NewStats: 3,259,396 , 8,169,994 topics. Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 08:57 PM 2gh4m

Nothing new. Everybody knows that since 2022.

TheChameleon:
Very dry. Nobody paid attention but me. Not even your comrades...After sweating to type your epistle.

I did it out of pity

Hehe, check the thread, na APC online rats full am because they no get work nor sleep, but Obi ers are busy sleeping while time difference make us defenders of truth to be able to checkmate you Tinubu ûrchins at all times


We are not here for likes, we are here to burst your lies and to expose Tinubu's failures to the world as a way of stopping him in 2027 In sha Allahu

biaframaster200:
How revisionists seek to destroy Lagos History as Yoruba civilisation

By Ogboni High Chief Priest Dr Oladoyin Odebowale

Here Odewale replies Engr Joe Igbokwe's treatise in Lagos

Joe Igbokwe , it has never ceased to amaze me reading revisionism being presented as historical facts. The Lagos that was designated as the Federal Capital Territory was Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos Island, Ebute Meta, Surulere and Yaba. The defunct Western Region started from Jibowu. Mushin, Agege, Maryland, Onigbongbo, Apapa, Badagry, Isolo and Amuwo Odofin all belonged to the old Western Region. Ikeja was the acronym for Ikorodu-Epe t istration. Ikorodu, Epe, Ibefun, Igbogbo, Simawa, Imota, Agbowa, Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere all belong to the people of Remo. Mushin, Agege, Alimosho and Abule Egba belong to the Egba people. Isolo, Badagry(Agbadarigi), Ijegun, Ijora, Amukoko, Badia, Isale Eko, among others, belong to the Awori. They are all parts of Lagos State now.

General Gowon created the confusion to weaken the agitation for an independent State of Biafra in May, 1967. Major General Aguiyi Ironsi had promulgated Decree No 34 of 1966, the Unification Decree, to abolish the Regions. He was also advised to harmonise the civil service, thus destroying the Western Region's civil service that was reputed as the best.

Those decisions killed him and led to the civil war. Gowon, working for Murtala Mohammed and the Fulani oligarchy, consolidated on the treason committed by Ironsi and his cohorts against Nigeria. The commanding heights of our economy in the Western Region were appropriated in the name of the fraudulent One Nigeria. Our farm settlements were disabled. Our textile industries were sold to cement merchants by the military leadership acting as proxies for the Fulani expansionists. Our people became emasculated.

Lokoja had once served as the seat of the colonial government. Calabar also played that role. Why is it Lagos that should lose her indigenous identity on of her former status?

Ibadan was the political capital of the old Western Region. The plan was solid. We had our industrial estates for real development scattered all over the space. Most of the industries in Ikeja, Oregun, Ilupeju and Apapa had the imprimatur of reasoned governance. We did not allow indiscriminate dumping of refuse on us under the guise of importation.

We had our housing estates. Bodija Housing Estate was the first in Nigeria. We had our Cocoa House, the tallest in West Africa at that time. It was our money. No Igbo had any investment there. Adeola Odutola and Jimoh Odutola were real industrialists. They produced tyres locally at Oke Ado in Ibadan. We had our paper mill. We had plantations. There was Igbeti marble industry in Oyo.

There was Wires and Cables industry in Ikeja. Red Brick industry was at Oregun. We had huge investments in Solel Boneh and Taylor Woodrow for construction. We used them to build University of Ife, the most beautiful campus on the African Continent, and Liberty Stadium, the best in Africa, where Dick Tiger fought for a World Boxing title. It was our Cocoa money. We had the WNTV, the first television station on the Continent of Africa. It was established with our Cocoa revenue too. Obasanjo and his cohorts turned it to NTA.

There was the WNBC which became Radio Nigeria due to the brazen conversion of our patrimony. University of Ife was also stolen from us by the military. We had hope. Oluwalogbon Motors, Doyin Motors, among others, operated on our land. Ladipo used to be our Palm Avenue. It was in Western Region. Alaba was in Western Region. Ajegunle was in Western Region. We did not invite anyone from his village to settle among us. We embraced them still, when they came. Our economy did not depend on proceeds from drugs, human trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, politics and the exploitation of the peoples of the South South.

