Re: Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

[Asagwara, Ken (EAL)]

Folks:

 

I read the piece below (parts 1 & 2) by none other than, the veritable Yoruba patriot Otunba Yinka Odumakin. Most of you may have probably read it, also. If you have not read it, do so and you may find it very interesting. I look forward to reading the conclusion.

 

Actually, the reason why I reposted it is because of the deafening silence from some of our garrulous Yoruba friends and compatriots who I thought would want to have a field day in debunking Otunba Yinka Odumakin’s fears and forebodings. It is the kind that Ndi-Igbo would describe as Agwo Bi Na Akirika, that is, there is snake lurking in the raffia roof top. Be prepared for that you may have overlooked.

 

Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?

 

Well; we shall see.

 

Cheers.

 

Mazi KC Prince Asagwara

 

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

By Yinka Odumakin  

7:55 amMay 18, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

Solomon in the Bible carried out all possible experiments on behalf of humanity and documented it all in the Book of Ecclesiastics. Those immovable truths have proved inviolable to date. In like manner, Prophet Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who created ethnic pride for the Yoruba country carried out loads of experiments with the Nigeria project and like Solomon and documented his findings in his various publications.

Unfortunately the Yoruba political landscape of today is littered with men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought.

It is not that difficult for such men to remove the ancient landmarks which their fathers have set and thus become a plaything and song themes on the lips of Arewa children like the gentleman I quoted extensively last week.

The summary of all Awo findings is that a multi-ethnic Nigeria can only prosper with its constituent units living in peace and happiness if it was run along federal principles. That was what Awo fought for all his political life that denied him “power at the centre” but he remains at the centre of political discourse in Nigeria, 28 years after his transition to higher glory.

And within those years arose strange children in Yorubaland who, buoyed by unearned wealth, felt the Awo way was not for them. They chose the Akintola road and with their media power they blackmailed those who insisted on the Awo path. They were able to mobilize a generation of angry and disoriented youth who were totally bereft of knowledge to act against their own enlightened self-interest. Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. In a matter of weeks, Arewa spokesmen are making it clear that the March 28 removal of the virus that entered their power computer was the only common denominator and hangers-on should find their level.

What a tragedy of victory! The stiff-necked adventurers who uncritically  assumed a day would come when Arewa would embrace power sharing are now doing what Yoruba call “aramora, iso kijipa”, like you are being whipped but you can’t afford to drop any tear. The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh”.

These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash.

In 1962, Obafemi Awolowo in the course of the legislative sitting passed a note to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa. The content was “when can we see?”

The response was instant “why not now?” Pronto the Opposition Leader and the Prime Minister moved to his office and Awo stroked the frame of his glasses and looked straight into Balewa’s eyes, asking: “Mr PM, what is it I’m hearing about plans to impose emergency rule in Western Nigeria today?” Balewa laughed haughtily and said, “Come off it Chief Awolowo, how would you countenance such a wicked rumor? Do you not know how long a process it takes to do such a thing?”

Meeting ended and both men returned to the chambers. By the evening of that discussion, a state of emergency was declared in Western Nigeria.

…………..To be concluded!

 

[Afis 'Deinde]

As a Yoruba man I read it and I laughed, Dr Asagwara.

Full of Odumakin's usual stories that no one can verify.

The only true in his cockamamie bull dungs is the fox and Cock fable.

Odumakin is weeping for his loss, not for Yoruba. In his cockamamie that I read, Odumakin sounds like someone just snatched his lollipop, and to dissuade the person from eating it, he concocts a story and titles it "Poison in my Lollipop".
Funny guy!

I think he wrote his part one and two "Poison in my Lollipop" for his Igbo in-laws, not for Yoruba people.
Post-GEJ's Odumakin is now as worthless in Yorubaland as Babatope post-Abacha era.
Afis

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Abi oooooo!!!
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Ken:

With all due respect to our brother Yinka Odumakin,
I do not see a betrayal of Awo's legacy in the way the
majority of the Yoruba in 5 of the 6 SW states voted in the
Presidential elections.

The choices before the Yoruba and all other Nigerians
were clear cut and were as different as day and night.

The Yoruba rejected Afenifere's endorsement of GEJ for another
four year term in favour of change. Our people were not willing to risk their
future and those of other Nigerians on another four years after 6 years
of lackluster leadership that was mired in corruption.

I do not subscribe to the notion of demonizing any particular ethnic
groups based on the utterances of a few of their outspoken
personalities.

Just as we have some northern Nigerians with a born to rule mentality
we also have some Yoruba, Igbo and others from other ethnic groups
whose view of Nigeria is so narrow they only think of what benefits
members of their own ethnic groups alone--which in fact means what benefits accrue
to their elites at the expense of the poor masses.

Nigeria can not progress and transform into a post ethnic modern nation
if we remain pre-occupied with inter-ethnic conspiracies.

The Nigerian electorate is maturing faster than their myopic leaders
can handle.

If Buhari does not perform in the next four years, please be rest assured that
the majority of the Yoruba will vote against him.

The Yoruba voted for Buhari because they felt he had more leadership skills
than the incumbent GEJ and not necessarily because it is time for power to
return to the North!


If having the President from your region is the key to to societral development northern
Nigeria would have been the most developed region of the country. Instead it remains
the poorest and least developed regions with 8 million children of school age roaming the streets--
notwithstanding they have had the longest stretches in governing Nigeria.

The APC will soon get over its zoning fever just as the PDP survived its own each time they had
to share the spoils of vistory.



Pa Awo is probably looking at us from heaven and smiling. He was the consummate democrat!
I doubt if he would have subscribed to Yinka Odumakin's undisguised demonization of
northern Nigerians. This is an unhealthy stance for a potential future national leader of Nigeria.
Elections come and go. You win some you lose some.
Yinka Odumakin should not have been so dispirited at the the rejection of GEJ, their choice
in Afenifere by the Yoruba that he would now be singing a premature "I told you so" song.

As I wrote earlier, the Yoruba of all ages were unwilling to risk their future for the next four years
by re-electing GEJ just on the promise that he would implement the recommendations of the
Confab carte blanche if re-elected. It was a risky move but the leaders of Afenifere, especially
the younger folks like Yinka Odumakin thought they knew better than the rest of the Yoruba

Bye,

 

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[Wilson Iguade]

Honestly, I did read Yinka's perspective of his politico take of Nigeria. Yinka himself said to the effect that he, Yinka, does not care how the political cake is shared. However, he bitched and moaned about Hausa /Fulani dominance over Yoruba people, supposedly confused for Nigerians. All Nigerians, especially those outside the BOX of WAZOBIA nations reject any dominance from ANY group, period. (More on this later!)

Let me be clear, this hang up amongst the WAZOBIA nations' inferiority complex as to which amongst them is superior only exist amongst the WAZOBIA nations. For example, am an Esan man from EDO Nation, talks like or similar to:

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His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.

Unquote

Response: As an Esan man of EDO KINGDOM, I really don't give a rat ass about such view as exposed above. For me, as a Nigerian, it is all about SS region. 

The strategy of a geographic area coming together to work in unison is NOTHING new and has been with mankind from time immemorial. So, what is the fucking FEAR of the northerners finding one voice. Na wa o!

Listen, the SS is the only region in southern Nigeria with "major minority nations." For example: Edo, Urhobo, Ijaw, Ibibio/Efik, etc. Thus, are rich in CULTURES, TRADITIONS and have DYNASTIES recognized and admired in humanity and human histories from beginning of mankind. Seriously, the SS must come together regardless of political parties at NASS, at the federal level and begin to LIMIT federal powers over the region and across Nigeria. Hence, FREE UP the resources (human and otherwise) in the SS region and any other region that cares to benefits from the brilliance in legislative actions coming out from the SS delegations at NASS. 

SS is ready to compete and must compete base on the simple premise that NIGERIA does not belong to ANY FUCKING region.

SS does not need federal allocations, because we are a region with educational excellence and well trained technocrats the best in the country. Even right now, the most progress in social and economic infrastructures and developments are predominate in this region compare to the other regions. Yes, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa are ahead of the curve compared to collective states within a region. My point, it is time for the regions to compete, because that is the only way that Nigeria will grow and prosper. 

Stay tuned! Sai Iguade

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On May 26, 2015, at 5:59 PM, "Asagwara, Ken (EAL)" <Ken.As...@gov.mb.ca> wrote:

Folks:

 

I read the piece below (parts 1 & 2) by none other than, the veritable Yoruba patriot Otunba Yinka Odumakin. Most of you may have probably read it, also. If you have not read it, do so and you may find it very interesting. I look forward to reading the conclusion.

 

Actually, the reason why I reposted it is because of the deafening silence from some of our garrulous Yoruba friends and compatriots who I thought would want to have a field day in debunking Otunba Yinka Odumakin’s fears and forebodings. It is the kind that Ndi-Igbo would describe as Agwo Bi Na Akirika, that is, there is snake lurking in the raffia roof top. Be prepared for that you may have overlooked.

 

Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?

 

Well; we shall see.

 

Cheers.

 

Mazi KC Prince Asagwara

 

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

By Yinka Odumakin  

7:55 amMay 18, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

<image001.jpg>

Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

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Solomon in the Bible carried out all possible experiments on behalf of humanity and documented it all in the Book of Ecclesiastics. Those immovable truths have proved inviolable to date. In like manner, Prophet Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who created ethnic pride for the Yoruba country carried out loads of experiments with the Nigeria project and like Solomon and documented his findings in his various publications.

Unfortunately the Yoruba political landscape of today is littered with men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought.

It is not that difficult for such men to remove the ancient landmarks which their fathers have set and thus become a plaything and song themes on the lips of Arewa children like the gentleman I quoted extensively last week.

The summary of all Awo findings is that a multi-ethnic Nigeria can only prosper with its constituent units living in peace and happiness if it was run along federal principles. That was what Awo fought for all his political life that denied him “power at the centre” but he remains at the centre of political discourse in Nigeria, 28 years after his transition to higher glory.

