I read this very interesting piece from Babatunde and I cannot help but shake my head in pity. Although his concern are genuine and it is an issue that has been on the lips of the Yorubas for the past two weeks or so, but I still find it horrible and difficult to comprehend how our people think. I am a Yoruba man myself, but having come to grasp the kind of politics and intrigues that goes on among the Nigerian elites, I have come to realised that our problem is not really the problem of who is in a particular position or not, rather, our problem is the problem of the ruling elites who have constituted themselves into a cabal oligarchy and are holding us to ransom!

Prior to the ascension of OBJ to the presidency, our shout in the south has been that northerners are the ones that have been in power for the larger part of the years of our independent. We shouted, cried and even demonstrated on the streets that the next leader must come from the south. We even threatened to secede if our wish was not granted! But alas! What did we get out of the eight years that OBJ used in power? What tangible developmental project did he carry out in the south? What did we gain as an ethnic nation in the Nigerian nation from his eight years of presidency? Was it not during his tenure that a Yoruba minister of works deliberately scuttled the maintenance of roads in Lagos state just because of his political affiliation forgetting that it is his people, the Yorubas, who will suffer in the end? Was it not during the tenure of a Yoruba presidency that the issue of withholding state money came up? Was it not during the tenure of a Yoruba president that we witnessed gross abuse of power and unleashing of political thugs in Yoruba land? Common, my brother wake up! The issue of Nigeria has got nothing to do with who is in a position or where that person comes from, it is an issue of thugs, thieves and opportunists taking over the reign of governance! And tell me, omo iya, what did the Yorubas benefit from all the former ministers, chairmen, ambassadors etc and even the former president himself during the last regime? Please my people wake up!!!

Having said that, however, I agree with you that there should be fairness and justice in all that we do in this nation because if there is anything that OBJ ever did well during his tenure, it is the fact that he circulated our wealth to all his cronies from all parts of the nation and not just a part and he actually deserves credit for that. Though personally I did not expect much from this new president because he has shown that he has no sense of direction and most importantly no grip on power, he should nonetheless show some maturity by emulating his boss in the sharing and distribution of our wealth to his own 'people' too. He will be doing himself a lot of good if he did not restrict the national cake to his cronies from the north only but spread it to all parts of the nation so that when the time come for reckoning, he will be able to garner 'support' from all parts of the nation for his defence like his boss.