The fraud introduced by Ironsi and Ojukwu, and adopted by Gowon, ensured that development is now measured in of the quantum of proceeds from oil, narcotics and politics laundered to purchase the properties of a people laid prostrate by the combined onslaught from the Sahel and the forests.

Juli Pharmacy became a Plc. It is struggling to survive now due to the criminal activities of fake drug merchants in the South West. Alabukun was produced by Chief Odulate, the father of the first female SAN in Nigeria, Chief Folake Solanke. Importers of tramadol and other substances from Asia have pushed Alabukun out of the markets on our lands. They are killing our people in a manner akin to genocide through fake drugs and beverages. They use the blood money to buy up the places rendered desolate with the of the fraudulent 1999 Constitution, as amended, an offshoot of Ironsi's Decree 34. Hypocrites continue to concentrate on the murderous activities of the so called Fulani herdsmen, who have been less pretentious.

We must be able to differentiate the Lagos Colony of 1851 from the Lagos of 1900 and 1914. The Lagos of 1951 is also different from the Lagos State, one of the contraptions created by fiat in 1967.

It disingenuous to pretend not to know some of these facts. It is this terrible mindset which predisposes some ungrateful denizens of the forests to designate our ancestral lands as belonging to no one. We have never coveted what belongs to others. No property belonging to the Igbo was seized by us during the civil war. Those who returned received all that was due to them. Ojukwu's father had properties in Lagos.

The Federal Government confiscated them for obvious reasons. He later took them to court and won. The Igbo people lost, immensely, in the South South due to their hostility against those people.

We are not aware of any compensation paid to the Awori, Remo, Ijebu and Egba owners of the space delineated and decreed to be Lagos State after the forceful take over. The industry of real merchants, industrialists and farmers built the old Western Region. It was the sweat of our fathers that others wanted to steal from us. They planned a coup after they lost the 1965 general elections and became the minority in the Parliament.

The alliance, which Zik and others refused in 1959, became important to them after they had put Awo in prison successfully. The coup failed and the war began. Ojukwu wanted Lagos. We were the focus of attack, not the North. They came as close as Ore before they were routed. They dropped a bomb at Casino afterwards.

Nobody is apologising for the incessant insults heaped on our people daily by uncouth, ill-mannered criminals who have failed to develop their backward villages.

The latest, after the invasion of our land, is the aggressive attempt to impose on us political leadership through sheer mischief and arrogance, depending on our hospitable disposition which has allowed uncontrolled influx of oriental rustics. This same attitude is replicated in all our states but not the Northern parts of the country. It is an insult to suggest, even remotely, that economic refugees, ed by the fraudulent political structure designed to expropriate our patrimony, came to invest on lands. It smacks of either "arrogance of ignorance" or deliberate mischief masked as fair-mindedness, for those, whose unfolding agenda point at a pernicious scheme to dispossess us of our patrimony, while presenting themselves as the victims. There will be a backlash very soon.

Below is the Essay by Engr Joe Igbokwe which prompted the above response

What I am reading here frightens me. May be we did not know that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 yrs and Nigerians invested here before the capital was moved to Abuja in 1990. All the federal assets were left here . No buildings , roads , bridges, markets, offices etc were moved to Abuja. I have been here for more than 40 yrs and I once sited some documents on how those properties were shared and some sold.

Today Lagos growth in infrastructure, economy, real estate, commerce, industry, transport, internal revenue can be attributed to the obvious and painful truth that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 years and every Nigerian East , West , North or South invested her. Let me ask this question: why is Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun not like Lagos? Today the growth of Lagos is filtering into Ogun, Oyo and even Ondo. Drive from Kara bridge Lagos to Shagamu interchange, look left and right and see what is happening there in investments. Ka fi suru na!!!

Today Nigerians are investing heavily in the FCT and if tomorrow the capital is moved to any other part of Nigeria FCT citizens that were paid heavy compensations and relocated by the late Justice Akinola Aguda will come and be claiming FCT. Make we de fear God now!

