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Remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or whatsapp to do at 1-803-4663. You can also tweet at us at Weishio Africa one with the hashtag Weishio. Alright so this conversation we have had it over and over and over again and we'll continue to have it because it's something that needs to be said and we have to say it. Now three things or four things I picked out from different people that spoke in those videos. The IBOs are clamoring for a leader from IBO extraction based on the fact that over the years they have been marginalised. It seemed like there's never an opportunity that is given to them to take on leadership roles because from what he said about Ikurira Madubian vice president many years ago since then no visible plan to actually zone the leadership of precedency towards the IBOs. So they are clamoring that vote an IBO man because over the years we've all been marginalised. That's the cry that I heard from the clergy man that was talking. The northerners, right? I didn't understand his video but when you start to say something around Christian northerners not being able to transact business in the south. That was I think it's a lie. I was born because let me establish it well. I was born in Kaduna state. I grew up in Kaduna state. I lived in Kaduna state up until when I had to go to the university and after university was when I left Kaduna state. So a good chunk of maybe around 20, 21 years of my life was spent in the north, right? And I know that I have been through I think maybe a minimum of four or five riots religious crisis they call the sharia crisis and all of that. And I know in those riots when Christians were being killed guess what non northern Muslims were being killed alongside Christians. So at some point in the course of the war the non northern Muslims had to partner. They had to join forces with Christians to fight off the northern Muslims. Do you understand? So I'm just trying to explain to that man that your analysis is not 100% correct because even the northerners do not see certain tribes some northerners do not see certain northern, certain tribe, Muslim, other tribes that are Muslims as Muslims. They don't see them. So that needs to be very clear in the air. When the guy said that the other man that talked about voting a Yoruba man that was just a clear ethnic disturbance for me that I couldn't even understand. So we are all on this table. I am sure I mean we are from different parts of the world. I was raised not to see people. If I hid that question, where are you from? I see people first as Nigerians. Before I didn't ask you what extraction, I don't even bother to ask. I said maybe you choose to tell me. But when you not come with that line that you are voting somebody just because he is a Yoruba man. I don't understand. Ibo's might be fighting ethnicity too or dealing with ethnicity but the message that I see from the Ibo's is more of fighting marginalization. Jonas and it's almost like you have relegated me to the back for too long. I need to be at the front burner. But when you come out outright lined with ethnic and religion lines how do we even move from there? So let me hear your first ladies. When you saw the videos, how did it come to you? I did all grippy. I don't bring them because I am a student. Last week when they were talking about what's going to change about the UK and everybody said it's just God save our king that the song had been in existence since 1722 I think. If I am correct or wrong forgive me but it's been there for centuries. They kept it. It made me think of our old anthem and I said to myself I think I prefer that anthem to what we sing now. Mainly because of this line. Through tribe and tongue, though tribe and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand. Nigerians are all proud to be themselves a fellow motherland. I think there was a time when we all saw one another as one. Even forgetting about the civil war because I can't really say I understood what it was they were fighting that maybe it was Bacassi at the time. It's not civil war. What was that war that Odup could became famous? Biafra war. Nigerians always saw one another as one and they still do a lot of times when they are in other countries. This religious slash tribal disagreements is mainly about electoral positions. Politics. I think that's what actually drove it to the point where people started saying you can't treat me like a step child. We all have rights to this thing and I'm sure amongst us you can find someone dissent enough to take a position but it's about voting. So that has to be questioned as well. If we vote the way we're supposed to vote things are clear. I don't think any tribe would be relegated to the back if votes were really counted the way they're supposed to be. A rigging doesn't happen. Then again, this tribal thing that we talk about I think if we are brothers keepers regardless of where we are, when we are brought, when you hear somebody speak and you're like ah, you're Nigerian. I may not speak your language but because you're Nigerian, you are my brother. When we are amongst foreigners, why can't we show the same love to one another? Here. Let me hear your thoughts. The topic today is can Nigerians rise above tribal and religious lines? The answer is yes, they can. If they choose to. If they choose to. When I watch this video, somehow in my mind I'm thinking of Rwanda if it's Rwandan president, I know what he did in Rwanda where all are going to have to provide licenses before. They'll probably maybe come up with something before you stand up and poop it and just talk like that. You need to have a license or put some regulation to stop people talking just out of ignorance because I see the first person talking about your bars. I don't know. It's gross ignorance. How would you stand and say such a thing? He's not speaking for me. I feel like we Nigerians first off, we are one. We are in nation before tribe. If my family is watching now, they can bear witness to this. Sometimes when they ask me, are you from the east, I'll say I'm a global citizen. It's not about religion for me because I see people first as humans. It's about your character. It's not about where you come from. So I've met Nigerians that are exhibited a kind of character in