By Joseph Edgar

This morning, on my way to work, Jimi Disu, a radio presenter, came on air as usual for his morning talk program. Uncle Jimi is someone I really find engaging. I do not agree with him most of the times because I believe that his positions are sometimes quite archaic and off tune. But this time around, I found myself nodding as he spoke.

Then the presenter opened the program with issue on relegation of Yoruba race in this dispensation. A report, according to him, had stated very clearly that the Yoruba race had been relegated and that the people of the tribe were having the short end of the stick in this administration despite all they had given in propping up the administration.

If there was anything more preposterous in this life, it could be that i am yet to witness one. If this was not an attempt in serious writing, I would have really laughed or said something that would be quite inappropriate. The Yoruba people if anything are the greatest beneficiaries of what for sometime has been looking like a contraption called Nigeria.

Let me even forget about the past and situate my discussion on this dispensation. How can a race having representation in the Vice Presidency, Ministires of Finance, Works, Housing and Power, Communications, FIIRS to mention a few cry out like this. To boot they have the most influential Party Leader who can stand the Presidency face to face from their fold.

Furthermore, they even control the economy. I hate to sound petty but take a cursory look at our so called Blue Chip companies and see who the CEOs are. For crying out loud, the Chief Transport Officer of one of the IOCs in Eket is a Yoruba Man. A transport officer role that do not need any kind of specialized skill is a Yoruba man and based in a community whose land produces the oil with a teeming population of jobless and highly skilled youth. Yet someone has the Bile to make this kind of statement.

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