Today in Nigeria Igbo people do not have a quarter of what they have in Lagos and Abuja in Igboland and yet they do no care because we believe in the proverb: Ebe Onye bi ka Ona Awachi( wherever you leave take it as your home)

All these nonsensical effusions I see everyday especially in Lagos frighten me to the marrows, it is
Kindergarten, childish and at best potentially dangerous. Igbo investment in Lagos cannot be physically moved to South East Nigeria.

During the civil war from 1967 to 1970 Port harcourt people who are our brothers stole Igbo property and called it abandoned property. May it never happen again in Nigeria.

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You have foamed from your mouth a lot of lies that it may just be better for one to leave you to continue to roll around in your vomit.
For the simple minded people l will just point out two wicked falsehood from this irresponsible fellow:

-Ojukwu did not March towards Lagos because he wanted to fight Yorubas or wanted to confiscate Lagos, he marched on Lagos because Lagos was the capital of Nigeria and Biafra was fighting Nigeria. If the war were to have happened today and Ojukwu was still alive, it’s Abuja he will march against and it won’t be because he hates Gwaris.

-all the vital infrastructures in Lagos that made it unique and that offered it the platform to continue to develop at an astronomical rate more than the other states and that made it to continue to attract people from everywhere were mostly built or expanded on during the time of the oil discovery from the now south south; infrastructures like the sea port, FESTAC town, the third mainland bridge, Federal palace hotel, the airports, the barracks, government house, CBN etc. it’s this infrastructures, the sea port especially, that serve as the platform that enable Lagos to get the wealth, big markets, head quarter of companies, embassies etc that set it off on different pedestal than any other state, Abuja inclusive.

Ignore this bigoted delusional post

Peter Obi needs to move past the habit of constantly blaming others. While I’m not a er of Tinubu, it’s important to hold both Peter Obi and Governor Otti of Abia State able for their actions, especially when it comes to undermining the very party that provided them with a platform.

emkz:
That is all Peter Obi does.

Blame! Blame!! Blame!!!

He lost elections, he blamed INEC's technical glitch. If INEC had a technical glitch, show us the results from your own internal party collation. He couldn't.

He decisively lost at the tribunal, he blamed judges. So he expected judges to rule based on emotions and social media threats.

His party is facing crisis, he is blaming government.

I have noticed it is extremely difficult for Obi to articulate solutions to problems. He dances around the question or brings unrelated matters to confuse the audience. When Rufai asked him about reducing importation, he started talking about visiting prisons. When he was asked about fighting corruption, he started talking about tollgates. When they asked him about party manifesto, he started talking about how they record him in family meetings and wait for him. Now they asked about how to address party issues, he is saying Tinubu must say he wants no problems in any political party. Even his running mate said in response to a question from Seun Okinbaloye about tackling insecurity that Seun must accept that they had a solution.

If you put Obi to debate policy issues with Dino Melaye, Obi's lapses will manifest. Those who want to fix Nigeria cannot fix themselves and their parties.

You should know that if Tinubu gives INEC an order to resolve the crisis in other parties it'll be over in 24hrs.

redcliff:


So in order to answer genuine leadership, make him no talk the influence of external force on the success of him party? Everybody knows that the FG led by Tinubu has a hand in what is going on in opposition parties in Nigeria

o you handle your personal problems the same way—by just blaming your enemies?

parags:


God bless you. I have always said Obi is an incompetent leader. How many seats did LP win because of Obi? Especially in the HoA. He can't even consolidate on the small win to show people his leadership style. Now LP and PDP is in shambles less than 2 years to elections . PDP has never recovered or gain strength from the loss in 2015. LP was and is a mushroom party that lacks structure and can NEVER win the presidency without collaboration. The structure is just not there.

This coming from him just shows his incompetence.

I genuinely hope he gets better—we really need a stronger, more dynamic opposition.

franchasng:
Who sponsored Apapa the wannabe hungry man claiming to be LP Chairman shortly after the election? It's also genuine leadership that sponsored him


Tinubu is scared of Obi and opposition, so he is squandering your meager nation's treasury buying politicians and political actors.


Listen, knowing how to play Nigeria's dirty politics of bribery, thuggery, voodooism and whatnot does not make you a good leader.


Tinubu being ruthless in using state resources and institutions to be buying politicians and political actors to his side and to destabilize opposition does not make him a good leader, it only makes him a good Kingpin.



