Mayor_of_Lagos:

It is important to look at where the country has been, where it is presently and where it will be 4yrs from now, the length of term the Governor will be in the seat and during which you cannot reverse the decision made today.

If SE is on the move to bring all Ibo states into the APGA fold, then this a great win. We know thats never going to happen.

The only states enjoying stability and growth are APC states. All other states are burdened with security challenges in one form or the other and are trailing on development charts.

Take us through past gains in APGA controlled states and compare with APC states.

So who is the looser, APC or the people of Anambra?

I commented on another post about the fact that registered voters in Anambra totalled 1.764M poeple. Thats the whole of Anambra State! This is alarming!! APGA has done a horrible job uplifting your society and the manpower has thus depleted significantly and relocated to APC controlled states to find proper upliftment.

You ought to be saddened that an opportunity to duplicate in Anambra the same appeal and charisma that draws your brothers to West, and had APC won would reverse the exodus and bring back manpower and growth to the land, was missed.

Can we expect APGA to bring growth and development? Look at their track, its empty!

In fact we expect more people porting out and heading West. It will do APGA good to build a refugee shelter in Onitsha to receive future deportees from APC.

How does the rejection of Ngige in Anambra affect Fashola or Amosun or Aregbe or even Tinubu? No loss..!! Anambra is the looser here.

Mayor_of_Lagos:

Biafranqueen,

Im using the number of registered voters on official record, not the number of votes cast. Of course the registered is always higher than the number that voted and this is so anyehere in the world.

In Anambra the total number of registered voters statewide is 1.764M.

Can you explain where the people are?

Uyi Iredia:

The Hausas come close, don't you think ?

djon78: I somehow see point in what Mr Mayor is saying. Why is the migratory pattern of our people one dimensional, why other Nigerian tribes don't have a substantial pert of their people in our land?
The Igbo mans biggest problem is lack of visionary leaders and when we have the opportunity to get it right we shoot our selves on the foot. When the whole Anambra political process commenced I never rooted for Ngige, our best was charles soludo, but the dumb, vision less buffoons in APGA truncated it, now they have manipulated a stooge, who cannot bring any effective change.

If our people are wise they should have asked why peter obis next international built the biggest shoping mall in Abuja, if he really had the love of our people, he should have done it back home.
What the Mayor is saying is how things will play out from now, there are ways Yorubas can covertly hit out on the Igbos through massive tax and other stuffs and I personally will like it cos it can be a short term pain for a long term gain, so that our people will start using their brain and go and develop the East.

djon78: I somehow see point in what Mr Mayor is saying. Why is the migratory pattern of our people one dimensional, why other Nigerian tribes don't have a substantial pert of their people in our land?
The Igbo mans biggest problem is lack of visionary leaders and when we have the opportunity to get it right we shoot our selves on the foot. When the whole Anambra political process commenced I never rooted for Ngige, our best was charles soludo, but the dumb, vision less buffoons in APGA truncated it, now they have manipulated a stooge, who cannot bring any effective change.

If our people are wise they should have asked why peter obis next international built the biggest shoping mall in Abuja, if he really had the love of our people, he should have done it back home.
What the Mayor is saying is how things will play out from now, there are ways Yorubas can covertly hit out on the Igbos through massive tax and other stuffs and I personally will like it cos it can be a short term pain for a long term gain, so that our people will start using their brain and go and develop the East.

Mayor_of_Lagos:

Close to it!

There was news yesterday of Fashola being shutout and rejected when he went to pay condolence on the death of Omojola. The reason he was rejected is simple - his open door policy did not recognize Omojola and his activism, so in death the people question the sincerity of his condolence visit.

We are very respectful of authority and give it plenty esteem, in return we expect accountabilityand honor. A dishonorable and delinquent authority does not survive in Yorubaland.

If Obi was a Yoruba governor he would not dare go and invest millions in Iboland or Hausaland and pay income tax in those lands while our youths are in need of jobs and income at home.
Obi can do that to Anambra because there is no probity in the land.

The more Ibo youths port out and go elsewhere to live the less social burdens and economic demands on the Governor and therefore to an extent, they are the true benefactors of the one dimensional migration of youths. They create a socially hostile environment to dissuade big investors from their home states and thus raise unemployment to intolerable level. Youths must go where the investment is..and thats West!

Why has a Governor with a voting population of less than 2million people not being able to curb widespread crime in eight years? Because the crimes serve as superficial deterrent to investorsnot to bring jobs to Anambra. Jobs in Anambra would mean population swell and the Governor has to work double hard to run the state and administer resources.