which it's not okay. And I've seen, I've made friends with the Muslims that are good and better. So it's not if we can take off. Listen, this is like a plea to Nigerians this 2023. If we can, I feel like religion, religious leaders are supposed to guide perspective of good governance. That's what they are supposed to stand in the poop it and talk about. Not inciting tribalism and all of that. So if we Nigerians, listen, we have seen enough. We've suffered enough. It's time for us to see what do we really want. What is going to make this nation better. It's bigger than tribalism now. It is bigger than who came from west, bigger than religion. Who can give us what we need. Who can take this nation out of this struggle we find ourselves now. If we can get to that point and think about it and within ourselves we judge who rightly fits this position at this time. Then who rise above this tribalism and religious. Absolutely. Not my fang. Let me quickly hear your thoughts then we'll take a quick break. You know, I'm shaking my head because this is a very touchy conversation to have. And I don't know when Nigerians are going to get it to know that when I see some of these things it's like they are playing with your head. Some people have designed something and created this confusion. So while you are busy struggling they are cutting away with your goods. They are cutting away with your resources. They are taking away your future. The future of your children. When I hear statements like this like some of the clergyman you know, professed I just see an abuse of power because yes, your opinion you might think that it's your opinion but you are a person of influence whether you are conscious of it or not. Well he is very conscious of it trust me. I want to let me just give that note whether you are conscious of it or not. When you say things like this you pretend as if people will not take it very much I am wrong with it. When we are busy fighting ourselves when these people are sharing your money they don't know tribe they don't know ethnicity they don't know religion all of a sudden everybody is one. So I need Nigerians to wake up. First and foremost we are one nation you said you don't like you prefer the old national anthem I love the one that we are using because right there one of the lines says one nation bound in freedom peace and unity it is a choice it is a choice when we choose to be free when we choose to have peace amongst ourselves in spite of our diversity when we choose to have unity because we have called ourselves a nation that is when we can thrive that is when we can see the resources that we each bring and how we can benefit from one another it is not only when I need something from you you are saying that oh that you are not going to vote for somebody XYZ but you can use their money you can use their resources you can use the things that they are blessed with but you don't want to be associated with them how low and shallow your thinking can be let's take your line and the line that I like and change our anthem and start a new narrative which will become our mission statement let's take a break right I would love to hear the thoughts of our viewers I have a few things I would like to bring because don't forget that this is all stemming from the common threat all the political leaders are kind of guilty no there is a common threat that is disturbing them stemming from us we will be right back alright thanks for staying with us now if you are just tuned in it is our ladies night out we will discuss on the topic can Nigerians rise above tribal and religious lines now please let's hear what you have to say remember you can join this conversation send us an SMS on whatsapp to 08-1-803-4663 you can also tweet at us now our phone line is now open the number to call is 07025007749 remember the rules turn off the volume of your television set so we can hear ourselves so there is a common threat in the room the elephant, the big elephant in the room is the man Peter will be that seems to be getting the wave of old and the support of a lot of young people so he is the common threat and I have also tried to study Peter will be as a person and a few times I have heard people talk about the interactions with him and also the kind of people around him so you need to understand that as a leader you must also be first clean of any form of so nobody can hold you to say this thing you are used to it you cannot say I am tribalistic because the closest of my friends they are not even anywhere near my tribe do you understand what I am saying so I need him because he is the biggest threat to most of these political leaders and that's why we are seeing all these agendas flying all over the place I need him to also re-evaluate all the people that he has brought around his campaign team the people that are closest to him you need to be able to have diversity in your team you have to have diversity in your team but I wanted to say something because on Monday we had a guest after the show we were talking about how a particular country was this Switzerland also that had like six they had like six or something so is this possible that maybe if we get to that point where we just say you know what let's go back to a regional system where every region provides a leader is it possible that because if we are talking about marginalization I don't ever be a president to you and just we are in lots our statistics are staggering in Kadinay alone I heard there are 400 languages for goodness sake I always advocate that can we just have a one language system in this country because it is not because those are the things that show the diversity is supposed to be our biggest strength but every single time I have seen it bringing a lot of conflict a lot of problems more and more so I am thinking can we go to a system where we speak one language we have one vision one goal one everything and everybody just understands that this is the mission this is who you are I am Nigerian first take out this where you are feeling your form take out that local government where you are coming from take it out maybe if we get to that point let's just find the solution to this because let me tell you something politicians will always play tribalized and religious lines because they know it is a trigger it distracts you from