Setting the Record Straight: Alaafin Was NOT Snubbed!
Don't let political mischief-makers and online narrative spinners divide Yoruba land.
The claims circulating about the Alaafin of Oyo being "snubbed" or "ignored" during the recent visit of the Olubadan-in-Council and Oyo Obas to President Tinubu are 100% false.
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@ThinkYoruba_1st Congratulations to the graduate! Beautiful to see Yoruba culture celebrated with such pride at Harvard. Culture truly is identity. More of this!
Awo Saw the Future in 1966. We Are Living in It. In 1966, Awo published a book titled "Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution". In that book, Awo issued a stern warning that reads less like a political analysis and more like a diagnosis of present-day Nigeria:
"The work of government under a unitary constitution is bound to become unduly complex, inextricably tangled, extremely unwieldy and wasteful, and productive of disharmony and discontent... Nigerians are unwittingly creating a Leviathan for themselves before whom they would have to go on their knees."
Read that again!.
A Leviathan is a central monster that controls everything, feeds on everyone, and serves almost no one.
In that book Awo warned that stripping regional autonomy would force diverse regions into an unhealthy, desperate battle over a single central pot, inevitably triggering administrative breakdown.
The ignorant 1966 military boys didn’t listen. Ironsi went ahead to create the Leviathan. And today, 200 million people are forced to go on their knees to ask Abuja for basic security, light, and economic survival.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu fought the Leviathan first as Governor of Lagos State, He fought Abuja for state rights, local government autonomy, and fiscal federalism, and now in the presidency pushing structural reforms. Yet, any genuine attempt to dismantle this central monster faces severe hate.
Why? Because the grandchildren of Ironsi the ideological heirs of Unitary Decree 34 of 1966 who dismantled true federalism are terrified. They benefit from the Leviathan ideology. They thrive and survive on the Leviathan model. To them, decentralizing power, returning local government funds directly to the grassroots, and reforming state-level authority is a threat to what they created ...
Until we fully break the unitary stronghold and restore genuine fiscal federalism, no leader no matter their vision can fix a machine that was built wrong from the start.
Omo yorubanimi
Alex Otti, a Labour Party governor, cannot and has not denied the tangible good work of President Tinubu. Just weeks ago he publicly praised the President’s courage in removing the fuel subsidy and floating the naira, openly acknowledging that those bold decisions freed up resources so states can now pay salaries, build infrastructure, and move from consumption to production.Even Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has publicly recognised the administration’s reforms as measures that pulled the country back from the brink of economic collapse. And your favourite intellectual, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has given clear credit to Tinubu’s team for stabilising the economy, describing the reforms as being in the right direction and stating that the President deserves recognition for that hard-won stability.When figures of this calibre — from different political and institutional backgrounds — come out to acknowledge the substance of what has been done, a call for a second term is not a threat. It is simply a statement of fact grounded in observable performance.
Alex Otti, a Labour Party governor, cannot and has not denied the tangible good work of President Tinubu. Just weeks ago he publicly praised the President’s courage in removing the fuel subsidy and floating the naira, openly acknowledging that those bold decisions freed up resources so states can now pay salaries, build infrastructure, and move from consumption to production.Even Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has publicly recognised the administration’s reforms as measures that pulled the country back from the brink of economic collapse. And your favourite intellectual, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has given clear credit to Tinubu’s team for stabilising the economy, describing the reforms as being in the right direction and stating that the President deserves recognition for that hard-won stability.When figures of this calibre — from different political and institutional backgrounds — come out to acknowledge the substance of what has been done, a call for a second term is not a threat. It is simply a statement of fact grounded in observable performance.
@TrendingEx@CitizenMonitors Dont forget few years ago you met with gumi and handshake a known person who have advocated for amnesty and dialogue with terrorist .
@instablog9ja The only thing that truly matters is the safe rescue and full recovery of those innocent schoolchildren and their teachers. Enough of the endless back-and-forth blame game, the finger-pointing, the conspiracy theories, and the political theatre.
@BRICSinfo This is really getting serious , i hope my yoruba people will have one or two to learn from this incident. Mordern day colonizatoin is real and it take form through settler colonialism
@TheYorubaTimes Our muslim brothers should be more vocal on this issue so that those who think this is about a religious issue will understand it beyond it. Settler colonists who want your land and your resources care less about your religion nor faith.
Your people are the ones who fill the Ethiopian prisons. They are there because they are IBO man i guess, in Kenya, Malaysia, and many other countries. Once you are being held for your inaction and atrocities, the next step is to start playing the victim card. Imagine a criminal still justifying his crime with other people who are still on the street committing crimes. This one is unrepetent. Twueeh
Before we point fingers at host countries or blame Nigeria’s reputation abroad, we need to hold up a mirror to ourselves.
Xenophobia in South Africa didn't just appear overnight—it stems from a long history of cultural conservatism, demographic shifts, and deep-seated fears that stretch back to the 1980s. While violence against foreign nationals is never justified, we also have to ask ourselves: Are we respecting the norms, laws, and boundaries of the lands we move to?
What affects an Igbo man in South Africa affects a Yoruba man in Ghana and a Hausa man in Europe. It’s time we talk openly about diaspora responsibility, cultural integration, and fixing the narrative together.
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“Early positive feedback from Palmer is noteworthy. Player buy-in matters a great deal after years of managerial change at Chelsea. Alonso’s work at Leverkusen showed clear structure and modern ideas, so it’s understandable the squad responds well initially. The real measure, of course, will be whether those ideas translate into consistent performances and results once the season begins. Encouraging start, but still very early days.”