Descartes:
I bet you, if any Igboman is hurt in any Yoruba state especially in Lagos,your "thugish" Oba will be arrested by the International community and get prosecuted in Hague. No amount of Falanas will save his sorry ass. Just get that in your skull.

Decibel, you are a fool just like the idi.ot called Obi of onitsha. why are you attacking him for airing his views,idiotic slowpoke like you hide behind stolen laptop to post rubbish. Fool

I am impressed that with the long write up, she did not insult the Oba. It's not about the individual but about the issue. I maintain the Oba bared it all...he spoke out of frustration and anger. this is what I expect that the Igbos should investigate...why the hatred? why the resentment from other ethnic tribe for the Igbos? The Igbos need to do a lot of self assessment.

Waspy:
[b] Important Socratic questions Chiamanda and her folks forgot to answer are;

Have Yorubas not bn good hosts in all forms of being good and being an host?

Is it too much for Yorubas to say that Lagos is a Yorubaland?

He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.... Have the Igbo, all along and "all these while" bn innocent victims?

Are Igbos not just being mischievous since there are other tribes( whose lands are even closer to Lagos than the far East) in Lagos who have never cried like babies and whined like bigots?

Is there a way forward and who shld pave way for who?


Are other sojourners laying claims to the "no-man's land as passionately as the Igbos?

I think these and many more questions shld have bn answered by Ms. Adichie and her goons before she concoted her sentimental piece...if truly she did.

It won't be fair, if for the sakes of peace and unity of Nigeria, we continue to, for no sane reasons, undermine, insubordinate, take for granted and make to nothing the culture, tradition,ideology and good will of the numerous pples that make this great country[/b]

I have realized that a lot of yorubas comment here out of ignorance. You make your comments without referring to the issue in discuss .
You simply come up here and start your vituperation.

Please I advice you all to go get a copy of the nigerian constitution and enlighten yourselves before you start this our long awaited war.

I pray for Jimi to win and if that happens and you people didn't start this your war then you shall all die in the lagoon.

More Yorubas spread the talk than Igbos! You can take a poll on Nairaland! Go through the chats and you'd see it! Remember, I'm not Igbo...just standing for the truth!

tollu:


Oh, so she's proud of her ethnicity? Good for her.
Now the indigenous Lagos folks who are having their ethnicity and ancestral land referred to as no man's land nko? They do not deserve to be proud yeah?
Well done



I have heard it from the mouth of many folks of Igbo ancestry. Many
Even in an office environment. How did it become widespread if nobody has been repeating it?
Fine there are exceptions to that belief among Igbos but many, MANY hold that perception.

cole265:
I am impressed that with the long write up, she did not insult the Oba. It's not about the individual but about the issue . I maintain the Oba bared it all...he spoke out of frustration and anger. this is what I expect that the Igbos should investigate...why the hatred? why the resentment from other ethnic tribe for the Igbos? The Igbos need to do a lot of self assessment.

Really?
And when he cursed at his own Yoruba people if they didn't vote Ambode,who does that investigation?
Or you missed that one because it didn't make the big leagues
You folks are a big joke

Scatterboss:
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You are frustrated. You don't need to attack me, all your noise ends on nairaland. Pls go and play with toys.

Old man, so everybody you see on this board is a kid?I feel your pain. Your fear is that your people will soon be strangers in their own land while you surjourn. I laugh in cantonese...

Brainless robot!! Cowards die many times before their death...

You can make this noise as much as you want online, start some real activism!

MugabeRobert:
The ibos are now crying blue murder cos the yorubas decided to stop defending and start attacking. Well you ain't seen nothing yet, don't expect flowers in return after calling a region that accepted you a no man's land.

WHY IS THIS NOT ON FRONT PAGE?
When someone writes a rebuttal now it will hit front page on fifth comment.
Oga seun 'diaris God ooo'.

Modified : Mods, thanks for doing the needful.

And you are literate? LMAO!!


What a joke!!!!

VirginFinder:


Most ibo Nairalanders are semi-literate just like you.
I cant fathom why.
It's 'curse' not 'course'.

@OP ibos should stick to their business and stay out of our local politics.
Any attempt to dabble into it will spell doom as we can all see.
That's all!

cole265:
I am impressed that with the long write up, she did not insult the Oba. It's not about the individual but about the issue. I maintain the Oba bared it all...he spoke out of frustration and anger. this is what I expect that the Igbos should investigate...why the hatred? why the resentment from other ethnic tribe for the Igbos? The Igbos need to do a lot of self assessment.

The only self assessment we need is on how to keep going higher. The haters can keep hating, its exactly their hate that has been fueling our success.

