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They are calling for personality change but they are not calling for institutional change. When you said the present structure should not change and you are saying the president should change. If you say Buhari should be the president what of the institutions that have not changed. We went to the national conference to restructure Nigeria, to change the institutions. And the institutions are always more powerful than any individual.

Desola:
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Desola:
Igbe lenu vendor.

Desola:
Igbe lenu vendor.

wo1F:
This post informed by the learned submissions made by OTUNBA Gani Adams the National Coordinator of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC which is on the homepage of this forum. He said and I quote;


https://www.nairaland.com/2143094/gani-adams-reveals-85-lagosians

A lot of people will, as usual, attack Gani for exposing Buhari. I have said severally here and other fora that the SouthWest (SW) support for Buhari and the APC in the wake of the National Conference (NC) is like shooting one's own foot.

SW members of the party are the only progressives in the party, but they are junior partners, and, therefore, eclipsed by the majority conservative Northern faction.

In opposing the NC and, therefore, restructuring, SW members stunned everybody because they are offshoot of AG, UPN and AD, champions of fiscal federalism, which is the aim of the conference. 

With the NC resolutions at stake, this very election is no more about GEJ and GMB. It is about the route to implementing the resolutions. Just like Gani Adams affirmed, Neither PDP nor APC on its own is or will ever be capable of solving our major problem, which is structural.

PDP in the person of GEJ at least acknowledges that we have a structural problem, and will allow the people's resolutions to be implemented. APC and Buhari have vowed stiff opposition to any form of change to the present retrogressive structure.

A block vote by the SW for APC will sentence us to a continuation of the failed status quo. A vote for GEJ and PDP, on the other hand, will be a vote for the opportunity to begin the process of self determination, opportunity for, and responsibility from, all - the politics of ideas and not of personalities.

As March 28th shapes up, we all already know this election will be won and lost in the SW. Once again, the SW will decide the fate of the nation. The last time the zone helped to massively transfer power to the North, that power was abused and was used to forcefully destroy fiscal federalism in favour of the status quo.

Thanks largely to SW stakeholders, there is an opportunity to remedy some of the damage and return to a progressive structure. Will the same SW undo the success of the NC?

The SW prides itself as a sophisticated zone, and wants change as does other progressive Nigerians. However, change for the sake of change means very little.

Recently, IBB like OBJ, though covertly, have thrown his weight behind GMB, and pledged that their gang of retired generals will support GMB. Neither GMB nor any of the ex generals has articulated one real idea for meaningful change. Real change comes through democratic institutions for strict enforcement of rule of law irrespective of personality.

These ex-leaders are the reason we are where we are today. If they did their job while in office, GEJ would not be dealing with development of infrastructure and instruments of fighting corruption; he would be dealing with maintenance and upgrade.

One would expect the SW to push for real change and not cosmetic change, and align with agents of meaningful chage. That change lies with the resolutions, which SW delegates to the confab largely articulated. Buhari and his fellow dictators laid the foundation for today's mess. They are incapable of a meaningful change, and are, therefore, the wrong people for the job.

Cc: Seun, Barcanista, showyourcertificate, Ikenegwo, chukwudII, CHM, Berem

Ikengawo:
the SW needs to assess it's self. To call yourself progressive, but be void of progress means you've missed the bus on actual progression. There's nothing happening in the SW that isn't happening in the SE and SS. The difference is the SE and SS can call out their own personal faults while and make their dreams a reality while the SW simple tells it's self it's dream is a reality. The SW isn't progressive. It may be aspiring to progress but the progressive mentality hasn't reached there yet and they should stop lying to themselves because then it will never reach there.

There's no other place in Nigeria a person can win votes by throwing rice at crowds of people. You can criticize what i have to say all you want but we have seen the physical proof of a void of progress and now politicians are taking advantage of it. People are conquering that region by throwing garri and beans are droves of people. There's a rail from PH to Enugu and one from Lagos to Ibadan. It's only the one from Lagos to Ibadan that has a constant problem of people sleeping, defecating, and setting up market on top of the tracks. We also only see electoral violence in the north and sw.

Again, to keep saying they're the 'most progressive' region is dangerously self deceptive because now you have to defend that self profession by running from - not dealing with - unprogressive social issues.

When we had our vote against child marriage the north was unanimously for it and the south against. It was only because the SW also approve of this satanic practice from their own ignorance and directionless nature that it finally passed as law.


