Lagos is open to every tribe to explore and fulfill their dreams. We have heard people who are from the South East telling their Lagos story, and sweet ones at that. They tell their Tinubu stories and how they were able to fulfill their dreams with the magic touch of the great leader. But that is not the case in the South East. If you are not from the land, you will rot with your dreams. The discrimination and tribalism in that part of Nigeria is worse to such an extent that someone from Imo state would dare not look for a job in a neighbouring Anambra state. Now imagine you being a Yoruba man looking for job yonder!
@Fagabamila Oluwadamilare narrated his Anambra story from my inbox. This is what he wrote:
As a fresh graduate in 1988, I moved to Onitsha with my brother newly transferred from Ibadan to African Feb publisher Nkpor Rd. I searched for jobs everywhere, including the State Ministries in Awka plus Premier Brewery, but all to no avail. Meanwhile, there were advertisements running on the radio and daily newspapers that those places I went to were looking for people to employ.
After appointments upon appointments by the Personnel Manager of Premier Brewery, then one Mr Chuks called me. He felt pity for me and told me he didn’t have the power to employ me, or else he would have liked me to work there. He gave me two hundred naira and advised me not to bother myself coming again.
I left. And right outside the gate, by the left side, a woman was there selling snacks. I bought a bottle of coke with a meat pie and told the woman to offer a bottle to a young man sitting in one corner. That was when the young man asked me about my mission at the company. He said he had seen me more than three times and had been wondering what my mission was.
After narrating my story that I had been coming to seek for job, he told me they can never employ me anywhere in Anambra state as a Yoruba man, except the Federal Government employed me and had me transferred there. He told me never to stress myself again on anything.
From that day, I stopped looking for jobs there and started applying for any job I saw its advert in Port Harcourt. I ended up as a bus driver running Onitsha to Awka, or Enugu loading from upper Iweka or boromio hospital junction Nkpor old Rd. I did that for quite some time till I secured a job in Slumberger Trans Amadi Industrial Layout PortHacourt in 1993…. This is my own story of Anambra state
Now come to think of it, these are the same people that will call Lagos a no man’s land. These are the people that will be telling us how Tinubu should or should not have run Lagos state, even when the same Lagos is where they fulfill their dreams. These are the people that will condemn our own Leader while selling Peter Obi to us as the best material that will liberate us all as a Nation. We have several Igbo people telling us their Tinubu stories and how he helped them achieved their dreams, now where is Peter Obi’s stories by our Yoruba people in Anambra state?
Until we wake up from our deep slumber to realize that we will be losing our best opportunity to transform Nigeria by rejecting Tinubu who is a selfless leader and a detribalized Nigeria until we come to the understanding that a leader like Bola Tinubu is very rare in the Nigeria of today, until we all rally round the Jagaban of Africa to make him our next President, our country may continue to wander forever without achieving it’s full potential.
For a greater Nigeria, Bola Tinubu is the answer.
©️ Fattykolly Ibn Alimi
