A former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has disclosed how some monarchs from the SouthWest region deceived former president Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 presidential election campaigns.
Speaking with Punch recently, the cleric said “Did you see the photograph I saw; you saw him in the midst of obas; you saw the way they pointed their sticks (at him). If you are a Yoruba man, do they (monarchs) pray with that kind of thing? No way! ‘You want prayer? We will give you prayer’”.
According to him, religious leaders should be blamed for the role they played in Jonathan’s defeat, saying they didn’t warn him of what lied ahead of him like he (Okogie) did.
“This means they were deceptive. I am not ready to do that kind of thing. If it is the last bullet, I will rather die and meet my God. This is one thing that is wrong with this nation: we have many people that are ready to do anything because of money. They don’t think about their neighbour”.
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No comment except that,That pic is hilarious though.....
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt was an open secret na. He led himself to be misled! He himself should be blamed!
DeleteThe present state of the nation shows how previous governments, especially the immediate past administration has failed Nigerians woefully.
That has always been my argument with people who cry marginalisation as if foreigners have been governing them since 1999.
The last administration capitalised on our diversity to impoverished us along ethnicity, sectarian and political lines.
While the youth who are at the receiving end kept & still keep on fighting themselves on social media, on the streets & in beer parlours, these rulers kept on amassing wealth for their generations yet unborn at the expense of the poor Nigerians.
Stella I grew up in P.H with the fear that Yoruba people are not to be trusted,growing up my big sis was working with Nafcon then she told us that immediately she started working some people called her to be careful with the yoruba people aroun,if she really want to work for a long time in the company but she ignored those warming.According her the most gentle and innocent friend she pally with was the one that stabbed her,guess what she is from yoruba...my dear since then I fear yoruba tribe like I fear snake.
DeleteMe too! They have back stabbed many times. From yabatech to working with them in NY.
DeleteFor your mind you don talk abi, them don use your brain cook isiewu...ode
DeleteAnonymous story teller oya clap for yourself you just won yourself a trophy, so because someone betrayed your which may not be true automatically means every yoruba is a back staber, was born and bread in ph and still base there so I know rivers people like money. ona good? Mutcheeeew
DeleteI have immeasurable respect for Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie. I grew up knowing him as my god father.. and on this one, I can't but align with him. He's very brash and fearless. He commands a lot of respect and people revere his opinion. The aura I drew from him as a child has not changed. (I digress)
DeleteLike Ghanaman rightly said, it's an open secret that Jonathan allowed himself be swayed and misled. However, Jonathan isn't the first president that had selfish people around him. They've always been there. But the difference with his administration and the reason they penetrated conspicuously was becos he (GEJ) also couldn't use his discretion.
All over the world where u have powerful leaders, you'll always find selfish servants around them. But a wise leader would know how to handle such self serving individuals without offending anyone.
It's one thing to be advised to do something, and another for you to filter through the advise given you so to know which would resolve ur immediate crisis. The wisdom is what was lacking in Jonathan.. and not only the Obas took advantage of him.. everyone did. Including school children and road side musicians. He was a misguided well of fortune that every Tom Dick and Harry drew from.
Everyone else except himself benefited from his indiscriminate disposition.
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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Lolx..... Thank God they really deceived him bcos dude is a fraud......
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DeleteOnukwu mmuo @dis idiot in Jupiter
DeleteNa ur papa be fraud. Silly child.
DeleteDid he defraud you?
DeleteDidn't bother reading.
ReplyDeleteBtw...they all should just shut d fuck up.
What's d point of complaining over a spilled milk.
The election has come and gone,jonathan lost and has since moved ahead habaaa he shld just shush it and deal wv it.
Months after the election and everybody be wanting to make d news by coming to talk bout d past.
Y'all jonathan stooges should deal wt it o,una oga lost point black...can we all now forge ahead
Well said cardinal Okogie.
ReplyDeleteOnly Yoruba's can explain the pointing sticks and what it signifies. I don't tire for Lol these Jonathan stuff. People should stop crying over spilt milk.
ReplyDelete***all***
DeleteCorrection spilled
DeleteCan these people just stop brooding over the elections and support the wind of change that's already blowing. at least if not for any other thing, i know that power supply has improved sooo well now.. GEJ is the past, let's stop dwelling in it and stop pointing fingers at who said what and who betrayed who.
ReplyDeleteJonathan has moved on.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that people love over flogging dead horse eh? Everybody now have something to say? Ain't no lover of Oga Jona, but they should just shut the f up . I think only Fr Mbaka has the moral justification to talk now bcos he was the lone voice in the wilderness. So cardinal, face ur Cathedral.