Nigeria doesn't need a ruthless Kingpin, what we need is a humane leader that cares about others, ready to make sacrifices to reposition Nigeria for greatness, not a corrupt kingpin ready to go any length to capture the entire state and destroy every opposing voices.


Peter Obi is the man to deliver Nigeria and haters of Nigeria like you know this but wickedness, tribalism and pettiness wont let you people have sense and what is right.

Fairy tales! What’s stopping LP from doing the same within APC? Honestly, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself—stop complaining and take responsibility.

Even if Gregory becomes impotent today na Tinubu.

Same as any Obi er!

We will see what we need the type of democracy Tinubu and Apc are practicing and i know all those shallow minded ing them will cry when it back fired soon….a country cannot be monopolized like he did in Lagos State and think the end results will not be disastrous

lionshare:
Fairy tales! What’s stopping LP from doing the same within APC? Honestly, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself—stop complaining and take responsibility.

Honestly you don't know what it means to be the President of Nigeria, there are uncountable things at your disposal that you can use to stabilize or destabilize whatever you wish to.



LP is not a ruling party. LP only came to limelight because of Peter Obi.


Peter Obi is the kind of leader Nigeria needs, a politician who doesn't believe in using money to convince people to do what is right, and that is the problem LP are having with him; they expect him to be doling out money to them at will, Obi that I know will never do that and that is why we well meaning Nigerians that want the best for all Nigerians are ing Obi.


If a politician spend his personal billions to get to power, it is common sense to expect him to use every method to recoup his investment because he is not an NGO.

Bola Tinubu is a big spender when it comes to politics and that was why he used every despicable means to hold on to Lagos state and her treasury which he used to buy his way to Aso Rock, Obi have a different principle and that is what Nigeria needs.


At least if Obi doesn't spend his trillions and becomes President, he has no singular reason to loot or to compromise, and he has said this several times.



If the President does not steal, his wife, children, relatives doesn't steal, his appointees will be scared and careful of stealing.


Knowing how to play Nigeria's dirty politics of throwing money, using thugs, using juju or voodoo and bribing every bribable person does not make you a good leader and Nigeria don't need such a politician. We need someone that doesn't even know how to play Nigeria's dirty politics, we cannot continue to do the same thing over and over and still be expecting different results.


Tinubu being a political master also means wasting of our common resources and working with corrupt people who will never allow him make good policies because of their personal interests which to them supercedes our collective national interest, you guys hailing Tinubu as a political master should know this by now

See who wan rule Nigeria...

Same INEC he accused of rigging elections in favor of Tinubu. Now he trust them to fix the leaks in opposition parties.

rinzaugustine:
Everyone knows tinubu have waged a full scale war on our opposition, innocent Nigerians, institutions etc using INEC , judiciary, police , army , DSS while thieves like Ganduje , akpabio, Wike, other corrupt elements around him walk around freely ….bandits, terrorists, killers, high way armed robbers are now more emboldened to unleash impunity on Nigerians causing innocent law abiding citizens live in fear… Supreme Court in their judgement granted Wike group prayers they never asked for , unprecedented in anywhere in the world to see such brazen corruption leaving the country in collapse but evil doesn’t last forever and will come to an end in a little while as it has always been…spits!

Lmaooo🤣🤣🤣Tinubu will soon give you guys erectile dysfunction

even when he speaks,he is so less inspiring…..this is the clown ipobidient minions want to foist on a nation of over 250million people? Indeed Nigeria dodged a bullet just imagine him going through the hurdles set for Tinubu before the last election

Fighting the political battle of his life both within and outside his rparty yet he still came out on top without blaming anyone

One thing Tinubu have that most of his major opponent lacks, is his human management skills……humans are the hardest people to manage, but Tinubu has been able to achieve that governing a diverse country like Nigeria and still having a grip of his party, yet a man who can’t manage a small party like Elupee is dreaming of managing Nigeria

