In the last line of his rejoinder, Dr. Alo asked, "what exactly do we want?" Well, while we are not particularly looking for a Saint, we want a leader with an iota of integrity; with a trajectory that is not forged and with a modicum of morality. We want a leader that wouldn't be a laughing stock, that would have the moral force and not the force of illicitly acquired money to lead.
BY RÈMÍ OYÈYEMÍJUL 11, 2020

One has just finished reading the rejoinder to the article, "Bola Tinubu, Ibrahim Magu, The Cabal And 2023", written by Dr. Oladimeji Alo. This piece is a rejoinder to his rejoinder, and please, pardon the tautology. This headline was chosen to avoid boredom and disinterest, while essentially addressing the issues raised in the original piece and Dr. Alo's rejoinder, from whence this title was actually appropriated.

His rejoinder, without a doubt brought forth a different perspective to the issues in public discuss, but evidently, not on the matters raised by the original article. In his very first paragraph, Dr. Alo had written inter alia:
"There appears to me a grand theory or hypothesis that has been constructed and there is a tendency to fit emerging data into that construct, however tough that attempts becomes."

It is one's considered view that his rejoinder fits this characterization more than anything he might have believed, albeit wrongly, that one had tried to do along that line. There was no theory anywhere. The was no hypothesis anywhere. What one did in that article was just pure analysis of events as they unfolded and were still unfolding in lieu of other anticipated occurrences in the public space, before expressing one's opinions which could not have been sacrosanct by any means.





Remi Oyeyemi



For ease of comprehension, one would take his points chronologically as he laid them out.

Dr. Alo had written that one's "essay appears to presume Magu guilty, in his current travail." With due respects sir, this was a made up. There was no evidence of this in the original piece. In the piece, one had written inter alia:

"As the Chairman of that anti-corruption body, his era exuded an aura of effluvial. It was not just ugly, it ceaselessly rained moral pain on the polity. Rather than the edification of the mural of our morality on the public wall of our values, with unguarded gusto, Magu's era magnified the morass of our maxims, licentiously lacerating the laws and rules that are frameworks for justice, fairness, balance and equity."

Twice in this paragraph alone, the word "era" was used. In the previous paragraph to this, the word "trajectory" was also employed to denote the span of time. So, how this became pronouncement of Magu's guilt "in his current travails," is a source of curiosity. This, however, does not erase the obnoxiousness of media trials that Magu and his predecessors engaged in, ruining reputations, losing high profile cases, becoming political hatchet men, targeting only opposition members or rebellious party members. Most eggregiously, Magu had been unable to appropriately account for the looted funds among several heinous acts.

Dr. Alo was worried that one spoke of Magu's nomination by BAT. He wondered what could be wrong with that. Obviously, Dr. Alo did not understand the message laid bare here. One of the reasons politicians nominate cronies into positions was to get such protégé to do their bidding when needed. Like Attorney-at-law, Ayo Turton had pointed out, such efforts were made for the purposes of "rub my back, I rub yours." This essentially is at loggerhead with the public good and interest. It is not morally right to use any office to specially benefit any interest at expense of the general public. Dr. Alo was speaking of guava while the subject matter was pawpaw.

It could not have been less interesting to know also, that Dr. Alo would consider the rivalry between Bola Tinubu and Bukola Saraki a "speculation." It is either he did not follow the events that led to the emergence of Senator Saraki as the Senate President or he was oblivious of the nature of the Nigerian politics. Senator Saraki had to be pleaded with, from several quarters to even allow some of the Tinubuists in the Senate to be on some committees. It was so bad that even Senator Remi Tinubu, the wife of the Jaggaban had to "blackmail" Senator Dino Melaye, Saraki's "man Friday" for her to get limited breathing space in the Chamber.

Dr. Alo was in addition, discomforted by the summation in that piece that Magu, like Osinbajo, Fowler and Oshiomole, have been removed or humiliated in and or out of office in a grand design to stop BAT from contesting the presidency in 2023. Or, that Femi Falana failed in his bid to become AG of the Federation because he was backed by BAT. In this case again, one was speaking of tangerine, Dr. Alo was speaking of pear.

