Yoruba’s unacceptable courting of northern minorities


Politicking in 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari would have been nearing the completion of his first tenure shall be spiced by many considerations. It will certainly throw new alliances between groups and regions; heighten anxiety and the actors would deploy demonic intrigues to undo political rivals.

The Southwest Yoruba race has given early signals in this regard. Self-acclaimed APC national leader, Senator Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has not hidden his desire to stoke the flames of discord in the ruling APC. He aims to blend it with vicious manipulations to even unseat incumbent President Buhari to remain in the reckoning of national politics as a political bulldozer of all dispensations.
He has a knack for this political posturing. Presiding as Governor of Lagos state, Tinubu stoutly challenged attempts by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) in 2003, to convert the Southwest from the opposition Alliance for Democracy (AD) to mainstream politics of the then ruling PDP. Despite OBJ’s political roughness and might, with his entire presidential aura, he could not effectively trounce Tinubu, who retained some Southwestern states to the AD.

Strikingly too, after the AD underwent mutations and ended up with the nomenclature of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 with Tinubu still as the captain of the ship. ACN posed as the strongest rival political party to challenge the ruling PDP. Aggrieved politicians mainly from PDP fold massively sought refuge in the opposition ACN and contested the 2011 polls at different levels-governorship and parliamentary polls.
There was recommendable impact, as the ACN largely touted as a regional party made inroads in other levels of elections even in some parts of the North. But Tinubu romanced the reverse gear on the presidential ballot.

He allegedly gambled away the chances of the ACN presidential candidate, a northern minority, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan who desperately wanted the 2011 presidential job of Nigeria.
Of course, the ACN and other opposition parties like the CPC, ANPP and others, formed an alliance in the build-up to the 2015 general elections, resulting in the merger of mega opposition parties, to form the APC. Certainly, the combination of forces threw President Buhari as its presidential candidate and the APC eventually sacked the ruling PDP government of former President Jonathan in the historic 2015 general elections.

Now, some issues are now sprouting over the Buhari Presidency. The issues neither have weight nor merit of any kind. Chiefly, Tinubu is reportedly instigating his brethren in the Southwest to fault or perceive every action of President Buhari’s administration negatively. They have kick-started subtle campaigns to work against dislodging Buhari in 2019. It is mainly by spreading the sentiments of the continued political hegemony of the Fulani oligarchs in Nigeria.
The sermons have become very acidic, except that it has failed to impress anybody or gain currency. And Tinubu is alleged to be the shadows behind this new wave of antagonism of the Buhari presidency on account of his unfounded political discontentment.

Recent write-ups, analyses, commentaries anchored by South westerners have vainly tried to push the impression that not only other parts of Nigeria that have been unfairly subjugated by the “Fulani Caliphate,” (whatever that means, only the proponents know) but Northern minorities, especially, those domiciled in the Middle Belt have been cheated by the core North for too long.
They are instigating Northern minorities into rebellion or resistance to any further domination from the Fulani oligarchy, which they claim number just about seven million people. They are soliciting for new political realignments in 2019 with Minorities of the Middle Belt against the Core North to consolidate this plot.

To expand their political fortunes, the Yoruba’s new circle of antagonists have renewed calls for the re-structuring of Nigeria, in the hope that it would galvanize the interest of other southern regional blocs to identify with their cause. They laughably claim the Fulani Caliphate dreads the restructuring of Nigeria because of the extreme poverty of the Core North, which is fed by other regions and cannot survive on its own resources. And the dingdong has kept resonating, albeit unconvincingly.
Accepted, the Yorubas in the Southwest are undoubtedly very intelligent and exposed Nigerians. When they lend their voice to a cause, Nigerians listen. But the current campaigns against the Buhari presidency and the desperation to steep it in some Fulani hegemonic control of Nigeria makes no sense to a sane mind and it is fact belated.

Nigerians know that former presidents of Nigeria, like Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Shagari and the Late Umaru Yar’Adua were all of Fulani extraction in the North, but were given the mandate to preside over the affairs of the country at different times. When Buhari vied for the presidency in 2015, he never veiled his origins as a Fulani man. Yet, Nigerians brushed this aside because the focus was on the person in the candidate. These are unalterable truths Tinubu and his cohorts know without any shred of doubt.