DeleteWhich Mbaka?
DeleteSo it is now you know that yoruba people are betrayals. Talk to them but dont make them your friends.
ReplyDeleteThat's why you are still single. The vile in you has corrupted your mind. All the best dear as spinsterhood is your middle name. And no you are not married neither do you have a man to call your own so shut up!
DeleteTalk to them but dont make them your frnds?? Receive sense please.. jst receive. .
DeleteThat's why you chose to be anon. To be spitting out trash. Continue
DeleteAnd they are praying for one nigeria! With this mentality it is not visible.
DeleteOladele Shirley it's F-E-A-S-I-B-L-E.
DeleteNzube, you are a cow. With your ugly face. Namsense
DeleteThe pic is really hilarious...lol.
ReplyDeleteA man's love or a woman's submission, which should come first?
People can do anything for money indeed. If they had told him the truth, probably he wouldnt had gone all out d way he did.
ReplyDeleteHave
DeleteHmmmm. Ok
ReplyDeleteYorubas have being saboteurs since the days of john d baptist. They lick ur ass in ur face but quickly stab u at d back...the worst tribe to deal with if u ask me.
DeleteVery true, i too did not like that pic. when i saw it…hmmm…Let's move on.
ReplyDeleteBut what the Obas did wasn't wrong, if u asked me. It was Jonathan that sought their attention and asked to be blessed by them. Obas should be non partisan...and as such, should be open to receive any leader no matter his political party affiliation.
DeleteHe wanted to garner their support for him and he got it. As with tradition, they pointed their staff of office towards him while they prayed for him. Same way a pastor will hold his bible towards u to pray. So nothing extraordinary about the act up there. But because some Nigerians are bias, they misinterpreted the whole act and turned it against the Obas, saying that they were bribed.
Didn't Oba Adetona openly admonish Jonathan?? People have forgotten that o.
They also said the same when GEJ visited the top pastors too. And it makes me wonder, whether people expected them to refuse Jonathan entry to their territory, or to refuse him prayers. As it is now, any public person who is approached by the president would be seen as his supporter even when the person is not interested in politics. Men of God are in trouble now cos they'll be judged by whom they choose to pray for. We need to be objective sometimes though. I just tire
See their hero.
ReplyDeleteLmao.
Lol. Funny pics.
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Can we all move on already?
ReplyDeleteMedicine after death, make all of una free GEJ.
ReplyDeleteNobody deceive anybody.
ReplyDeleteBut some people betrayed somebody as they always do.
Lol. Who are those people?
DeleteAgbaya
DeleteBut...
ReplyDeleteLmao......the Obas are they God
ReplyDeleteLol. If there is one thing I have come to understand about the Yoruba race, its the fact that the word "NO" doesnt exist in their lexicon hence the accusation in some quarters that they are dishonest.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing for a foreigner to do is to acquire this knowledge and never again will you be disappointed by a Yoruba man. Diplomacy never had a better practitioner :D
On point
DeleteYou are politically incorrect my dear. When the 'NO" is non existent in their lexicon, as u put it...it means that they are telling u that they want to remain politically neutral. As giving any affirmative answer would mean that they align with a certain political party. So yes, diplomacy is activated to avoid being misconstrued. Albeit, they are still being castigated even with their 'fear" of stating the big 'NO'. Ahaha lol. Free them abeg
DeleteThey where not praying for him rather they where deceiving and eating from both sides,and oga cardinal what is the reason for this message now
ReplyDeleteAre you still on vacation or what? Eba and mixtures don fuck up your brain. You wrote it 2x
DeleteYoruba's are big time betrayer,na today. Abeg let dis man rest already
ReplyDeleteGej is in Kenya having the time of his life with his queen lady Mama Peace.
ReplyDeleteEnough please! Everybody should move the fuck on.
Thank you o!
DeleteAnd for those stupid bigots saying Yorubas are betrayed, y'all lot are quite stupid.
These people should get over it already!
ReplyDeleteThe election came and now it's gone.
They won't let GEJ wound die peacefully, they keep reopening the surface..
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ReplyDeleteThis talk na medicine after death talk jawe,let mr man take several seats,steraKork,biko borrow am one of ur chair...
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THELMA ENEMUWE said...
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eeiiisssshhhh...na today yansh de back?...yorubas been deceiving and doing oju aiye since 1900 BC..abegi make we hear word.
ReplyDeleteIt's called diplomacy. Lol.
