: 4:54am On Mar 27, 2023 |
As I started reading the post. I immediately spotted two lies. 1. Seun is above 40 years old, and not 40 years old. 2. Seun dropped out of the Elect/Elect program to chase his dreams just like Zuckerberg and Gates, and did not graduate from OAU. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by tamdun: 4:57am On Mar 27, 2023 |
omonnakoda:The thing don dey vex me,opening the political section and the first thing u see is this apology bullshit 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by SmartPolician: 4:58am On Mar 27, 2023 |
ola6: That's why some of you will always be urchins (the type that hangs around people's estate entrance begging for money)....unlike like Seun who has built one of the most visited online forums and wants to keep his beautiful brand (business) going. 3 Likes |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by McLizbae: 4:58am On Mar 27, 2023 |
So what exactly does he want Seun to do in particular? Add to the 32k and the apology, or just take everything back? 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by opamoses1: 5:03am On Mar 27, 2023 |
raskymonojendor:And that's the same stuff Seun is apologizing for. Even Peter Obi the man with the woman voice has more balls than Seun Osewa. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by Guyman01: 5:19am On Mar 27, 2023 |
To be fair to Seun his personal support for GRV turned many Yoruba tribal jingoists again him. I have seen many accuse him of being pro Igbo for supporting Gbadebo now referred to as "Chinedu" from Anambra by non Lagos indigenous Yorubas of APC. This election has done one thing it has exposed what many have already known for long that Yorubas are the most tribalistic tribe in Nigeria, although there's an attempt to tag those who pushed the ethnic line as APC members of Yoruba extraction and not Yorubas as a group. Nairaland has been reduced to a Yoruba vs Igbo bashing platform whereby if a Tiv or Igala or Urhobo man writes something against Buhari oe Tinubu he is immediately tagged as an Igbo. This is why I no longer refer anyone to this site because Seun allowed his Mods to push their personal agenda ans couldn't checkmate their activities especially that 44 years old without Mynd that turned himself into the Ona Kakanfo of Yorubas in Nairaland 5 Likes |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by Ofunaofu: 5:20am On Mar 27, 2023 |
The truth is Seun allowed his platform to be used in propagating ethnic bigotry 4 Likes |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by Is04970: 5:23am On Mar 27, 2023 |
1. Dr. Alex Otti is an IGBO MAN from Isiala-Ngwa area of Abia State. He has ALWAYS been identified to be from there. But today, the same Ngwa people say Otti is a FOREIGNER IN ABIA by virtue of the area of Ngwa that he comes from. They are of the opinion that he isnt an "original Ngwa man". They say he is "Not Abia enough" to be the Governor of their state!!! It is what has caused all the wahala in Abia State Guber. He has won eventually but I can imagine that he will have problems. 2. Not too long ago, in this 4th Republic , a Yoruba man who had stayed forever in ONITSHA went beyond this boundaries. He wanted to contest COUNCILORSHIP POSITION in one of their WARDS in that town. Ordinary Councilor o!!! They told him to clear out but he didn't understand. He was summarily liquidated. 3. In Enugu we saw a viral video of a Leader, an elderly man, insisting that a particular politician whose ancestry was traced to nearby EBONYI STATE can never be allowed to be their Governor in Enugu. He said NEVER. He was terribly agitated about it. They didn't allow that man. 4. In Anambra again, Bianca Onoh is an IGBO WOMAN. Her father was from neighbouring Enugu which used to be one state with them but she married no less a man than Emeka Ojukwu himself A whole Ojukwu. But Ojukwu was Anambra. Bianca indicated that she wanted to contest the senatorial election in Anambra. Anambra People told her to go to HER FATHERS LAND!!!! That was it. 5. Ironically, Mrs Betty Akeredolu came to her own fathers land to ask for Senatorial ticket Her father's land is IMO. Imo people promptly told her to go back to her HUSBAND'S LAND IN ONDO STATE to find the ticket. 6. Till this day they still have the OSU CASTE system in that Igbo land. Christianity couldn't wash it away. OSU people still suffer humiliations amongst fellow Igbo people. They have limitations to their rights up till this day. They are discriminated against. 