Blizzy9ja:
The president's utterances are divisive... He's still operating the divide and rule style

BUHARIDONMAD:
Truth be told, buhari screwed up when he said that we are 5%. He shouldn't have said such thing, he is the president and should be mindful of what he is saying. 1983 no be 2016, boiz don wise up

Blizzy9ja:
The president's utterances are divisive... He's still operating the divide and rule style

waxxydude:
The president fvcked up big time when he called we (SS) 5%.
I really hate that he said that.. But the agitation (south-east biafra) started before the utterance.
And he's got to visit the south and if not apologise, pacific us NOT with money or whatever but environment regradation, development and assurance.
Had to comment on here cause it seems devoid of bigotry & tribal hatred. @OneManLegend nice write up!

OneManLegion:

That statement was disappointing and unbecoming of a president of a heterogeneous society such as ours. However, we need to ask ourselves: have his subsequent actions validated that misguided statement?
A close look at him will answer in the negative. His appointments have been as according to the dictates of the federal character and there's no gain-saying that the south-east and south-south have been adequately represented in the 2016 budget as regards capital projects.
A lot of people claim he never denounced the murderous herdsmen but an objective observer would know that he actually did. He even went ahead to set up an inquiry into the agatu tragedy.
The man, doesn't seem to be disinclined to any section of the country so far. I sincerely think people need to cut him some slack.
Remember I called for intelligent comments alone.

omenkaa:
Buhari's 5% and 97% statement is the most divisive and reckless statement ever made by a Nigerian leader since independence.What exactly was he thinking when he made that statement.Even if somewhere were to call it a slip of tongue,his appointments and policies seemed to agree with that statement

(Going by election results), constituencies that gave me 97% can not in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me 5%. I think these are political realities. While, certainly there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place. I think this is really fair."

selectedhero:

For your first point, by every standard the president has over and over again contravened the principle of federal character by his appointments, for instance his appointments into agencies under the ministry of interior as well as other agencies such as NTA, VON, NBC, etc. Shows he has concluded that there are a specific people who deserve to enjoy his ruler ship over others.

For your second point, it is true the agitations have been on for quite long, but the big question is, why now? But you needn’t look far to get the answer, BUHARI!!! He boldly said he will not treat those who gave him 5% as those who gave him 95%. What do you get when you make martyrs of them, when they protest for self-determination and all you do is give a shoot at sight order to your horde of security personnel. What you do is wake the sleeping giants. And I must ask, whatever happened to “the pen is mightier than the sword”, subtlety, dialogue etc?

For your third point, I would ask you, how many such “section of people” have their current president insulted their intelligence by a grazing bill, by a 5% theory, by virtually no appointments because for all I care, those appointed so far from south-south and south-east into this government were those that have been time and again considered as betrayers of trust in their regions or had contributed in kind and the president was in their debt Etc.

You asked why there were agitations only when there were northerners and westerners in power. I wish to ask you then, for how long have people from the south east and south-south really been in power ever since independence. Name them, Jonathan, Ironsi and Azikiwi and for how many years in all combined. So what do you expect?
is it when before they close and open their eye, their son is gone, that they will agitate.

In conclusion, since when has activities in the south and east been news worthy, of concern to the north etc? Oh I almost forgot. Since mister president noticed he did not have enough funds to expend.

OneManLegion:


That statement was disappointing and unbecoming of a president of a heterogeneous society such as ours. However, we need to ask ourselves: have his subsequent actions validated that misguided statement?

A close look at him will answer in the negative. His appointments have been as according to the dictates of the federal character and there's no gain-saying that the south-east and south-south have been adequately represented in the 2016 budget as regards capital projects.

A lot of people claim he never denounced the murderous herdsmen but an objective observer would know that he actually did. He even went ahead to set up an inquiry into the agatu tragedy.

The man, doesn't seem to be disinclined to any section of the country so far. I sincerely think people need to cut him some slack.



Remember I called for intelligent comments alone.

BUHARIDONMAD:
Truth be told, buhari screwed up when he said that we are 5%. He shouldn't have said such thing, he is the president and shd be mindful of what he is saying. 1983 no be 2016, boiz don wise up

Proudlyngwa:

Buhari never called any body 5% so stop twisting words.
He said some region gave me 5% of their votes while some other region gave me 97% of their vote. It will be unfair for me to give equal appointments.
Buhari short coming is his honesty and his outspokenness,
He is not polished enough to be a spokesperson, but we are not doing him any favours by constantly twisting his words.

N.b ......am prepared for your insults as that's the only thing most of you can offer.

Sunnycliff:
Buharis action and inaction is a catalyst to secession. Reasons:

The 5% and 97% divisive comments, the Removal of the host communities benefits from the Petroleum Industry Bill, The funding off the Northeast Development Commission at the sacrifice of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Cancelling of the Maritime University in the South South and approving of a University status to college of aviation Zaria, #940m for Fulani herdsmen as grazing reserves Calling the Fulani herdsmen criminals as Libyans and the Militants as Criminals etc

Is this justice and equity?

HammerTheirPapa:


You either fulani or yoruba muslim.. and yes your tribe and religion is important as you cannot extrapolate it entirely from your obvious bias, which is cloaked in 'intelligent objectivity". Abeg go siddon.