And within those years arose strange children in Yorubaland who, buoyed by unearned wealth, felt the Awo way was not for them. They chose the Akintola road and with their media power they blackmailed those who insisted on the Awo path. They were able to mobilize a generation of angry and disoriented youth who were totally bereft of knowledge to act against their own enlightened self-interest. Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. In a matter of weeks, Arewa spokesmen are making it clear that the March 28 removal of the virus that entered their power computer was the only common denominator and hangers-on should find their level.

What a tragedy of victory! The stiff-necked adventurers who uncritically  assumed a day would come when Arewa would embrace power sharing are now doing what Yoruba call “aramora, iso kijipa”, like you are being whipped but you can’t afford to drop any tear. The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh”.

These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash.

In 1962, Obafemi Awolowo in the course of the legislative sitting passed a note to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa. The content was “when can we see?”

The response was instant “why not now?” Pronto the Opposition Leader and the Prime Minister moved to his office and Awo stroked the frame of his glasses and looked straight into Balewa’s eyes, asking: “Mr PM, what is it I’m hearing about plans to impose emergency rule in Western Nigeria today?” Balewa laughed haughtily and said, “Come off it Chief Awolowo, how would you countenance such a wicked rumor? Do you not know how long a process it takes to do such a thing?”

Meeting ended and both men returned to the chambers. By the evening of that discussion, a state of emergency was declared in Western Nigeria.

…………..To be concluded!

 

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[Vin Otuonye]

Wilson:

 
You wrote:
 
 "My point, it is time for the regions to compete, because that is the only way that Nigeria will grow and prosper".
 

Then why are you having problem with Yinka piece. That exactly is what Yinka is saying.
 
Vin Cool Breeze Otuonye
 

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[Wilson Iguade]

As far as Odumakin as a person is concerned. I think he should build the PDP or rejuvenate the party in the SW and he might become a Senator or NASS member, or perhaps Governor in 2019 or 2023. 

Odumakin has the political skills to mobilize the party, PDP in the SW. He has to work his ass off and the reward is there for him. The only question from my perspective is, does Odumakin has the strengths or is he motivated to work for his political career from ground up. He certainly has the charisma and traits to lead. Can he, that is the only question he, and only he can answer. I like the dude! Okay. Hehehehe!

Stay tuned! Sai Iguade

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On May 26, 2015, at 6:20 PM, "Afis 'Deinde" <odide...@yahoo.com> wrote:

As a Yoruba man I read it and I laughed, Dr Asagwara.

Full of Odumakin's usual stories that no one can verify.

The only true in his cockamamie bull dungs is the fox and Cock fable.

Odumakin is weeping for his loss, not for Yoruba. In his cockamamie that I read, Odumakin sounds like someone just snatched his lollipop, and to dissuade the person from eating it, he concocts a story and titles it "Poison in my Lollipop".
Funny guy!

I think he wrote his part one and two "Poison in my Lollipop" for his Igbo in-laws, not for Yoruba people.
Post-GEJ's Odumakin is now as worthless in Yorubaland as Babatope post-Abacha era.
Afis

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On May 26, 2015, at 6:54 PM, Asagwara, Ken (EAL) <Ken.As...@gov.mb.ca> wrote:

Folks:

 

I read the piece below (parts 1 & 2) by none other than, the veritable Yoruba patriot Otunba Yinka Odumakin. Most of you may have probably read it, also. If you have not read it, do so and you may find it very interesting. I look forward to reading the conclusion.

 

Actually, the reason why I reposted it is because of the deafening silence from some of our garrulous Yoruba friends and compatriots who I thought would want to have a field day in debunking Otunba Yinka Odumakin’s fears and forebodings. It is the kind that Ndi-Igbo would describe as Agwo Bi Na Akirika, that is, there is snake lurking in the raffia roof top. Be prepared for that you may have overlooked.

 

Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?

 

Well; we shall see.

 

Cheers.

 

Mazi KC Prince Asagwara

 

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

By Yinka Odumakin  

7:55 amMay 18, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

<image001.jpg>

Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

<image001.jpg>

Solomon in the Bible carried out all possible experiments on behalf of humanity and documented it all in the Book of Ecclesiastics. Those immovable truths have proved inviolable to date. In like manner, Prophet Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who created ethnic pride for the Yoruba country carried out loads of experiments with the Nigeria project and like Solomon and documented his findings in his various publications.

Unfortunately the Yoruba political landscape of today is littered with men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought.

It is not that difficult for such men to remove the ancient landmarks which their fathers have set and thus become a plaything and song themes on the lips of Arewa children like the gentleman I quoted extensively last week.

The summary of all Awo findings is that a multi-ethnic Nigeria can only prosper with its constituent units living in peace and happiness if it was run along federal principles. That was what Awo fought for all his political life that denied him “power at the centre” but he remains at the centre of political discourse in Nigeria, 28 years after his transition to higher glory.

And within those years arose strange children in Yorubaland who, buoyed by unearned wealth, felt the Awo way was not for them. They chose the Akintola road and with their media power they blackmailed those who insisted on the Awo path. They were able to mobilize a generation of angry and disoriented youth who were totally bereft of knowledge to act against their own enlightened self-interest. Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. In a matter of weeks, Arewa spokesmen are making it clear that the March 28 removal of the virus that entered their power computer was the only common denominator and hangers-on should find their level.

What a tragedy of victory! The stiff-necked adventurers who uncritically  assumed a day would come when Arewa would embrace power sharing are now doing what Yoruba call “aramora, iso kijipa”, like you are being whipped but you can’t afford to drop any tear. The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh”.

These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash.

In 1962, Obafemi Awolowo in the course of the legislative sitting passed a note to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa. The content was “when can we see?”

The response was instant “why not now?” Pronto the Opposition Leader and the Prime Minister moved to his office and Awo stroked the frame of his glasses and looked straight into Balewa’s eyes, asking: “Mr PM, what is it I’m hearing about plans to impose emergency rule in Western Nigeria today?” Balewa laughed haughtily and said, “Come off it Chief Awolowo, how would you countenance such a wicked rumor? Do you not know how long a process it takes to do such a thing?”

Meeting ended and both men returned to the chambers. By the evening of that discussion, a state of emergency was declared in Western Nigeria.

…………..To be concluded!

 

[Nigeria Ikeja]

I read part I and part 2 of Mr. Odunmkin's article and wondered why the write up had ethnic coloration all over it. This is the evil we are trying to overcome as a nation. Reading Mr. Odumakin evoked the same evil calls to question the ulterior agenda behind the write up. Why now, one must ask Odumakin and not in 2011 when votes favored GEJ, with religion and ethnic considerations as factors that shaped voting patterns then.

I also noticed that Mr. Odunmakin arrogates the knowledge and knowing of Awo's political ideology to a few with a positioning that seem to agree with his viewpoint.  I wonder how he came to that authoritative conclusion that many of those  in Yoruba political landscape are “men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought”.

Such a reading of the other seems to suggest that Mr. Odunmakin and those in his good book are the only ones who can claim to have read, understood and live Awo. Such a generalizing statement bespeaks of arrogance of knowing as there is neither an evidence that Mr. Odunmakin is an authority on Awoism nor an intellectual prism through which Awoism can be understood. All we know in him is a man who copies Awo through cap and vacuous claim.

Mr. Odunmakin also seems to take grievance at the emergence of Pa Mohammed Buhari (PMB) and went further to reduce the popular vote across the country that produced the new president-elect as a sectional agenda.

Mr.Odunmakin cannot know better that Nigerians across ethnic divides who voted and aspired for project change. Mr. Odunmakin claim is further invalidated by the votes garnered by PMB in Yoruba land where Odunmakin arrogates himself a deluding political status. It seems imperative to ask Odunmakin’s political worth in 20011 when he supported Pa. Mohammed Buhari and yet could not deliver his ward, let alone the entire S-W region. That he failed to deliver S-W for GEJ further suggests that the likes of Odunmakin do not have the political value that they arrogate to themselves.

And Odunmakin should know that there is nothing that says Yorubas must go all the time by Awo’s values and ideology. That Awo is not the political compass of a Yoruba person does not mean the individual cannot serve his tribe and the nation better. The choice of political ideology and political models is individuals’ and that must be respected.

Awo lived his life. Others must also live their life and offer their contributions based on he values and ideological frame that they consider persuasive and compatible to their persons.

 Abudugana

 

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[Wilson Iguade]

Vin,

My understanding or interpretation of what Yinka was saying given yours below is not in the same ballpark. I am unable to see your citation of my quote without the substance behind it and your conclusion. 

Listen, you understand what you understand and have said your piece below and reserve the rights to say more, I just, again, from your limited presentation below cannot make sense of your point. 

Let's move you, because I have enough experience with you to see where this is going. 

Stay tuned. "I"

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[Wilson Iguade]

I agree that Yinka does not have any serious political muscle in the SW say at the level of Tinubu and that of Awo during Awo's time. This is why I indicated in another post in this thread that he has a long way to go and he must begin by working his ass off in mobilizing or building PDP in the next 4 years. 

Now, I disagree with this remark: "Mr. Odunmakin also seems to take grievance at the emergence of Pa Mohammed Buhari (PMB) and went further to reduce the popular vote across the country that produced the new president-elect as a sectional agenda."

Army General Buhari, whose lastest "image" is that of Head MeGuard at 10 Downing Street, a Despot known to have no certificate did not WIN "popular vote" across the country of 173 millions Nigerians. 

INEC own records indicate that, to simplify, in 2003, 2007, and 2011 when Buhari ran and lost, INEC declared in the range of 45 millions to 50 millions vote casted. In 2015 election that Buhari won, INEC declared less than or about 30 millions vote casted, a drop of at less 33 percent. So, how can any reasonable and intelligent judgment conclude, as follows "the popular vote across the country that produced the new president-elect".

For the records, according to INEC's records Buhari had 15,424,921 votes. Soooo, what popular vote across the country did Buhari (Head MeGuard at 10 Downing Street) carried across the country? Pleeeeaaaassse! 

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Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

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YeyeAssRolling,

You doing good these days, pepper soup, great idea! 

Now, my ogogoro will go down real smooth! 