7. But these Abia, Anambra , Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo men are all over the place in Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun and Lagos states telling you stories of 'One Nigeria" and preaching against"Tribalism " that it is fair and okay for them to become anything of politics in your land as they LIVE AND OWN HOUSES IN YOUR COMMUNITIES. The want to be able to contest elections as GOVERNOR in Lagos and infact they want to achieve it by IGBO BLOC VOTES as they have moved half of their population into Lagos. They want to be SENATORS in Lagos. They want to be DEPUTY-GOVERNOR in Ogun. They actually feel they deserve to be consulted in Ekiti before you chose your leaders. They OPENLY tell you that LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND. HOW A PEOPLE DEMAND FROM YOU WHAT THEY CAN'T GIVE YOU IS WHAT I WANT TO UNDERSTAND. They don't do these things in the NORTH because they are very much aware that the NORTHERNERS KNOW THEM. They do it to the Yoruba people because they are also very aware that the Yorubas don't travel to the EAST and therefore don't know the IGBO characters. Yorubas are a very easy-going and easily contented, we hardly have had reasons to be going up and down to the spaces of other people. But you come to us when we DIDN'T INVITE YOU and then begin to harrass us with games of competition which is something that isn't part of our own culture. We don't go about with crazy aggression trying to outdo or get better than our neighbours. Our ancestors taught us to be okay and satisfied with what we have. We only look to be the better of ourselves, to become a better person than we were yesterday. Money was and still is not a yardstick of measuring the quality of men in Yoruba land - YOUR OMOLÚÀBÍ CONTENT IS. We will continue to educate our people. Things can't be the same again. ©️ Adedamola Adetayo 23 March 2023. 17 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by reddingtonblack: 5:24am On Mar 27, 2023 |
raskymonojendor: i don't just understand the problem with some of our so called "yoruba woke" class they never learn, a yoruba adage says, if you spend all day kneeling for who does not like you it won't change a thing. The silly mistakes our yoruba leaders made ass- licking igbos after the biafra that ended in contempt, same mistake Tinubu also made ass-licking and despite everything tinubu did for igbos juicy appointments, yet they are his number one enemy today Seun complicated matters bringing that post up and i am happy right from that day till now the people he chose to ass lick are serving him woto woto. maybe like jakande seun can appease the igbos with half share of Nairaland. they never learn 14 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by ozo13(m): 5:27am On Mar 27, 2023 |
hahaha 🤣.Who take Odinkalu serious anylonger.Someone that never condemn for once the actions of IPOB and UGM 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by raskymonojendor: 5:29am On Mar 27, 2023 |
reddingtonblack:They will then ask for his arms and legs after that. 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by tamdun: 5:29am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Ofunaofu:Same people complaining today were the culprit,go back and check nairaland history,these people turned nairaland to what it is today and you don't expect other tribes to keep quiet and watch while they insult everyone 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by raskymonojendor: 5:36am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Guyman01:Playing victim as usual. It was on here that I saw ibo posters calling Awolowo a tribalist. A propaganda being pushed by the ibos, and that he died from consumption of rat poison which is also a big fat lie by the way. Some one posted earlier on a different thread about how Tribalism was introduced into Nigeria. I realised that Awolowo's Action group was set up to counter Azikwe's tribalism. Ibrahimcoomasie: Ibrahimcoomasie: 10 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by reddingtonblack: 5:37am On Mar 27, 2023 |
raskymonojendor: The IGbos we know are not carnibal, they are more interested in Land seun can just add naira to it. sho get 🤣 But wait, is there anything like "woke igbos" 6 Likes |
Re: The Faux Apologia Of Seun Osewa- Chidi Odinkalu by raskymonojendor: 5:38am On Mar 27, 2023 |
reddingtonblack:At the Land. How did I miss that 4 Likes 1 Share |
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