But suddenly, Buhari’s origins have become an issue to stimulate sentimental campaigns’ and preachments about the Fulani Caliphate’s domination of Nigeria, like their personal patrimony. To deepen the campaign, the separatists’ have attempted to create an imaginary feud between the Fulanis and the Hausas, as well, claiming, the former has enslaved the Hausas for decades.
However, the first sure mistake and point of early crash-landing of the campaigns is the dishonest schemings to drag the Middle Belt minorities into the unfounded anger of the Southwest or Yorubas’ orchestrated campaigns to urge them to severe ties with their brethren in the Core North. To put it generously, no Northern minority is ready for such a gamble with the Yorubas, no matter the attractiveness of the bait.
Such political experiments’ with the Southern Yorubas in the past were never rewarding to the Northern minorities, who are even wiser today. The Northern minorities are ever willing to pitch tent with the worse Hausa/Fulanis in politics than any angel in Yoruba garments.
The experience of minority rights crusader, Late Sen. J.S. Tarka is handy. The Tiv example is appropriate because the Tivs are the single largest ethnic grouping in the Middle Belt and their experience is largely reflective of the general plight of Northern minorities which might want to attempt a political alliance with groups like the Yorubas.

History has shown that the alliance of the Tiv ethnic nationality led by Late Senator Joseph Tarka’s under the banner of the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) with the Southwest Action Group (AG) led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo never worked beneficially. Tarka had revolted against the Core North’s Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), which led to his formation of the UMBC.

Chief Awolowo perceived the crack as an opportunity to penetrate and break the oneness of the North by reaching out to the disgruntled Tarka for a political alliance. While Awolowo was busy developing the Western region, sending his brothers to school abroad, no such gesture was extended to any of the brothers of his friend, Tarka whom they had struck alliance. What Tarka reaped from that marriage of inconvenience were the two terrible Tiv riots of 1960 to 1964, resulting in awesome killings and arson.
Thereafter, politicking in Nigeria ended with the Kaduna Nzeogwu led coup of 1966. But Sen. Tarka came back from the alliance with the Yorubas with nothing either for himself or his people, but was drenched in the blood of his kith and kin the riots of the Yorubas alliance caused.
At the return of democracy in 1979, Sen. Tarka had no option than to embrace his Core Northern brothers. When Shagari emerged President, Tiv nation alone had five ministerial slots. Years later, a President OBJ would disgrace out of office the COAS, Gen. Victor Malu based on disagreement over policy issues. Since the creation of Nigeria, Yorubas consider the portfolio of Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice as their traditional birthright.

When it goes to another section of the country, they kick and scream all manner of inanities. But a Fulani man, Late Yar’Adua who emerged as President in 2007 gave the portfolio to Mr. Mike Kaase Aondoakaa of the Tiv minority, aside other generous appointments.
Therefore, the Yoruba campaigners of separatism of minority tribes of the Middle Belt from the Hausa/Fulanis of the Core North must be reminded that stretching their machinations this far would not nourish their cause in anyway. Agreed that when people or groups live together, issues crop up from time to time, but these issues are not weighty enough to cut the cord of fraternity.

Should other regions of Nigeria also accuse the Yorubas of clandestine moves to hijack Nigeria? When their son emerges president, they claim, he is not the choice of Afenifere. If other regions produce the President, they express irritating dissatisfaction with the lofty patronage extended to them. What do the Yorubas really want? Without mincing words, their present campaign is very unpopular and unacceptable to the Northern minorities in the Middle Belt. They should keep a safe distance away from the minorities of the North.

https://www.today.ng/opinion/194346/yorubas-unacceptable-courting-northern-minorities

The Northern minorities are ever willing to pitch tent with the worse Hausa/Fulanis in politics than any angel in Yoruba garments.

Hahahahahahahahahahahhhahahahhaa

Ha!
God epp us.

Thereafter, politicking in Nigeria ended with the Kaduna Nzeogwu led coup of 1966. But Sen. Tarka came back from the alliance with the Yorubas with nothing either for himself or his people, but was drenched in the blood of his kith and kin the riots of the Yorubas alliance caused.

The above is the modus operandi of afonja...stoking division and death amongst others to ultimately project themselves upward. Till this day I believe Awolowo is responsible for the civil war that claimed millions of lives of Biaffrans, including thousands of northern soldiers. His two-faceness...telling Ojukwu one thing and telling Northerners another. When the war ended, guess what? Reconstruction started in the West to their benefit...not even in the North/Middle belt that fought and died foolishly for One Nigeria. Every tribe is now avoiding them like a leper...very deceitful people and wicked by nature!