DeleteAnd the ibos been doing what since 1300? Producing aba made since adam and eve and sell it for you at original price
Delete@oladele
DeleteThat is smartness. At least they are productive.
Na Benin girl observation
They should move on and stop accusing yoruba people for deceiving Jonathan. Rubbish
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Ever since i've bn reading the blog, this is the only man that is speaking the truth about Nigeria and her citizens. It's all about money, everything is about money. The moral justification in Nigeria is money. The way money is worshipped in Nigeria, wow..... no wonder the bible says yu can not serve 2 masters. The respected pipu in the society are the ones with money, weather it was stolen or otherwise. Money is now the yardage all the way. I feel sorry for the generation behind. What we are failing to realise is that, that kind of attitude, behaviour thinking, justification, aspirations for money is just a time bomb Nigeria is sitting on. No wonder the saying " the love of money is the root of all evil". That's why evil is flying around, walking around, running around, crawling around, in fact everything around in Nigeria. The amount of churches, mosques etc. Every friday night, Nigeria is number one nation when it comes to pipu attending vigils. But the bible says God can not be mocked. We need to go back to the basic. We need to start teaching the right things and re prioritised our visions, our aims, our objectives. At least if not for dis generation, for generations behind. Religion is now money making machine playing on pipu's vulnerability. dodo_36@live.com
ReplyDeleteNigerians went out to vote for who they wanted to vote for and the person won the elections. What has prayers or non prayers from traditional chiefs and oba's have to do with him being voted out by Nigerians who were tired of his government. I thought GEJ is a Christian so what is he looking for prayers from traditional rulers for.
ReplyDeleteAll he needed to do was pray to his God and govern his country honestly and competently that is all that is required, not prayers from traditional rulers. People always looking for excuses and who to blame. Instead of the cardinal to blame GEJ for not being faithful to his God, not surrounding himself by thieves and not robbing the country blind, he is blaming traditional rulers who pointed sticks at him. Stupidity at it's highest.
Yorubas are be betrayers?
ReplyDeleteBish, how many have you met?
I practically live in d east
Gosh! Some igbos are extremely ungrateful and disloyal (especially d girls)
Yet, there are good ones
Please don't generalize
Thank you
Okk! U live in d east! Ewoo! I tot u pple don't migrate to oda places?
DeleteSharrap there!
DeleteJonathan and his cohorts were looting Nigerians to the ground and then they go to Church to pray to God, tell me will God answer their prayers? God will never answer such prayers when his people are suffering and crying mercilessly to him. Keep blaming traditional rulers for GEJ's incompetence and thievery.
ReplyDeleteTaaar for uncle Jona,he shud av remain calm n Stp running around.
ReplyDeleteWho doesn't know Yorubas?
ReplyDeleteOn point Cardinal.
Weird looking pic
ReplyDeleteI won't blame the Obas as much as I blame GEJ's closest friends and confidants who betrayed him. Some of them secretly jumped ship while pretending to be with him. They are the major architect of his failure. The worst enemies are enemies from within.
ReplyDeleteYorubas wanted GEJ out because he was ruing the country. Obasanjo and a lot of people warned him on what will happen but GEJ thought because he was president he can do as he pleases by bribing people during elections and going from Church to Mosque to traditional rulers to pray for him, even the people closest to him were all deceiving him. They all took his money and swore for him. You think traditional rulers are stupid to pray for him and bless him when he is robbing and destroying the country. They would have been very foolish to do that and they are not foolish, he went to them, they did not go to him. We all saw how during the elections instead of him to campaign and state his intentions he was acting like a prostitute going from babalawo to church etc.
ReplyDeleteCall it betrayal or whatever you want. The next time someone steals from you, pray for him and bless him for stealing from you.
Una fear Yoruba people but yet una dey marry dem and born for them, keep deceiving yourselves there. Name a tribe that has not married a Yoruba person.
ReplyDeleteShut up..yoruba guys cannot resist igbo girls. They keep pursuing them everywhere the way flies hover around faeces.
DeleteChibaby or whatever u call yourself can u shut d fuck up?
Delete@Chibaby, And the igbo girls can't say no to them? una don craze I swear
DeleteApparently this has become a yoruba vs igbo tussle. Well since the igbo dudes won't marry their igbo babes cuz bride is a million dollars, the rich Yoruba guys that are up to the task have to help them igbo babes out Na, abi before them turn old maid for house. Onye igbo better be grateful
DeleteMechie onu, Yoruba women na wife?