Two Igbo states fought the rest of the country in a bitter three year war where our own very weapons were manufactured by ourselves. And few years after the war we have the most thriving and successful middle class, own and live in better part of lagos. While the north remains the poorest region and the yorubas can't stand our success.

Scatterboss:
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You are frustrated. You don't need to attack me, all your noise ends on nairaland. Pls go and play with toys.

[quote author=Scatterboss post=32580311][s][/s]Old man, so everybody you see on this board is a kid?I feel your pain. Your fear is that your people will soon be strangers in their own land while you surjourn. I laugh in cantonese...

Read more, and get your beak out of tribal pettiness, and you'd find that the only revisionism being done, is by poorly-trained Internet maggots like you! Poo!

luvmijeje:


The next thing for the Yorubas to do in order satisfy the Igbos is to cut the Oba's head.... We don't have the right to tell you how to respond, you also don't have the right to tell us how to respond to your response

Revisionist at work...... Why were they attacked? That's how hatred for a tribe is passed from one generation to another.


Agreed...... But you don't insult a tribe by re-writing their history through saying Lagos is no man's land. By the way, where were you during the last Anambra election? How come you didn't write all this long epistle to condemn Obi and Nzeribe for their politics of hatred?

Scatterboss:


Keep looking for typo everywhere, game for kids. Smh

Are you for real?

Ymodulus:
I think I will start by trying to be Anthropomorphic, as it will bet express my heading.
Its really sad when insanity realizes that he has a mental disorder then he is as good as cured. The moment a people come to terms with their complex problem which often place them at loggerheads with their host communities the better for them.

I seem not to fathom how a tribe claim to have suffered humiliations and deprivation from other ethnic nationalities. This allegation should be consider very weighty even though it was not substantiated. Nonetheless, this aggrieved ethnic nationality needs to ask herself what is about it that could be responsible for the purported hostile acts of other ethnic nationalities toward it.

One problem I have with Chimanda is all her articles tends to quote Chinua Achebe, even when its evident chinua actions are wrong. The sane mistake she made, about his book "there was a country". Now she is trying to say that the Igbo's were murdered in early 1960's for political reasons? Who started the war? Was it the Nigerian Arny or The late Ojukwu ? I see Chimabda is biased. And she is just a staunt re-echoer of Chinua Achebe's belief.


I liked the fact that she related the massacre of the Ibos in different parts of the country before the civil war. However what I do like to ask her is this,

1. chimanda was there nothing that led to the massacre?

You can't deny that the tendency to dominate in another man's land which is being exhibited now by taking the Oba to court is what led to such. Tell me when you come back from court if the people of Lagos will still have a good relationship with the Ibos.


Chimanda while trying to play a neutral ground at the surface, is been biased deep down. I am sorry to say but if Chimanda spent her time writing this, she wasted that time. As this just further lowered NY respect for her as an internationally recognised writer. Novel is her thing not politics.

Just imagine how shez is spreading lies about 1960s massacre. Posterity Judge you.

You people speak as if Igbos are forcefully stealing your land and political rights from you. Even when Igbos contest and loose in Lagos, do we go out en masse to cause trouble and kill? No.

Why does everyone turn a blind eye to the troublesome Fulani but label Igbos as the devil in Nigeria? I can recall vividly how peaceful Jos and Plateau state was before some tribes lost elections in that town and started killing their host. What did Nigerians do or say about that? Nothing, why? Because they are born to rule and cannot be challenged by the Yorubas, Igbos and other tribes.

In real sense and from history, the the true owners of Kaduna are the southern Kaduna tribes who are predominantly Christians, but they've been merged with people from Katsina and have had their numbers equal to or a bit smaller than the Northern Kaduna. Since 1999, they've only had one Southern Kaduna ruler who was made governor by the actions of the president in using Sambo as his VP.

We talk of political appointments and stuffs like that not knowing what is happening at the other side. When I schooled in ABU, a Southern Kaduna/Christian Prof won an election for the post of VC but was never made the VC due to massive protest within and outside the walls of the school. Finally, a Hausa/Fulani/Muslim Prof was appointed the VC.

But that is not the case in a Igbo land because I went to Metallurgical Training Institute at Onitsha and a Yoruba man is the Director. Mind you, that's just one establishment I went to. Imagine I was born and brought up in the South East, I would have seen various other tribes holding political/academic posts in my region without my people making a big deal out of it.

The truth will always hurt but I will spill it out, if it was the Fulani tribe that had this large population of the Igbos in a Yoruba/Lagos land and have not produced a governor yet, there would have been serious bloodshed. Take it or leave it.

BraniacX:


Your previous kabiyesi was a gentleman and treated his stool with honour and got well deserved honour in return, this thugish puppet installed by thief.nubu is a pathetic excuse for a kabiyesi and will get the dishonour he gave to his stool in manyfold.