Yorubas On Your Own

Betrayal is not Sophistication

Aren't u guyz tired of this topic. Yes we voted for Buhari.
We voteded for Buhari the same way we voted for Jonathan in 2011 election.

Just waiting for 2019 to see how the SE is going to vote since PDP has zone the presidency slot to the northern part of Nigeria

Who this write up now?.....Lolz..politicians don't know tribe...they loot!!!

Treachery and double face never pays.

where is that tonyebacanista that said,SW will gang up with SS and Middle belt to win 2019 election...... you better come and read this

[size=15pt]I hope you all know the Op is a Fulani man and he did everything to make it appear he is Igbo.So yoruba and Igbo guys will continue while Fulani is insidiously stoking the trouble between them.

This is the type of divide and rule game northerners have played on southerners for long.[/size]

ChimaAdeoye:
[size=15pt]I hope you all know the Op is a Fulani man and he did everything to make it appear he is Igbo.So yoruba and Igbo guys will continue while Fulani is insidiously stoking the trouble between them.

This is the type of divide and rule game northerners have played on southerners form long.[/size]

That's one concern you. We understand the message. The SW politicians are the masters in Division.
BTW, the silly OP should also tell us how the alliance between Tiv and Fulani/herdsmen is today.

Sometimes I laugh when people are talking about any alliance or whatsoever.

See, yorubas vote base on performance and not religious sentiments, ethnicity etc.
Many yorubas voted for Jonathan in 2011 not because of tinubu or anything but because we trusted Jonathan and he showed early signs that things will improve in Nigeria. But after winning the election, Jonathan went ahead to surround himself with corrupt elements that made his reign as President a complete disaster.

Don't forget that the same yorubas most igbos Now call cowards went to protest on behalf of Jonathan a fellow Southerner when the northern oligarchy wanted power to remain in the north at all cost. The likes of tinubu, Tunde bakare, wole Soyinka all protested the maltreatment of Jonathan while the so called igbos forming comrades to Jonathan today were no where to be found.

When we talk about alliances then we need to talk about igbo alliances with the North. .the first coalition government in Nigeria was formed by the igbos and Hausa Fulani. tafewa balewa was the Prime Minister while nnamdi azikwe was just a mere ceremonial president.

In 1979 and 1983 , despite the fact that igbos hated the northerners for what they did to their kinsmen in the north but that didn't stop them from voting a Hausa Fulani man shehu shagari.. In that same 1979 the UPN presented Awolowo and a candidate from anambra state. a southern alliance.


The so called alliance they said yorubas formed with the North in 2015 can't be said to be total. .because many people voted for Jonathan and the majority that voted for buhari did so because of Jonathan's failure.

The yorubas have always been an advocate of restructuring, despite being in opposition for some years I think we have achieved a lot than the "AGIP "region. Tinubu felt the south west could benefit more if we joined the government at the centre under a purposeful administration.

Now if we don't succeed in that, we simply re strategise and try other options.. That's what we call politics. That was what Awolowo tried to do also. When you lose you re-strategise.

It still doesn't stop the fact that south west is the most viable region in Nigeria in terms of social amenities and infrastructures.. .believe me I have been to other regions and i know why they all flock here in numbers.

Another thing is that south west holds the key to a lot of things, the northern oligarchy fears them most. We have always been opposing northern forces whereas our so called brothers from the east never had the guts to do so.. We have the highest number of activists and lawyers in Nigeria . We control the Nigerian press hereby influencing public opinion of everybody.

Believe me if yorubas want the igbos to have their biafra today they will get it because they can't do anything without us, even ojukwu needed our help.

And i can only guess the reason why many igbos hate yorubas today is because they have not been supporting their agitations. even though prof wole Soyinka recently supported them but this same people will abuse this man.. Especially when they start comparing a Nobel laureate to a chinua Achebe.

Am very sure the igbos calling yorubas Fulani slaves will vote the same Fulani come 2019 ,because your darling Party PDP have zoned the President slot to the north.

Now tell me who is the real slave here, is it the people that can't afford to stay in the opposition and build their own political force but instead will align with the same people they despise so much, same people they claim massacred them in 1967.

