Ibadan State: Beating My Tribal Drum

[Robot]

Sadly Lagos is now a relic of my past experiences, genetics and childhood pranks. It has lost its gloss. I am equally revolted by the metropolitan haughtiness of Lagos. The sordidness of suburbia does not offer me any more thrill. As ‘ageshin kole’, my emblematic home is Ibadan. What better way to show my cultural affinity and belongingness than to live under the blessed embrace of Oluyole, in the midst of my ‘kusin ciar ni’ generation. ...Read the full article. (http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11816)

[Agidimolaja]

Taju,

I have no doubt about it that you are an intellectual. But if I may ask you; did you study your history notes before writing this disjointed piece?

I wondered in vain why are thesemisplaced facts in the package you just delivered to your readers.



Taju: We have3 or4 States during Balewa era.



Agidimolaja: No sir.We did not have any State during Balewa's era.We had Regions!

As at Independence in 1960, we hadthree Regions,{East, North and West}that were inherited from colonial rulers.

In 1963, the fourth , {Midwest} was created.

At the end of the civil war as you alleged, we had 12 States. The States were however created in 1967 before the commencement of the war during Gowon's era.



Taju: Babangida created 19 States.



Agidimolaja: No, sir! Muritala Mohammed created 19 States.



Taju: The Military extended it to 26 and Obasabjo stretched it out to 36.



Agidimolaja:No sir.The Military{IBB and Abacha} streched the States to 36.

Obj did not creat any State during his era.



Taju: . . . for politicians to foreclose any desire for its creation is bunkum and idiotic.



Agidimolaja: . . . for any person or group of persons to be campaigning for creation of more States is bunkum and idiotic.

The reason is this.

Creation of more states is not the solution to Nigeria's monumental problems. Our top priority should not be to creat moreStates. Our immediate concern should be how to find lasting solutions to ourpolitical, economical etc problems.

It is no secret that those agitating for States all across the countryare doing so for selfish reasons.

Their pockets and their stomach is their Lord. Therefore their call for more States is not for betterment of the weak and vioceless people.

The list of those that are running around crying at the top of their voices are quite laughable because most of them are among those who threw this country into this sort of political and economic darkness.

It is sad that an intellectual like Taju Tijani, my good friend,has joined the group of these nation wreckers and asking for Ibadan State.Poor Taju!

Ibadan State? A city State? How many State then are we going to have when we were done?We probably would have returned back to exactly where the Europeans met us.



Taju: If it requires that Ibadan State will be birth through night vigil, white garment and red candle, prayer worriors are on standby.



Agidimolaja: Poor Taju,where were your so called prayer worriors when Adedibu took Ibadan as hostage and he reigned so supreme over the ancient big city unchallenged until his grave closed up on him?

If your so called prayer worriors are truely existing, they should have started praying for the lost glory to return back to Ibadan.

Creating an Ibadan State cannot bring back the lost old glory because those who were part of the destruction of Ibadan's old glory are in the fore front of the call for Ibadan State.

Those of us who knew Ibadan in the good old days and sees her today have good reasons to shed tears for thedeplorable condition of thebig city.

Your prayer worriors should have long started to pray and lighted their red candles and buried themselves in fastings and vigils,that the roads in Ibadan may be paved and all the destroyed infrastructures be put back in place as it was in the good old days.

Taju, most of your Ibadan legal icons that you are so proud of aresick or half dead because most of themlooked unconcerned when bloody illitrate like Adedibu took over Ibadan,rigging elections and installing stooges one after the other and was devasting Ibadan with all forms of thuggery.

I wish white garment wearers could truely effect changes in our land. I wish their vigils and red candles can stop political riggings and corruptions.

Unfortunately though, the white garment wearers are a sect of Pentecostal Christians who have long list of falsehoods, myths, make-believe etc.

Their garment may be white outside but their inner part is as dark as darkness.

If those are the people you trusted to lend handsin the creation of Ibadan State, I think you let yourself down as an intellectual.

[Gbolly]

Taju, you did well. I am not concerned about facts as mentioned by another villager, but l am very disturbed that in naming premier institutions in Ibadan, you left out Lagelu Grammar School. Why? Taju; why did you omit Lagelu?

[ComradeX]

Taju: If it requires that Ibadan State will be birth through night vigil,white garment and red candle,prayer worriors are on standby.

Agidimolaja: Poor Taju, where were your so called prayer worriors when Adedibu took Ibadan as hostage and he reigned so supreme over the ancient big city unchallenged until his grave closed up on him?
If your so called prayer worriors are truely existing,they should have started praying for the lost glory to return back to Ibadan.
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Agidimolaja,

Thanks for exposing the glaring inaccuracies and crass reasoning evident in this self-serving piece dished out by Taju, who by admission merely tolerates others, with suspicion.

[Anioma777]

Irrespective of some factual inaccuracies by the writer, I shares his desire for Ibandan state creation as I want Anioma state created too. Granted the politics and state makeup of Delta state and Oyo state are different in most aspects but it is wrong to assume most people clamouring for state creation are doing so for selfish reasons. To be best of my knowledge neither myself nor the writer has any political office or hidden agenda.

In terms of the more creation of states is not the solution to Nigeria's vast problems since the states created so far have not changed the status quo in Nigeria, who is to say this might not change in the future.

I personally think if we had more BabaTunde Fasholas' and Peter Obis' running the 36 states we will see a gradual collective upliftment of Nigeria as a whole.
Wishful thinking YES but Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE in our beloved Nigeria.