And as for sanusi lamido, I dare him to say something as stupid as what rilwan akiolu said and see whether he won't receive the same dishonour, and that's the difference between the two, sanusi will keep his hatred and bigotry out of public circles and private thereby standing above criticism as you can only suspect him not accuse him, but rilwan...............well, you know the rest

My friend all this ranting will not help you unless you conduct a re assessment of your self b4 you can move on.
Why are you people so hated every where you go? Why do people harbour anger and hatred towards the Igbos? Surely their must be a reason(s)...

Guess you need to be thankful to the Oba to have let out his dislike to the public. This should be seen by your people as an opportunity to conduct the much needed and overdue self assessment. He is more of your friend.

Guess you have to be more weary of the emir who has perfectly counselled his own resentment towards you. ...sure you know he is more deadly.

Nobody else voted for Jonathan! In fact, no Yoruba voted for him! Only Igbos did! My area delivered almost 100% votes for Jonathan...and we are not Igbo! Foolish people!

ibedun:
Scoring own goals is now the norm for this over-emotional people. They started a civil war with cutlasses and now voted for a president that was swimming against the tide.

Descartes:
Old man, so everybody you see on this board is a kid?I feel your pain. Your fear is that your people will soon be strangers in their own land while you surjourn. I laugh in cantonese...

Only kids look for typo errors on nairaland, you need to grow up. Fear? Why will i fear for lies being peddled on nairaland. I know whats actually on ground, we have been through this "I own mansion in Lagos" stuff before here and its all ruse. I only laugh at your ignorance and stupidity, heheheheheee.

The oba of Lagos will drown in River Niger if he does not vote PDP

Are you this dull

Ymodulus:


Sir am sorry to say but you are the biased one here. You should see I stated clearly , my issue with the article. The oba's action have come and go and without doubt he has cleared the air. That aside.

But for a lady coming to spew lies about how her people were murthered for a wrong reason of which will all know ain't true is condemnable. And as such I believe to the bottom of my heart I am not biased but have treated this issue the right way

cole265:
I am impressed that with the long write up, she did not insult the Oba. It's not about the individual but about the issue. I maintain the Oba bared it all...he spoke out of frustration and anger. this is what I expect that the Igbos should investigate...why the hatred? why the resentment from other ethnic tribe for the Igbos? The Igbos need to do a lot of self assessment.

This was the same Oba in December cursing Yorubas who decide to vote against his candidate
But somewhere In Your warped mind,the Igbos have the problem not the oba?
Maybe if his own people had actually called him to order then the madness wouldn't have reached the market place

This was last December 2014

(LAGOS)The traditional ruler of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has gone wild over his support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode as the next governor of Lagos State.

Sources at the Oba’s palace told our reporter that Oba Akiolu has gone practically wild, mincing no words about his preference for Ambode, while placing curses on anybody that is seen as opposing the APC gubernatorial candidate.

”Last week, Oba Akiolu received some prominent indigenes of Lagos and politicians in his palace where he started raining curses and abuses on anybody that does not support Ambode. He said any family that is against Ambode in Lagos will perish and will never be prosperous.

”What came out from Oba Akiolu’s mouth shocked a lot of people, because he is supposed to be father to everybody in Lagos. A lot of people there were angry with Oba Akiolu because he has no reason to place curses on anybody that is not in support of his candidate”. Our source stated.

Meanwhile, we gathered that some top APC politicians in Lagos are already withdrawing their supports for Akinwunmi Ambode over what they described as the overzealousness and domineering posture of Oba Akiolu.

”Oba Akiolu can not push us like children. We have a mind of our own [/b]and if Ambode needs us, he will come and sell himself to us. Not for any Oba that doesn’t have any constitutional role to play in Lagos politics be placing curses on his subjects. This is the same Oba Akiolu that couldn’t secure a House of Representatives ticket for his son at the APC primaries.

“Oba Akiolu’s son was disgraced at the APC House of Rep. primaries. So, he should not destroy Ambode’s chances with his unguided utterances.”A top APC politician informed us.

[b]On the other hand, we were told that the APC National Leader and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu is not happy with the utterances of the Lagos monarch, ”Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not part of it. He will definitely call Kabiyesi to order. You can not coerce people to vote for Ambode, we must appeal to them”. One of Tinubu’s aides told us yesterday.

It would be recalled that Oba Rilwan Akiolu had publicly threw his support for Ambode as Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola’s successor during a book launch earlier in May, 2014. Oba Akiolu was quoted to to have said “

“You people know me well that I don’t hide my feelings on where I stand on issues. We the royal fathers have consulted widely within the state with the sons and daughters of Lagos and have come to the conclusion that the best person to take over from Mr Babatunde Fashola, the iconic governor of Lagos State is Mr Akinwunmi Ambode.