Please igbos stop worrying for yorubas coz the yorubas nation will always be fine.instead worry for yourselves.

"The Northern minorities are ever willing to pitch tent with the worse Hausa/Fulanis in politics than any angel in Yoruba garments"



Like wise the southern minorities...

omofunaab:
Sometimes I laugh when people are talking about any alliance or whatsoever.

See, yorubas vote base on performance and not religious sentiments, ethnicity etc.
Many yorubas voted for Jonathan in 2011 not because of tinubu or anything but because we trusted Jonathan and he showed early signs that things will improve in Nigeria. But after winning the election, Jonathan went ahead to surround himself with corrupt elements that made his reign as President a complete disaster.

Don't forget that the same yorubas most igbos Now call cowards went to protest on behalf of Jonathan a fellow Southerner when the northern oligarchy wanted power to remain in the north at all cost. The likes of tinubu, Tunde bakare, wole Soyinka all protested the maltreatment of Jonathan while the so called igbos forming comrades to Jonathan today were no where to be found.

When we talk about alliances then we need to talk about igbo alliances with the North. .the first coalition government in Nigeria was formed by the igbos and Hausa Fulani. tafewa balewa was the Prime Minister while nnamdi azikwe was just a mere ceremonial president.

In 1979 and 1983 , despite the fact that igbos hated the northerners for what they did to their kinsmen in the north but that didn't stop them from voting a Hausa Fulani man shehu shagari.. In that same 1979 the UPN presented Awolowo and a candidate from anambra state. a southern alliance.


The so called alliance they said yorubas formed with the North in 2015 can't be said to be total. .because many people voted for Jonathan and the majority that voted for buhari did so because of Jonathan's failure.

The yorubas have always been an advocate of restructuring, despite being in opposition for some years I think we have achieved a lot than the "AGIP "region. Tinubu felt the south west could benefit more if we joined the government at the centre under a purposeful administration.

Now if we don't succeed in that, we simply re strategise and try other options.. That's what we call politics. That was what Awolowo tried to do also. When you lose you re-strategise.

It still doesn't stop the fact that south west is the most viable region in Nigeria in terms of social amenities and infrastructures.. .believe me I have been to other regions and i know why they all flock here in numbers.

Another thing is that south west holds the key to a lot of things, the northern oligarchy fears them most. We have always been opposing northern forces whereas our so called brothers from the east never had the guts to do so.. We have the highest number of activists and lawyers in Nigeria . We control the Nigerian press hereby influencing public opinion of everybody.

Believe me if yorubas want the igbos to have their biafra today they will get it because they can't do anything without us, even ojukwu needed our help.

And i can only guess the reason why many igbos hate yorubas today is because they have not been supporting their agitations. even though prof wole Soyinka recently supported them but this same people will abuse this man.. Especially when they start comparing a Nobel laureate to a chinua Achebe.

Am very sure the igbos calling yorubas Fulani slaves will vote the same Fulani come 2019 ,because your darling Party PDP have zoned the President slot to the north.

Now tell me who is the real slave here, is it the people that can't afford to stay in the opposition and build their own political force but instead will align with the same people they despise so much, same people they claim massacred them in 1967.

Please igbos stop worrying for yorubas coz the yorubas nation will always be fine.instead worry for yourselves.

Shut it bro..
History is open to all..why you dey try rewrite history..
Or you think we're still in the 80/90's when you guys run the media with propanganda.

Between is the writer ibo? Or is Yakassi ibo too.
Why attack the ibos..
Someone made nice analysis of your political ideology in nigeria..instead you look inward and change pattern..you dey run mouth..
Abi the writer lie?

This same reason you..some of you come online to create division between ijaws and other southern minorities..
Was one of you saying ijos are the trouble makers of south..cos we always protect the interest of the minorities..and will always do..they also have seen tru your wonderful friendship.
Or think Akpabio don't mean it when he said you guys specialise in exporting thugs to other states to cause wahala..
The south is coming together and the awareness is high.

They world is a global village now..every body don saabi..dem know dey tell person again..

Biafman:
Yoruba’s unacceptable courting of northern minorities


Politicking in 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari would have been nearing the completion of his first tenure shall be spiced by many considerations. It will certainly throw new alliances between groups and regions; heighten anxiety and the actors would deploy demonic intrigues to undo political rivals.

