It is common knowledge that most political figures from the military era, particularly those from the North, always kick against any notion of decentralising police functions because of their fear that they could form the embryos of new threats to disintegrate Nigeria.

In far away Quebec, Canada, last Monday, October 22, 2012 in his address at the 127th Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, Assembly, Mark addressed the theme: “Citizenship, Identity, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World”, with the progressive view that he would push for the replacement of “State of Origin” with “State of Residency” in the impending Constitution amendment exercise.

Said he, to journalists: “Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to state of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”.
I call this a Zikist agenda, because Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, right from its days under the leadership of Dr Herbert Macaulay, had dreamed of an independent Nigeria where the citizens would “forget their differences” and build a nation where everyone would be proud to belong; a model of patriotic dynamism out of Africa and a toast of the Black world. He had as associates outside the NCNC another political party in the North named the Northern Elements Progressive Union, NEPU, led by Malam Aminu Kano and his followers.

The NCNC was a truly national party, where Igbos produced elected officers in Lagos and parts of the old Western Region, and people from the Mid West and Yorubas won election in Port Harcourt. A Fulani man, Alhaji Umaru Altine, a staunch member of the Zikist Movement who went to jail in defence of zero tolerance to British colonialism, was elected the first Mayor Enugu.



Zik’s fellow travelers

But Zik’s fellow travellers in the fight against British rule did not share his dreams. When Obafemi Awolowo returned from England,his vision was to become part of a national political movement, but only if he would be allowed to control the Western Region cell of it. He eventually founded the Action Group, which had the primary mission of taking over the West and launching out to other parts. In the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and his group were deeply concerned of what Zik would do with Islam and the North if he assumed leadership at independence. They hijacked the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, an unabashed regional party. With the West and the North now in the hands of regionalists, the NCNC and its nationalist vision were thwarted and reduced to the regional fringes. Awolowo popularised the agitation for creation of states for the Minorities.

It was from these stimuli that the struggle by local elites to take control of the political space within their areas became popular. As soon as the nationalists were pushed out of political relevance, the regionalists in the Nigerian Army started as from 1967 to split Nigeria into states and local governments to give local elites the platforms for the freeloading on Nigeria’s oil wealth (the National Cake).
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/david-marks-neo-zikist-intentions/

I always say the worst human being ever to walk this part of the earth was awolowo.I have never seen or heard of a human being so corny, wicked, heartless and sadistic from Africa like awolowo. That Nigeria is in this bad state today was 60% caused by awolowo

hmm...

That guy Awo,had a narrow and myopic view of Nationhood hence his inclinations to being a local champion of regionalism and ethnicity.

And this is coming from a man who was part of several military regimes in the country and who probably fought in the civil war, saying it as it is.

That Awo-ole was a silly over-ambitious tribal bigot.

Thank you Mark. You just spilled it out!

This is an unbiased account. David mark thanks for been truthful once and for all.

Yorubas don't need to hide their agendas to the nation because they are really not building the nation along with us.
Truth be told, they are too sectional to be Nigeria.

The more they hide and defend awolowo's evil the more truth unveils it.

Thanks to David Mark once again history will vindicate us.

But the bitter question is:


1)has the yorubas overcome tribal politics till now? NO
2) can yorubas overcome tribal politics with alaye style ? No
3) who is the first politician in Nigeria yo have international bank account and why ? Awolowo

Note: Sanusi lamido sanusi said it bold and clear that yorubas has proven it clearly that they can rise above tribal politics.

what is it with you people and lies, propaganda et al? Why do you choose selective texts and rewrite it to make it appear as a quote from another? You lot cannot and should not be trusted. Here is the full article and I highlight senator Mark's quote:

David Mark’s neo-Zikist intentions
on OCTOBER 29, 2012 · in PEOPLE & POLITICS
12:06 am
1
By Ochereome Nnanna
SENATE President, David Bonaventure Mark, seems to be rapidly shedding his military political establishment’s ideological feathers. A former influential “IBB Boy” between 1985 and 1993, Mark, in latter years, seems to be repenting of some of the odious legacies of the internal colonialist policies the establishment forced down the throat of the nation in the 1999 Constitution before they vacated power.