the real issues it is an auto trigger once they mention it like that people lose their senses even people that have phds have seen them argue nonsense so how do we rise above this thing you said that we should all not be able to speak one language with the many languages in Nigeria the only language I would suggest is love or humanity we can't change our mother tongues and we can't change the diversity in our communication whatever you call it the language we should speak is love and love for humanity the things these people are doing that they think is so innocent for a Yoruba pastor or whatever that guy says is to stand on a pulpit and speak the way he speaks this is how genocide starts if you are not inciting and the government will not see him to go and arrest him he should be arrested actually because what he cannot do that is different what he cannot do that is different he was fighting for his people trying to say that oh we should think about the difference he is inciting what and this is how genocide started I sent it in the group the other day just few days ago saying oh you should watch this movie in the sky apparently that movie was over 20 years ago I didn't realize it I thought it was new and they were talking about the Biafran war was a focus and it was all about tribe against tribe and you know that you can influence thoughts and you speak there should be a law against it like I said the day I am in said freedom of speech you can have but freedom after speech is what I can guarantee also very quickly Basi from Basi are you there oh we lost him United Kingdom diversity Scottish Welsh different languages and they still see themselves as one languages would always yes you can't change it that's your mother tongue that's the way you sound even me Yoruba someone else would call it Akboti different languages but we are still Yoruba when we say wazubia we are there for Nigeria so how are we going to stop this if we just don't speak one language called love absolutely let me come to you come back to Gloria I mean it's just very sad that this game is a recurring game especially when there's elections coming up and I really pray that our people will rise above the mentality that we've been fed over the years I keep saying that this is learned behaviour they taught us there was I mean I grew up in the north my darling let me take Khalio before we lose him again Khalio from Lagos State thank you for calling I grew up in in the north when people ask me where am I from it's a very very tricky question every single part of Nigeria if you call the north I grew up there if you call the east I was born there if you call the south I schooled there I'm married there and I'm married in the south south so which one am I going to claim do you understand so literally I can connect to anybody I've travelled across all of the parts of Nigeria for one reason or the other and that's why I can confidently say that I'm a Nigerian because I have tasted of the rich culture and I can identify with the people even though they are not where I'm from but I can connect because eventually what we all are looking for is the same thing we are all looking for a better life we are all looking for good quality education for our children we are looking for great infrastructure we are looking for everything good so why can't we collectively just be one let me take Khalil I think he is back again we keep losing the call we can collectively come together and say what do we want so you know what you just said because I'll come to you Gloria because you see exposure is very powerful a lot of these people that are continuously being fooled into this religious or tribal division if you check they are highly ignorant high level of ignorance so people have not even crossed Legos they have not even gone to Nibbado let me take Sheena and I will continue my thoughts Sheena you are alive Hi praise the lord go ahead first time of listening to this program I'm so happy to be part of it you're welcome yeah part of the videos you played from the program tonight one thing I do tell people when it comes to Nigerian issue is that people use emotion to attack it we don't look very well and we don't listen very well that's why we are in this mess today you know I too I still in the north not say try to be precise and most of my classmates they can testify to that I've never for a day you know attack any track I see everybody at one area and that thing took me through all my state in that environment if a Igbo man or Yoruba man add issue in my class they will come to me to come and say the that issue once we see ourselves as one country as a brother sister we do not be into this mess anymore thank you so much religion is one of our problem we try not to problem individual personality thank you absolutely whatever you learn from the home is what you advocate outside absolutely I was born and brought up Muslim environment but if you come to my family I have friends that are Christian we go to church together we attend the same mosque that I went in the Ramadan period you know the way we think we take it very easy before any problem can be solved we talk from home we talk from outside absolutely thank you so much I mean he is just trying to go to where I was going with the conversation because you see ignorance a lot of people have not even crossed they have not left the in fact we didn't legos they have not even gone round legos they don't even have that exposure and trust me there is not enough in Nigeria there is no way you will not have religious tolerance and that's why the military or tribal tolerance that's why the military people like them have friends all over Nigeria because of that exposure all parts of the country this was what the NOSC scheme was supposed to address to hell because a lot of people so you have never experienced another culture so how would you know you are telling me tomorrow that I can't relate I cannot relate because I lived I grew up we danced together we laughed together and took how are you going to tell me the people that I know that I have lived with and have experienced you are just basing your assumptions based on head knowledge I know I have lived it I have experienced it so it is difficult for somebody to bring a tribal so you are going to set unfortunately we can't see that your face