Generations of Yorubas with British citizenship!!
White shadow (Vanguard Newspaper post of 8/12/13) yours is the most ignorant, self serving comment that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead like you; and here is why. In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one, are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pay taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates the right of other citizenships nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only wait for its own demise.
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a shame that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo to Lagos citizenship.
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa, the white Europeans enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress have eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupies themselves with envy, hate and witch hunt of the successful.
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