The other day, following the Mubi slaughter of 42 students and other similar grisly slayings by the increasing army of malcontents around the country, Mark told his colleague senators and a listening nation that he was now in favour of introduction state police, as the current policing system has proved grossly incapable of apprehending the scale of violent criminality that lives with us today. It is common knowledge that most political figures from the military era, particularly those from the North, always kick against any notion of decentralising police functions because of their fear that they could form the embryos of new threats to disintegrate Nigeria.

In far away Quebec, Canada, last Monday, October 22, 2012 in his address at the 127th Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, Assembly, Mark addressed the theme: “Citizenship, Identity, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World”, with the progressive view that he would push for the replacement of “State of Origin” with “State of Residency” in the impending Constitution amendment exercise.

Said he, to journalists: “Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to state of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”.

I call this a Zikist agenda, because Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, right from its days under the leadership of Dr Herbert Macaulay, had dreamed of an independent Nigeria where the citizens would “forget their differences” and build a nation where everyone would be proud to belong; a model of patriotic dynamism out of Africa and a toast of the Black world. He had as associates outside the NCNC another political party in the North named the Northern Elements Progressive Union, NEPU, led by Malam Aminu Kano and his followers.

The NCNC was a truly national party, where Igbos produced elected officers in Lagos and parts of the old Western Region, and people from the Mid West and Yorubas won election in Port Harcourt. A Fulani man, Alhaji Umaru Altine, a staunch member of the Zikist Movement who went to jail in defence of zero tolerance to British colonialism, was elected the first Mayor Enugu.



Zik’s fellow travelers

But Zik’s fellow travellers in the fight against British rule did not share his dreams. When Obafemi Awolowo returned from England, his vision was to become part of a national political movement, but only if he would be allowed to control the Western Region cell of it. He eventually founded the Action Group, which had the primary mission of taking over the West and launching out to other parts. In the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and his group were deeply concerned of what Zik would do with Islam and the North if he assumed leadership at independence. They hijacked the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, an unabashed regional party. With the West and the North now in the hands of regionalists, the NCNC and its nationalist vision were thwarted and reduced to the regional fringes. Awolowo popularised the agitation for creation of states for the Minorities.

It was from these stimuli that the struggle by local elites to take control of the political space within their areas became popular. As soon as the nationalists were pushed out of political relevance, the regionalists in the Nigerian Army started as from 1967 to split Nigeria into states and local governments to give local elites the platforms for the freeloading on Nigeria’s oil wealth (the National Cake).



Born of the demon

Thus was born the demon of “state of origin”, which created the indigene/settler dichotomy among Nigerian citizens. This is the singular detractor to our national integration because a Nigerian can live all his life in a part of the country other than his place of ethnic roots and yet live like a foreigner in his own country. He will pay taxes, yet his children will not benefit from state government free education and bursary awards, which are reserved for “indigenes”. He can register and vote, but cannot be voted for. He and his family will be counted as part of the local population of his state of residency, and yet when the federal allocation that comes as a result of the population density arrives he and his family are discriminated against.

In spite of his contributions to the development of the state, he and his family are frequently harassed, displaced and often killed by mobs incited by local politicians against enterprising “settlers”.

Mark’s intentions are noble. Without giving Nigerians a sense of belonging wherever they live the country will never become a nation. It will never be united. Nigerians have been raised on a diet of ethnic and sectional dichotomies for more than 70 years. States and local governments have been established to institutionalise national disunity. We all are now tribalists and sectionalists at heart. It is in our blood. Even if Mark gets the support of his colleagues to push through the reform, it might merely exacerbate the hostility of “indigenes” against “settlers”, and local politicians might respond with more incitement to violence.

However, we commend the Senate President for standing by this nationalist agenda and hope he will not be discouraged by the odds.

Off to New York City

AS you read this piece, I will be in New York City, USA, my self-chosen primary staging post for coverage of the American presidential and other elections tied thereto.

I will move around quite a bit, touching base in Washington for sure.

I will endeavour to look out for story angles that are relevant to us in Nigeria in our practice of the presidential system. STAY WITH THE BEST!

9ja voice: This is an unbiased account. David mark thanks for been truthful once and for all.