Even the devil knows that Buhari is a nepotist, a tyrant, a murderer and above all a dullard. Just see the way you are sweating for a man of dinosaur-era methodology with your hard-earned education which stone age junglists like Buhari doesn't even value. What a zombie!

OneManLegion:
A lot of people who are disillusioned with PMB's style of governance have, among other things, indicted the President of ethnic bias; stating, without equivocation, that Buhari's divisiveness is the cause of the self-determination agitation of both the IPOB and the NDA. And in order to further this defective logic, they suggest that the president, through his appointments and utterances, has shown a prejudice against the southerners.


Firstly, it is important to remember that the president, through his appointments, has not acted in contravention of any existing law or statute so one can only wonder how the president has fanned the embers of discontent amongst the people of the south-east and south-south.


Secondly, I think it's rather an injustice to facts to suggest that these self-determination struggle were spawned during this present administration. Adaka Boroh, Ken Saro Wiwa and others were famous for birthing the struggle of the Niger-Deltans for self-determination more than 30 years ago. The Biafra agitation was first begun by Chukwuma Odumegwu Okukwu in the 1960s, which resulted to the ill-fated civil war of 1966 - a paltry 6 years after Nigeria gained independence! There has been no new self-determination agitation under Buhari's leadership, just a continuation of a long-standing push for self-governance.


Thirdly, the idea that a section of people's demand for secession is symptomatic of a failed leader is inherently flawed. A people has the right to push for self-determination in spite of the government's best actions. Catalunya, Palestine and Northern Ireland are instances of other countries currently seeking self-actualization so, the Niger-Delta and the Biafra
issues are not isolated events peculiar to Nigeria.


Lastly, while acknowledging the right of the Niger-Deltans and the Biafra agitators to self-realisation, it would be myopic to fail to point out that these secessionist movements are usually reborn with unparalleled vociferousity whenever a northerner or south-westerner is the helmsman of this nation. The sincerity of these struggles, therefore, is one that should be met with appropriate reservations as well as a disaffected cerebration.


Conclusively, since secession itself is an aspiration that goes against one of the core tenets of the constitution which is the grundnorm, the chances of actualising the aforementioned is slim, to say the least. The solution lies not in creating a new state, but putting wholehearted measures and actions in place to ensure that the state we have works and ensures the dispensation of equity, justice and a better life for everyone. Where there is no cosmic shift in our collective mentality as citizens, we'd only take our defective mentality with us to form a new nation with utopian possibility but which really is a failure ab initio.



PS: The overall tone in this forum on issues of political differences is that of childish antagonism and sub-par intellection, perhaps there is nothing that can be done about this piteous state but to excuse oneself from this tribal-bigotry-birthed dis-unity.




Thanks for reading; intelligent comments alone, if possible.

Goke7:


Gej said that the Igbo's were the backbone of his govt, no one crucified him for that, he called sw rascals, they did not take arms, his wife called a whole region born throw away children and many more. Whatever PMB said, GeJ and his wife were also guilty of the same. Let's stop over reacting and crying like babies.

The 5% statement was never enough to destroy infrastructures.

Goke7:

Gej said that the Igbo's were the backbone of his govt, no one crucified him for that, he called sw rascals, they did not take arms, his wife called a whole region born throw away children and many more. Whatever PMB said, GeJ and his wife were also guilty of the same. Let's stop over reacting and crying like babies.
The 5% statement was never enough to destroy infrastructures.

waxxydude:
Insults? brother you never get that from me. Yea the president can be too honest and most times outspoken but don't you think nigeria's still kinda not-so-united for that? maybe the president could tone that down a little?


And i still really feel he should come down south, perhaps give us a sense of "we (SS) are still in this NIGERIA project"..


It'd go a long way..

selectedhero:

For your first point, by every standard the president has over and over again contravened the principle of federal character by his appointments, for instance his appointments into agencies under the ministry of interior as well as other agencies such as NTA, VON, NBC, etc. Shows he has concluded that there are a specific people who deserve to enjoy his ruler ship over others.
For your second point, it is true the agitations have been on for quite long, but the big question is, why now? But you needn’t look far to get the answer, BUHARI!!! He boldly said he will not treat those who gave him 5% as those who gave him 95%. What do you get when you make martyrs of them, when they protest for self-determination and all you do is give a shoot at sight order to your horde of security personnel. What you do is wake the sleeping giants. And I must ask, whatever happened to “the pen is mightier than the sword”, subtlety, dialogue etc?
For your third point, I would ask you, how many such “section of people” have their current president insulted their intelligence by a grazing bill, by a 5% theory, by virtually no appointments because for all I care, those appointed so far from south-south and south-east into this government were those that have been time and again considered as betrayers of trust in their regions or had contributed in kind and the president was in their debt Etc.
You asked why there were agitations only when there were northerners and westerners in power. I wish to ask you then, for how long have people from the south east and south-south really been in power ever since independence. Name them, Jonathan, Ironsi and Azikiwi and for how many years in all combined. So what do you expect?
is it when before they close and open their eye, their son is gone, that they will agitate.
In conclusion, since when has activities in the south and east been news worthy, of concern to the north etc? Oh I almost forgot. Since mister president noticed he did not have enough funds to expend.
PS: I am from the north, born, bred and indigenous. but my people I can’t see injustice and keep quiet.
Though OneManLegion you still be my Nigerian brother sha, no hard feelings