”We can not have a man like this and allow somebody whose father is an Oba in Ewekoro, Ogun State to be our next governor in Lagos State. Although, Lagos State belongs to every Nigerian to actualise the Nigerian dream, Ambode remains the best man with the required pedigree and character to take Lagos State to the next level”.

http://newsinvestigatorsng.com/oba-akiolu-places-curses-on-ambodes-opponents/

Crueldeed:


Decibel, you are a fool just like the idi.ot called Obi of onitsha. why are you attacking him for airing his views,idiotic slowpoke like you hide behind stolen laptop to post rubbish. Fool

You think everyone is like you? Hahahahaha

This is a total decimation. Pen is mightier than the sword.

I am very sure that the Oba will be feeling sorry over his nauseating comment. He doesn't know how to muster an unreserved apology. Lolzz

Hosts? Do you pay their rents and provide their feeding? I'm appalled at this level of craziness!

Waspy:
[b] Important Socratic questions Chiamanda and her folks forgot to answer are;

Have Yorubas not bn good hosts in all forms of being good and being an host?

Is it too much for Yorubas to say that Lagos is a Yorubaland?

He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.... Have the Igbo, all along and "all these while" bn innocent victims?

Are Igbos not just being mischievous since there are other tribes( whose lands are even closer to Lagos than the far East) in Lagos who have never cried like babies and whined like bigots?

Is there a way forward and who shld pave way for who?


Are other sojourners laying claims to the "no-man's land as passionately as the Igbos?

I think these and many more questions shld have bn answered by Ms. Adichie and her goons before she concoted her sentimental piece...if truly she did.

It won't be fair, if for the sakes of peace and unity of Nigeria, we continue to, for no sane reasons, undermine, insubordinate, take for granted and make to nothing the culture, tradition,ideology and good will of the numerous pples that make this great country[/b]

[s]

Descartes:
You think everyone is like you? Hahahahaha

[/s]

Decibel the animal, you can only lie to people that dont know you. Go and return the stolen laptop, shameless aridin.

[s]

oneeast:
This is a total decimation. Pen is mightier than sword.

I am very sure that the Oba will be feeling sorry over nauseating comment. He doesn't know how to muster an unreserved apology. Lolzz

[/s]

Ibo people pls forgive the Oba of lagos, it was too much weed, monkey tail,orijin, and paraga that led to his now famous lagoon speech. He also suffers from ALS and syphilis. The old man no well. Besides his wives banged his brains out the night before that speech.

How did she get it wrong? You are the one reading this article through a tribalistic haze! How can you then see right? She rebuked the conduct of supposed leaders in a very diplomatic way! Asking Igbos to move on without any attempt to ask Akiolu to apologise is an insult! Get that simple logic into that head!

blym4real:
She got it all wrong.

The article is tribalistic and trying to vindicate the actions of the Igbo while adjusting to remain neutral .

Everyone knows the Oba was wrong, but what did she expect from the yoruba leaders if not to calm the Igbo people after condemning the action of the monarch.

Crueldeed:
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Decibel the animal, you can only lie to people that dont know you. Go and return the stolen laptop, shameless aridin.

K

ideykwum:
Did you expect her to deny her ethnicity to satisfy your appetite for neutrality in the face of public opprobrium directed to her ethnic group? Where is so-called "neutral" Wole Soyinka, known for his long words and criticism of social ill? Suddenly, the bard has developed sore throat! How convenient!

Wole Soyinka is now a paid mouthpiece
If it had been GEJ or his wife the man will be all over the place
He stopped making sense a long time ago

Descartes:
Are you for real?

Done with you. Ignored.

MugabeRobert:
The ibos are now crying blue murder cos the yorubas decided to stop defending and start attacking. Well you ain't seen nothing yet, don't expect flowers in return after calling a region that accepted you a no man's land.

...a region that accepted you?
You people live and dine in abject ignorance.

Pls get the copy of the nigerian constitution. Read it and if you don't like its content then just jump in the lagoon and end your misery.

illiad:


I have realized that a lot of yorubas comment here out of ignorance. You make your comments without referring to the issue in discuss .
You simply come up here and start your vituperation.

Please I advice you all to go get a copy of the nigerian constitution and enlighten yourselves before you start this our long awaited war.

I pray for Jimi to win and if that happens and you people didn't start this your war then you shall all die in the lagoon.

I don't like when they say: "Have Yoruba people not been good to you? Have they not been good hosts?" I mean, so what? Must your host be condemned your whims because you've been good? Or they expect the Igbo people to trade their choice and rights for a plate of porridge?