Yorubas don't need to hide their agendas to the nation because they are really not building the nation along with us.
Truth be told, they are too sectional to be Nigeria.

The more they hide and defend awolowo's evil the more truth unveils it.

Thanks to David Mark once again history will vindicate us.

hmmmm! Odikwa Egwu o! Awolowo matter don tie me I swear!

David Mark’s neo-Zikist intentions

 1  TweetOctober 29, 2012 | 12:06 amPeople & Politics

By Ochereome Nnanna

SENATE President, David Bonaventure Mark, seems to be rapidly shedding his military political establishment’s ideological feathers. A former influential “IBB Boy” between 1985 and 1993, Mark, in latter years, seems to be repenting of some of the odious legacies of the internal colonialist policies the establishment forced down the throat of the nation in the 1999 Constitution before they vacated power.

The other day, following the Mubi slaughter of 42 students and other similar grisly slayings by the increasing army of malcontents around the country, Mark told his colleague senators and a listening nation that he was now in favour of introduction state police, as the current policing system has proved grossly incapable of apprehending the scale of violent criminality that lives with us today. It is common knowledge that most political figures from the military era, particularly those from the North, always kick against any notion of decentralising police functions because of their fear that they could form the embryos of new threats to disintegrate Nigeria.

In far away Quebec, Canada, last Monday, October 22, 2012 in his address at the 127th Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, Assembly, Mark addressed the theme: “Citizenship, Identity, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World”, with the progressive view that he would push for the replacement of “State of Origin” with “State of Residency” in the impending Constitution amendment exercise.Said he, to journalists: “Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to stat of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”..

I call this a Zikist agenda, because Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, right from its days under the leadership of Dr Herbert Macaulay, had dreamed of an independent Nigeria where the citizens would “forget their differences” and build a nation where everyone would be proud to belong; a model of patriotic dynamism out of Africa and a toast of the Black world. He had as associates outside the NCNC another political party in the North named the Northern Elements Progressive Union, NEPU, led by Malam Aminu Kano and his followers.

The NCNC was a truly national party, where Igbos produced elected officers in Lagos and parts of the old Western Region, and people from the Mid West and Yorubas won election in Port Harcourt. A Fulani man, Alhaji Umaru Altine, a staunch member of the kist Movement who went to jail in defence of zero tolerance to British colonialism, was elected the first Mayor Enugu. 


Zik’s fellow travelers

But Zik’s fellow travellers in the fight against British rule did not share his dreams. [b]When Obafemi Awolowo returned from England, his vision was to become part of a national political movement, but only if he would be allowed to control the Western Region cell of it. He eventually founded the Action Group,which had the primary mission of taking over the West and launching out to other parts. In the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and his group were deeply concerned of what Zik would do with Islam and the North if he assumed leadership at independence.[/b]

They hijacked the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, an unabashed regional party. With the West and the North now in the hands of regionalists, the NCNC and its nationalist vision were thwarted and reduced to the regional fringes. Awolowo popularised the agitation for creation of states for the Minorities.It was from these stimuli that the struggle by local elites to take control of the political space within their areas became popular. As soon as the nationalists were pushed out of political relevance, the regionalists in the Nigerian Army started as from 1967 to split Nigeria into states and local governments to give local elites the platforms for the freeloading on Nigeria’s oil wealth (the National Cake). 


Born of the demon

Thus was born the demon of “state of origin”, which created the indigene/settler dichotomy among Nigerian citizens. This is the singular detractor to our national integration because a Nigerian can live all his life in a part of the country other than his place of ethnic roots and yet live like a foreigner in his own country. He will pay taxes, yet his children will not benefit from state government free education and bursary awards, which are reserved for “indigenes”. He can register and vote, but cannot be voted for.

He and his family will be counted as part of the local population of his state of residency, and yet when the federal allocation that comes as a result of the population density arrives he and his family are discriminated against.In spite of his contributions to the development of the state, he and his family are frequently harassed, displaced and often killed by mobs incited by local politicians against enterprising “settlers”.Mark’s intentions are noble.