The competence or lack of it, the corruption or lack of it on the part of these people had nothing to do with their being humiliated in or out of office. Dr. Alo obviously was not able to see what was and is still going on in the high wired politics. The scheming, the treachery, the shifting loyalty, the short and long knives being used to subvert or destroy identified and or presumed political foes. Would Dr. Alo be bold to contend that Akin Ambode, for example, was not forced out of Alausa because Tinubu wanted to maintain control?

Same goes with the Cabal that is determined to hold on to power in 2023. If they fail in their objective, they certainly would make sure that Tinubu did not get it, at leasy, that is what political traffication implies. To this extent, to further weaken Tinubu, all his men must be ousted or incapacitated before the competition started. As I was writing this, the news broke that Tinubu's candidate for governorship race in Ondo State, Mr. Segun Abrahams has been disqualified by the APC. Piece of a puzzle.

The refusal of Dr. Alo to comment on the rigging of the 2019 elections actually intrigues one. Evidences abound of underaged voters in several parts of the North. News and pictures of stolen ballot boxes abound everywhere. The inability of the INEC to resolve many electoral crises was unambiguous in the psyche of the public. In many cases, it was to the Courts that the politicians had to resort for resolutions.

On the treachery of Tinubu against the Yorùbá Nation as exemplified in his silence several times when there had been crisis in Yorùbá land, Dr. Alo noted as follows:
"If my memory serves me right, BAT issued statements on each and everyone of those crises. What anyone could say was that his statements on each issue did not meet the expectations of those who wanted him to do more. My view is that every leader is free to choose his own approach to a crisis, based on his assessment of the appropriateness of time, space and strategy."

Unfortunately, Dr. Alo could not quote a single statement from any of the Tinubu's responses to the occasions mentioned as evidence of his claim. I respectfully posit that Dr. Alo should not have relied on his "memory" alone. He should have done a "little research" to bring out evidences of his claim that "BAT issued statements on each and everyone of those crises."

On RUGA for example, Tinubu's silence was so deafening that Emmanuel Aziken wrote in the Vanguard of July 6, 2019, under the headline "Understanding Tinubu's Silence," as follows:
"In the face of these, the quietness of a particular section of the political class to the Ruga Settlement issue has also been conspicuous.
Of particular note has been the silence of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
At the peak of the controversy with ethnic jingoists taking over the public space there was the expectation that the leader would show the way by bringing caution to bear as he often does. The leader was, however, uncharacteristically reticent."

On Amotekun issue, Tinubu could not be seen or heard. On January 16, 2020, one had written a piece titled, " AMOTEKUN: Where is Bola Ahmed Tinubu?" Six days after the article, on January 22, 2020, Tinubu was forced to release a statement titled, "Public Discourse On Amotekun," in which he prevaricated, equivocated and cavilled to the nausea of the majority of the Yorùbá people, gauging from their public reactions.

The public would need the help of Dr. Alo to refresh their memories with those "statements" of Tinubu made about the issues raised in that article. The public would like to know what exactly did Tinubu say on the crisis at Ile-Ife and the carting away of Ife sons to Abuja for trial? What exactly did Tinubu say on the kidnapping of Chief Olu False and the murdering of his security? And on the murder of Pa Reuben Fasoranti's daughter, yes, Tinubu made a statement and we acknowledged it: "Where are the cows?"

Any leader who is bereft of compassion for his people is not worthy. Your people should not matter to you only in election season when you flaunt around bullion vans loaded with cash. They should matter to you at all times. What has become incontrovertible about the Tinubu political saga is that his mercantilist politics is all about "profit making" at the expense of the Yorùbá Nation. He sees the Yorùbá people as pawns in his game of illicit money-making chess. Thus, the schools could rot, the hospitals could decay, industries could pack up, youths could be unemployed, their farms could be gutted, their women could be raped, it did not matter to him. For his ambition, anyone and anybody was dispensable at anytime of any day.

Dr. Alo also had issue with one's position that "BAT is not enthusiastic on the issue of Yoruba nation. Rather, all he wants is power for himself." One is not backing off this position because there are more than abundant evidences for this. But where Dr. Alo got it wrong was to bring about the clamour for Oòduà Nation as the reason Tinubu was being called out for his acts. In one's article, this was not even an issue at all. Not even Restructuring of which Tinubu himself was part of the deceptive, duplicitous, deceitful and dishonest All Progressive Congress (APC) crowd that sold it to Nigerians during the 2015 Presidential Campaign, was mentioned in the piece in question.