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@ Mr. Wlson:

Given INEC’s definition of popular of votes and the outcome of the presidential election, it is only reasonable to argue in favor of the fact at issue that Pa Mohammad Buhari (PMB) won popular votes in the recently concluded election.  Arguing to the context amounts to defiling history.

 

And one musk ask Mr. Odumakin if he is anything reliable given his various statements about Jonathan as a clueless and corrupt leader prior to 2015 elections.

 

You called Jonathan a thief yesterday, and a saint the following day. That attitude says a lot about the person in Odumakin. Is that being Awoist?

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@ Mr. Wlson:

Given INEC’s definition of popular of votes and the outcome of the presidential election, it is only reasonable to argue in favor of the fact at issue that Pa Mohammad Buhari (PMB) won popular votes in the recently concluded election.  Arguing to the context amounts to defiling history.

 

And one musk ask Mr. Odumakin if he is anything reliable given his various statements about Jonathan as a clueless and corrupt leader prior to 2015 elections.

 

You called Jonathan a thief yesterday, and a saint the following day. That attitude says a lot about the person in Odumakin. Is that being Awoist?

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ID:

A title like "Arewa Songs of Conquest" does not exactly evoke,
if we are being frank with ourselves as fellow citizens of Nigeria,
a reaction to a limited  'cabal' of northern Nigerians.

Instead it is a gross and deliberate mis-characterization of the results of the last Presidential
elections as a triumphalist conquest of the whole of Nigeria by northern
Nigerians, just as GEJ's victory in 2015 could not have been rightfully  described
as a conquest of Nigeria by the SS.

There are some segments in Yinka's writeup in which he alluded to a conspiracy
by northern Nigerians which the  hapless Yoruba who voted for Buhari
had unwittingly bought into.

I expect GMB to govern Nigeria as if all Nigerians voted for him.
To do otherwise is to court failure. No one should regret how he or she voted
in the elections. There are always winners and losers after a hard fought
electoral contest.

Yinka should be one of the last Nigerians to describe Buhari's victory in 2015 elections as
a northern conquest, considering he was the spokesperson for the Buhari-Bakare campaign in 2011.

Would it have also been a northern conquest if Buhari had defeated GEJ in 2011?

Bye,

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I doubt if he would have subscribed to Yinka Odumakin's undisguised demonization of

northern Nigerians. This is an unhealthy stance for a potential future national leader of Nigeria.-Ola

Ola:

Please let us discuss issues as they are and stop using emotions to create acrimony. Yinka never and will never demonized the north. Yinka write up if read as it is written without using our own perception to interpret it, addresses certain cabal in the north as well as in the south. What Yinka is clamoring for is fairness and equity which are the main ingredients of virile stable democratic nations.

When old Lagos allocation is half the old Kano allocation in 2014, then there is big problem of injustice. Saying Awo would be happy and celebrating this travesty that he fought against all his life, shows that you are totally ignorant of Awo or you are just deliberately ignorant of Awo. 

 

Pronto!!!

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Not sure how my name got in the middle of Pronto and Ola, confusing! 

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Wilson Iguade <igu...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I doubt if he would have subscribed to Yinka Odumakin's undisguised demonization of

northern Nigerians. This is an unhealthy stance for a potential future national leader of Nigeria.-Ola

Ola:

Please let us discuss issues as they are and stop using emotions to create acrimony. Yinka never and will never demonized the north. Yinka write up if read as it is written without using our own perception to interpret it, addresses certain cabal in the north as well as in the south. What Yinka is clamoring for is fairness and equity which are the main ingredients of virile stable democratic nations.

When old Lagos allocation is half the old Kano allocation in 2014, then there is big problem of injustice. Saying Awo would be happy and celebrating this travesty that he fought against all his life, shows that you are totally ignorant of Awo or you are just deliberately ignorant of Awo. 

 

Pronto!!!

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[ksonif]

Dr. Awosika,

Added to your statistics is the vote strength of about 4m voters for Kano and Jigawa compared to Lagos 1.5m.

These Buharists don't read the tea leaves correctly. They bury their heads in the sand chanting change when what they should fight with their lives for is restructuring..

Political strength is not measured by the ability to pull stunts. It is the ability to stare cold facts in the face and make calculations that will bring long term benefits.

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Pronto!!!

Whatever Yinka is fighting for I wish him success in. As I said, he has the charisma and traits to succeed in whatever he works hard for to achieve. 

Again, I have no objection if his mission is political or apolitical. Good luck Yinka, if I can help, based on our past exchanges in the fora as friends let me know, bro! 

Stay tuned! "I"

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Wilson:

Odumakin is not a "politician" in the Nigerian context and neither is he interested in political position or party politics. Odumakin that I know is only interested in one thing and that is restructuring of Nigeria.

Let some folks be celebrating number 2 position or any other position, the question any reasonable person should ask them is what benefit accrued to the Yoruba masses when Obasanjo was the president of Nigeria for eight years.

In 1976, Lagos had 20 LGs, Kano/Jigawa had 22 LGs. Today Lagos has 20 LGs and Kano/Jigawa combo has 77 LGs

In the ECA distribution among states

Lagos N82.96B

Kano + Jigawa (106 + 67.24)=173.24B, This is twice the allocation going to Lagos.

So you guys celebrating a VP position over what people like Yinka are fighting for should continue celebrating crumbs since you are used to eating ants. So ants eater when they see snail, they will scream they saw elephants.  

Wilson, this is the injustice and fairness Yinka is fighting for and not political position or party organization.

 

Pronto!!!

Idowu

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[Wilson Iguade]

What is INEC definition of popular votes? That less than 1 person (not even a person, proportionally) voted for Buhari out of 10 persons in Nigeria is popular votes?

Please produce the definition or apologize for a misleading statement with regards to INEC's definition of popular votes? 

Please be advised that the most votes is NOT the same as "popular" votes. For example, if we have a club with 50 members, and 7 members voted of which 4 voted for you and 3 voted for me. You won, now, according to you, it is popular votes. Plleeaaasssseeee! 

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

"Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?" . . . Ken Asagwara

Ken,

Yinka is entitled to his opinion. As a rule, I avoid public disagreement with people I like/respect but I cannot ignore your challenge above. I respect the Afenifere old men because of their past sacrifices. These old men have been in the trenches since before independence. And I am impressed that Yinka is gaining from them by association. I of course disagree with their "we don't want to have any thing to do with anybody that has any thing to do with Bola Ahmed Tinubu". I understand their bitterness with Tinubu, but I disagree with their method of expressing the bitterness. There was absolutely no justification for Afenifere endorsing Jonathan despite his very poor performance and maginalization of Yoruba by his administration. Papa Awolowo would not have supported another four years of Jonathan. 

When it was not politically correct to be a Buhari disciple, Yinka was and I will always respect him for his association with Buhari. To the best of my knowledge, he left Buhari with no bad blood between him and Buhari.  Yinka's extrapolating a Senator Saidu Dansadau's "song of conquest" to "Arewa songs of conquest" shows a confirmation bais. That someone is a Senator does not mean that he represents his ethnic nationality or a region as big and diverse as the Northern Nigeria (Arewa). In actual fact, those that sincerely represent their ethnic nationalities would be discreet with their "songs of conquest". We all know that a typical Northern politician does not boast publicly.

Papa Awolowo was ready to work with any Nigerian/any Nigerian nationality that shared the same vision (of Nigeria) with him. That the Hausa-Fulani political elites of the first Republic did not share the same vision with Papa Awolowo does not mean that never ever will the Hausa-Fulani political elites share Papa Awo's vision: true federalism and an egalitarian society. There is no doubt about it that compared with the post-independence Northern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria of today is a much more progressive geopolitical region.

I remember that restructuring Nigeria (for true federalism) was a political song of Buhari and his running mate in 2011. I have not heard Buhari part with this political song even though it was not in the forefront in his 2015 campaign. I am also yet to hear or read the South-West APC part with the idea of true federalism or restructuring of Nigeria. Concerning the vision of an egalitarian Nigeria, Buhari no doubt shares this vision. That is why he would not have been the first choice of the Northern political establishment if they had a choice. It was the reason why some Northern Emirs' palaces were burnt down in 2011 (by the Talakawas) as the Emirs were perceived by the Talakawas to have supported and rigged the election against Buhari. 

Finally, it is unrealistic not to expect struggle for power and positions between the various factions of a political party that has just won an election. That is what politics is about, especially in a developing multicultural country like Nigeria. There will be fringes like Senator Dansadau (every nationality and geopolitical zone have them) who will be called to order or ignored by the mainstream. Of course, the fringes do provide people like Yinka an opportunity to say "They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to" and "I just dey look and dey laugh”. At the end of the day, APC has more to unite it than to tear it apart. There will be compromises, if only to, once again, disappoint those that did not expect the party to survive the primary election. 

 

"We all [except Nebu Adiele] should be careful over certain sensitive matters." . . .Nebukadineze Adiele 

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Alagba Ojutalayo, 

 Awolowo ran a successful government in 1950s but some of the dogmas of  those olden days - when only a few Nigerians were educated, no nationwide means communication, little amenities  etc -  are too insufficient to solving the problems of this complicated Internet age . 

During this years presidential election, Odumakin and other Afenifere members (acted in concert with the majority of  our Obas ) used money and Awolowo's name to campaign for Jonathan yet they lost . The majority of the southwest voters didn't vote Buhari because of Tinubu and co, but voted for the president-elect because they believe he is by far more honest and more competent for the job when compared to Jonathan . I don't think any past Yoruba leader would have found it easy to convince our well exposed people to vote for Jonathan under the present circumstances, so Yinka should stop weeping up unreasonable sentiment. It's only dull politicians like Yinka - who play politics without any answer to current issues - that enjoy tying themselves perpetually to the policies or ideologies to the past leaders.

Did the entire Awolowo family who voted Buhari - Osinbajo also betrayed Awo ? All should kindly warn Yinka Odumakin and co to stop dropping Awo's name to justify their silly positions. How many Igbo and Hausa- Fulani politicians known to him go about using the names of Nnamdi Azikiwe or Ahmadu Bello respectively to justify their various mistakes ? 