The Southwest Yoruba race has given early signals in this regard. Self-acclaimed APC national leader, Senator Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has not hidden his desire to stoke the flames of discord in the ruling APC. He aims to blend it with vicious manipulations to even unseat incumbent President Buhari to remain in the reckoning of national politics as a political bulldozer of all dispensations.
He has a knack for this political posturing. Presiding as Governor of Lagos state, Tinubu stoutly challenged attempts by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) in 2003, to convert the Southwest from the opposition Alliance for Democracy (AD) to mainstream politics of the then ruling PDP. Despite OBJ’s political roughness and might, with his entire presidential aura, he could not effectively trounce Tinubu, who retained some Southwestern states to the AD.

Strikingly too, after the AD underwent mutations and ended up with the nomenclature of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 with Tinubu still as the captain of the ship. ACN posed as the strongest rival political party to challenge the ruling PDP. Aggrieved politicians mainly from PDP fold massively sought refuge in the opposition ACN and contested the 2011 polls at different levels-governorship and parliamentary polls.
There was recommendable impact, as the ACN largely touted as a regional party made inroads in other levels of elections even in some parts of the North. But Tinubu romanced the reverse gear on the presidential ballot.

He allegedly gambled away the chances of the ACN presidential candidate, a northern minority, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan who desperately wanted the 2011 presidential job of Nigeria.
Of course, the ACN and other opposition parties like the CPC, ANPP and others, formed an alliance in the build-up to the 2015 general elections, resulting in the merger of mega opposition parties, to form the APC. Certainly, the combination of forces threw President Buhari as its presidential candidate and the APC eventually sacked the ruling PDP government of former President Jonathan in the historic 2015 general elections.

Now, some issues are now sprouting over the Buhari Presidency. The issues neither have weight nor merit of any kind. Chiefly, Tinubu is reportedly instigating his brethren in the Southwest to fault or perceive every action of President Buhari’s administration negatively. They have kick-started subtle campaigns to work against dislodging Buhari in 2019. It is mainly by spreading the sentiments of the continued political hegemony of the Fulani oligarchs in Nigeria.
The sermons have become very acidic, except that it has failed to impress anybody or gain currency. And Tinubu is alleged to be the shadows behind this new wave of antagonism of the Buhari presidency on account of his unfounded political discontentment.

Recent write-ups, analyses, commentaries anchored by South westerners have vainly tried to push the impression that not only other parts of Nigeria that have been unfairly subjugated by the “Fulani Caliphate,” (whatever that means, only the proponents know) but Northern minorities, especially, those domiciled in the Middle Belt have been cheated by the core North for too long.
They are instigating Northern minorities into rebellion or resistance to any further domination from the Fulani oligarchy, which they claim number just about seven million people. They are soliciting for new political realignments in 2019 with Minorities of the Middle Belt against the Core North to consolidate this plot.

To expand their political fortunes, the Yoruba’s new circle of antagonists have renewed calls for the re-structuring of Nigeria, in the hope that it would galvanize the interest of other southern regional blocs to identify with their cause. They laughably claim the Fulani Caliphate dreads the restructuring of Nigeria because of the extreme poverty of the Core North, which is fed by other regions and cannot survive on its own resources. And the dingdong has kept resonating, albeit unconvincingly.
Accepted, the Yorubas in the Southwest are undoubtedly very intelligent and exposed Nigerians. When they lend their voice to a cause, Nigerians listen. But the current campaigns against the Buhari presidency and the desperation to steep it in some Fulani hegemonic control of Nigeria makes no sense to a sane mind and it is fact belated.

Nigerians know that former presidents of Nigeria, like Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Shagari and the Late Umaru Yar’Adua were all of Fulani extraction in the North, but were given the mandate to preside over the affairs of the country at different times. When Buhari vied for the presidency in 2015, he never veiled his origins as a Fulani man. Yet, Nigerians brushed this aside because the focus was on the person in the candidate. These are unalterable truths Tinubu and his cohorts know without any shred of doubt.