Without giving Nigerians a sense of belonging wherever they live the country will never become a nation. It will never be united. Nigerians have been raised on a diet of ethnic and sectional dichotomies for more than 70 years. States and local governments have been established to institutionalise national disunity. We all are now tribalists and sectionalists at heart. It is in our blood. Even if Mark gets the support of his colleagues to push through the reform, it might merely exacerbate the hostility of “indigenes” against “settlers”, and local politicians might respond with more incitement to violence.However, we commend the Senate President for standing by this nationalist agenda and hope he will not be discouraged by the odds. 


Off to New York City

AS you read this piece, I will be in New York City, USA, my self-chosen primary staging post for coverage of the American presidential and other elections tied thereto.I will move around quite a bit, touching base in Washington for sure.I will endeavour to look out for story angles that are relevant to us in Nigeria in our practice of the presidential system. STAY WITH THE BEST!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/david-marks-neo-zikist-intentions/

David Mark’s neo-Zikist intentions

 1  TweetOctober 29, 2012 | 12:06 amPeople & Politics

By Ochereome Nnanna

SENATE President, David Bonaventure Mark, seems to be rapidly shedding his military political establishment’s ideological feathers. A former influential “IBB Boy” between 1985 and 1993, Mark, in latter years, seems to be repenting of some of the odious legacies of the internal colonialist policies the establishment forced down the throat of the nation in the 1999 Constitution before they vacated power.

The other day, following the Mubi slaughter of 42 students and other similar grisly slayings by the increasing army of malcontents around the country, Mark told his colleague senators and a listening nation that he was now in favour of introduction state police, as the current policing system has proved grossly incapable of apprehending the scale of violent criminality that lives with us today. It is common knowledge that most political figures from the military era, particularly those from the North, always kick against any notion of decentralising police functions because of their fear that they could form the embryos of new threats to disintegrate Nigeria.

In far away Quebec, Canada, last Monday, October 22, 2012 in his address at the 127th Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, Assembly, Mark addressed the theme: “Citizenship, Identity, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World”, with the progressive view that he would push for the replacement of “State of Origin” with “State of Residency” in the impending Constitution amendment exercise.Said he, to journalists: “Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to stat of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”..

I call this a Zikist agenda, because Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, right from its days under the leadership of Dr Herbert Macaulay, had dreamed of an independent Nigeria where the citizens would “forget their differences” and build a nation where everyone would be proud to belong; a model of patriotic dynamism out of Africa and a toast of the Black world. He had as associates outside the NCNC another political party in the North named the Northern Elements Progressive Union, NEPU, led by Malam Aminu Kano and his followers.

The NCNC was a truly national party, where Igbos produced elected officers in Lagos and parts of the old Western Region, and people from the Mid West and Yorubas won election in Port Harcourt. A Fulani man, Alhaji Umaru Altine, a staunch member of the kist Movement who went to jail in defence of zero tolerance to British colonialism, was elected the first Mayor Enugu. 


Zik’s fellow travelers

But Zik’s fellow travellers in the fight against British rule did not share his dreams. [b]When Obafemi Awolowo returned from England, his vision was to become part of a national political movement, but only if he would be allowed to control the Western Region cell of it. He eventually founded the Action Group,which had the primary mission of taking over the West and launching out to other parts. In the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and his group were deeply concerned of what Zik would do with Islam and the North if he assumed leadership at independence.[/b]

They hijacked the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, an unabashed regional party. With the West and the North now in the hands of regionalists, the NCNC and its nationalist vision were thwarted and reduced to the regional fringes. Awolowo popularised the agitation for creation of states for the Minorities.It was from these stimuli that the struggle by local elites to take control of the political space within their areas became popular. As soon as the nationalists were pushed out of political relevance, the regionalists in the Nigerian Army started as from 1967 to split Nigeria into states and local governments to give local elites the platforms for the freeloading on Nigeria’s oil wealth (the National Cake). 


Born of the demon

Thus was born the demon of “state of origin”, which created the indigene/settler dichotomy among Nigerian citizens. This is the singular detractor to our national integration because a Nigerian can live all his life in a part of the country other than his place of ethnic roots and yet live like a foreigner in his own country. He will pay taxes, yet his children will not benefit from state government free education and bursary awards, which are reserved for “indigenes”. He can register and vote, but cannot be voted for.

