sweetrace:


Nope! I mean I will rather vote for Jimi Agbaje. He has no puppeteer pulling on his strings.

thatigboman:
can u expatiate on the bolded please?
And let me tell you, no matter your response, take it from me upfront. Not even a thousand elections can decide the fate of igbos anywhere on earth, not to talk of small lagos.

Printerscanner:
Because he is destined to be stroke by Thunder.

nairavsdollars:
In the history of Lagos politics, no politician has ran a divisive, ethnic-based and tribalistic campaign like Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the PDP.

When Jimi Agbaje contested the 2007 governorship election under the defunct Democratic Peoples Allliance (DPA), he ran a very robust, issue-based campaign which was acceptable to all Lagosians.

Fast forward to 2015, Jimi Agbaje began a campaign of calumny which seeks to knock the heads of Yorubas living in Lagos against non-indigenes, especially our Igbo brothers from South- East. His promise to elevate Eze Ndigbo to the status of Oba of Lagos greatly angered Oba Rilwan Akiolu, making him to utter the notorious 'perish in the Lagoon' comment?

Now Agbaje as the PDP governorship candidate is running the same campaign again which has pitched Igbos living in Lagos against Yoruba. We say enough is enough.

Yeyesewa of Lagos

Afam4eva:


That's how you people go about lying like kids. At no time did Agbaje say he will upgrade the Eze Ndigbo to the same level as the Oba of Lagos. If anybody is divisssive, it is the APC governemt who are hell bent on twarting democracy by intimidating people who they think do not want to vote for them.

hisexcellency34:
Nobody can intimidate Igbos in Lagos. We will vote for our choice

Balkan:
The truth is that the last election was full of rigging for Buhari in Lagos State . Igbos in Lagos are more than 5 million. If 2 millions come to vote for PDP that means APC is gone.

Igbos will win up to 7 seats in Lagos Assembly come Saturday.

Our vote will be the decider. I am happy that most lgbo guy are relocating to Lagos everyday to stay and establish. While Yorubas are moving out towards Ogun state due to high cost of rent.

PDP will win on Sat.

schoolboij:


But balewas govt was igbo and hausa govt. While Awo was pro Yoruba. How do you reconcile the contradiction?

Afam4eva:


That's how you people go about lying like kids. At no time did Agbaje say he will upgrade the Eze Ndigbo to the same level as the Oba of Lagos. If anybody is divisssive, it is the APC governemt who are hell bent on twarting democracy by intimidating people who they think do not want to vote for them.

EastGold:




That's not the issue.
The issue is, Jimi has a pharmaceutical firm which he run for years.


How successful has he gone with it.


I was privileged to interact with Jimi in House J in ikeja, I am not convinced he will make a good governor

Bulleye:
The Igbo in Lagos cannot come to terms with their freedom in Lagos. Majority of them never enjoy such even in their Biafra .Rather than coexist with the Yoruba , they are striving to destroy and conquer Yoruba in Lagos .Igbo agenda towards Yoruba is evil. Igbo are taking advantage of Yoruba culture which encourages individual to grow to their potential. For all those Yoruba who are naive and and have bought the lies and twisted truths of the Igbo they see nothing wrong in the victim card the Igbo are playing. The Igbo have achieved so much in Lagos APC but are not contented. They have consolidated their position and are now going for the kill : claim they give Agbaje a bloc vote that ensured his victory should he win and blackmail him into giving them more political positions and influence they currently enjoy. They will remind him how his Yoruba people abandoned him while they stood by him as if no Yoruba would have voted for him. Just as they currently claim they developed Lagos to what it is today, forgetting that we have been developing new sites in Lagos and they will later come and rent houses from us from where they start their trading without restrictions. Should Agbaje win Igbo would blackmail Yoruba into claiming they made him governor as they say Lagos was developed by them.

DaddyNimo:

I'm happy you said privileged to meet him, how do you score a person of a higher level than you? SMH what do you even know about leadership?

pchukwudi:
There was no contradiction there. Go and study your history.

Akintola ran an anti-igbo campaign against Awolowo for the position of the Western Premier, just as Tinibu is running an anti-igbo campaign against Agbaje for the position Lagos governor.

We are talking about a regional government here.

The fact that the East and North voted massively for the federal government of the day did not change the fact that the federal government of the day was led by a northerner just like the unitary APC government of today is also led by a northerner.

Belewa, personally imposed Akintola against the wish of both the Yorubas and their Igbo neighbors. That's why (unlike Jimi) Akintola senselessly ran with his igbo demonizing rhetorics. He painted Awolowo as an Igbo domination enabler. I believe he did this because Zik was not in his support.