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Alagba Ojutalayo,
Awolowo ran a successful government in 1950s but some of the dogmas of those olden days - when only a few Nigerians were educated, no nationwide means communication, little amenities etc - are too insufficient to solving the problems of this complicated Internet age .
During this years presidential election, Odumakin and other Afenifere members (acted in concert with the majority of our Obas ) used money and Awolowo's name to campaign for Jonathan yet they lost . The majority of the southwest voters didn't vote Buhari because of Tinubu and co, but voted for the president-elect because they believe he is by far more honest and more competent for the job when compared to Jonathan . I don't think any past Yoruba leader would have found it easy to convince our well exposed people to vote for Jonathan under the present circumstances, so Yinka should stop weeping up unreasonable sentiment. It's only dull politicians like Yinka - who play politics without any answer to current issues - that enjoy tying themselves perpetually to the policies or ideologies to the past leaders.
Did the entire Awolowo family who voted Buhari - Osinbajo also betrayed Awo ? All should kindly warn Yinka Odumakin and co to stop dropping Awo's name to justify their silly positions. How many Igbo and Hausa- Fulani politicians known to him go about using the names of Nnamdi Azikiwe or Ahmadu Bello respectively to justify their various mistakes ?


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> On May 27, 2015, at 07:28, 'Ayo Ojutalayo' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> "Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?" . . . Ken Asagwara
>
> Ken,
>
> Yinka is entitled to his opinion. As a rule, I avoid public disagreement with people I like/respect but I cannot ignore your challenge above. I respect the Afenifere old men because of their past sacrifices. These old men have been in the trenches since before independence. And I am impressed that Yinka is gaining from them by association. I of course disagree with their "we don't want to have any thing to do with anybody that has any thing to do with Bola Ahmed Tinubu". I understand their bitterness with Tinubu, but I disagree with their method of expressing the bitterness. There was absolutely no justification for Afenifere endorsing Jonathan despite his very poor performance and maginalization of Yoruba by his administration. Papa Awolowo would not have supported another four years of Jonathan.
>
> When it was not politically correct to be a Buhari disciple, Yinka was and I will always respect him for his association with Buhari. To the best of my knowledge, he left Buhari with no bad blood between him and Buhari. Yinka's extrapolating a Senator Saidu Dansadau's "song of conquest" to "Arewa songs of conquest" shows a confirmation bais. That someone is a Senator does not mean that he represents his ethnic nationality or a region as big and diverse as the Northern Nigeria (Arewa). In actual fact, those that sincerely represent their ethnic nationalities would be discreet with their "songs of conquest". We all know that a typical Northern politician does not boast publicly.
>
> Papa Awolowo was ready to work with any Nigerian/any Nigerian nationality that shared the same vision (of Nigeria) with him. That the Hausa-Fulani political elites of the first Republic did not share the same vision with Papa Awolowo does not mean that never ever will the Hausa-Fulani political elites share Papa Awo's vision: true federalism and an egalitarian society. There is no doubt about it that compared with the post-independence Northern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria of today is a much more progressive geopolitical region.
>
> I remember that restructuring Nigeria (for true federalism) was a political song of Buhari and his running mate in 2011. I have not heard Buhari part with this political song even though it was not in the forefront in his 2015 campaign. I am also yet to hear or read the South-West APC part with the idea of true federalism or restructuring of Nigeria. Concerning the vision of an egalitarian Nigeria, Buhari no doubt shares this vision. That is why he would not have been the first choice of the Northern political establishment if they had a choice. It was the reason why some Northern Emirs' palaces were burnt down in 2011 (by the Talakawas) as the Emirs were perceived by the Talakawas to have supported and rigged the election against Buhari.
>
> Finally, it is unrealistic not to expect struggle for power and positions between the various factions of a political party that has just won an election. That is what politics is about, especially in a developing multicultural country like Nigeria. There will be fringes like Senator Dansadau (every nationality and geopolitical zone have them) who will be called to order or ignored by the mainstream. Of course, the fringes do provide people like Yinka an opportunity to say "They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to" and "I just dey look and dey laugh”. At the end of the day, APC has more to unite it than to tear it apart. There will be compromises, if only to, once again, disappoint those that did not expect the party to survive the primary election.
>
> "We all [except Nebu Adiele] should be careful over certain sensitive matters." . . .Nebukadineze Adiele
>
> Ayo Ojutalayo
>

> From: "Asagwara, Ken (EAL)" <Ken.As...@gov.mb.ca>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin
>
> Folks:
>
> I read the piece below (parts 1 & 2) by none other than, the veritable Yoruba patriot Otunba Yinka Odumakin. Most of you may have probably read it, also. If you have not read it, do so and you may find it very interesting. I look forward to reading the conclusion.
>
> Actually, the reason why I reposted it is because of the deafening silence from some of our garrulous Yoruba friends and compatriots who I thought would want to have a field day in debunking Otunba Yinka Odumakin’s fears and forebodings. It is the kind that Ndi-Igbo would describe as Agwo Bi Na Akirika, that is, there is snake lurking in the raffia roof top. Be prepared for that you may have overlooked.
>
> Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?
>
> Well; we shall see.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Mazi KC Prince Asagwara
>
>
> Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin
> By Yinka Odumakin
> 7:55 amMay 18, 20150
> Headlines, Opinion
>

> Arewa political artistes have been singing songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.
> Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
> His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
> Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
> The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
> I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
> But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
> The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
> “Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
> “But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
> “And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
> “In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
> Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
> Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.
>
> Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin
> By By Yinka Odumakin
> 6:15 amMay 25, 20150
> Headlines, Opinion
>

[kol_onif]

You are increasingly becoming flippant!

Why not come out of the closet to attack as your new found friends are doing?

Then, we know the gloves are taken off and pound each other in the public square!

Kola/

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[Asagwara, Ken (EAL)]

Ayo:

 

Reading your response to my calling you and the others out yesterday, I must hand it to you that you made very impressive arguments in your reply. In fact, I judge it the first time since my encountering you in the internet forums you argued very well like an educated person and a lawyer said that you are. I may not buy into all that you stated but your analysis, I found informing. Of all that have so far, taken Otunba Yinka Odumakin to task for the views he expressed, you were most objective than them. Could it be because, he is your friend because you have never been that objective?

 

The way I see it, brother Yinkus Odumakin is saying what late Chief S. L. Akintola did and you Awoists hated and still hate him for is virtually what Alhaji Tinubu and co did in the 2015 Presidential election for which, you now hail him. In that case, what have you made of the late sage’s legacy, he queried? And is it fair that you Awoists will continue to rubbish the name, image and memory Chief Akintola when you, Awoists led by Alhaji Tinubu followed in his political footpath?

 

You may recall; late Awo was for regional autonomy or call it now states autonomy, if you may, and True Federation so that regional/state components can grow at their own pace for socio-economic and educational, and infrastructural development unhindered by federal government appropriation to self more than 55% of national revenues often mismanaged since the near fifty years of resort to Unitary system of government in place of True Federation. That is another angle of Otunba Yinkus Odumakin’s fears that Awo’s legacy is being breeched  for politics of short-term gains that may in the long-run short-change those political goals Awo championed.

 

Cheers.

 

Mazi KC Prince Asagwara

 

[Ayo Ojutalayo]

"In fact, I judge it the first time since my encountering you in the internet forums you argued very well like an educated person and a lawyer said that you are." . . . Ken Asagwara

"The way I see it, brother Yinkus Odumakin is saying what late Chief S. L. Akintola did and you Awoists hated and still hate him for is virtually what Alhaji Tinubu and co did in the 2015 Presidential election for which, you now hail him. . . . And is it fair that you Awoists will continue to rubbish the name, image and memory Chief Akintola when you, Awoists led by Alhaji Tinubu followed in his political footpath?" . . . Ken Asagwara

Ken,

You must have forgotten that I said I did not go to school. Could it be it is because Yinka is your friend that you concluded that I was objective in what I wrote?

I am not sure Awoists "continue to rubbish the name, image and memory Chief Akintola". Awoists would be right though, if reviewing the events of 1960's, they asserted that those Chief Akintola wanted Action Group to work with were not as progressive as the people APC South-West are working with today. 

 

"We all [except Nebu Adiele] should be careful over certain sensitive matters." . . .Nebukadineze Adiele 

Ayo Ojutalayo

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Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

[Ola Kassim]

Ihenadiogu:

The records will certainly show that when names were being dropped about who could possibly be chosen as Buhari's running mate my own nominees were Gov Rotimi Amaechi and Gov Rochas Okorochas.

I did not consider that it was so crucial that a nominee from the SW was mandatory in order to secure the support of the majority votes of the Yoruba for the Buhari presidential ticket. Osinbajo was indeed a dark horse during the speculative period in which Tinubu's name was also actively promoted as a possible running mate for Buhari. Others with better political judgement thought otherwise.

 In retrospect, I believe that the choice of Osinbajo was a master stroke of genius Nnaji as we now have a world renowned constitutional expert paired with an ex-military dictator who would now be in charge of running the affairs of Nigeria.

Osinbajo will ensure that Buhari stays within the confines of the Nigerian constitution anytime he unknowingly or willing tries to outstep the limits of his Presidential powers. In other words Osinbajo will serve as Buhari's antidote/ vaccine and watchdog against possible impeachment on constitutional grounds by the legislative assembly in addition other duties Buhari will assign to him.

GEJ did not invent official corruption in Nigeria. It had been there all along.

The corrupt practices skyrocketed under GEJ because he did not consider fighting official corruption as a priority for his government.

He was too cozy with the crooks in government . He was reluctant to dismiss or request that a minister who is being probed for corruption temporarily resign until the matter was settled. 

He shielded Stella Odua long after it had become apparent that she went above her signing authority by splitting contracts for vehicle purchases over 5 years.

 Similarly when Alison Deziani-Madukwe was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Committee probing allegations of inappropriate and extravagant spending at her ministry, GEJ did not compel the minister to honor the subpoena. 

Finally, the one that I believe sealed any hope for GEJ's re-election was the Presidential pardon that he granted to Gov Alams.

Even if GEJ is not a corrupt leader his coziness with the looters of the Nigerian commonwealth is enough to indict him along with these folks.