that you have that knowledge God forbid us having disturbances nobody knows that you lived amongst them so the point I am trying to make now is can we start to because again this history taking out of our system also is a big issue because now a lot of people have very very shallow knowledge so you are saying from one compass let me take Suleiman from Abujadina come to you Glory hi good evening thank you for joining us love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love  ὕᾣ ᬉᾕ ᴒῌ ᾱἋᶀ ᶇἀ ᴄἀἋ ᶄἀἀ ᶠἀἀ ḢἈᴄἀ ἀἄἀἡἕἀ ᴄἀἀἀἀἄἀ Ḁἀἀ⁄ἀἀἀ⁄ἀἀἀἀ⁄ἀἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀἀ⁄ἀἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀ⁄ἀἀ⁄ἀ⁄ everyone should talk about what impact on any time for anything. Thank you. political approach. always coming up during the elections season. Absolutely. you are a hundred percent right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. so glory, I was going to come to you. you know, so in in finding the solution because we're running out of time, like when we're having great topics like this, there's never time enough. What would you say? How do we start to tackle this? Because we've talked about that some of these things are linked to ignorance. So how do we start the process of educating the mind? Conversations like this is what we need more often. I think media houses have a huge role to play, especially for the innocent. Like you said, most people are not really exposed. So radio stations, they have a huge role to play. Even you and I, when you are in a conversation with someone you feel is ignorant, you have to speak out and educate that person and make the person understand that this is not just about where this person comes from or tribe or anything. It's about love. It's about who is competent enough. It's about who is doing well, who has a proven track record. So I feel like we in our conversations have to educate people we feel like are ignorant about all of this reality. Let me quickly take Joseph from Adelmawa State. Thank you for joining us. Good evening. Go ahead. Joseph, you're live. We have one minute. Let's quickly take comments first. Let me take this one. This is my own comment. This song that everybody is so excited about. Wake up, wake up, collect your money. I suggest we change it to wake up, wake up, collect your freedom from mental slavery. Okay. This one I shouldn't even take it. On the whales that died in Australia, they died in sympathy to the death of Queen Elizabeth. Until we stop seeing ourselves as enemies or problems to our progress, we will not rise. Absolutely. Alright, so I have the comments. Not very lengthy ones. Alright, so good evening ladies. I'm surprised that religious leaders can go as low as that. Wait a minute. They talk about being children of God. Are we going to a different heaven and have a different God? We are in 2022 and we're still talking about tribe and religion. Now, both Nordners, Southerners, Christians and Muslims are finding it difficult to live well. Access, forex, etc. We need to engage more in educating the populace that politicians are brothers when it comes to sharing money. But to grab power we are divided into different groups. I weep for my nation. I and my siblings have Yoruba names as my father believed in one Nigeria. Hope we will get it right in 2023. Don't mind the evil ones. Good job, ladies. This is from BC. Let me take a motion to quickly from Nassarra. You have a minute. Motion to your life. Go ahead, your life. I just want to talk about the good. Go ahead, Marshoot. You have a minute. Yes, I'm with you. I'm talking. Yes, good evening. Marshoot from Latia. Yes, I just want to contribute. This is a religious thing that we have in this country. The media need to do a lot because the issue when the APC presents a candidate making a ticket, you weigh the media and do the issue. It does something good. Thank you. When we are preaching that religious tolerance, they weigh the media out. Thank you so much. Absolutely, we need to run. Okay, this is for you. Thank you, Marshoot. We are preaching in this country. Go ahead. This is from Ade. He says, good evening, ladies. I can't believe these messages are coming from our leaders. Religious hurts our leaders in their own way. This is hate crime against humanity, tribe and religion. They all need total counseling and therapy. Absolutely. Nassarra has no country survives with too strong religion existing side by side in it. Go ahead, Norma. This is from the White House, it says, good evening, ladies. Rising above tribal and religious lines is possible in Nigeria, all be it at all order. I am an incurable optimist who thinks every national challenge is surmountable. Besides there are empirical examples of nations that have successfully bridged ethno-religious cleavages. Rwanda for example, the nation was negative in bloodshed in 1994  execut StrcTV і관 chimney 今天  אני  governmental  SecTV  SecTV Everything is done through eye service. I don't know if I am the right, if I am right, I think Peter will be is not tribalistic. He looks like someone who is available for all the respective of your tribe. My name is Daniel Illo. Quickly have one last comment. Okay, the very last one I think is, well, it's only meant to me. Concerning today's topic, it is possible but it is difficult because of the mindset we have been programmed with. As Lightay said, the language we need is love, humanity and empathy. That's from GIFT's Chris on YouTube. Chris on YouTube. Thank you so much ladies. I think we had a fantastic conversation. We're going to keep this conversation. People will be tired of what's talking about because we can talk and tire. Now, before we go, thank you so much Glory Lightay. Follow us on Instagram as Weshaw Africa Interact with us. Further drop a comment or more importantly, follow all our engagement. We're sorry you couldn't take a lot of calls. The lines are really buzzing. I can hear it ringing in my ear. Now, if we missed today's quote here it is again. You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe. But as a citizen of a nation of one people working together towards a common purpose. This is a very powerful quote. Let's start to see ourselves as Nigerians first before any other thing. We'll see you guys live at 8pm tomorrow. And so bring another great conversation to your screen. Enjoy.