Optofrank:
The topic said: Something Strange is Happening in South West which is to say south west is not really known to be like this. Therefore Something is amiss. A good minded SW knows that this guy is on point. South West really need to ask themselves questions. Because Posterity will Judge Us All. I rest my case

Omoluabi16:
I could almost predict the content of the write-up and subsequent comments by seeing the topic. Another writer masquerading behind 'objective writing' but with subtle tribalism embedded.



The O.P talked about june 12, what is so strange in the enthusiasm gradually dying out? even before this dispensation ogun and Lagos states mainly observed it.I still saw on the same news civil societies celebrating the day. perhaps you should ask why igbos don't acknowledge may 30th.


you talked about ekiti in correlation with enugu murder. What uproar was there? you said the fg commented..has that stop the rape and killings in enugu? I know it has occured like 3rice in enugu.. I can't remember the other s/e governors speaking up.




The yorubas have always spoken up on restructuring and not thirst after appointments like vampires. Its ironical how the only highly placed igbo man senator ekweremadu is facing a tough battle, haven't heard a word from either the s/e or the ohanaeze. Since August 30, your youths have been slaughtered..what has the 'uproar' benefited? What have the igbos done to secure nnamdi kanus realease?


Instead of us to move forward ur here trying to throw stones, you claim you're hated..yet you use every opportunity to try and cast aspersions on every tribe. it is unfortunate.. each zones have their own problems to handle, why don't you mind your business and fully make up your mind if you want to integrate or continue deluding yourselves.
Tribalism doesn't pay.

plaetton:

Most know.
They are just too embarrassed and too proud to accept that they has been hoodwinked.

sunkky83:

That is it. U caught them by their wrists. After all their noise, when they realise it's not yielding d expected results, they want d SW to join them. May be they don't knw dat we are wiser

RichYoungNigga:
It amazes me how these Amala and Ewedu eating clowns are so brave on the internet, they don't say shiit in real life.

Their Good for nothing brothers are up north blowing themselves up like idiots.

Well, the igbos own Lagos, we bought all their lands, properties and now we're moving to Ogun state to buy everything there, we must extinct this stinky tribe.

shamecurls:
Erosion is claiming the East at a fast rate and you busy composing Jargon's about the West.


You should have invested more of your time in researching on how to counter Erosion, poverty, backwardness and Drug trafficking.


Lagos na your Land?

You talking about Lagos when is outrightly nothing to boast off in the East. I mean NOTHING

Chai! Is it my people you're referring to?

uupgrade:
ur so called Good woman Remi Tinubu wouldn't pay people to protest on matters like dis. But ..........to her............

RichYoungNigga:
It amazes me how these Amala and Ewedu eating clowns are so brave on the internet, they don't say shiit in real life.

Their Good for nothing brothers are up north blowing themselves up like idiots.

Well, the igbos own Lagos, we bought all their lands, properties and now we're moving to Ogun state to buy everything there, we must extinct this stinky tribe.

Henrydone:
This my southeast folks yen to abuse do you gain pleasure from it why are you so ill-mannered

plaetton:
It's been difficult to raise this particular issue in a public forum without being perceived or branded an ethnic bigot.

I am glad that someone finally brought this nagging question to the spotlight without all the accompanying hate speech and derogatory comments.

Yes. Something has definitely happened to the southwest, and whatever it is, it's certainly an ill wind that would bring Nooo good.

In just 4 yrs, between 2011 and 2015 , the the southwest rebranded an erstwhile colorless, unelectable satan into a shinning Messiah in silk robes, and have gone further to WORSHIP this self created Idol far more than any other person in the southwest.

I always stand in astonishment when I hear some of the most ridiculous defenses my very enlightened southwest friends put up their new Messiah.
It completely boggles my mind in no small way.

Their attitudes and behaviors are akin to a religious Cult.

And Bingo!!
That might be.

What I suspect is that apart from the Tinubu factor, the REAL factor that gives them that cult-like tendency is the Redeem Church Factor. The Redeem Church -Pastor Osinbajo- Daddy Adeboye factor.
The choice of A Redeem pastor close to Adeboye was the cleverest political move ever by Tinubu.

You see, this is something I have lamenting for a long long time.
The mentally debilitating influence on IQ and rational thinking by religious cult leaders and charlatans like Adeboye and his army of brain surgeons in Nigeria in general, and the southwest in particular, are now coming home to roost.
As a man thinketh, so he is.

The Adeboyes,the Oyedepos, the TB Joshuas and their likes in the southwest, apostles of magical and irrational thinking, have turned much of the southwest into a big vegetable farm.

Now, I am not insinuating that the southwest has lost their towering brainpower. Not at all. But for some inexplicable reasons, they seem completely subdued for the moment.

I have never in my life seen the southwest Intelligentia so silent, so docile in face of absurdities and evil, after seeing them as the champions of social justice and vigilantes of democracy and the rule of law for much of my adult life.

