Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SATURDAY ESSAY:That Thought-Filled VP Yemi Osinbajo Speech - by Bolaji Aluko

Outsider weeping more than the bereaved?

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Sent: 22 April 2023 23:36
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SATURDAY ESSAY:That Thought-Filled VP Yemi Osinbajo Speech - by Bolaji Aluko

 

The same old story.

'... the historical  and grating Igbo sing-song of Lagos being "No Man's  Land".   The ensuing victory crowing, and the bending of  LP gubernatorial candidate Chinedu Gbadebo  Rhodes-Vivour to his half-ethnic Igbo roots ''

Could you please provide evidence of this sir?

Anti-Igbo demonization is an old APC tactic.

What led to the Oba of Lagos declaring ''if Igbos dont vote for my candidate Ambode, I will throw them into the lagoon''?

Did Igbos crow about anything before that happened?

Was there any candidate with an Igbo mother or any kind of Igbo roots  like Rhodes-Vivour on the ballot then?

Kadiri has insisted that he has a right to refer to intellectuals who obfuscate reality as dishonest intellectuals and he has been given support by at least one person in his declaration.

What name is to be given to those who keep  chanting in rhythm to a political strategy whose allegations they cannot validate?

APC has successfully hoodwinked a good no of Yoruba people, including members of the Yoruba intelligentsia, through its ''they want to steal Lagos from us'' campaign.

But the real owners of Lagos are the people who defeated APC in the Presidential election.

Cosmopolitanists who are tired of the business as usual culture of APC and PDP.  

Nobody knows tomorrow.

thanks

toyin

thanks

toyin

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 at 23:24, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

*SATURDAY ESSAY:That Thought-Filled VP Yemi Osinbajo Speech*

Here are my several take-aways from his recent speech at NIPSS.

1.  The Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC caused unnecessary religious  tension,  when in fact seventeen other political parties were presenting their own mixed and singular religious and non-religious tickets, giving quite a latitude of alternative choices. Osinbajo's reference also to an intra-religious rivalry in politics was an oblique reference to hints of evangelical/non-evangelical, Anglican/Catholic preferments which Obi's political campaign engendered.

2. With the split of PDP into three mixed-religion tickets,  clearly politics trumped religion, otherwise they should and would have come together to defeat the Muslim-Muslim ticket, whose almost nine-million majority votes were the only ones that passed constitutional muster.

3.  Osinbajo spoke about his unhappiness with prophets.  The only ones I heard were Christian political prophets prophesying an Obi/LP win and demonizing everyone else who supported anyone else, particularly the Muslim-Muslim ticket. For this Christian, that was most embarrassing. 

4.  Of the four main parties and personalities, two election results were clearly ethnically sectional: (i) Kwakwanso's NNPP in Kano State and (ii) Peter Obi's LP in the South-Eastern states. The other two candidates had healthy votes outside their geopolitical states of origin. 

 5.  Finally, the rawest form of ethnic tensions to which Osinbajo referred occurred only in Lagos State between the Yoruba and Igbo, when the surprising loss of Lagos State in former governor Tinubu's  presidential votes highlighted the historical  and grating Igbo sing-song of Lagos being "No Man's  Land".   The ensuing victory crowing, and the bending of  LP gubernatorial candidate Chinedu Gbadebo  Rhodes-Vivour to his half-ethnic Igbo roots leading to the March 18 guber election led to an indigenous Yoruba backlash. Rhodes-,Vivour's  routing in that election, with the resounding win of the performing incumbent governor Babatunde Sanwoolu, were the outcome.

The above are the facts, as different from fantasy.

Bolaji Aluko

April 22, 2023

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