I am sorry Dr or Mr Bode I don't know how to address you because I am new to the forum even though I know some of the participants here before now.
That statement by Dr. Nwakama is typical and was calculated to diminish both political parties.
He made it look like the both parties were built around Obas and Emirs.
It make sense why one will choose to attack what you perceived as the greatest strength of your opponent that one knows he lacked.
Both Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri had civilizations that preceded colonization. They built empires and lived in well structured societies that could rival with any civilization of its time. As a matter of fact the Yoruba people lived in walled cities like the Roman and Greek civilizations did.
Unlike our brothers from the East of Niger River who lived in less structured society and whose all major cities were built by colonial masters as provincial centers.
How do you now build a system of government that will leave out a substantial part of your history? The Japanese created a role for its monarch, Britain did and many other civilized countries across the world. What makes such structure a "political ideology?"
I am shaking and scratching my head in Prof. Bolaji Aluko mode.
Ayo
--I am not sure I agree completely with this statement. There was the story of Bode Thomas slapping or being rude to an Oba, which we were told resulted in the curse that killed him. And also the deportation and exile of Oba Olagbaju by the Action Group among many conflicts between AG and the institution of monarchy in the West. The agenda of the AG was more focused on rapid modernization and radical change, and not merely preservation of tradition and Obaship. They used the institution and not the other way around.BodeOn 4/28/15, 8:53 PM, "Rex Marinus" <rexmarinus@hotmail.com> wrote:They each catered to the preservation of the same traditional, conservative political institutions of the monarchs of the west and the feudal oligarchies of the North.
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