He and his family will be counted as part of the local population of his state of residency, and yet when the federal allocation that comes as a result of the population density arrives he and his family are discriminated against.In spite of his contributions to the development of the state, he and his family are frequently harassed, displaced and often killed by mobs incited by local politicians against enterprising “settlers”.Mark’s intentions are noble.

Without giving Nigerians a sense of belonging wherever they live the country will never become a nation. It will never be united. Nigerians have been raised on a diet of ethnic and sectional dichotomies for more than 70 years. States and local governments have been established to institutionalise national disunity. We all are now tribalists and sectionalists at heart. It is in our blood. Even if Mark gets the support of his colleagues to push through the reform, it might merely exacerbate the hostility of “indigenes” against “settlers”, and local politicians might respond with more incitement to violence.However, we commend the Senate President for standing by this nationalist agenda and hope he will not be discouraged by the odds. 


Off to New York City

AS you read this piece, I will be in New York City, USA, my self-chosen primary staging post for coverage of the American presidential and other elections tied thereto.I will move around quite a bit, touching base in Washington for sure.I will endeavour to look out for story angles that are relevant to us in Nigeria in our practice of the presidential system. STAY WITH THE BEST!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/david-marks-neo-zikist-intentions/

I've been looking for TOS Benson's public letter to Awolowo that was published a few years before Benson died. Its very scarce because awoists buried it as deep as they could. Its one hell of an eye opener

Chidi4u: That guy Awo,had a narrow and myopic view of Nationhood hence his inclinations to being a local champion of regionalism and ethnicity.

May we kindly and gently read this unbiased account and see how else to conclude Awolowo issue with one word.
The elites knows the truth. Though they are afraid to say it because of the consequence. But they know.

One might be forced to ask why obasanjo not an awoist ? He knew some truth we the populace don't know .

Chidi4u: That guy Awo,had a narrow and myopic view of Nationhood hence his inclinations to being a local champion of regionalism and ethnicity.

well said. To summarize iy, Awolowo destroyed Nigeria before Nigeria began.

Chidi4u: That guy Awo,had a narrow and myopic view of Nationhood hence his inclinations to being a local champion of regionalism and ethnicity.

well said. To summarize it, Awolowo destroyed Nigeria before Nigeria began.

Desola: what is it with you people and lies, propaganda et al? Why do you choose selective texts and rewrite it to make it appear as a quote from another? You lot cannot and should not be trusted. Here is the full article and I highlight senator Mark's quote:

Surprise surprise, the bigots don't know how to READ or what QUOTATION MARKS do- this is truly pathetic and sorrowful.

May God continue to bless the man and his family that gave Nigeria free education- even my 8 year old niece couldn't make this mistake.

Mark is winning for himself the status of a statesman. He has demonstrated much maturity and his recent drive for the truth is quite undaunting. I was not born in the era of Awo and Zik but history is opening our eyes to the past before us to judge our heroes past. The truth be said, the bane of our nationhood is ethnic and for any true lover of Nigeria will advocate what Mark is proposing. Inspite of the seeming benefits, Nigerians should look at it critically to ascertain if we are prepared for nationhood because this action may cause more blood shared in the early years of the eventual implementation but if only the country can survive it( the initial assault) then we shall have a great nation devoid of religious and ethnic sentiments.

Andro Blaze:

Surprise surprise, the bigots don't know how to READ or what QUOTATION MARKS do- this is truly pathetic and sorrowful.

May God continue to bless the man and his family that gave Nigeria free education- even my 8 year old niece couldn't make this mistake.

which Nigeria did he gave 'free education'?
Lol.

Andro Blaze:

Surprise surprise, the bigots don't know how to READ or what QUOTATION MARKS do- this is truly pathetic and sorrowful.

May God continue to bless the man and his family that gave Nigeria free education- even my 8 year old niece couldn't make this mistake.

dont mind that 7th housewife. free education indeed but 70% of Yoruba people over 60 years living in yorubaland can neither hear or speak English. Awolowo was a fraud.

Mr. Globe:

dont mind that 7th housewife. free education indeed but 70% of Yoruba people over 60 years living in yorubaland can neither hear or speak English. Awolowo was a fraud.