But suddenly, Buhari’s origins have become an issue to stimulate sentimental campaigns’ and preachments about the Fulani Caliphate’s domination of Nigeria, like their personal patrimony. To deepen the campaign, the separatists’ have attempted to create an imaginary feud between the Fulanis and the Hausas, as well, claiming, the former has enslaved the Hausas for decades.
However, the first sure mistake and point of early crash-landing of the campaigns is the dishonest schemings to drag the Middle Belt minorities into the unfounded anger of the Southwest or Yorubas’ orchestrated campaigns to urge them to severe ties with their brethren in the Core North. To put it generously, no Northern minority is ready for such a gamble with the Yorubas, no matter the attractiveness of the bait.
Such political experiments’ with the Southern Yorubas in the past were never rewarding to the Northern minorities, who are even wiser today. The Northern minorities are ever willing to pitch tent with the worse Hausa/Fulanis in politics than any angel in Yoruba garments.
The experience of minority rights crusader, Late Sen. J.S. Tarka is handy. The Tiv example is appropriate because the Tivs are the single largest ethnic grouping in the Middle Belt and their experience is largely reflective of the general plight of Northern minorities which might want to attempt a political alliance with groups like the Yorubas.

History has shown that the alliance of the Tiv ethnic nationality led by Late Senator Joseph Tarka’s under the banner of the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) with the Southwest Action Group (AG) led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo never worked beneficially. Tarka had revolted against the Core North’s Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), which led to his formation of the UMBC.

Chief Awolowo perceived the crack as an opportunity to penetrate and break the oneness of the North by reaching out to the disgruntled Tarka for a political alliance. While Awolowo was busy developing the Western region, sending his brothers to school abroad, no such gesture was extended to any of the brothers of his friend, Tarka whom they had struck alliance. What Tarka reaped from that marriage of inconvenience were the two terrible Tiv riots of 1960 to 1964, resulting in awesome killings and arson.
Thereafter, politicking in Nigeria ended with the Kaduna Nzeogwu led coup of 1966. But Sen. Tarka came back from the alliance with the Yorubas with nothing either for himself or his people, but was drenched in the blood of his kith and kin the riots of the Yorubas alliance caused.
At the return of democracy in 1979, Sen. Tarka had no option than to embrace his Core Northern brothers. When Shagari emerged President, Tiv nation alone had five ministerial slots. Years later, a President OBJ would disgrace out of office the COAS, Gen. Victor Malu based on disagreement over policy issues. Since the creation of Nigeria, Yorubas consider the portfolio of Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice as their traditional birthright.

When it goes to another section of the country, they kick and scream all manner of inanities. But a Fulani man, Late Yar’Adua who emerged as President in 2007 gave the portfolio to Mr. Mike Kaase Aondoakaa of the Tiv minority, aside other generous appointments.
Therefore, the Yoruba campaigners of separatism of minority tribes of the Middle Belt from the Hausa/Fulanis of the Core North must be reminded that stretching their machinations this far would not nourish their cause in anyway. Agreed that when people or groups live together, issues crop up from time to time, but these issues are not weighty enough to cut the cord of fraternity.

Should other regions of Nigeria also accuse the Yorubas of clandestine moves to hijack Nigeria? When their son emerges president, they claim, he is not the choice of Afenifere. If other regions produce the President, they express irritating dissatisfaction with the lofty patronage extended to them. What do the Yorubas really want? Without mincing words, their present campaign is very unpopular and unacceptable to the Northern minorities in the Middle Belt. They should keep a safe distance away from the minorities of the North.

https://www.today.ng/opinion/194346/yorubas-unacceptable-courting-northern-minorities

OK. We have heard your epistle, now could you please go and farm potatoes while planting season is still on.

You ibos have gone nuts over Yoruba matter. Yesterday you asked why "Yoruba are always defending Buhari" and today it's "Yoruba are working against Buhari". Unfortunately for you, there's no treatment for obsession, this is really it for you. You will always live in Yoruba's shadow. The person that put a curse on you ibos really gave it to you. How are you going to cope in your biafra without Yoruba? Now I know why you don't really want biafra but just making noise, there won't be Yoruba to hate on. Politics is about forming alliances, and instead for you to go and start making your own, you are watching Yoruba's every move, while yours rot away.

Abeg anyone should form whatever alliance they wan form jare. Enough of yoruba this yoruba that. If u are not comfortable with yoruba building alliance with whatever group then go build ur own too na....