It was actually the incarceration of Awolowo, the declaration of state of emergency in the Western Region, and the imposition of Akintola that triggered the Nigeria's first attempt on military coup.

#ImDoneWithYouThough

ehissi:
Why is tribalism always the issue in Lagos politics?

False, tribalism is not the issue in Lagos politics, it is only the issue in Lagos state elections. And the reason is simple

When His excellency, the former governor of Lagos state, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu shunned National census figures and conducted Lagos state population census, it was discovered in the demographics, that a staggering 52% of Residents in Lagos where from the east.

A discovery that led to him and successive governments retaining one seat in the lagos state cabinet to an igbo man. Also an igbo youth wing was created immediately in the AD which morphed into the ACN and the APC.

It became the tradition that during every and any election in lagos, the Igbo folk were always courted with promises of support, political support if they supported ACN/APC/Tinubu's Man.

But in the post-tinubu era, none of such promises were ever kept, at the grass root level, a discovery unearthed by none other than jimi agbaje.

Hence the high level of intimidation against igbos/easterners in lagos especially when their body language suggests that they do not support Tinubu's preferred candidiate.

They have no issues playing the tribal card at the National level but it becomes problematic at the lagos state level, because they have no clear intention of giving them - the igbo folks - all the promises they make.

And then, when people like Agbaje, openly come out and promise to give them support for their businesses and access to the pies of contracts in lagos, they say he is being tribalistic.

You need to attend caucus meetings and hear the promises they give to igbo leaders in lagos on the things they will do for igbos at the grassroot. From Eze Ndigbo Surulere, to Eze Ndigbo badagry. The moment they share money 2 give the igwe's and the elections is over, it is finished.

It was a game invented by Tinubu, Agbaje simply came out to play. It makes Tinubu a National leader but Jimi Agbaje a tribalist?

I hear una.......

You dont believe what I said. Think about it for a minute. Igbo's are a national commodity as residents but you will never hear the complain about them during state elections anywhere else but in lagos, why?

When there is a crack/friction in the ruling party in lagos, they suffer for it. When Tinubu and Fashola where having a fracas over the line of succession, post-fashola era and the Oba Mediated by offering Ambode, Igbo were placed under pressure. Why?

APC/Tinubu blocked all the homes of the Eze Ndigo's with gifts and promises if they supported Ambode. Agbaje took it a step further and dropped his own gifts and promises at the door of the Obi of Onitsha himself.

That angered the Oba of Lagos, who had earlier called on Agbaje to step down with a promise that after Ambode does 8yrs, he will support him if he is still interested. This led the Oba of Lagos to invite Igbo leaders in lagos and release the famous "Drown in the Lagoon" curse against those igbos who don't vote for Ambode in lagos.

Now another fracture has shown up. Ambode is no longer wanted in lagos, Sanwo-olu is preferred. But Ambode took his rejection too cool and they suspect he will sabotage them as the day gets closer.

The Igbo folks are now under renewed pressure again. And it gets worse that people like peter Obi is used to campaign for agbaje, why is agbaje so tribalistic.

Why are APC so jittery to the extent of carrying placard to campaign against igbos and any other persons who offer them promises just as they also have been making promises?

Why were thugs released in Igbo dominated areas to be inspecting what igbo folks thumbprinted in their ballot paper......

Like I said, it was game invented by Tinubu, Agbaje simply came out to play. But, unfortunately it made Jimi Agbaje a tribalist but Senator Bola Tinubu a Nationalist.

What a pity, in a city.........

schoolboij:


Senseless! When was this "census" held?

ehissi:
Why is tribalism always the issue in Lagos politics?

False, tribalism is not the issue in Lagos politics, it is only the issue in Lagos state elections. And the reason is simple.

When His excellency, the former governor of Lagos state, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu shunned National census figures and conducted Lagos state population census, it was discovered in the demographics, that a staggering 52% of Residents in Lagos where from the east.

A discovery that led to him and successive governments retaining one seat in the lagos state cabinet to an igbo man. Also an igbo youth wing was created immediately in the AD which morphed into the ACN and the APC.

It became the tradition that during every and any election in lagos, the Igbo folk were always courted with promises of support, political support if they supported ACN/APC/Tinubu's Man.

But in the post-tinubu era, none of such promises were ever kept, at the grass root level, a discovery unearthed by none other than jimi agbaje.

Hence the high level of intimidation against igbos/easterners in lagos especially when their body language suggests that they do not support Tinubu's preferred candidiate.

They have no issues playing the tribal card at the National level but it becomes problematic at the lagos state level, because they have no clear intention of giving them - the igbo folks - all the promises they make.