Now lets be honest with ourselves, leave Labour party alone for now, who's causing the problems in PDP,if not Wike and who is empowering Wike, it's an open secret that majority of the governors in PDP today are jumping ship to APC because of the division and crises in the party whimsically orchestrated by Wike. It is not the Job of Peter Obi to fix the problem holistically speaking, rather it's the job of Inec, as a leader of a political party your job is to organise yourselves and it's inec's job to give authority to that organisation, now if other people decides to wake up one morning and abrogate to themselves the name and functional titles of your parties national working community, the reasonable thing to do is to challenge them in court, now the case has gone all the way to the supreme court and favourable judgement has been gotten by Obi's group yet Inec has decided to sit on the fence and do nothing. Inwc have decided to keep quiet and watch rather criminally as fringe groups emerge from the blues to claim leadership of political parties and the instruments of state watch idly. we must call a spade a spade the problems currently bedeviling political parties in Nigeria has a state sponsored colouration and it's rather regretable that rather than face governance the ruling party headed by Tinubu continues despicable politicking while being lethargic in addressing the problems besetling the Country.

Listen to a serial political wreck! Failures rather than face life challenges blame others for them.

Nijaforward:
We will see what we need the type of democracy Tinubu and Apc are practicing and i know all those shallow minded ing them will cry when it back fired soon….a country cannot be monopolized like he did in Lagos State and think the end results will not be disastrous

Lmaoo…

lionshare:
o you handle your personal problems the same way—by just blaming your enemies?

Its difficult to actually explain logic to APC people. But its okay, its expected behavior. You’re making a false equivalence here. Managing a political party under systemic sabotage from state actors isn't the same as handling personal issues. The influence of the ruling government on opposition parties in Nigeria is a well-known fact ignoring that reality oversimplifies the situation. Genuine leadership isn't about pretending external threats don’t exist; it’s about recognizing them and responding strategically. ability doesn't mean silence in the face of sabotage. Let’s be honest about the playing field.

lionshare:
Genuine leadership requires owning your challenges instead of shifting blame, because pointing fingers never leads to solutions. You must face your problems directly and tirelessly work toward resolving them. Additionally, switching political parties at the first sign of trouble shows a lack of integrity and courage. By the way, that’s a very insightful question—if you can’t effectively manage issues within the Labour Party, how can anyone trust you with the responsibility of leading a nation as complex as Nigeria?

Please help me ask both Bitter Obi and his hoebidents whether leasing the country will not face challenges? This man will bolt or cave at the first sign of opposition or resistance to any policy he put out God forbid he becomes president, he is such a loser and emotionally immature.

A bad workman will always quarrel with his tools.
No be today...

rinzaugustine:
Everyone knows tinubu have waged a full scale war on our opposition, innocent Nigerians, institutions etc using INEC , judiciary, police , army , DSS while thieves like Ganduje , akpabio, Wike, other corrupt elements around him walk around freely ….bandits, terrorists, killers, high way armed robbers are now more emboldened to unleash impunity on Nigerians causing innocent law abiding citizens live in fear… Supreme Court in their judgement granted Wike group prayers they never asked for , unprecedented in anywhere in the world to see such brazen corruption leaving the country in collapse but evil doesn’t last forever and will come to an end in a little while as it has always been…spits!

mumu talk!

A glimpse of the problem we would have had if PO had been the president of the country... We would have been here blaming the world super powers for having so much interference in our affairs. Atiku can't help PDP, Obi can't fix LP... Why should Nigerians look up to you...?

MightySparrow:
Why l I like Tinubu is that he doesn't respond or react to cries, whinings, and criticisms.


Atiku, Hell - Rufai, Peter Obi, and others are just like mosquitoes whining, the noise cannot deafen anyone's ears.

The question they should ask him , is that , has he gone to meet Tinubu to help him fix the crisis in Labour Party just the same way he met with Yar’Adua to help him fix APGA

redcliff:


Its difficult to actually explain logic to APC people. But its okay, its expected behavior. You’re making a false equivalence here. Managing a political party under systemic sabotage from state actors isn't the same as handling personal issues. The influence of the ruling government on opposition parties in Nigeria is a well-known fact ignoring that reality oversimplifies the situation. Genuine leadership isn't about pretending external threats don’t exist; it’s about recognizing them and responding strategically. ability doesn't mean silence in the face of sabotage. Let’s be honest about the playing field.