So, how Dr. Alo appropriated those issues to justify his defence of Tinubu in his rejoinder remains a source of curiosity. If Dr. Alo was interested in discussing the issues of Restructuring as well as the desirability of the clamour for Oòduà Nation, he would be welcomed to the table. Dr. Alo's rejoinder veered off the rail as far as this matter was concerned. In Philosophy 101, that would qualify for "red herring."

Finally, in his concluding paragraph, Dr. Alo wrote as follows:
"Finally, I would plead that we recognize the achievements BAT recorded in the last 20years, even when we disagree with his person or his politics."

One nearly puked reading the above. The "achievement BAT recorded in the last 20 years"? What achievement (s)? It was interesting that Dr. Alo once again, could not avail us the so-called achievements. Is it the destruction of our educational system in Yorùbá Nation? Or the turning of our hospitals to slaughter slabs? Or the destruction of our industries? Is it the financial fleecing of the Yorùbá States to comatose? Or the perversion of everything that was Omoluabi as he openly insulted all our traditional Obas? It doesn't matter if he feeds them, he had no right to drag them collectively in the mud. Anyways, Obas are supposed to be fed, what else is new? So, what are we going to point out as his achievements?

Stretching out a helping hand to Dr. Alo, could the achievement of Tinubu include installing the plague called Mohammed Buhari? Or the rigging of Election in Osun? Or the making of anti-people mercantilist politicians out of his cronies? The institution of kleptocracy across the Yorùbá political landscape? The making of governors who planted flowers and painted roundabouts at billions of Naira?

Some even pointed to the ascension of Yemi Osinbajo and other political nitwits as an advantage for the Yorùbá! I had a professor postulating that many of these kleptomaniacs have had "personal advancements" because they get bigger posts and political appointments! Woow! Imagine such reasoning about the expectations from the political class by a professor? That was doomy and gloomy.

What is the benefit of Osinbajo's Vice Presidency or any of the empowered Tinubu cronies to the ordinary man or woman at Iragberi, Sepeteri, Oko Awo, Iree, Adà, Idominasi, Itire, Odédá, Ìjèbú - Igbó, Erùnmu, Olódó, Ìlárámòkín, Ilè-Olúji, Ìlàje, Ìlawe, Mushin, Arámoko, Ìgèdè, Ìbàràpá, Idominasi, Ilowa, Isonyin, Ilora, Ajebandele, Ilese-Ijebu and many more towns and villages across Yorùbá land? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Rather the lot of the people under Tinubu's leadership has been tears, misery, misfortune, gnashing of teeth, death, arson, kidnapping and several woes that have scarred their psyche. The measurement of a good leader is the well being, progress and happiness of the greatest number of the people. This is the only criterion that matters. Any other criterion would be window dressing.

In the last line of his rejoinder, Dr. Alo asked, "what exactly do we want?" Well, while we are not particularly looking for a Saint, we want a leader with an iota of integrity; with a trajectory that is not forged and with a modicum of morality. We want a leader that wouldn't be a laughing stock, that would have the moral force and not the force of illicitly acquired money to lead. We want a true patriot who sees his ambition and future in the desires and aspirations of his people. That is what we want at the minimum.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it." --John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1960.

Politicians are all like that -- they are only thinking about the next election. Regardless of what goes wrong around them, they are only focused about winning the next election.

I wish the Yoruba nation the best, anyway, because this country is just too complex for any ethnic group to try to force things. There are those who live amongst us, but despise us. There are those we call cousins, but jealous and envy us. And there are those who love their religion more than being Yoruba. Also, people who has always been enemies from time immemorial! Patience should be our watchword, so these people don't all deal with us collectively.

Ogunde said in one.of his.Movie..Yoruba Ronú But Yorubá Òdàlè ló ròwón l'órùn.

The presidency... Thats where there lifes evolve

llakes4real:
Politicians are all like that -- they are only thinking about the next election. Regardless of what goes wrong around them, they are only focused about winning the next election.

