evanscheck:
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey, yesterday in Lagos, said an Igbo man cannot be President of Nigeria because of lack of unity in leadership roles.
According to him, Igbo are hardworking, resilient and law abiding, but fall short of leadership role because of lack of recognition of leadership ethics and discipline.
Enwo-Igariwey, who was the guest speaker at the public presentation of the Igbo centenary book, 100 Years of Amalgamation: Igbo, What Hope in Nigeria, by a Lagos-based journalist, Peter Anosike, said every Igbo wants to be leader at the same time.
According to him “if we can solve this problem by trying to learn from our mistakes and believe that there can only be one leader at a time, then we can succeed as a people.”
He said Igbo had huge investments all over the country and that with all the respect and recognition they had earned, they still lacked unity over leadership tussles, as could be seen even in town union meetings.
He said: “It does not have to be the strongest or the richest. Anyone can be supported to succeed. If we unite, people will be afraid of us.”
Chairman of the occasion, Chief Nwabueze Obi, Executi-ve Director, Cabotage, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, said: “We are nomadic. Over 90 percent of our investments are outside Igboland.
“If you go anywhere and do not see an Igbo man, then it is not habitable. If we can channel these gifts to have a united front, we can succeed.”
He appealed to all Igbo to be submissive to authority.

evanscheck:
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey, yesterday in Lagos, said an Igbo man cannot be President of Nigeria because of lack of unity in leadership roles.
According to him, Igbo are hardworking, resilient and law abiding, but fall short of leadership role because of lack of recognition of leadership ethics and discipline.
Enwo-Igariwey, who was the guest speaker at the public presentation of the Igbo centenary book, 100 Years of Amalgamation: Igbo, What Hope in Nigeria, by a Lagos-based journalist, Peter Anosike, said every Igbo wants to be leader at the same time.
According to him “if we can solve this problem by trying to learn from our mistakes and believe that there can only be one leader at a time, then we can succeed as a people.”
He said Igbo had huge investments all over the country and that with all the respect and recognition they had earned, they still lacked unity over leadership tussles, as could be seen even in town union meetings.
He said: “It does not have to be the strongest or the richest. Anyone can be supported to succeed. If we unite, people will be afraid of us.”
Chairman of the occasion, Chief Nwabueze Obi, Executi-ve Director, Cabotage, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, said: “We are nomadic. Over 90 percent of our investments are outside Igboland.
“If you go anywhere and do not see an Igbo man, then it is not habitable. If we can channel these gifts to have a united front, we can succeed.”
He appealed to all Igbo to be submissive to authority.

slimfit1:
I don't think that is the case. Igbos don't have credible leaders finish.

slimfit1:
I don't think that is the case. Igbos don't have credible leaders finish.

Collynzo9:

We can see where the credible leadership from other tribes have kept us.

zendy:
I said this same thing in another thread that it will be a very difficult thing for my fellow Igbo man to ever be president but not because of Igbo unity or lack off. The real reason why an Igbo man can never be president is because the the average northerner and Yoruba man will rather recieve a thousand lashes of 'koboko' than vote an Igbo man to be president even if this Igbo man was the Pope. The fear of what an Igbo man might do if he gets into power disturbs these people. The only reason a south-South man ever became president was the unfortunate death of a northern president. But not to worry,the office of the president of Nigeria has become a 'poisoned chalic' which the Igbos can do without. What the Igbos need isn't the office of the president. What we need is political unity. A president of Igbo extraction will not do Igbos any special favours but a United Igbo nation can become a force to be rekkond with in Africa

profjustine458:
I BET ALL OF YOU, ROCHAS WILL BE NEXT GOVERNOR COME 2015

chamboy:
They Would if dey can remove That Biafra nonsense from their brain

truefact:


Why are you afraid of Biafra? I thought you hate the Igbo. ..oh I forget you love them so much you can't do without them...

diluminati:
truthfully, even if the Igbo were perfect in all things, they would never become president. You guys should blame Ojukwu, if not for the civil war things would have been different.

diluminati:
truthfully, even if the Igbo were perfect in all things, they would never become president. You guys should blame Ojukwu, if not for the civil war things would have been different.

zendy:
We have had a Yoruba president in Obasunjo. What this do for Yorubas? Nothing!

We have had a Hausa president in Yaradua. What did this do for Hausas? Nothing!

We now have a south-South president in GEJ. What is this doing for the South-south? Not a bloody thing!

So in 2015,2019 or 2023,if we have an Igbo president what will do for the Igbo nation? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

This Igbo president of a thing is something that the northerners and the Yorubas want to use to pull the wool over the eyes of the Igbos. Igbo president is what they want to use to make us Igbo not see the bigger picture,that Igbo development and political cohesion and unity is far more important than any political position in Nigeria. So an Igbo man becomes president or not,will this stop the sun from shining tomorrow? I beg make I hear word jooo.

Igbo bu Oke Mba!! Igbo esika!!

evanscheck:

“If you go anywhere and do not see an Igbo man, then it is not habitable.

T8ksy:



It's statements like the above that puts others off you ibos. There's nothing wrong in taking pride in your heritage but when its done by putting others' down then it becomes counterproductive.

As for an ibo occupant in aso rock? Not a snowball chance in hell. who exactly will vote for an ibo president? Is it the northerners who still haven't forgiven the ibos for killing their "God" or the yorubas whom you ibos have gone out of your way to alienate.

You all will do well to focus your energy in developing your region and turn it to the "dubia of africa", maybe then the rest of us can start believing some of your empty boasts.

BuddahMonk:
Dont worry about who n who will vote igbos but gradually your being pushed back to your mud houses of Ibadan and oshogbo respectively.

The number of ghettos in lagos are in decline so are the number of Yoruba slumdwellers.

Back home the Economy of East is our hands, overthere in Lagos we are pushing n shoving you for tiny plot of land called lagos untill you go back to your mud republics without toilets,

BuddahMonk:
Dont worry about who n who will vote igbos but gradually your being pushed back to your mud houses of Ibadan and oshogbo respectively.

The number of ghettos in lagos are in decline so are the number of Yoruba slumdwellers.

Back home the Economy of East is our hands, overthere in Lagos we are pushing n shoving you for tiny plot of land called lagos untill you go back to your mud republics without toilets,

T8ksy:



"Patience is a virtue"................................"The vulture is a patient bird"

I rest in the knowledge that you Igbos will one day "climb your tree beyond its leaves" .....................its inevitable as its embedded

in your DNA......................it's then you greedy and slimy ingrates will realise that Lagos is NOT a No man's land- it belongs to the yorubas and so shall it be till all eternity.

T8ksy:



"Patience is a virtue"................................"The vulture is a patient bird"

I rest in the knowledge that you Igbos will one day "climb your tree beyond its leaves" .....................its inevitable as its embedded

in your DNA......................it's then you greedy and slimy ingrates will realise that Lagos is NOT a No man's land- it belongs to the yorubas and so shall it be till all eternity.