Who is the OGBUEFI OF LITERATURE

kunlekunle:

Who is the OGBUEFI OF LITERATURE

Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe.

What role did awo's fraud policy play here?

solomon111: which Nigeria did he gave 'free education'?
Lol.

Did you not do geography or history?? Not my fault that you don't know that the Westwern region was and unfortunately is still in Nigeria and that EVERYONE, black, yellow or green was free to enjoy the free education policy in the West as long as you lived in it.

Again AWO proving he was far ahead of his time, one of the first Nigerian politicians to start a policy that benefited everyone, whether you were an INDIGENE or NOT.

kunlekunle:

Who is the OGBUEFI OF LITERATURE

NA ME AND AM ALSO THE BASHORUN OF LITERATURE

AM SHOCKED BY THIS COMING FROM DAVID MARK, PEOPLE DO CHANGE OH,OR IS HE AFRAID OF DEATH AS HE GETS OLDER, I PRAY ALL OTHER CRIMINALS IN POWER WILL REPENT LIKE DAVID MARK HAS DONE,AWOLOWO'S NAME SHOULD GO DOWN IN FLAMES FOR EVER, HE IS A DISGRACE TO THE BLACK RACE

9ja voice: David Mark’s neo-Zikist intentions

 1  TweetOctober 29, 2012 | 12:06 amPeople & Politics

By Ochereome Nnanna

SENATE President, David Bonaventure Mark, seems to be rapidly shedding his military political establishment’s ideological feathers. A former influential “IBB Boy” between 1985 and 1993, Mark, in latter years, seems to be repenting of some of the odious legacies of the internal colonialist policies the establishment forced down the throat of the nation in the 1999 Constitution before they vacated power.

The other day, following the Mubi slaughter of 42 students and other similar grisly slayings by the increasing army of malcontents around the country, Mark told his colleague senators and a listening nation that he was now in favour of introduction state police, as the current policing system has proved grossly incapable of apprehending the scale of violent criminality that lives with us today. It is common knowledge that most political figures from the military era, particularly those from the North, always kick against any notion of decentralising police functions because of their fear that they could form the embryos of new threats to disintegrate Nigeria.

In far away Quebec, Canada, last Monday, October 22, 2012 in his address at the 127th Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, Assembly, Mark addressed the theme: “Citizenship, Identity, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World”, with the progressive view that he would push for the replacement of “State of Origin” with “State of Residency” in the impending Constitution amendment exercise.Said he, to journalists: “Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to stat of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”..

I call this a Zikist agenda, because Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, right from its days under the leadership of Dr Herbert Macaulay, had dreamed of an independent Nigeria where the citizens would “forget their differences” and build a nation where everyone would be proud to belong; a model of patriotic dynamism out of Africa and a toast of the Black world. He had as associates outside the NCNC another political party in the North named the Northern Elements Progressive Union, NEPU, led by Malam Aminu Kano and his followers.

The NCNC was a truly national party, where Igbos produced elected officers in Lagos and parts of the old Western Region, and people from the Mid West and Yorubas won election in Port Harcourt. A Fulani man, Alhaji Umaru Altine, a staunch member of the kist Movement who went to jail in defence of zero tolerance to British colonialism, was elected the first Mayor Enugu. 


Zik’s fellow travelers

But Zik’s fellow travellers in the fight against British rule did not share his dreams. [b]When Obafemi Awolowo returned from England, his vision was to become part of a national political movement, but only if he would be allowed to control the Western Region cell of it. He eventually founded the Action Group,which had the primary mission of taking over the West and launching out to other parts. In the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and his group were deeply concerned of what Zik would do with Islam and the North if he assumed leadership at independence.[/b]

They hijacked the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, an unabashed regional party. With the West and the North now in the hands of regionalists, the NCNC and its nationalist vision were thwarted and reduced to the regional fringes. Awolowo popularised the agitation for creation of states for the Minorities.It was from these stimuli that the struggle by local elites to take control of the political space within their areas became popular. As soon as the nationalists were pushed out of political relevance, the regionalists in the Nigerian Army started as from 1967 to split Nigeria into states and local governments to give local elites the platforms for the freeloading on Nigeria’s oil wealth (the National Cake). 