If Ibos will not take the initiative to probe their governors and bring about a change, we have "social awakeners" in West to bring them to the grim reality of a "non-united Nigeria"; deportation will serve as one of those social policies.

biafranqueen: From my own small observation men between the ages of 25-50 in my town don't really believe in the voting process, as much as the women do. The men I have spoken to in my family feel that they are in business and what happens in Ziks house, will not stop their business. If something comes up that involves the government they break out a check book and do the needful, many of them donate heavily to candidates but don't vote. Why I don't know, to be honest. But I think it has to do with not trusting the voting system process. What they know is no matter who makes it to the Governors mansion, they are all money hungry blood suckers, so why waste time. You hardly see so called big boys drive in with entourage to cast vote. The voting card is something that people like to hold in their wallet, so they will go to the town hall or obtain one through an agent. I know so many of my family members that refused to travel from the North and the East to vote. As one poster stated Anambrians have traveled abroad for decades, if a family has 9 children then maybe one will still be in Anambra. So to answer your questions they are spread out in the whole world Anambra State Association has over 100,000 members in the US alone. I have family on every continent except Antarctica. Holding that card is more of a sense of belonging then a political action.

biafranqueen: less then 2 million what are you talking bro over 1 million people live in Nnewi alone. The crime in Anambra is not as bad as people think and an independent investigation came in to prove it don't act like you can't remember the crime index, it is just because the media reports the Eastern crime more then the west My town is filled to the capacity with half of the residents coming from outside. If the a West started from scratch the way we did you could not be talking this rubbish every building and house in Anambra was built by the people not the white colony masters so stop comparing. The busiest port is where the money is at like New York like California, don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. Only the Igbos can bring change through a grassroots effort that has already been activated and has been the reason anything has gotten done. Irresponsible leaders, can not lead responsible people. Only we can make the changes from the bottom up. The poverty in the West needs attention stop focusing on us the West is just not Lagos show me development in the other Western states before you point one finger at us, because four more are pointing back to you. Please open a thread showing us the progress of the other Western states!

Mayor_of_Lagos:

[size=15pt]How does the rejection of Ngige in Anambra affect Fashola or Amosun or Aregbe or even Tinubu?[/size] No loss..!! Anambra is the looser here.

Mayor_of_Lagos:

It is important to look at where the country has been, where it is presently and where it will be 4yrs from now, the length of term the Governor will be in the seat and during which you cannot reverse the decision made today.

If SE is on the move to bring all Ibo states into the APGA fold, then this a great win. We know thats never going to happen.

The only states enjoying stability and growth are APC states. All other states are burdened with security challenges in one form or the other and are trailing on development charts.

Take us through past gains in APGA controlled states and compare with APC states.

So who is the looser, APC or the people of Anambra?

I commented on another post about the fact that registered voters in Anambra totalled 1.764M poeple. Thats the whole of Anambra State! This is alarming!! APGA has done a horrible job uplifting your society and the manpower has thus depleted significantly and relocated to APC controlled states to find proper upliftment.

You ought to be saddened that an opportunity to duplicate in Anambra the same appeal and charisma that draws your brothers to West, and had APC won would reverse the exodus and bring back manpower and growth to the land, was missed.

Can we expect APGA to bring growth and development? Look at their track, its empty!

In fact we expect more people porting out and heading West. It will do APGA good to build a refugee shelter in Onitsha to receive future deportees from APC.

How does the rejection of Ngige in Anambra affect Fashola or Amosun or Aregbe or even Tinubu? No loss..!! Anambra is the looser here.

Mayor_of_Lagos:

On whether or not he lost on account of his associations, you are a biased contributor. His rejection is a payback for his defense of deportation from Lagos. You should read news and keep current on national affairs.

On the validity of deportation, there are many loopholes in the constitution and in which the law defaults to the customary courts for discretionary power. Like I said, its no secret that we fervently despise Ibos in the West and they know it.

You talk about a disunity. I wonder if you can point me to any shred of unity in this country since 1906. What unity do you now expect 100yrs later?

National dialogue is not for decoration. Have you heard Afenifere lately? Thats the custodian of Awolowo's doctrines and the stewarts of the Oduduwa genetic print - omoluabi! If you want to know how Yoruba view Ibo, Hausa or anyone else for that matter read their inputs to President Jonathan on what Yoruba wants ..total cleansing of Yorubaland. It will happen! lol!!