My Ibo brothers, this your obsession with the Yoruba race is really getting out of hand. You guys need to watch it before you all start dying of chronic obsession. If Igbos want alliance with any ethnic group, go ahead and form the alliance, Yorubas will not stop you.

omoyowa:
where is that tonyebacanista that said,SW will gang up with SS and Middle belt to win 2019 election...... you better come and read this

Anybody with a little sense will no that this write up is absolute trash that should be ignored. It reeks of absolute falsehood and a horrible attempt at divide and rule. Funny enough, you Ibos seems to be buying it. I won't blame you though, any meaningless piece against the Yorubas is good news to bigoted Igbos.

seunmsg:


Anybody with a little sense will no that this write up is absolute trash that should be ignored. It reeks of absolute falsehood and a horrible attempt at divide and rule. Funny enough, you Ibos seems to be buying it. I won't blame you though, any meaningless piece against the Yorubas is good news to bigoted Igbos.

for your information,I am not a tribal bigot like you...

Here is what Ebute said sometime back. This guy is a political jobber, no more no less. Read what he said sometime back about Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani.

Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, Monday, described the merger of three political parties into the All Progressives Congress, APC, as unworkable, affirming the continuing hurt of the Yoruba people against the Hausa Fulani on account of the death in detention of Bashorun Moshood Abiola.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/yoruba-distrust-for-hausa-fulani-ll-destroy-apc-ebute-ex-senate-president/

This article was inspired by painment!

......

there will be fireworks in 2019

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MayorofLagos:
Here is what Ebute said sometime back. This guy is a political jobber, no more no less. Read what he said sometime back about Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani.

This same guy called it right 3 years ago. He is like a prophet. He said and i quote: Yoruba distrust for Hausa Fulani ‘ll destroy APC – Ebute, ex-Senate President

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/yoruba-distrust-for-hausa-fulani-ll-destroy-apc-ebute-ex-senate-president/

ificatchmodeh:



Shut it bro..
History is open to all..why you dey try rewrite history..
Or you think we're still in the 80/90's when you guys run the media with propanganda.

Between is the writer ibo? Or is Yakassi ibo too.
Why attack the ibos..
Someone made nice analysis of your political ideology in nigeria..instead you look inward and change pattern..you dey run mouth..
Abi the writer lie?

This same reason you..some of you come online to create division between ijaws and other southern minorities..
Was one of you saying ijos are the trouble makers of south..cos we always protect the interest of the minorities..and will always do..they also have seen tru your wonderful friendship.
Or think Akpabio don't mean it when he said you guys specialise in exporting thugs to other states to cause wahala..
The south is coming together and the awareness is high.

They world is a global village now..every body don saabi..dem know dey tell person again..

Which history did I re write? Didn't the east form alliance with the North.. And didn't they massacre you guys.

And haven't you been voting for the north and did I lie when i said you will still vote for the same northerners you despise in 2019.

I know what i wrote really pained you but like I said igbos should worry for themselves because the way most of you jump on threads about yorubas is getting too much

Most igbos are obsessed with yorubas and it's nauseating.

Face your own problems so that you too can advance

EasternPride:
Treachery and double face never pays.

i am a yoruba man, i voted for twice, i av friends who are pdp members who are yorubas, south south and easterners, i'm just a supporter but then i found out buhari was never the answer to the problems of nigeria as of then though i and my other yoruba friends tried to convince our some of the people in favour of gej but the damage had been done, apc and buhari had securely wedged religious discord and corrupt allegations among these people to gain their mind and divide the south so to gain sympathy votes, which eventually worked out, when i read this writeup i see it playing all over gain, i seen some so called yoruba attacking the igbos and s/s on issues of ipob and ND, but the truth is our own reality is staring us in the face, we av made a pact with the devil and we are now paying a great cost for it, and this is just a tip of the iceberg more surprises are soon to follow, in buhari's master plan to sink the sw our southern brothers aren't left out, their goal is total northern domination in everything imaginable in this country, to make that a perpetual reality the south must never unite and I don't how they did it on this forum they av infiltrated everywhere, i always see before I knew how to access this platform that u'll agree sometimes and most u are at each others throats, and my halfcast yorubas with herdsmen blood are being used, bottom line let find a solution together after we can deal with our differences.

As if Gowon , IBB , Abdulsalam etc , are not minorities from the north-central/MB . Saraki and David Mark are minorities too.


Anybody contemplating this campaign of discord should sheath his sword.