It's not new for the SW to scream 'change' for no reason. The average native of that region is very easily deceived, extremely excitable, and lacks any evidence of a consistent moral, ethical, political, and social stance backbone direction and orientation.

customized13:
Yorubas are confused

WisdomFlakes:


Lol. E dey pain you? Why don't you leave us alone na?? Na by-force to vote for Jonathan??

OkijaAmaka:
The major problem with Nigeria is constant siting on the fence by the yolobas, throughtout the history of Nigeria am yet to see an issue yolobas supported wholeheartedly without sitting on the fence or waiting to see what others said.

During indirect rule, its was a success in the North, a failure in the East but when it came to West it was neither success nor failure, nobody really understood what happened.

Aba women fed up with colonial laws and brought the government down, people were expecting the Western region to do similar thing so that the British will learn their lessons, some were chanting move others were drawing back some refused to even move or drawback.

Ojukwu made it clear at Aburi Accord what he want, Awolowo noded in agreement, he didn't say anything during the meeting only to come back to Nigeria and said if the Eastern region go that Western region will also.

Southern Nigeria went to NC with resource control as one of the agenda, others were singing resource control, yoloba delegates said everybody will control their resources expect oil, lool

Lagos delegates even rejected regionalism.

If you want to protest with them, some will go others won't. While some will be sitting between going and not going.

When Islam was sweeping Africa, Igboland took Christianity completely with little remnants of traditional believe but when Islam came yolobas follow them, they follow christianity and they still follow traditional

Our problem is their fencesitting

OkijaAmaka:
The major problem with Nigeria is constant siting on the fence by the yolobas, throughtout the history of Nigeria am yet to see an issue yolobas supported wholeheartedly without sitting on the fence or waiting to see what others said.

During indirect rule, its was a success in the North, a failure in the East but when it came to West it was neither success nor failure, nobody really understood what happened.

Aba women fed up with colonial laws and brought the government down, people were expecting the Western region to do similar thing so that the British will learn their lessons, some were chanting move others were drawing back some refused to even move or drawback.

Ojukwu made it clear at Aburi Accord what he want, Awolowo noded in agreement, he didn't say anything during the meeting only to come back to Nigeria and said if the Eastern region go that Western region will also.

Southern Nigeria went to NC with resource control as one of the agenda, others were singing resource control, yoloba delegates said everybody will control their resources expect oil, lool

Lagos delegates even rejected regionalism.

If you want to protest with them, some will go others won't. While some will be sitting between going and not going.

When Islam was sweeping Africa, Igboland took Christianity completely with little remnants of traditional believe but when Islam came yolobas follow them, they follow christianity and they still follow traditional

Our problem is their fencesitting

OkijaAmaka:
The major problem with Nigeria is constant siting on the fence by the yolobas, throughtout the history of Nigeria am yet to see an issue yolobas supported wholeheartedly without sitting on the fence or waiting to see what others said.

During indirect rule, its was a success in the North, a failure in the East but when it came to West it was neither success nor failure, nobody really understood what happened.

Aba women fed up with colonial laws and brought the government down, people were expecting the Western region to do similar thing so that the British will learn their lessons, some were chanting move others were drawing back some refused to even move or drawback.

Ojukwu made it clear at Aburi Accord what he want, Awolowo noded in agreement, he didn't say anything during the meeting only to come back to Nigeria and said if the Eastern region go that Western region will also.

Southern Nigeria went to NC with resource control as one of the agenda, others were singing resource control, yoloba delegates said everybody will control their resources expect oil, lool

Lagos delegates even rejected regionalism.

If you want to protest with them, some will go others won't. While some will be sitting between going and not going.

When Islam was sweeping Africa, Igboland took Christianity completely with little remnants of traditional believe but when Islam came yolobas follow them, they follow christianity and they still follow traditional

Our problem is their fencesitting

Ikengawo:
the SW needs to assess it's self. To call yourself progressive, but be void of progress means you've missed the bus on actual progression. There's nothing happening in the SW that isn't happening in the SE and SS. The difference is the SE and SS can call out their own personal faults while and make their dreams a reality while the SW simple tells it's self it's dream is a reality. The SW isn't progressive. It may be aspiring to progress but the progressive mentality hasn't reached there yet and they should stop lying to themselves because then it will never reach there.