The pardon for Gov Alams was bad political judgement.  U.S. presidents grant such controversial pardons usually on a their way out of office close to the end of their second term in office when they no longer need to seek re election.

I sincerely believe that GEJ is a good man with good intentions for Nigerians and Nigeria. Unfortunately his best was not good enough to get the job done for the motherland, hence the need and the call for a new Head Chef in the kitchen of the nation!

Bye,

Ola

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On May 27, 2015, at 1:50 AM, 'rugwuala' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Ola, 

With due respect would you be saying the same thing now if Buhari had chosen say Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN) from Imo State as his running mate? 

Do I agree with you that corruption under GEJ was eating up the fabric of our future? You don right but corruption has been in existence way before Jonathan. It is against this backdrop that Nigerians from all walks of life and ethnicity mourned when Murital was assassinated. Do we at this time throw away the recommendations of the Confab because a Yoruba man is the #2 man?

Thanks,

Ihenadiogu 

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[Vin Otuonye]

Ola:
 
The pardon of Alams did not seal Jonathan's reelection bid. Boko Haram unrest in the NE and the alliance between the SW and the North (even Northerners that had pledged loyalty to Jonathan only to later dump him) sealed his re-election bid.
 
I don't know if Osibanjo pairing up with Buhari is done to make Buhari stay within the confines of the Constitution without over-reaching, I just think Osibanjo or any South Westerner for that matter is a leverage Tinubu played in the negotiation with Buhari. Tinubu reasoned if we (the SW) are going to bring you 6 or 7 states (SW states plus Edo in that Edo is also APC), the least you can give us is the Vice Presidency slot. Let's face it Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha and Comrade Oshiomhole are not Yoruba.
 
That's how I saw it.
 
Vin Cool Breeze Otuonye
 

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I don't know if Osibanjo pairing up with Buhari is done to make Buhari stay within the confines of the Constitution without over-reaching, I just think Osibanjo or any South Westerner for that matter is a leverage Tinubu played in the negotiation with Buhari. Tinubu reasoned if we (the SW) are going to bring you 6 or 7 states (SW states plus Edo in that Edo is also APC), the least you can give us is the Vice Presidency slot. Let's face it Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha and Comrade Oshiomhole are not Yoruba.
 
That's how I saw it.

  ---Vin

Vin:

I am looking forward to a time in the future let's say between
50 and 100 years from now (i.e. if it is possible for the spirit
of the dead to still witness the activities of their earth bound
cousins from above) when everything Nigerian would no longer be seen
and considered first and foremost on the basis of ethnicity.

I believe the time will come sooner or later; we may not just be around to witness
it. We fight tooth and nail just to have our ethnic brothers in sisters
in government positions but they hardly do much for us when they get there.
It should not be about where your great great great grand father was born;
it should be about where you chose to live, work and raise your family,

My own choice of either Rotimi Amaechi or Rochas Okorochas was
based on the belief that a strong ticket must aspire beyond the dreams
of those who brought it to fruition. Govs Amaechi and Okorochas were
 lone rangers who dared the pervasive public opinions in their states or
zones to jump on the APC bandwagon at a time when no one knew
if it would ever come to fruition.

As OBJ, a Yoruba from the SW had just finished being the President of Nigeria just over 8 years
ago, I did not think that not having a Yoruba on the Buhari- APC ticket would have made that much of a difference
in the electoral results of Mar 28, 2015 in the SW. GEJ had lost the SW vote long before the elections,
What is the significance of the VP slot anyway? Would anyone still remember the name Namadi Sambo in 20 years
time even though he served as VP to GEJ for 6 years?

I thought that a better balance would have been
achieved if the VP slot had gone to Amaechi,  Rochas or as a longshot Gov Oshiomble
of Edo state. There would have been more support for the ticket in the SS, if Amaechi had been chosen, iand n the
SE if Okorochas had been running mate.

Notwithstanding that the Osinbajo family is well known in Ikenne and that he is an in law to the Awolowo
family, the GEJ-PDP ticket still manged to win Osinbajo's Ikenne-Ilishan constituency by a narrow margin
notwithstanding the fact that one of their own is the running mate. This shows that the Yoruba are not as parochial
as you probably assume. The Yoruba rejected OBJ in 1999 but voted for him in 2003.
 

Each individual has his or her own breaking point or level of tolerance.
The pardon for Gov Alams was enough for me to want a change in leadership
in Nigeria.

GEJ could also have survived the BH threat to his Presidency if he had managed
the PR over this disaster better. The fact that he did not visit anywhere near
Chibok or the Sambesi Forest until just about two months to the elections was a major gaffe!

Can you imagine a similar situation in the USA which would have taken President Obama
almost two years to visit the scene of a disaster of such magnitude--either for real or as a photoop.

Bye,

Ola

[Wilson Iguade]

Ethnicity today, Ethnicity tomorrow, Ethnicity forever! 

My only beef is the minority nations do not do it loud and nauseous as the WAZOBIA nations. 

Well, my mission in life is to ensure that the minority nations get bellicose just like the WAZOBIA nations to ensure EQUITY and fair competition. Edo today, Edo tomorrow and Edo forever! Screw Nigeria, Nigeria does not exist without Edo nation, period! 

Stay tuned! Sai Iguade

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

"I thought that a better balance would have been achieved if the VP slot had gone to Amaechi, Rochas or as a longshot Gov Oshiomble

of Edo state. There would have been more support for the ticket in the SS, if Amaechi had been chosen, and in the SE if Okorochas had been running mate." . . . Ola Kassim

Ola,

A running mate from SESS was my position too. In theory, it would have been the best for APC and for the country but APC did not want to take chances at the election. The APC leadership must have considered the number of votes that each of the aspiring Vice Presidential candidates/geo-political zones could "deliver". The total registered voters in each of SW, SS and SS respectively had to be put into consideration. Also into consideration was the strength of the opposing party, PDP in each of these southern geopolitical zones. There was not much APC could do to be competitive in Jonathan's backyard. For PDP, it had to be a do-or-die affair to avoid the disgrace of losing in the president's backyard. The events on the polling day and results from SS confirmed this. The presidential/federal power had always been used to "put Amaechi in his place". It was done again at the election. 

Buhari's past performance in SE even with Igbo running mates could not be ignored in deciding on a SE running mate in 2015. In SW, APC could maximize its strength and motivate members and non-members to turn out and vote with a SW running mate. Above all, left to the presidential candidate, he wanted BAT as his running mate in view of BAT's contribution in the formation of the party, and in standing by him to win the primary election. Since the generality of APC leadership would not agree to a Muslim-Muslim ticket, the next best option was to ask BAT and his geopolitical zone to bring an acceptable person for consideration. 

 

"We all [except Nebu Adiele] should be careful over certain sensitive matters." . . .Nebukadineze Adiele 

Ayo Ojutalayo

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[BUSKA]

Afis Odidiere, longtime no hear, have been up to some good farming chore, down at the base. Unlike your the baseless, generals without followers, we call folks like your "Chief without Indians"

Anyway, just to let you know how much a joker your really are and how our folks down home sees you kind as lost cases, like the deaf who always dance to the drumbeat he heard last, not knowing when the drummer changes their beat

How much of Yinka Odumkin do you and all your blackmailing catawaulers knows, am sure you know nada about the person of Yinka Odumakin, so keep your ignorant nose out of what concern a patriotic and authentic YORUBA son expresses

Ibariba jina p, my friend 

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On May 27, 2015, at 12:20 AM, Afis 'Deinde odide...@yahoo.com [Egbeodua] <Egbe...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As a Yoruba man I read it and I laughed, Dr Asagwara.

Full of Odumakin's usual stories that no one can verify.

The only true in his cockamamie bull dungs is the fox and Cock fable.

Odumakin is weeping for his loss, not for Yoruba. In his cockamamie that I read, Odumakin sounds like someone just snatched his lollipop, and to dissuade the person from eating it, he concocts a story and titles it "Poison in my Lollipop".
Funny guy!

I think he wrote his part one and two "Poison in my Lollipop" for his Igbo in-laws, not for Yoruba people.
Post-GEJ's Odumakin is now as worthless in Yorubaland as Babatope post-Abacha era.
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Arenu mu emu elemu ko san wo ..    All one needs to know about Odumakin is that he's the Primary key of daft...

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Ola:

While you're looking to the future - 50 to 100 years from now - to see if Nigerians can vote for a candidate regardless of his ethnic background,  you may want to consider looking at the past. In the past,  Nigerians voted for candidates without regard to their ethnic background. A Hausa man was voted Mayor of Enugu. Zik was close to becoming the first premier of Western region.

We need to look at the past and figure how we got it right,  then study what went wrong and how we can fix the problem. 

I still think people are making a big thing of Jonathan pardoning Alams. However Ola, I believe those who have problem with Jonathan pardoning Alams are very few. I think Boko Haram menace and the teaming up of SW with the North coupled with Jonathan's northern politician friends abandoning him and huge rigging were his biggest undoing. 

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The calculus here is simple..  Odumankin one of those pretend to be activists whose main political orientation amounts to holding on the the graves of Awolowo..  That's his majority vision.   Since, he joined PDP that vision has vanished.   PDP is anti anything Awolowo... What is left for Odumakin is his other agenda, the tribalist agenda.     So, in the next 4 years, all he can do is write articles  in the hope that he might remain relevant..

That's it!   He's done.   Pafuka!   Finished! 

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BUSKA BRODA, WELCOME BACK FROM THE SLAMMER - YOU AND VINCE MODEBELU. I HEAR YOU FORCED LAGOS GOVERNOR AMBODE TO LOCK YOU UP UNDER THE NATIONAL FAMINE RELIEF ACT WHEN BADLUCK JONNY LOST TO BUHARI.

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Odumakin was the original stomach infrastructure man. Even in the University he perfected the art of filling and refilling the stomach. Today he is banking on his standby. "Man must wack" was an area in the Port Harcourt of yore when Port Harcourt was simply called Port. Odumakin is definitely an offspring of that storied section of Port.

Alagba Femi, I wonder lie to you when I tell you that the most dangerous place to be is between me and my food. While many are fighting and agitating on altruistic basis, Odumakin sees profit and pecuniary gains as his motive. But why shouldn't a man with 31 children from a combination of wife and concubines be on the prowl of the loot, I ask? 