Born of the demon

Thus was born the demon of “state of origin”, which created the indigene/settler dichotomy among Nigerian citizens. This is the singular detractor to our national integration because a Nigerian can live all his life in a part of the country other than his place of ethnic roots and yet live like a foreigner in his own country. He will pay taxes, yet his children will not benefit from state government free education and bursary awards, which are reserved for “indigenes”. He can register and vote, but cannot be voted for.

He and his family will be counted as part of the local population of his state of residency, and yet when the federal allocation that comes as a result of the population density arrives he and his family are discriminated against.In spite of his contributions to the development of the state, he and his family are frequently harassed, displaced and often killed by mobs incited by local politicians against enterprising “settlers”.Mark’s intentions are noble.

Without giving Nigerians a sense of belonging wherever they live the country will never become a nation. It will never be united. Nigerians have been raised on a diet of ethnic and sectional dichotomies for more than 70 years. States and local governments have been established to institutionalise national disunity. We all are now tribalists and sectionalists at heart. It is in our blood. Even if Mark gets the support of his colleagues to push through the reform, it might merely exacerbate the hostility of “indigenes” against “settlers”, and local politicians might respond with more incitement to violence.However, we commend the Senate President for standing by this nationalist agenda and hope he will not be discouraged by the odds. 


Off to New York City

AS you read this piece, I will be in New York City, USA, my self-chosen primary staging post for coverage of the American presidential and other elections tied thereto.I will move around quite a bit, touching base in Washington for sure.I will endeavour to look out for story angles that are relevant to us in Nigeria in our practice of the presidential system. STAY WITH THE BEST!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/david-marks-neo-zikist-intentions/

Your reading and comprehension skills are appalling to say the very least. In your own little mind, you have quoted David Mark and put his comment in bold when in actual fact, all you have done is highlighted the writer's own words. You are a shame to the money that may have been spent on your education - if any at all! Sheesh! Blo.ody liars! That's what you all okoros are! You would say and do anything to advance your course and it's a shame that a lot of rejoinders on this thread did not take this fact into account.

READ FOR YOURSELVES, PEOPLE! DAMMIT!!

gogo2003: AM SHOCKED BY THIS COMING FROM DAVID MARK, PEOPLE DO CHANGE OH,OR IS HE AFRAID OF DEATH AS HE GETS OLDER, I PRAY ALL OTHER CRIMINALS IN POWER WILL REPENT LIKE DAVID MARK HAS DONE,AWOLOWO'S NAME SHOULD GO DOWN IN FLAMES FOR EVER, HE IS A DISGRACE TO THE BLACK RACE

Read the article and don't jump into conclusions. David Mark didn't say those things, the writer of the article did!

What is it with black people and reading?

Desola:

Read the article and don't jump into conclusions. David Mark didn't say those thing, the writer of article did!

What is it with black people and reading?

what is this guy saying?

Desola:

Read the article and don't jump into conclusions. David Mark didn't say those things, the writer of the article did!

What is it with black people and reading?

Stop covering evil desola

mike404:
Stop covering evil desola

Those of you who know that David Mark didn't say those things yet twisted it to make it appear that he did are indeed the EVIL ones. You lot are demonic! Santan's henchmen from hell.

It is saddening that people keep replying this piece of garbage without bothering to read to get the real facts. This is libel against David Mark by you scheming ibos and it is a shame that gullible and lazy fellows who can't be bothered to read the actual article are falling for your tricks!

.....and the okoro born throweys are all over the space once more. Doing nponkiti and atilogwu and all other akpu inspired dances because of the legend AWO. I wonder why Igbos are so besotted with the genius of Awo . For pete's sake this man died ages ago! Anyway, as someone said, at the name of AWO, all Igbos must bow. I have said it severally to you thick skull Igbos,AWO DOES NOT OWE YOU JACK! YOU MAY HATE HIM FOR TEACHING YOUR FADAS SOME BASIC LESSONS IN HOW NOT TO FIGHT A WAR, BUT WE YORUBAS LOVE AND APPRECIATE HIM FOR HIS SHEER GENIUS, THE NOBLE ROLE HE PLAYED IN OUR HISTORY AND THE ADVANCEMENT HE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON OUR LAND. Heck, this guy gave us TV before the irish and south Africans!Your Zik was a complete disaster in the eastern region and NONE of your leaders can match his achievements Zik with all his so called nationalism is a little man who achieved very little forhis country and people. Today, he lies in an unkempt grave begging for government attention. Tribune,Awo's newspaper still flourishes while the over 40 Zik propaganda machines (newspapers) are all in extinction.Yorubas does not need your useless,silly nationalism.buried in our hearts is the hope that one day we will get rid of all you leeches and build a proper country.