I wish the Yoruba nation the best, anyway, because this country is just too complex for any ethnic group to try to force things. There are those who live amongst us, but despise us. There are those we call cousins, but jealous and envy us. And there are those who love their religion more than being Yoruba. Patience should be our watchword, so these people don't all deal with us collectively.

Intact u took d words out of my mouth!
The likes of d author of d article fails to realise that yorubaland is not 'homogeneous' so to speak. There are enemies within who live amongst d Yorubas but seek her downfall.

Whilst d author raised salient issues esp as it concerns BAT, extreme care must be taken not to throw d baby away with d bath water, hence playing into d hands of (d enemies within) who hate him out of envy for his political dexterity and not that politicians in their own enclaves are any holier than him.

The author shd realise dt politics of today has outgrown what it used to be.
If he, in d guise of being puritanical, brings down BAT or any shining light of d yoruba nation, d hawks amongst us will be too glad to supply him with wood and petrol to finish the job.

What yoruba leaders need to do is to close ranks and forge a better path for a greater Yoruba nation.

BERNIMOORE:
Ogunde said in one.of his.Movie..Yoruba Ronú But Yorubá Òdàlè ló ròwón l'órùn.

Emá bínú o ògáawa,
Edákun, e s'àlàyé "òlè" t'ón dà o, k'álè 'r'ékò' kó!

Esé púpò.

2023 will determine precisely what we want..

It is crystal clear that the race to 2023 has commence but people should keep in mind that we have a scarier and bigger race to fight (covid19). Staying alive is the main priority to both the leaders and the common man.

I could see that you have a shallow brain by saying you haven't seen the impact or advantage of Osinbajo or Tinubu babes in Yoruba or south west zone, you mentioned some towns and villages in your message, pls do you expect Osinbajo to be visiting them one after the other or have you forgotten that one of the impact of Osinbajo is that he gave south west most especially osun state high % in 2016 NPOWER and even the 2018 because osun state have the highest NPOWER Then and also the issue of NSIP Which was chaired by osinbajo before has high proportion in Yoruba states and those towns and villages you mentioned benefited from it, what about the railway and road constructed from ibadan to Lagos though not completed

Lots have been done through those leaders you mentioned and those towns and villages benefited greatly from it as well

Cho cho cho cho

Morons.

Naturopathic:
Lots have been done through those leaders you mentioned and those towns and villages benefited greatly from it as well

What have Tinubu done for the Yoruba nation compared to what he has profited? Yorubas don't have leaders, what they have are tax collectors.

helinues:
2023 will determine precisely what we want..

You wait for 2023 to know what you want? Lol. Be prepared to shift it to 2050

What is the benefit of Osinbajo's Vice Presidency or any of the empowered Tinubu cronies to the ordinary man or woman at Iragberi, Sepeteri, Oko Awo, Iree, Adà, Idominasi, Itire, Odédá, Ìjèbú - Igbó, Erùnmu, Olódó, Ìlárámòkín, Ilè-Olúji, Ìlàje, Ìlawe, Mushin, Arámoko, Ìgèdè, Ìbàràpá, Idominasi, Ilowa, Isonyin, Ilora, Ajebandele, Ilese-Ijebu and many more towns and villages across Yorùbá land? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.




I have this same question and all they were saying is that he started trade Moni and appointed onnoghen.

Is a pity that Osinbajo has failed and riddled himself in corruption of all kinds. A pastor for that matter.

Osagyefo98:
What is the benefit of Osinbajo's Vice Presidency or any of the empowered Tinubu cronies to the ordinary man or woman at Iragberi, Sepeteri, Oko Awo, Iree, Adà, Idominasi, Itire, Odédá, Ìjèbú - Igbó, Erùnmu, Olódó, Ìlárámòkín, Ilè-Olúji, Ìlàje, Ìlawe, Mushin, Arámoko, Ìgèdè, Ìbàràpá, Idominasi, Ilowa, Isonyin, Ilora, Ajebandele, Ilese-Ijebu and many more towns and villages across Yorùbá land? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.


I have this same question and all they were saying is that he started trade Moni and appointed onnoghen.

Is a pity that Osinbajo has failed and riddled himself in corruption of all kinds. A pastor for that matter.

how were you able to type that correctly with the right "ami"

I thought you ain't Yoruba.