So you are saying out of 100 problems facing labor party today , non of them are from Obi and Abure but everything is on Tinubu , so Tinubu should leave his Job and be fixing PDP and labor party internal problem . When Tinubu tried to settle the PDP problem in river state , they nearly have his head that he has no right to interfere in opposition party

franchasng:
You guys don't know the enormous power a Nigerian President commands in Nigeria; Nigeria's President is more powerful in Nigeria than an American President is in the US. There is so much power and state resources available to Nigeria's President to use as he pleases.


Once you become Nigeria's President, you can do and undo if you decide to. Goodluck Jonathan was a good man that decided not to use all the Presidential power available to him which Pa Tinubu is using now to the extreme to destabilize every opposition and to buy every buyable Nigerian politician and cashvitists.


If you position yourself very well through proper media visibility as an opposing voice, Tinubu will send his boys to approach you with two options; and get this or refuse and be dealt with, so depending on your integrity and past records, it will be left for you to decide whether to them and get some benefits or refuse and get decimated using state mercenaries and institutions

Yes Nigerian constitution gives the president a lot of power and yet Obasanjo and Buhari as civilian presidents with military background could not solve Nigeria religious,ethnic and tribal crises before leaving the government. It takes more than constitutional empowerment to rule Nigeria successfully.

olaolaking:
Tinubu sef. 😄😀. Tinubu also caused the problem in APGA making him to leave the party.

Ask him who caused his gap tooth. You go hear wetin the osanyin man go talk.

It is on record now that any party that the rudent port to will scatter beyond mending. He PDP and since them their problem tangle in a way that can't be resolved.


He LP and everything scatter such that no known solution.

Apapa was in LP more than 15 years before Obi ed but they end up claiming he was planted by FG. So he had been planted 15 years ago to tackle Obidents that 2 years ago and never knew he would be here? Shai!

They gang up against Apapa and ed Abure. They finally pushed Apapa aside and achieved their desire of installing Abure.

Today, Abure is in their black book. They claim he's working for Tulumbu.

Walahi Obis are not normal.

Obi gan-an is an irresponsible one. He never took responsibility for anything at all.

Although you might have a point with naive Obi n elupee But lets face the reality

Tinubu is a strategist, Buhari made him vulnerable 2023 election, now he is in power he wont take chances counting on Nigerians to Vote for him, ahead of 2027 Tinubu is playing a mind game to kill the morale nigerians might have towards that election

Continuous publicizing mass defection to APC is a strategy to make Nigerians lose hope ahead of 2027 n its working, what is happening now is 1st of its kind in Nigeria, the pattern we see now is not different from what we have always seen in Lagos, Tinubu hijacked opposition in Lagos nd even pick their candidate for them via proxy

Tinubu knows Nigerians dont love him, so his best move as always being to alter or cancel real opposition. funsho williams was a real opposition, he couldnt allow

franchasng:
Who sponsored Apapa the wannabe hungry man claiming to be LP Chairman shortly after the election? It's also genuine leadership that sponsored him


Tinubu is scared of Obi and opposition, so he is squandering your meager nation's treasury buying politicians and political actors.


Listen, knowing how to play Nigeria's dirty politics of bribery, thuggery, voodooism and whatnot does not make you a good leader.


Tinubu being ruthless in using state resources and institutions to be buying politicians and political actors to his side and to destabilize opposition does not make him a good leader, it only makes him a good Kingpin.



Nigeria doesn't need a ruthless Kingpin, what we need is a humane leader that cares about others, ready to make sacrifices to reposition Nigeria for greatness, not a corrupt kingpin ready to go any length to capture the entire state and destroy every opposing voices.


Peter Obi is the man to deliver Nigeria and haters of Nigeria like you know this but wickedness, tribalism and pettiness wont let you people have sense and what is right.

You a mumu man so if you become president you will cry opposition is reason for insecurity

You take charge of your party when Buhari use tinubu boys against him as a leader he went to meet them and plead with them

So if he become president you will tell us cabal are the one controlling your government this shows biggest incompetence if you can’t control a party from opposition then you can’t manage a complex country

See person wey them wan give us as president
What a failure
He cannot even own up to his responsibilities
He would blame America for not being able to solve Nigeria’s problems
Indeed we dodged a bullet

He needs to look up the word "sagacious" in the dictionary.