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Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

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Afis Odidere of Ibariba kingdom, watch what you say to a crown prince and a respected farmer, you might get hurt 

I know you crave my posting every waking day of your miserable life

I know you missed BUSKA more than anybody else on this litserve, just like Leye Ige, the new Bourdillon made big man with an SUV, will really want BUHARI to see how who actually foot the bill of his gas guzzling contraption 

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On May 28, 2015, at 1:36 PM, afis odide...@yahoo.com [NaijaObserver] <NaijaO...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Yeye Rolling, you dey mind that Akoko villager calling himself Bushman Buska.

If you did not respond to him, I won't have read his empty head nonsense.

He neither tells of anything, and accept no fault.

It is the traits of Bushmen.

He's very Loud but insincere, that's Rasaq Oladosu for you!

I removed his email address or addresses and spam others long time ago.

Afis

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Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

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Solomon in the Bible carried out all possible experiments on behalf of humanity and documented it all in the Book of Ecclesiastics. Those immovable truths have proved inviolable to date. In like manner, Prophet Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who created ethnic pride for the Yoruba country carried out loads of experiments with the Nigeria project and like Solomon and documented his findings in his various publications.

Unfortunately the Yoruba political landscape of today is littered with men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought.

It is not that difficult for such men to remove the ancient landmarks which their fathers have set and thus become a plaything and song themes on the lips of Arewa children like the gentleman I quoted extensively last week.

The summary of all Awo findings is that a multi-ethnic Nigeria can only prosper with its constituent units living in peace and happiness if it was run along federal principles. That was what Awo fought for all his political life that denied him “power at the centre” but he remains at the centre of political discourse in Nigeria, 28 years after his transition to higher glory.

And within those years arose strange children in Yorubaland who, buoyed by unearned wealth, felt the Awo way was not for them. They chose the Akintola road and with their media power they blackmailed those who insisted on the Awo path. They were able to mobilize a generation of angry and disoriented youth who were totally bereft of knowledge to act against their own enlightened self-interest. Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. In a matter of weeks, Arewa spokesmen are making it clear that the March 28 removal of the virus that entered their power computer was the only common denominator and hangers-on should find their level.

What a tragedy of victory! The stiff-necked adventurers who uncritically  assumed a day would come when Arewa would embrace power sharing are now doing what Yoruba call “aramora, iso kijipa”, like you are being whipped but you can’t afford to drop any tear. The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh”.

These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash.

In 1962, Obafemi Awolowo in the course of the legislative sitting passed a note to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa. The content was “when can we see?”

The response was instant “why not now?” Pronto the Opposition Leader and the Prime Minister moved to his office and Awo stroked the frame of his glasses and looked straight into Balewa’s eyes, asking: “Mr PM, what is it I’m hearing about plans to impose emergency rule in Western Nigeria today?” Balewa laughed haughtily and said, “Come off it Chief Awolowo, how would you countenance such a wicked rumor? Do you not know how long a process it takes to do such a thing?”

Meeting ended and both men returned to the chambers. By the evening of that discussion, a state of emergency was declared in Western Nigeria.

…………..To be concluded!

 

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[Leye Ige]

Gen Afis,
There is NOTHING in Jo-na-tan-con-ference that goes along any federalist principle--creating more states dependent on allocation from the center while increasing the allocation to states by 10% cannot in any way be considered "federalist". The fact of creating more states, by itself, has negated Federalism or autonomy. So, Yinka Odumakin is only pretending which was why he drops names and tell stories at whim. He can NEVER discuss Federalism IN DEPTH. This has been PROVEN again and again, among those who MATTER, in and out of Yorubaland.
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"You may recall; late Awo
was for regional autonomy or call it now states autonomy, if
you may, and True Federation so that regional/state
components can grow at their own pace for socio-economic and
educational, and infrastructural development unhindered by
federal government appropriation to self more than 55% of
national revenues often mismanaged since the near fifty
years of resort to Unitary system of government in place of
True Federation. That is another angle of Otunba Yinkus
Odumakin’s fears that Awo’s legacy is being breeched
for politics of short-term gains that may in the long-run
short-change those political goals Awo

championed.".......By Dr
Asagwara.
 Afis
comment: Awo was for Regional Autonomy, but he did not sell
his soul to the federal govt at the expense of his people. 
It is only a fool who would have taken the fish-bait called
Autonomy,dangled in front of Yoruba people asking them to
vote for Jonathan if they wanted
it.How
are we sure he was going to implement
it?Going by his record, he had reneged all his other
promises for six years........are we now to trust
him?Reasonable minds would have agreed if he was
serious he would have implemented his programs including
"regional autonomy", then may be after seeing his
good works, people would have voted for
him. Yinka Odumakin and his co-travellers, sold their
souls to the highest bidder called
Jonathan.In
fact, we know they were paid to campaign for
Jonathan.In
fact, Oponu-Adams of OPC confirmed
it.In
fact, some said the N12m paid to Yinka Odumakin was just the
tip of the iceberg, he received more in
dollars!That's not patriotic, that's selling
out. NEXT! AfisOn Wed, May 27, 2015 at
7:27 PM, Asagwara, Ken (EAL) <Ken.As...@gov.mb.ca>
wrote:

You
may recall; late Awo was for regional autonomy or call it
now states autonomy, if you may, and True Federation so that
regional/state
components can grow at their own pace for socio-economic
and educational, and infrastructural development unhindered
by federal government appropriation to self more than 55% of
national revenues often mismanaged since the near fifty
years of resort to Unitary
system of government in place of True Federation. That is
another angle of Otunba Yinkus Odumakin’s fears that
Awo’s legacy is being breeched  for politics of
short-term gains that may in the long-run short-change those
political goals Awo championed.

Shikena,
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"As I wrote earlier, the Yoruba of all ages were unwilling to risk their future for the next four years by re-electing GEJ just on the promise that he would implement the recommendations of the Confab carte blanche if re-elected." ola kasim

GEJ promised Nigerians the Confab. He kept his word and convened it, funded it and saw it through DILIGENTLY. 

GEJ also influenced some of the points but approved ALL of the content of the Confab's final document. Buhari and his northern clique were from the word "go" AGAINST the 2015 Confab, it's spirit and all that it stood for. Now who does a sensible and TRULY non-confused pro-confab person support EVEN if he's doubting if the content of the Confab would ever be implemented or not? Clearly, the probability of GEJ (along with his southern and middle-beltan backers) NOT implementing the Confab's result is way LOWER than Buhari's (supported by his core northern handlers).

Characteristically, some of them, core northerners, had LOUDLY promised to dump the Confab's ENTIRE result were they back to Aso Rock. Not taking them seriously on this issue, would be akin to not to have taken  them seriously when they  promised to make the country ungovernable.

Yet, the yorubas who claimed they stood to PERMANENTLY gain the most from the implementation of the Confab's agreement, the yorubas who noisily cried out the most for a Confab to get this wrecked nation on a new footing, the yorubas who at a point threatened secession if certain VITAL points to them were not injected in the Confab's final result, are FINALLY those who, at the last dramatic minutes, turned around and voted AGAINST the one man on the path to making their long held dream a reality. A dream, if it had materialized, could FOREVER have changed the course of their checkered destiny. All they needed to do was remain steady, consistent and strong-willed enough to see this Confab/nation-restructuring bid through to its logical conclusion. But true to type, they COULD not. And for what do they do that ? For a temporary vice-presidency essentially. For a CHEAP fleeting and illusory sense of power. And not for much else. 

Really, whatever the yorubas will gain for their "unwilling(ness) to risk their future for the next four years by re-electing GEJ" will NEVER be equal to the ETERNAL gain that would have accrued from seeing the Confab's results through. And the probability of GEJ implementing the Confab's result was high, very high...EXTREMELY high. A chance of 9 to 10 where Buhari and his northern pack's on a scale of 1 to 10. GEJ absolutely had no reason under the sun NOT to implement the obtained results of the Confab.

Finally, of GEJ and Buhari, the former is certainly the one more amenable to pressure to get the Confab's result implemented. The yorubas just made a historical blunder. They will be reminded of this in the NEXT 100 years. Providence will NEVER forgive them.

Igboka

NB: Half bread, they say, is better than none. The Confab result, even if slightly below expectation, was way more than a half loaf of bread. Sincere observers say, given Buhari's people vicious opposition to each and every proposition made during the sessions, the final result was a stunningly REMARKABLE progress for this nation compared to the status-quo. In other word, a full 3 quarters of a loaf. The yorubas, true to type, destroyed it all for nothing worthwhile.

Subject: Re: Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

Folks:

 

I read the piece below (parts 1 & 2) by none other than, the veritable Yoruba patriot Otunba Yinka Odumakin. Most of you may have probably read it, also. If you have not read it, do so and you may find it very interesting. I look forward to reading the conclusion.

 

Actually, the reason why I reposted it is because of the deafening silence from some of our garrulous Yoruba friends and compatriots who I thought would want to have a field day in debunking Otunba Yinka Odumakin’s fears and forebodings. It is the kind that Ndi-Igbo would describe as Agwo Bi Na Akirika, that is, there is snake lurking in the raffia roof top. Be prepared for that you may have overlooked.

 

Ah; Afis, Ayo Ojutalayo, Dipo Eniola, Leye Ige, Dr. Adeniran Adebayo, Ola Kassim (MD), Dr. Qansy, VC Bolaji Aluko, Michael Idowu, etc., where art thou and what sayest thou to this revealing piece from another Yoruba patriot? Is it true that for make me feel good of the moment, in the 2015 Presidential elections you have betrayed sage, Awo’s legacy?

 

Well; we shall see.

 

Cheers.

 

Mazi KC Prince Asagwara

 

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

By Yinka Odumakin  

7:55 amMay 18, 20150

Headlines, Opinion

Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

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Solomon in the Bible carried out all possible experiments on behalf of humanity and documented it all in the Book of Ecclesiastics. Those immovable truths have proved inviolable to date. In like manner, Prophet Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who created ethnic pride for the Yoruba country carried out loads of experiments with the Nigeria project and like Solomon and documented his findings in his various publications.