4chi: .....and the okoro born throweys are all over the space once more. Doing nponkiti and atilogwu and all other akpu inspired dances because of the legend AWO. I wonder why Igbos are so besotted with the genius of Awo . For pete's sake this man died ages ago! Anyway, as someone said, at the name of AWO, all Igbos must bow. I have said it severally to you thick skull Igbos,AWO DOES NOT OWE YOU JACK! YOU MAY HATE HIM FOR TEACHING YOUR FADAS SOME BASIC LESSONS IN HOW NOT TO FIGHT A WAR, BUT WE YORUBAS LOVE AND APPRECIATE HIM FOR HIS SHEER GENIUS, THE NOBLE ROLE HE PLAYED IN OUR HISTORY AND THE ADVANCEMENT HE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON OUR LAND. Heck, this guy gave us TV before the irish and south Africans!Your Zik was a complete disaster in the eastern region and NONE of your leaders can match his achievements Zik with all his so called nationalism is a little man who achieved very little forhis country and people. Today, he lies in an unkempt grave begging for government attention. Tribune,Awo's newspaper still flourishes while the over 40 Zik propaganda machines (newspapers) are all in extinction.Yorubas does not need your useless,silly nationalism.buried in our hearts is the hope that one day we will get rid of all you leeches and build a proper country.

Wo a da fun e!. Gba sibe!. Wo wajere awon omo e!. Ko ni buru fun e!. Olori re ni o ma je!. This despicable braggarts, who keep churning threads upon threads insulting their superiors have lost every modicum of respect worthy of any reasonable person. Small wonder Awolowo called them Homos Mortus- the Living Dead. Shior!

So, David Mark is now their new hero? Timeline of stupidity of biafrogs.

when El rufai was about to justify his thieving nature, he declared that "Biafrogs owned 90% of Abuja", these biafrogs started jumping and celebrating him. overlooking thousands of plots and landed properties he revoked from their brothers in choiced location and even reallocating some to his toddler son.

When Sanusi Lamido Sanusi a class A bigot wanted to push his Sharia banking policy, he went to the media with " Ibos constitute 70% of the board of directors", these biafrogs foolishly supported him and before you could say anything we have boko haram banking. no thanks to these brainless biafrogs.

When Goodluck Jonathan wanted a who're to sucked before elections, he added a middle name " Azikwe" from no where and before you could say Jack Robinson, the south east gave him 98% of their votes. Na war ooooo . . .come help me see osho for free.

when PDP wanted to rig some core northern states in 2011 elections and some buhari's stronghold, they quickly cooked some raw figures, claiming that biafrogs constitutes more than 45% of voting strength in Kastina, 40% of Borno (boko haram headquarters), 45% of Kano and other unbelievable figures. These same biafrogs went on and started beating their empty chest; infact, ohanaeze went to media to collaborate the lies after accepting bribes in Abuja and not minding the dangers they are putting their helpless brothers up north in . But today, we are seeing how boko haram is selecting and killing them with impunity (sic)

When Atiku Abubakar (a thief) wanted to become the president, he went and picked a technocrat from south east and quickly added the slogan to his campaign chorus "I will hand over to biafrogs by 2015", and before I could take a sip of my ice tea, the whole biafrogs believed him. SMFH!

Now, when David Mark want to actualize his 2015 ambition, he started wearing red cap and frequenting Enugu . Thesame David Mark that collected their properties in portharcourt after the civil war, when he was Major Mark and chairman of the task force saddled with responsibility of returning their properties back. He cornered almost all their properties to T.Y Danjuma, Abacha and IBB. Pathetic!