They came with offers. I chose the people.
Integrity over influence. Always.
Because the spirit of my ancestor is not for sale —
built on resilience, driven by enterprise, and rooted in unshakable pride. ✊🏾🔥
I'm Yoruba and I daresay thay Yoruba and 'accommodating' should not be in the same sentence. I had a 4-month stay in Obosi as a young girl in 2008 and I was treated like a princess by the villagers. I served in Jigawa for 1 year, and without the religious intolerance, it would have been the best year of my life. Everyone genuinely loved and looked out for me without judgement and gossips.
No condescending remarks or tribal slur. Unlike my people who have a slur for every tribe. People know about the malo, Isobo, nyamiri, and ajeokuta ma mumi but Agatu was a slur for an incomprehensible idiot person all my life until 'Agatu massacre' of 2016 when I realised it was a town in Benue state. 'Igbira' was a slur for a nonentity and never do well until I studied in University of Ado Ekiti from 2002-2006 and realised that Ebira was a tribe of one the most hardworking and beautiful people ever.
Even among the Yorubas, the faux sense of superiority is unbelievable. The Oyos think they are superior to the Ondos and Ekiti people (who are the aggresive, cantankerous people)
Not so long ago, the Ijebus and Egbas were the fetish, occultist and lavish people that Oyo and Osun people won't want their children to marry. The Ijeshas were the 'Oshomaalos'.
There is a town called Ijebu-jesha in my state and it is common to hear "Ijebu o dara, Ijesha o suwon, iwo wa ni iwo Ijebu-jesha'. 😄😄 (Ijebu people are not good, Ijesha people are horrible, yet a man says he is Ijebu-Jesa). Growing up, elders around me would say that Lagosians were half-baked Yorubas because of their "mi de, ke de" inflections .
I thought this was an older generation problem until 2015 elections. Since 2023, we have seen full-blown bigotry, and as a Yoruba woman, I'm sad to see that young people have inherited the bigotry of their parents.
You hide under the guise of tribal solidarity to support hooligans, criminals, and thugs into political leadership and bully people with dissenting voices by calling them bastards. You jettison the virtues of "omoluabi" and reward people of questionable character with power, all because they are Yoruba.
Everyone keeps telling us that we have a problem on our hands, rather being retrospective and fixing up, we bully and threaten them.
There is an adage that says : "when we point one finger at other people, the remaining four will point back at us.
What I heard from what Peter Obi @PeterObi said is that transactional relationship with God will be replaced with an unconditional relationship with God.
I would rather have a country where I am focused on how to build a better relationship with God, get closer to God than one where I am praying to God to solve problems that he has given us brains to solve.
I HAVE FOUND THE BOLT
DRIVER THAT WAS A$$ULT3D BY THE HONORABLE MEMBER WHO CLAIMED TO CLAIMED TO BE A SENATOR MR ALEX MASCOT IKWECHEGH.. THE BOLT DRIVER REVEALED THAT
HE WAS TAKEN TO THE POLICE STATION AND WAS PUT BEHIND COUNTER TILL EARLY HOURS OF tHIS MORNING, HE ALSO SAID HIS CAR WAS
COLLECTED BY THE POLICE AND THE CAR IS STILL WITH THE POLICE, HE REVEALED THAT EVEN IN FRONT OF THE POLICE THE HONORABLE
MEMBER INSULT3D HIM MORE AND NOTHING WAS DONE, THE HONORABLE MEMBER WAS INFACT ASKED TO GO HOME AND THE IPO STARTED HARZZING HIM THAT WHY WOULD HE POST THE VIDEO ONLINE,THIS IS NOT FAIR AT
ALL, WE ARE ALL NIGERIANS.
PLEASE REP0ST THIS POST.
Dear Dishonorable Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, the good people of this country need to understand the audacity you have, to threaten to lock a citizen of this country in your generator house and make him disappear.
- ‘Do you know who I am?’
- ‘I am a Senator in this country’
- ‘I will lock you up’
- ‘I will keep slapping you’
- ‘You this rat’
- ‘Nothing will happen’
- ‘I will call the IGP right away’
You will still have to explain how many Nigerians you have actually disappeared until it was Mr. Stephen Abuwatseya. After which, you will leave that office and face criminal charges, else there will be no peace for you.
Signed: Office of the Citizen, Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Davido will come to the shrine with 100 guys, he would drink without paying, but when it was time for his wedding, I didn’t get IV. I was pained” — Seun Kuti
This has never happened to Yorubas before. Even under Military Dictatorship, it was not this bad.
STOP TRIBAL POLITICS!
It only brings hardship and hunger.
EMBRACE COMPETENCE AND COMPASSION.
Thats the only way we can transform our nation for good.
Ire o✌🏽