Unfortunately the Yoruba political landscape of today is littered with men who have never read a book from Awo even when they are in love with his glasses without his vision and his cap covering brains they never engage in thought.

It is not that difficult for such men to remove the ancient landmarks which their fathers have set and thus become a plaything and song themes on the lips of Arewa children like the gentleman I quoted extensively last week.

The summary of all Awo findings is that a multi-ethnic Nigeria can only prosper with its constituent units living in peace and happiness if it was run along federal principles. That was what Awo fought for all his political life that denied him “power at the centre” but he remains at the centre of political discourse in Nigeria, 28 years after his transition to higher glory.

And within those years arose strange children in Yorubaland who, buoyed by unearned wealth, felt the Awo way was not for them. They chose the Akintola road and with their media power they blackmailed those who insisted on the Awo path. They were able to mobilize a generation of angry and disoriented youth who were totally bereft of knowledge to act against their own enlightened self-interest. Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. In a matter of weeks, Arewa spokesmen are making it clear that the March 28 removal of the virus that entered their power computer was the only common denominator and hangers-on should find their level.

What a tragedy of victory! The stiff-necked adventurers who uncritically  assumed a day would come when Arewa would embrace power sharing are now doing what Yoruba call “aramora, iso kijipa”, like you are being whipped but you can’t afford to drop any tear. The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh”.

These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash.

In 1962, Obafemi Awolowo in the course of the legislative sitting passed a note to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa. The content was “when can we see?”

The response was instant “why not now?” Pronto the Opposition Leader and the Prime Minister moved to his office and Awo stroked the frame of his glasses and looked straight into Balewa’s eyes, asking: “Mr PM, what is it I’m hearing about plans to impose emergency rule in Western Nigeria today?” Balewa laughed haughtily and said, “Come off it Chief Awolowo, how would you countenance such a wicked rumor? Do you not know how long a process it takes to do such a thing?”

Meeting ended and both men returned to the chambers. By the evening of that discussion, a state of emergency was declared in Western Nigeria.

…………..To be concluded!

 

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Hehehehe!

Funny people!

Decentralisation. Regional autonomy.  Self determination. Hehehehe. 

I dey laugh o!

Joe

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I always think that a serious leader who wants to restructure Nigeria needs to learn how to walk the tight blade edge of power and avoid the historic traps set by tyrants of yesteryears. Such a leader actually does not need any confab to at least take simply but significant drastic steps that will make restructuring easier. Such steps include but not restricted to the following: (1) Posting of Police Commissioners, DPOs and police ratings to their states of origin. This is the cleverest way to go on state police. (2) instructing each state to set up Vigilante Corps. In fact many Northern States have armed Vigilante groups funded by the state governments though some of them mischievously oppose state police. (2) Decentralisation of the Military institutions like Nigerian Defence Academy,(NDA), Zaria; Nigerian Military School, Zaria; Police College, Kano; Nigerian Armored Brigade, Bauchi etc All the Commander-in-Chief needed was a one-page letter that would create each of this institutions in each geo-political zones. Today, all these institutions remain in one section after Southerners have ruled since 1999 for 14 years. (3) Decentralise the NNPC and create regional Oil Producing blocs--SW Petroleum Corporation, SE Petroleum Corporation, NE, NW etc. This should be complemented by building refineries in oil producing states. Four could be built in 5 years. (4) Decentralise Customs and have Regional Customs Authority blocs. (5) Encourage Regional Associations, Labour Unions, etc. (6) Create Regional City Centres: Ibadan, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Kaduna and FG should fund them instead of the bogus Millennium City being built in Abuja. The fact is that both Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan had a huge, rare and unequaled opportunity to address this agelong injustice, but they allowed themselves to be bogged down my self-inflicted red tapes. Well, as it is, genuine people should organise themselves to demand for greater autonomy and that simply put, is the path to Nigerian greatness. Given the configuration of politics and power in Nigeria, it appears that restructuring will hardly come through the lopsided National Assembly or states created at disadvantage in the first place, it must be through effective popular action of the people. How do you think Wales or Scotland will get independence through the House of Lords of the House of Commons where they have minority reps? How do you think East Timor would get independence from Indonesia when they had less that 10 percent of the representation? The people should be the motivators and drivers for regional autonomy and not politicians paid largely for their own comfort and not necessarily for the comfort of the people. People must realise that this involves local and international mobilisation of the mass of the people. I ask, how many southerners in the UK can volunteer a day to sit at the Nigerian Embassy drawing global attention to restructuring in Nigeria, but thousands will volunteer to attend boat regalia in Italy, dance and ceremonies in East London. If we all don't bend our back, tyrants will have nothing to ride on! Adewale Adeoye

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Subject: [OmoOdua] Re: [africanworldforum] Re: Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

 

"Yet, the yorubas who claimed they stood to PERMANENTLY gain the most from the implementation of the Confab's agreement, the yorubas who noisily cried out the most for a Confab to get this wrecked nation on a new footing, the yorubas who at a point threatened secession if certain VITAL points to them were not injected in the Confab's final result, are FINALLY those who, at the last dramatic minutes, turned around and voted AGAINST the one man on the path to making their long held dream a reality.".......Igboika Nwadi-egbo, Man with Leprosy.

Afis comment: Igboika comes out periodically from the Evil Forest where he lives, to tell Yoruba what they need and what is good for them.

Would it not worth his while if the Nwadi-Egbowho is afflicted and,  being eaten up by His leper condition,  to face his Igbo failures and try and rectify those failures that giving useless advise to his Yoruba superiors.

GEJ can't pee in a milk can by himself if his life depends on it.

GEJ had no intention of implementing any Confab report.

And the Confab report, to go by what he had done against Yoruba for the last six years, won't favor Yoruba one bit.

Now, let's for a minute indulge ourselves and think along with Leprosy man Igboika.  Towards the last two years of GEJ's presidency the NASS had been hostile to GEJ.

So how in hell was he going to make them pass a document that the whole North was against?

Or the Northern part of NASS won't participate?

Igboika you and your brethren or your kind have no political Head.

You think thru your Igbo asses, and what comes out of your buttock holes you call "Thoughts", while the rest of the world call those your "Thoughts" nothing but "Farts"!

Shikena 

Afis

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Let's be frank about this, but without going to the lows of Afis Odidere, we must recognize that Brother Yinka Odumakin is sulking! Shikiena!!

If not, when did this Arewa Conquest commence in Nigerian political domain......even with Arewa Generals hand-picking Obasanjo or Shonekan to become Heads of State? Yes, some power-hungry people from any ethnic group may want to retain power in their regions whenever the seat of power moves through them; but its usually not a conspiratorial quest of a whole ethnic group or region. Interestingly, any time a Nigerian leader loses an election or bid for an office, he/she starts invoking nonexistent "Alien Attack" on his/her ethnic group; and its this habit of ethnic pandering and irredentism that has messed Nigeria up for so long; a lot of political leaders use and hide under ethnic clarions to dupe the society and have their selfish ways! We must watch out for these mischiefs to prevent too much distractions in the polity!!!

Now, Watch Out, and y'll find that people like Brother Yinka will want to explain essentially every move, action or gesture of Buhari in ethnic colors; and that is WRONG! Take care. JUI

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I always think that a serious leader who wants to restructure Nigeria needs to learn how to walk the tight blade edge of power and avoid the historic traps set by tyrants of yesteryears. Such a leader actually does not need any confab to at least take simply but significant drastic steps that will make restructuring easier. Such steps include but not restricted to the following: (1) Posting of Police Commissioners, DPOs and police ratings to their states of origin. This is the cleverest way to go on state police. (2) instructing each state to set up Vigilante Corps. In fact many Northern States have armed Vigilante groups funded by the state governments though some of them mischievously oppose state police. (2) Decentralisation of the Military institutions like Nigerian Defence Academy,(NDA), Zaria; Nigerian Military School, Zaria; Police College, Kano; Nigerian Armored Brigade, Bauchi etc All the Commander-in-Chief needed was a one-page letter that would create each of this institutions in each geo-political zones. Today, all these institutions remain in one section after Southerners have ruled since 1999 for 14 years. (3) Decentralise the NNPC and create regional Oil Producing blocs--SW Petroleum Corporation, SE Petroleum Corporation, NE, NW etc. This should be complemented with building refineries in oil producing states. Four could be built in 5 years. (4) Decentralise Customs and have Regional Customs Authority blocs. (5) Encourage Regional Associations, Labour Unions, etc. (6) Create Regional City Centres: Ibadan, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Kaduna and FG should fund them instead of the bogus Millennium City being built in Abuja. The fact is that both Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan had a huge, rare and unequaled opportunity to address this agelong injustice, but they allowed themselves to be bogged down by self-inflicted red tapes. State Governors also did not help the situation. Their counterparts did not call press conferences before creating Sharia Laws, they simply defied the convention and listened to popular will of their people. States in the south should have set up structures and pillars to aid regional autonomy. Well, as it is, genuine people should organise themselves to demand for greater autonomy and that simply put, is the path to Nigerian greatness. Given the configuration of politics and power in Nigeria, it appears that restructuring will hardly come through the lopsided National Assembly or states created at disadvantage in the first place, it must be through effective popular action of the people. How do you think Wales or Scotland will get independence through the House of Lords or the House of Commons where they have minority reps? How do you think East Timor would get independence from Indonesia when they had less that 10 percent of representation at the centre? The people should be the motivators and drivers for regional autonomy and not politicians paid largely for their own comfort and not necessarily for the comfort of the people. People must realise that this involves local and international mobilisation of the mass of the people. I ask, how many southerners in the UK can volunteer a day to sit at the Nigerian Embassy drawing global attention to restructuring in Nigeria, but thousands will volunteer to attend boat regalia in Italy, dance and ceremonies in East London. If we all don't bend our back, tyrants will have nothing to ride on! Adewale Adeoye

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Arewa Songs Of Conquest (1) By Yinka Odumakin

Hehehehe!

Funny people!

Decentralisation. Regional autonomy. Self determination. Hehehehe.