So love your rebuttal, nice one brother #geniusstuff. I hope they or rather dont all choke on their hate of the Yorubas. How they continue to fail to see the logic of how most Yorubas operate in politics beats me. They run their mouths or maggot brains as if all Yorubas hav a uniform platform on anti-igbo sentiments. Yes, ther are sellouts in Yoruba politics and their cups will be full someday but then thats obtainable within every tribe and ethnicity. I for one have always advocated for their Biafra and so do some other prominent Yorubas. They really need to purge themselves of this hate, the very catalyst the northerners need to continue to tear possible southern alliances apart. Silly people......

omofunaab:
Sometimes I laugh when people are talking about any alliance or whatsoever.

See, yorubas vote base on performance and not religious sentiments, ethnicity etc.
Many yorubas voted for Jonathan in 2011 not because of tinubu or anything but because we trusted Jonathan and he showed early signs that things will improve in Nigeria. But after winning the election, Jonathan went ahead to surround himself with corrupt elements that made his reign as President a complete disaster.

Don't forget that the same yorubas most igbos Now call cowards went to protest on behalf of Jonathan a fellow Southerner when the northern oligarchy wanted power to remain in the north at all cost. The likes of tinubu, Tunde bakare, wole Soyinka all protested the maltreatment of Jonathan while the so called igbos forming comrades to Jonathan today were no where to be found.

When we talk about alliances then we need to talk about igbo alliances with the North. .the first coalition government in Nigeria was formed by the igbos and Hausa Fulani. tafewa balewa was the Prime Minister while nnamdi azikwe was just a mere ceremonial president.

In 1979 and 1983 , despite the fact that igbos hated the northerners for what they did to their kinsmen in the north but that didn't stop them from voting a Hausa Fulani man shehu shagari.. In that same 1979 the UPN presented Awolowo and a candidate from anambra state. a southern alliance.


The so called alliance they said yorubas formed with the North in 2015 can't be said to be total. .because many people voted for Jonathan and the majority that voted for buhari did so because of Jonathan's failure.

The yorubas have always been an advocate of restructuring, despite being in opposition for some years I think we have achieved a lot than the "AGIP "region. Tinubu felt the south west could benefit more if we joined the government at the centre under a purposeful administration.

Now if we don't succeed in that, we simply re strategise and try other options.. That's what we call politics. That was what Awolowo tried to do also. When you lose you re-strategise.

It still doesn't stop the fact that south west is the most viable region in Nigeria in terms of social amenities and infrastructures.. .believe me I have been to other regions and i know why they all flock here in numbers.

Another thing is that south west holds the key to a lot of things, the northern oligarchy fears them most. We have always been opposing northern forces whereas our so called brothers from the east never had the guts to do so.. We have the highest number of activists and lawyers in Nigeria . We control the Nigerian press hereby influencing public opinion of everybody.

Believe me if yorubas want the igbos to have their biafra today they will get it because they can't do anything without us, even ojukwu needed our help.

And i can only guess the reason why many igbos hate yorubas today is because they have not been supporting their agitations. even though prof wole Soyinka recently supported them but this same people will abuse this man.. Especially when they start comparing a Nobel laureate to a chinua Achebe.

Am very sure the igbos calling yorubas Fulani slaves will vote the same Fulani come 2019 ,because your darling Party PDP have zoned the President slot to the north.

Now tell me who is the real slave here, is it the people that can't afford to stay in the opposition and build their own political force but instead will align with the same people they despise so much, same people they claim massacred them in 1967.

Please igbos stop worrying for yorubas coz the yorubas nation will always be fine.instead worry for yourselves.

blackfase:
So love your rebuttal, nice one brother #geniusstuff. I hope they or rather dont all choke on their hate of the Yorubas. How they continue to fail to see the logic of how most Yorubas operate in politics beats me. They run their mouths or maggot brains as if all Yorubas hav a uniform platform on anti-igbo sentiments. Yes, ther are sellouts in Yoruba politics and their cups will be full someday but then thats obtainable within every tribe and ethnicity. I for one have always advocated for their Biafra and so do some other prominent Yorubas. They really need to purge themselves of this hate, the very catalyst the northerners need to continue to tear possible southern alliances apart. Silly people......

And yet you and your useless fellow tribalists cum murderous parasites keep making a living out of Igbos quest for nationhood...

Shameless hypocrites!