Deletefunny discoveries about yorubas on stellaz blogosphere
ReplyDeleteonly Yorubas betray
only yorubas are dirty
only yorubas womanise
Only yorubas lie
only yorubas bleach
only yorubas are occultic,babalawo tins
Only yorubas are primitive
Only yorubas are......oya come under here and fill in the gap
I am proudly yoruba and the aforementioned xtics is not and can never be attributed to moi! Sink that!!!
Are u minding them, let them keep talking from their anus, fyi i'm not yoruba. :-P
DeleteMy dear, You don't allow some foolish clueless fools talk you dow, because even tho they are weĺl traveled a tim, they still would keep bein in the dark cos they have refused to learn. Ndi ala..
DeleteJonathan and his cohorts were looting Nigerians to the ground and then they go to Church to pray to God, tell me will God answer their prayers... Relationship Tips
ReplyDeleteAll those insulting the yorubas its so needless. I ask, how many votes did GEJ got from the yorubas u called betrayals? and how many votes did he get from the hausas?it isnt about someone betraying him,he is not a kid not to know his right from left,besides if the whole yorubas had voted for him,he dosent stand a chance with the northerners. Yorubas are wonderful people,so are igbosand hausas,lets stop the tribal sentiments here.
ReplyDeleteBetrayer/betrayal
DeleteAnon 12:38 thank you for that. we know dem very well. yoruba tufiakwa.
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteMove on people...Buhari is president now.
ReplyDeleteYou have all revealed the true contents of your heart; what I do not understand is why NELO was castigated and bullied for defining her choice.
ReplyDeleteStereotypes hurt but are largely accepted as true.
Nelo if you are reading this know that you are bold, and deserve to decide just as every other person does.
If the Yoruba obas deceived him what about the warri CAN president that also collected money from him knowing fully well that this will not guarantee him winning. The man knew he had failed and the only thing is to use money, the stolen money to buy vote. No tribe failed him, he failed himself because of lack of wisdom.
ReplyDeleteI know you will chop that comment but u know I stated the obvious
ReplyDeleteAn oba dont pray for someone with the staff pointed at the person. An oba only curses with the staff pointed at the person. They pray with their hand stretched out.
ReplyDeleteOne Nigeria without igbo tribe will definitely work. They are the problem as everyone can see.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a different opinion, but at this juncture, I couldn't have agreed less..
Delete2011 campaign read! Though we have our brooms in Our hands(APC) but today,we are under one umbrella(PDP). That was the Bola tinubu campaign for jonathan and the rest of Yoruba land obey the call and GEJ was voted in except people of osun state but what do we get from tthe GEj lead gov?nothing. He felt our vote doesn't count and showed him our important the Yorubas are to the united nigeria.
ReplyDeleteMschewwwwww, Yoruba this, Yoruba that...... I laugh in Greek.
ReplyDeleteI guess Ayo Oritjesafor is also Yoruba
ReplyDeleteLol na yoruba na
DeleteAs he dey bear ayo
They will prove to you he is yoruba or rather the yoruba blood in him was the "alleged" "thieffery" he commited during the last presidential tenure
No one asked you dumbo
ReplyDeleteYou and your entire hamlet, dumbo!! it wld be nice to think you crawled out of a village.
DeleteNo one asked you dumbo
ReplyDeleteHow about the Igbo men that marry Yoruba women what is your take on that.
ReplyDeleteIf yoruba guys cannot resist igbo women, can igbo women not resist the yoruba guys? No be woman dey agree to marry man? or for your place dem dey force woman to marry man. Baseless argument.
ReplyDeleteYou tribalistic bigots with short memory..Jonas initial term didn't Yorubas deliver SouthWest for him..and didn't he betray Yorubas??...small kids have better reasoning than some old people on here!!
ReplyDelete@Chibaby - so by your analogy Igbo girls are faeces?
ReplyDeleteSisi Eko you get sense and make sense.
ReplyDeletePerson wey them swear for,abi e think say na prayer them do for am..
ReplyDeleteThis a notice to you all,GEJ was just their answering president he was never doing things on his own accord they were people behind his reign..He work under instruction that's why he could not be a concrete decision...Una dey call am woman weaken president buh meanwhile he went home rich.Make una free the man make rest abeg..GEJ was a good people Lolz...in this life you no talk you die,if you talk you die..So let me talk and die...My name is Mcjwizzy de comedian without a mouth Odor...
ReplyDeleteNever do same biz in the same place with a Yoruba woman...if not RIP will be your sur name oo
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