I dey laugh o!

Joe

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> On May 30, 2015, at 2:11 PM, walead...@yahoo.com [NIgerianWorldForum] <NIgerianW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I always think that a serious leader who wants to restructure Nigeria needs to learn how to walk the tight blade edge of power and avoid the historic traps set by tyrants of yesteryears. Such a leader actually does not need any confab to at least take simply but significant drastic steps that will make restructuring easier. Such steps include but not restricted to the following: (1) Posting of Police Commissioners, DPOs and police ratings to their states of origin. This is the cleverest way to go on state police. (2) instructing each state to set up Vigilante Corps. In fact many Northern States have armed Vigilante groups funded by the state governments though some of them mischievously oppose state police. (2) Decentralisation of the Military institutions like Nigerian Defence Academy,(NDA), Zaria; Nigerian Military School, Zaria; Police College, Kano; Nigerian Armored Brigade, Bauchi etc All the Commander-in-Chief needed was a one-page letter that would create each of this institutions in each geo-political zones. Today, all these institutions remain in one section after Southerners have ruled since 1999 for 14 years. (3) Decentralise the NNPC and create regional Oil Producing blocs--SW Petroleum Corporation, SE Petroleum Corporation, NE, NW etc. This should be complemented by building refineries in oil producing states. Four could be built in 5 years. (4) Decentralise Customs and have Regional Customs Authority blocs. (5) Encourage Regional Associations, Labour Unions, etc. (6) Create Regional City Centres: Ibadan, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Kaduna and FG should fund them instead of the bogus Millennium City being built in Abuja. The fact is that both Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan had a huge, rare and unequaled opportunity to address this agelong injustice, but they allowed themselves to be bogged down my self-inflicted red tapes. Well, as it is, genuine people should organise themselves to demand for greater autonomy and that simply put, is the path to Nigerian greatness. Given the configuration of politics and power in Nigeria, it appears that restructuring will hardly come through the lopsided National Assembly or states created at disadvantage in the first place, it must be through effective popular action of the people. How do you think Wales or Scotland will get independence through the House of Lords of the House of Commons where they have minority reps? How do you think East Timor would get independence from Indonesia when they had less that 10 percent of the representation? The people should be the motivators and drivers for regional autonomy and not politicians paid largely for their own comfort and not necessarily for the comfort of the people. People must realise that this involves local and international mobilisation of the mass of the people. I ask, how many southerners in the UK can volunteer a day to sit at the Nigerian Embassy drawing global attention to restructuring in Nigeria, but thousands will volunteer to attend boat regalia in Italy, dance and ceremonies in East London. If we all don't bend our back, tyrants will have nothing to ride on! Adewale Adeoye
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>> Arewa political artistes have been singing songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.
>> Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
>> His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
>> Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
>> The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
>> I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
>> But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
>> The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
>> “Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
>> “But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
>> “And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
>> “In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
>> Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
>> Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.
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>> Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin
>> By By Yinka Odumakin
>> 6:15 amMay 25, 20150
>> Headlines, Opinion
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Arewa political artistes have been singing  songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary. But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs.

Among the former who see Nigeria basically as the northern soil and conquest from the south is Senator Saidu Dansadau.
His surname is from the Dansadau Emirate of Zamfara, the land of Sharia.He carries the typical aristocratic traits of many Fulanis,at least that was my impression when I entered his residence in Abuja in 2006 at the peak of the battle to stop Obasanjo’s evil agenda to change the constitution so he could have a third term in office.You cannot but want to give up on Nigeria when you see the same man as “navigator” carrying useless memos from some silly think-tank on the future of a country he nearly plunged into war over inordinate ambition.
Back to Dansadau.I was invited to some event in Abuja in 2006 at the Adamawa Governor’s lodge in Abuja by then Hon Sola Adeyeye (now a Senator) to gather more pressure against the third term gambit. Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar was part of the night’s event. We were about an hour into the meeting when security operatives stormed the place with an instruction to disperse the gathering.
The day after, Prof Adeyeye whom I spent the night with invited me to a meeting at Dansadau’s residence in Abuja.He was soft-spoken (as if they are trained in it) with the usual aloofness.
I did not see him again until the 2014 National Conference where we were both delegates. One of his major contributions at the conference was the call for the establishment of a Women and Children Islamic Commission to deal with the prevalence of divorce in northern Nigeria. He said men in the region were not compliant with Sharia when it comes to divorce as many kick out wives after eight children. He spoke about a gentleman who already had 78 divorces in his 50 years on earth.
But why I’m writing about him this week is his song of conquest that just went viral even before the inauguration of a northern president. It was a simple question to him on whether the APC South West demand for Speaker of the House of Representatives was just and fair. He said it was gluttonous after having the Vice-President as if there is no aspirant for the same position from the North West where the President comes from. I personally don’t give a damn how they share their spoils.
The bit that got my goat, however, were the further speaks that came from the abundance of his heart and I quote the former Zamfara Senator verbatim:
“Nigerians should take note of the voting trend since independence. In fact, since the 1950s, the North Central per se had never voted in the manner it did along with the other parts of the North as it did at this particular time. These are the kind of things we have been looking for, (for) a long time. Various initiatives have been put in place in order to see that northerners from wherever they are, from the 19 states, become one as far as voting is concerned. We are not saying 100 percent of northerners should be in one political party but that northerners should have one voice, they should decide and dictate the politics of Nigeria; like it has been before independence and even during the First Republic because of the numerical strength of the North.
“But of recent we became divided so we became so vulnerable. But God in His infinite wisdom and mercy used the goodwill of General Muhammadu Buhari and we have gotten the kind of unity that we have been yearning for, for so long. We have realised this dream now. So, now that we have achieved the unity we long for because of Buhari’s goodwill, it is only fair that we now make some efforts to consolidate these gains because General Buhari will not be the president for ever. So that after him, we have consolidated on this goodwill and we will be able to grow this unity, political cooperation, electoral cooperation from strength to strength so that the North will as much as possible dictate the political landscape of the country and what happens in Nigeria as it used to do. This is necessary because my fear is that not that Senator Ahmad Lawan is not qualified, he is very much qualified, but in third world countries where there are lots of crises and ethnicity and religions, you have to balance power in such a manner that every ethnic and religious group as much as possible will feel satisfied with the balancing of power. That is all we are saying.
“And for the North East, they really deserve the Speakership. There is no doubt going by their number and what they contributed to the success of the APC going by the candidates contesting for the position, they truly deserve a very important office in this dispensation. There is no doubt about that. But I feel no sacrifice is too much as far as the unity of this country is concerned. No sacrifice is too much as far as it concerns the growth and the continuity in power of the APC. So, in order not to take a decision that will make the strength of APC wane so quickly, I think regional groups and individuals should learn to make sacrifices.
“In fact, where I fault the leadership of the APC is why should the leadership do zoning in piecemeal? Why should they zone the Speakership to the South West? When you are taking that decision, why didn’t they take the entire zoning together? That was what the PDP did in the past and since it is good, the APC should emulate it. If any crisis arises as a result of the zoning I will blame the leadership of the APC. Why, because if they had sat down from the word go to zone all the positions, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.”
Only the naive and uninitiated would not be able to get his drift.
Senator Abraham Adesanya in his lifetime was fond of telling the story of two friends, the cock and the fox. The fox was relating with the cock with respect thinking that the comb on its head was a burning fire until the day the latter, driven by greed, asked the former to feel his head in exchange for a favour. The fox did and discovered that what it feared as fire was so cold and delicious. That was how the cock that was hitherto feared became a regular meal for the fox.

 

Arewa Songs Of Conquest (2), By Yinka Odumakin

By By Yinka Odumakin  

6:15 amMay 25, 20150

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[FREDRICK ONWUMBIKO]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? THE GIANT WINNER TOWERING OVER THE MIDGET LOSER.

Folks,

While some are enthralled by the asset declaration, which is fine in itself, anyway, there is more efficacious power position game going on in the polity between APC north and APC south west. 

 

We can all agree that Buhari is a tall aboki but this particular juxtaposition of Buhari and Osibajo had to be deliberate. Unless someone can immediately postulate why Osibajo, admittedly a short man relative to Buhari was not propped up to reflect a partnership in this inchoate administration, all I can say is that this picture is pregnant, it is a crack across the bow, it is a message that definitely speaks volumes. This is a message indeed, a message establishing the power relation between APC north and its counterpart in the south, whether the unprofessional photographer who took the picture intended it or not. Only if the message in this picture was purposive, no professional photographer worth his salt will venture or countenance this pose. Even when world leaders come together to take photographs, they are arranged in a way to avoid any absurdity and here folks, this is an absurdity. This is a demonstration of the weak position that Osibajo finds himself as a vice president unable to even correct or challenge what in its face is an anomaly. 

This picture caused me to revisit Yinka Odumakin piece. I know that some people are bordered by Yinka Odumakin's take on the aftermath of the alliance between APC south west and APC north but the import of his analysis can not be underestimated. He eluded to the master and slave relationship that the APC south found themselves when he made the following statements about the APC south:

"Like bewitched Galatians, they confused their own desires for good governance with Arewa quest for CHANGE of baton. 

The children of Oduduwa who gave an identity and the formula to engage all nationalities with pride are now hovering like Almajiris in Abuja because they sacrifice their core values to play at their traducers’ area of strength. The gloom on their faces is worse than those of who lost elections. They are now busy tearing themselves into pieces jostling for who will be the senior in the slavery they have just sold themselves to. Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti around this time in 1984, “I just dey look and dey laugh” -- Yinka Odumakin.

 "These folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of. They didn’t know that the power of cash becomes immaterial when the key to the treasury is handed to those you thought you were funding. Some folks are so poor despite having tons of cash" ---Yinka Odumakin.

The absence of artifice on the part of the north and the fact that the north will not hesitate in this early hours to rub the power relation in the face of the south west does not bode well as it relates to the expectations of the south west. Yinka might after all be right when he asserts that the APC south west got themselves into a game whose rules of engagement they don't have the faintest idea of. 

Methink that by any standard this picture is a statement of vanquish and should not be tolerated.

Good luck folks,

Fredrick.

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