Summary biko

Osagyefo98:
What is the benefit of Osinbajo's Vice Presidency or any of the empowered Tinubu cronies to the ordinary man or woman at Iragberi, Sepeteri, Oko Awo, Iree, Adà, Idominasi, Itire, Odédá, Ìjèbú - Igbó, Erùnmu, Olódó, Ìlárámòkín, Ilè-Olúji, Ìlàje, Ìlawe, Mushin, Arámoko, Ìgèdè, Ìbàràpá, Idominasi, Ilowa, Isonyin, Ilora, Ajebandele, Ilese-Ijebu and many more towns and villages across Yorùbá land? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.




I have this same question and all they were saying is that he started trade Moni and appointed onnoghen.

Is a pity that Osinbajo has failed and riddled himself in corruption of all kinds. A pastor for that matter.

Oponu.....so osinbajo is the nigeria president abi..?
There's nothing he can do....he cannot ususp the power of the president because he wants to favour the west....he can only plead with the president...to help with those project u mentioned.

Akanbiedu:
Cho cho cho cho
I'm a Morons.

Slowpoke

SpecialAdviser:


You wait for 2023 to know what you want? Lol. Be prepared to shift it to 2050

So say's the 5 percental

Yorùbá. Hmmmmm... Ó ga ò.

If you haven't seen the urgency of the need to exit this contraption called Nigeria even now, then it's two things

Either you are one of those who benefit directly or indirectly from the dysfunctional country called Nigeria or

You are just plainly and painfully dumb.

People like BAT are politicians through and through and there's only one way their minds are wired...personal aggrandisement.

Nothing else. Every move they make must profit them in some way.

Even when the build infrastructure, they smile to the bank by jerking up the budget.

Even their seemingly innocuous acts and statements are geared towards manipulating the masses into believing that they are the best they can get.

So far, there seems to be only one selfless leader working towards the emancipation of the Yorubas from a stifling Nigeria and that's Professor Banji Akintoye.

Others are only after their own end.

What Yoruba needs is a good leader. A philosopher king. One who has worked on himself and sees further than the rest.

We honestly don't need the likes of Tinubu and the other àgbàyàs roaming Buhari's halls of shame in Abuja.

I wish I could post a video of Eeben Barlow, the subcontractor who was hired to help train our military to wipe out Boko Haram and how they were stopped from doing just that by Buhari and the US. It's a long video.

Yoruba, exit Nigeria. Otherwise your progress will continue to be stunted to the level of the cow-herding Fulani.

*THE NORTH AND RESTRUCTURING*

This is The most interesting PIECE I have read on The Nigerian Social Media on Restructuring. It is Copied from "IKOYI CLUB BUDDIES FORUM" Posted by Deji Ibeh, a Lawyer.
I commend The author.

Tunde Oduwole,I-QS.
08.07.2020.

New Telegraph 

*Restructuring: The North, The South And Nigeria’s Future.*

Posted on
July 7, 2020 AuthorCLEM AGUIYI Comment(0)

CLEM AGUIYI July 7, 2020.

Give it to the North, they get what they want at every turn while the South do the talking. Most radical ideas that had shaped Nigeria’s political landscape often originated from the South only to be perfected to advantage by the North.

For instance, while the South championed the struggle for independence, the North acted like she wasn’t ready and would rather remain under British domination. But from when the British lowered the Union Jack, it was the North that had dominated the South and still do.

Another is the idea of military coup. It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination.

Almost all successful coups in Nigeria were hatched and executed by Northern officers from 1966 to date. Again, Nigeria started well on federalism until some group of Southerners introduce unitary government.

The North shouted ‘Araba’ the Hausa translation for ‘separation’ and insisted on true federalism. But as soon as it seized power in the counter coup of 1966, it jettisoned true federalism and perfected unitarianism to her advantage.

Today, it is the South who destroyed federalism that is shouting true federalism. Take again the question of constitutional democracy. This is a concept alien to both Islam and the oligarchy.

While the South talks plenty of democracy, the North which only reluctantly embraced democracy perfected the act of shaping democracy to its own advantage. Because the North understands that democracy is a game of numbers they made sure they have the numbers and a population they can easily manipulate and control.