My dear southwest friends, please wake up. Nigeria and future generations need you to be awake at this trying times.

Johnnwokolo:
These Yorubas are something else:

2. Did you know that Lagos GDP has exceeded $100 billion, accounting for more than 20% of the total GDP of the biggest economy in Africa.

It is estimated that with the with the $2 billion MAERSK port at Badgry, the Eko Atlantic, The Lagos rail project, The Snake Island Port and Tank and the famous $17 billion Refinery, Fertilizer, Petro Chemical and Power plant, Lagos economy will exceed $200 billion by 2020.

As a matter of fact the SW economy will account for 50% of the nations GDP by 2025.Lets keep wailing and calling them cowards.

Yorubas are not agitating for anything, they carry a begging bowl telling everyone just come and invest in Yoruba land. Ogun state has just been announced as the richest state after Lagos with the largest increase in IGR in 12 months. Ogun state is developing so rapidly and preparing for the spill over from Lagos.

gannod:



I am from the southwest,Ekiti to be precise. I think you are spot on! The problem with the Yoruba people is their hypocrisy,it is second to none. I hope the Yoruba youth would free themselves from this mental slavery and chart a new course for themselves politically. Abo oro la n so fun omoluabi.....

GuyfawkesAB:
Dear Mr Azuka Onwuka,
The Strange happenings in the South East has not abated still and have not been adressed

1) 9.5 in every other drug-related crime is committed by a southeasterner
2) Baby factories and child trafficking is a cool business in the region
3) ill-gotten wealth is still an ambition for a great majority
4) Robbery, Kidnapping has already become a sector in the region's economy
5) Hatred-mongering and infection, especially for the Yorubas is on the high side
6) Mass Exodus to other regions to 'develop' and occupy without recourse to investing at home or patronizing their own
...

Shouldn't the South East Elders speak to this issues? Something is definitely wrong with this region

gannod:



I am from the southwest,Ekiti to be precise. I think you are spot on! The problem with the Yoruba people is their hypocrisy,it is second to none. I hope the Yoruba youth would free themselves from this mental slavery and chart a new course for themselves politically. Abo oro la n so fun omoluabi.....

Omoluabi16:
Thanks Brother, it is well. I find it absurd, when you try to provoke others..then turn around and cry victimisation. God help us all.

sunnyb0b0:



http://punchng.com/something-strange-happening-south-west/

saintdennis:


Yorubas talking without thinking ; presidency 8years VP(1yr+ so far)
Igbos acting without thinking :0 presidency 0 vp.

Yoruba talking without thinking: delivered democracy back to naija

Igbos acting without thinking: have been struggling for independence since 1967

Yorubas talking without thinking: will NEVER wear an igbo man's dress to form familiarity

Igbos acting without thinking: have made asho ebi, fila and even yoruba language their signpost.

The day yorubas will decide enough is enough ehn... ya'll will be sent back across the niger.

amodu:


Ori e a kan ke omo iye mi

obailala:
There's nothing strange about this development. Everything in Nigeria is tied to politics, even issues which ordinarily should have nothing to do with politics are usually influenced by partisan sentiments.

The niger-delta activists all went dumb during the reign of GEJ, even though we all know GEJ did nothing for the region during his presidency. Similarly we had cases of policemen arresting, incarcerating and even killing massob members some years back under GEJ, but we never heard any uproar from anyone in the SE cos the politics in Abuja appeared to be favourable. Similarly there were countless number of fulani herdsmen strikes and clashes with communities in the middlebelt region and in some cases, in the upper parts of the SE; there was never an uproar against the government for the same obvious reasons not until May 29th 2015, and then we all remembered there was some menace in existence called fulani herdsmen.

Furthermore, during the time of GEJ, northern youths raised a lot of dust over even the most meaningless things, today worse things are happening but they've all gone cold and dumb. Can someone please imagine what would have happened had it been that the zaria shiite massacre happened under GEJ?... Hell would have been let lose and the northerners who are mainly sunnis would have remembered that even the shiites are still their brothers and sisters.

Now the SW which has always championed the cause of restructuring seems to have also gone mute, the reasons are obvious, its the abuja political sentiment.

In summary, the fact is that when people make a loud uproar against a perceived injustice, the driving force most times is usually politics; when the politics in Abuja appears to favour a group, the group tends to sheath their swords.

mrteee:


Gosh! What a rant. and unfortunate it's coming from a people that their adopted son was going from one church to the other in the weeks leading to the election, a people that their adopted son NEVER completed a single project in their region.
Why don't you guys channel your hatred & rants into positive energy to develop your regions, and make it an envy of other regions? right now, the 'silent' southwest is the major destination of choice for investments. If you guys do that, I'm sure the bile in your guts would subside to a manageable level.