There's no other place in Nigeria a person can win votes by throwing rice at crowds of people. You can criticize what i have to say all you want but we have seen the physical proof of a void of progress and now politicians are taking advantage of it. People are conquering that region by throwing garri and beans are droves of people. There's a rail from PH to Enugu and one from Lagos to Ibadan. It's only the one from Lagos to Ibadan that has a constant problem of people sleeping, defecating, and setting up market on top of the tracks. We also only see electoral violence in the north and sw.

Again, to keep saying they're the 'most progressive' region is dangerously self deceptive because now you have to defend that self profession by running from - not dealing with - unprogressive social issues.

When we had our vote against child marriage the north was unanimously for it and the south against. It was only because the SW also approve of this satanic practice from their own ignorance and directionless nature that it finally passed as law.


It's not new for the SW to scream 'change' for no reason. The average native of that region is very easily deceived, extremely excitable, and lacks any evidence of a consistent moral, ethical, political, and social stance backbone direction and orientation.

wasiudvd:
one thing you people have failed to realize is that Yoruba don't usually follow bandwagon.
let us be sincere to ourselves, is GEJ ready to implement the NC resolution/recommendations? NO
he has failed many times with "I will..." and this will not be an exception.
I live in Awka, and have few Igbo friends, I asked them few weeks ago who they are voting for and why. the following are their answers to "why" because they all said GEJ.
1. He is of us (he is from south)
2. Buhari will encourage killing of Igbo in Kano (the girl that gave this answer was born and brought up in Kano)
3. Buhari will Islamize Nigeria
None of them can boast of GEJ Performance.
In 2011, GEJ won SW, If he didn't win it this time he should know it's because of his performance.

Ikengawo:
the SW needs to assess it's self. To call yourself progressive, but be void of progress means you've missed the bus on actual progression. There's nothing happening in the SW that isn't happening in the SE and SS. The difference is the SE and SS can call out their own personal faults while and make their dreams a reality while the SW simple tells it's self it's dream is a reality. The SW isn't progressive. It may be aspiring to progress but the progressive mentality hasn't reached there yet and they should stop lying to themselves because then it will never reach there.

There's no other place in Nigeria a person can win votes by throwing rice at crowds of people. You can criticize what i have to say all you want but we have seen the physical proof of a void of progress and now politicians are taking advantage of it. People are conquering that region by throwing garri and beans are droves of people. There's a rail from PH to Enugu and one from Lagos to Ibadan. It's only the one from Lagos to Ibadan that has a constant problem of people sleeping, defecating, and setting up market on top of the tracks. We also only see electoral violence in the north and sw.

Again, to keep saying they're the 'most progressive' region is dangerously self deceptive because now you have to defend that self profession by running from - not dealing with - unprogressive social issues.

When we had our vote against child marriage the north was unanimously for it and the south against. It was only because the SW also approve of this satanic practice from their own ignorance and directionless nature that it finally passed as law.


It's not new for the SW to scream 'change' for no reason. The average native of that region is very easily deceived, extremely excitable, and lacks any evidence of a consistent moral, ethical, political, and social stance backbone direction and orientation.


SW is not progressiv but your people are always progressively migrating there everyday like bees..... keep deceiving yourselves. I keep saying this threats dont win election, good neighbourliness does.... you want the southwest to vote for you yet you abuse them and threaten them everytime, the funniest part is you will never leave their region in anger.

WisdomFlakes:


Lolz. Yorubas, causing OkijaAmaka serious headache since 1960. Nne, have you tried Panadol Xtra?

lisimmo:



First of, it Yoruba not yoloba, don't get it twisted let me spell it again YORUBA.

secondly, i know you're one nyamiri eboe selling substandard product under one bridge in Lagos yet you're spewing trash about us, if it pains you that much why don't you take a leap off third mainland bridge.

lastly the regionalism you mentioned was destroyed by some eboe soldiers in the first coup. Always remember that you brought all these mess.

customized13:
Yorubas are confused

OkijaAmaka:
Sorry that's my Anambara dialect, so I won't trade it to please you.

When Awolowo was marching, some followed him, others were running back while some dogded inside the bush to know whether to go or not

During June 12, yolobas supported Abiola but when yawa was about to gazz, their traditional rulers collected money, Abiola flee to Benin Rep and came back why he was slaughtered like a ram
While his kinsmen drove Al Mustapha to Kano

customized19:


Your weak senile father is confused. Since you can insult a whole tribe, then your close to death father deserve no pity. Oloribu omo adanu