They control their population with illiteracy and religion and make no apology for it. One can go on and on to list how the North beat the South at all times in its game.

Whether as a friend or a foe you must understand your opponent so as to engage properly. The inability of the South to read the North is one of her biggest albatrosses. Fast track to the current issue of restructuring, another idea currently advanced by the South as a remedy to save Nigeria from disintegration.

The Southern proponents of restructuring believe that Nigeria is not functioning properly because the centre is saddled with too many responsibilities and powers. Restructuring means devolving more powers to the states.

Despite the clarity of this concept, somehow the North pretends it does not understand what restructuring is all about. To get the South busy with talking, they pretend that restructuring will put her at a disadvantage or to say the least that it is an agenda to dismember Nigeria. For these reasons, many Southerners have wrongly convinced themselves that the North will never give in to restructuring whereas the North in actual fact is getting ready for restructuring and once again intends to perfect it to their advantage.

The import of this article is to warn the South to get ready and prepare for restructuring. The British who merged the North and South together has not abandoned the reason for the merger.

They remain very sympathetic to the North hence western leaders like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Kerry had at various times tutored the Northern leaders on how to reorganize the region for a post oil economy.

Between 2015 and 2016, the US Institute for Peace had held series of strategy sessions strictly for Northern leaders on how best to prepare and re-energize the region for a post oil economy.

The sessions agreed that restructuring is inevitable without which even the North will not survive.

The sessions harped on what the vulnerabilities of the northern region would be when restructuring occurs and more importantly how to ensure that such vulnerabilities are dealt with well before restructuring. One major vulnerability is the fact that the North is landlocked hence they were advised that the region would need alternative international trade access routes that do not depend on the South.

This explains why President Buhari commenced building the ongoing high-speed railway lines designed to connect with the Niger Republic’s supply and logistics systems.

They were also advised that they needed to be independent of the South for petroleum products hence they went ahead with the project of building a completely new modern refinery in Daura, Katsina State.

The Daura refinery is purposely built to refine crude oil coming in from Niger Republic. The choice of Daura as a location is to reduce the cost of pipelines, as piping to the Kaduna refinery would have been very expensive. Daura shares a common border with Niger Republic.

Another major vulnerability is the fact that a significant proportion of Nigeria’s power generation and infrastructure is located in the South. It was suggested that the North would need to rebalance power generation, if it was to industrialize.

It is therefore not surprising that contracts have been awarded to pipe gas from the South to pass through Ajaokuta to Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano (AKK) where three thermal stations will be built in each of the three cities with capacity to generate 4,500MW of electricity.

While at the face value this project may appear good for Nigeria which can now export excess electricity to other African countries, the main objective however is to make the North electricity sufficient, and under restructuring will make the South to pay charges for passing power from  any of the thermal stations.

The North is also investing heavily in agriculture with a view to be in a position to not just feed her population but to export food to the South and other African countries. Only the South can solve its problem with regards to food. A lot can be learnt from Israel if it must readdress the food imbalance.

To boost agriculture, President Buhari did what no other government in Nigeria has been able to do.

He closed the land borders, and presented farmers with a great windfall. Massive incentives were provided to motivate Northern farmers. Northern farmers, who work through cooperatives, were provided with machinery and low interest loans through the CBN and the Bank of Agriculture to help stabilize the level of growth in agriculture.

I have taken time to reel out these few examples to debunk the laughable notion held by the South that the North will not give in to structuring. That is far from the truth. The North understands restructuring perfectly well and their vulnerabilities in case of restructuring.

The North is light years ahead of the South in their proactive preparations. I support restructuring for the singular reason that it will make Nigeria better than its current form. It will bring government closer to the people, enhance development and ensure efficient and effective governance.

Rather than being emotional and wasting valuable time on empty rhetoric, the best legacy Southern leaders can leave behind is to put on their thinking caps and get to work. They must use the opportunity of the current time to map out strategies that will rave and drive the economic and social development of the South post oil revenue.

The youth who are the future of tomorrow must understand that the future they symbolize and represent is now.