And then, when people like Agbaje, openly come out and promise to give them support for their businesses and access to the pies of contracts in lagos, they say he is being tribalistic.

You need to attend caucus meetings and hear the promises they give to igbo leaders in lagos on the things they will do for igbos at the grassroot. From Eze Ndigbo Surulere, to Eze Ndigbo badagry. The moment they share money 2 give the igwe's and the elections is over, it is finished.

It was a game invented by Tinubu, Agbaje simply came out to play. It makes Tinubu a National leader but Jimi Agbaje a tribalist?

I hear una.......

You dont believe what I said. Think about it for a minute. Igbo's are a national commodity as residents but you will never hear the complain about them during state elections anywhere else but in lagos, why?

When there is a crack/friction in the ruling party in lagos, they suffer for it. When Tinubu and Fashola where having a fracas over the line of succession, post-fashola era and the Oba Mediated by offering Ambode, Igbo were placed under pressure. Why?

APC/Tinubu blocked all the homes of the Eze Ndigo's with gifts and promises if they supported Ambode. Agbaje took it a step further and dropped his own gifts and promises at the door of the Obi of Onitsha himself.

That angered the Oba of Lagos, who had earlier called on Agbaje to step down with a promise that after Ambode does 8yrs, he will support him if he is still interested. This led the Oba of Lagos to invite Igbo leaders in lagos and release the famous "Drown in the Lagoon" curse against those igbos who don't vote for Ambode in lagos.

Now another fracture has shown up. Ambode is no longer wanted in lagos, Sanwo-olu is preferred. But Ambode took his rejection too cool and they suspect he will sabotage them as the day gets closer.

The Igbo folks are now under renewed pressure again. And it gets worse that people like peter Obi is used to campaign for agbaje, why is agbaje so tribalistic.

Why are APC so jittery to the extent of carrying placard to campaign against igbos and any other persons who offer them promises just as they also have been making promises?

Why were thugs released in Igbo dominated areas to be inspecting what igbo folks thumbprinted in their ballot paper......

Like I said, it was game invented by Tinubu, Agbaje simply came out to play. But, unfortunately it made Jimi Agbaje a tribalist but Senator Bola Tinubu a Nationalist.

What a pity, in a city.........If I could, I would have given you a million likes, you made a glaring point devoid of nepotism, purely objective and totally truthful. God bless you for this my brother.

hisexcellency34:
Nobody can intimidate Igbos in Lagos. We will vote for our choice

allthingsgood:


so even if Tinubu did it, how does that make it right
smh

EastGold:




That's not the issue.
The issue is, Jimi has a pharmaceutical firm which he run for years.


How successful has he gone with it.


I was privileged to interact with Jimi in House J in ikeja, I am not convinced he will make a good governor

EastGold:




That's not the issue.
The issue is, Jimi has a pharmaceutical firm which he run for years.


How successful has he gone with it.


I was privileged to interact with Jimi in House J in ikeja, I am not convinced he will make a good governor

pchukwudi:
on what basis was this false, defamatory, sectional, hateful and tribal headline/content moved to the front page 48 hours to gubernatorial election?

I get it, you guys (or maybe one of your staff) got bribed (or bullied?) to bend Nairaland rules. Alright.

But, Seun, I get it again. I know you think that you don't believe in God. You assume that you are the master of your own destiny. But, be well aware that you will always reap what you sow. One way or the other.

E pain am

Go and create your own Pro Igbo forum where you can tell lies like IgbereTv.

This article is the gospel truth and we Yorubas will discipline Agbaje.

After the Elections, we will come for the pigs

Ojiofor:


Why did you call out Jimmy as a tribalist?

FortuneDeGreat:
Look at this buffoon vomiting trash, do you have a plot of land in Lagos talk more of developing it, are you referring to those coarse enclaves that are less qualified for human habitation. The kind of developments Igbo groups bring to Lagos without a dime government aid are world class and economically robust. No yoruba group can effectively developed an international commercial complexes like what few Igbo groups did in tradefair complex without government aid, if you doubt it then give me an example and I'll prove you wrong. Shameless people, one wonders what your lifes would have been without government.

harmonyglobal:

Jimi is our son,but we won't vote for him to become governor of Lagos because he belongs to the wrong party party....Igbos will not decide d direction we go in lagos. Igbo came and met infrastructures and amenities they enjoy today, lagos made them and they av to appreciate that. We won't allow pdp to use our money for their evil agenda and personal interest in lagos. Nobody hates Igbos,we accommodate them and appreciate their contributions to lagos development they should appreciate too