You woke up, had your bath, left your house and headed to the park. You left your local government, your state, and your entire region, traveled to another region, another state, another local government.
You stepped down from the bus and immediately demanded that the people there stop speaking their own language and speak English instead.
Some of you are already m@d, but you don’t even know it yet.
“𝘼𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜... 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙜𝙗𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙔𝙤𝙧ù𝙗á 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩.”
— Babagana Kingibe, Abiola’s running mate.
This was long before Abiola’s detention and death, so you see, the posture was already set, and the tribalistic bias wasn’t exactly hidden.
So whatever you lots think you’re saying or even doing now isn’t surprising to students of history.
We’ve seen this movie before, and we know how it ends.
Fortunately, the yorùbás are wiser too now.
RIP MKO Abiola. 🕊️
Thank you to the APC leaders, executives, and party members across Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency who signed my nomination form. As the form could accommodate only 120 names and signatures, I sincerely apologize to the thousands of party members who also expressed interest in signing the form but couldn’t be included.
Thank you all.
The moment Distinguished Senator Solomon Olamilekan @AdeolaYAYI and other Ogun State dignitaries were on their way to Abuja to accompany him as he submits expression of intent and nomination forms.
Upon arriving at the Red Chamber after being nominated as the @OfficialAPCNg Consensus Candidate for Gov in Ogun State, I was showered with congratulations from colleagues and staff of the National Assembly. In particular, the Ogun State Indigenes Parliamentary Staff Association
In my quest to forge a united and cohesive force towards victory in the general Election, myself alongside @gboyeganisiaka, Hon. AIA and other party leaders visited HE, Ambassador Tunji Sarafa Ishola, to seek unity, reconciliation, and collective progress within our party.
While they all might be chess masters just like I am a retired Chess Master myself, none of your cousins, you or myself have put Nigeria chess on the world stage nor given so much publicity to chess in Nigeria as Tunde has.
For us old timers (I retired in 2007 with a National Bronze Medal and a 2nd place FOC), we know how much we struggled to make chess a prominent sport in Nigeria. Maybe outside Tunde, IM Odion (For his brilliant representations), the other institution that needs to be praised to high heavens is Nigerian Breweries. If not for NBL, chess would have died over 20 years ago in Nigeria.
As a chess player, you really should understand why Tunde Onakoya should get his flowers.
You will rush to marry our Yoruba men because you know.
You know they are intelligent. You know they are hardworking. You know they are charismatic. But more importantly, you know what our culture represents.
You know that Yoruba culture is gerontological and is not patriarchal in the way many others are. You know a Yoruba man will not cage you. He will not stop you from working, from earning, from becoming what you desire to be.
If it is business you want to do, he will ‘dá e ní oko òwò’ with what he has, because that is what his culture says he should do for a wife who wants to do business.
You know that to a Yoruba man, your success is his success. You are not just a trophy wife. You are a full human being - with purpose, voice, and agency.
You know he will not measure your worth by whether you give birth to a male child. Your security in marriage is not tied to producing sons.
You know that even if you have only daughters, they will not be treated as lesser human beings. They will not be disinherited. They have equal rights to their father’s estates as a male child would.
You know that if, your husband dies before you, you will not be subjected to barbaric, dehumanising widowhood rites to ‘prove’ your innocence, like drinking the water used to wash his corpse.
You know all these things.
You know you come from a system that does not always extend the same dignity to women.
You know you have it good with a Yoruba man.
But what do you do?
You turn around and show disdain for the same people whose culture gave you that dignity.
You pass that disdain to your children, so much so that one day, they will stand up, seeking leadership in the land that accepted them (because their mother’s ethnicity will NEVER accept them as fully from the ethnicity ) and boldly declare that they neither speak nor think in Yoruba.
They will stand before our kings and refuse to pay obeisance.
They will throw words like Afonja - one of the deepest insults you can throw at a Yoruba person, at us.
And when we object?
Suddenly, we are blablablaphobic. We are bigots.
If you despise Yoruba people so much, why not remain with the men and systems you come from? Why not stay with men who do not respect your agency, your voice? Why not marry a man with whom you will never feel safe if you don’t birth son(s)?
Why marry a Yoruba man, benefit from the values his culture embodies, and then disrespect the very foundation of those values?
I do not blame you.
It is the Yoruba men who become so distracted, so completely PUSSYWIPPED, that they abandon sense and responsibility, that I hold accountable.
And yes, I will say it plainly - I thank Peter Obi and his Obituaries for waking me up from the nonsense haze of Yoruba liberalism. I did not realise I was sleepwalking toward the edge. I did not know that I was using a short fork to dine with the devil, was doing hahahehe with people who hate me so much out of envy for my ethnicity, that they seek for my ethnicity's erasure and destruction.
Emi ò ni fi ọwọ́ òsì juwe ilé baba mi.
Olubunmi Ajai (Kintsugi). OAK.
If your states is where they celebrate JBL slabs, water fountain or 2km roads, abeg no put mouth for Oyo and Ogun matter abeg.
When states like Lagos, Ogun and Oyo are doing friendly banter, just be praying for better days because una never smell governance.
He is so ignorant and loud as expected. Just like those who spitefully tagged the Gateway Airport a white elephant project last year. Let me educate him as I educated them.
We are not just celebrating another airport in Ogun State, we are celebrating an Aerotropolis, a masterplan which follows the global model. I am sure he hasn’t heard that before. You guys won’t appreciate the plan now, but you will within the next 10 years.
Surrounding the airport you have:
Gateway Aviation Village: A 300-unit housing scheme. The residential backbone.
Nigerian Customs training school and forward operating base. That is a strategic federal security establishment.
ARISE Integrated Industrial Platform (IIP) Project. A >$2 billion garment & textile industrial hub. Forming one of the largest manufacturing clusters in Africa, with a capacity of 4.4 million garments daily. That is the industrial engine. There’s also the Iperu Industrial zone.
Special Agro Processing Zone (SPAZ): backed by AFREXIMbank and ARISE IIP with an initial investment projected to be around $400m.
-The first AFREXIM African Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) for Agro Export standardization is located around the Ogun Industrial/Agro belt, which is in proximity to the airport.
The airport itself is currently the most technologically advanced airport in Nigeria. The first-ever airport in Nigeria, and still the only airport to be granted the Aerodrome Operational Permit.
50 cargo flights before the end of the year.
It’s not by na me first do am. What is your plan after constructing the airport? To build hotels and clubs around it, which only has booming visitors once a year, or to build something that will boost productivity to help your state achieve its greater plan of becoming the China of Sub Saharan Africa?
Enjoy your sold out European tour, chief