The only practical way they can be part of that future is to hold her elected political leaders accountable by making every single one of them and their families uncomfortable until the right things are done.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com.

richie240:


Intact u took d words out of my mouth!
The likes of d author of d article fails to realise that yorubaland is not 'homogeneous' so to speak. There are enemies within who live amongst d Yorubas but seek her downfall.

Whilst d author raised salient issues esp as it concerns BAT, extreme care must be taken not to throw d baby away with d bath water, hence playing into d hands of (d enemies within) who hate him out of envy for his political dexterity and not that politicians in their own enclaves are any holier than him.

The author shd realise dt politics of today has outgrown what it used to be.
If he, in d guise of being puritanical, brings down BAT or any shining light of d yoruba nation, d hawks amongst us will be too glad to supply him with wood and petrol to finish the job.

What yoruba leaders need to do is to close ranks and forge a better path for a greater Yoruba nation.

You are right, but BAT also contributed to the division. He can't been isolated from the whole issue facing us as a people. That is history, though, BAT is in the position now to mend fences with his people and stop acting like an orphan. Whatever his agenda is, he needs most Yoruba leaders beside/behind him. "One man mopol" takes no one anywhere -- he can't do it himself!

llakes4real:


You are right, but BAT also contributed to the division. He can't been isolated from the whole issue facing us as a people. That is history, though, BAT is in the position now to mend fences with his people and stop acting like an orphan. Whatever his agenda is, he needs most Yoruba leaders beside/behind him. "One man mopol" takes no one anywhere -- he can't do it himself!

I agree with u a 100%
He needs to embrace other yoruba leaders, else they play spoilers- which many of them have started doing due majorly to envy of his rising profile. He, and by extension the yorubas, can't simultaneously afford to have both internal and external -aka 'enemies within' - houseold enemies.

He has tried, but there's still much more to be done.

helinues:
2023 will determine precisely what we want..

A restructured Nigeria would benefit us more than the presidency. We should move to correct the mistake of the first republic. Could you imagine the what the autonomy would bring to us all? Everyone should manage what they make from themselves. These unnecessary romance with those whose way of life, evidently is different from ours, would stop. Everyone would be more concerned about development and not the next election.

Cc richie240

We want dedicate the entire time in our lives with the highest level of all manner of media propaganda making sure that Igbos does not achieve their Biafra, even if Osibanjo is killed by Fulani cabals and Tinubu humiliated and given Abiola treatment and 2023 wished away, as long as Igbos did not achieve Biafra we're ready to remain slaves forever

FrLukas:

What do expect those who depend (are parasitic) on you to do when you are exiting Nigeria? It would become a matter of life and death to them. What of the Yoruba leaders and other ethnic leaders who are profiting from the rot in Nigeria? Not forgetting the Godfather (Britain), they engineered this country and the present whooped system we have been practicing. Breaking out of Nigeria is complex, and care should be taken.

NLandIsHypocrit:
We want dedicate the entire time in our lives with the highest level of all manner of media propaganda making sure that Igbos does not achieve their Biafra, even if Osibanjo is killed by Fulani cabals and Tinubu humiliated and given Abiola treatment and 2023 wished away, as long as Igbos did not achieve Biafra we're ready to remain slaves forever

It is not compulsory to comment on every thread.

Lol... Firstly we must deal and do away with political theives and looters amongst the great Yoruba nation...

If Sango or Obatala were alive, they'd have struck many of these theives parading themselves as leaders dead

A yoruba nation that voted someone like Sanwo olu isn't a ready and serious nation...

llakes4real:


What do expect those who depend (are parasitic) on you to do when you are exiting Nigeria? It would become a matter of life and death to them. What of the Yoruba leaders and other ethnic leaders who are profiting from the rot in Nigeria? Not forgetting the Godfather (Britain), they engineered this country and the present whooped system we have been practicing. Breaking out of Nigeria is complex, and care should be taken.

I know all these.

Trust me there are people who have the brainpower to facilitate a clean, hassle-free break away of the Yorubas only if the elders would ask.

After all, ọmọdé gbọ́n, àgbà gbọ́n la fi dá ilẹ̀ Ifè.

Consultations should go on underground.

Let the country continue to wallow in decadence while we plan our exit.

Whoever is benefiting from this unholy union should prepare to commit suicide when we finally leave.