writingking:
do you think Nairaland is among the best 5 forums on earth?

fk001:
My Governor go and sleep election must hold

p3Ac3:
Governor Willie Obiano has vowed not to allow the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB repeat the mistake made by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB who dissuaded the people from coming out during the last national census.

Obiano who spoke during his visit to an erosion site at Odume Layout, Obosi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, while responding to the statement by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu that there would be no election in the state in particular and in Southeast zone which he described as Biafra land, said:

“there is going to be an election on that day. Whoever says there will be no election is not carrying the interest of the people at heart”.

According to Obiano: “we will not repeat what happened during the national census period in the years back here in the state when those who called themselves MASSOB disrupted the exercise in Igbo land and the consequences of that disruption led to rating our population figure very low which is what we are still suffering today because we were counted less than what we are.”

The governor appealed to the electorate to vote for him on November 18, during the state gubernatorial election in the state for sustaining the good governance he inherited.


Source: BiafraSay Forum
http://biafrasay.com/p/329050/i-will-leave-igboland-if-elections-do-not-hold-in-anambra-go

brainpower:
I still don't understand how elections not holding in Anambra will help biafra. Yes, it will help Nnamdi Kanu but not in the interest of the Igbos.

The problem is that we don't learn from history and Kanu is taking advantage of the hunger, poverty and ignorance in the land to gain popularity.

The So called Biafra land that currently can't mention one thing that the country is depending on them to make revenue.
No seaport, no major airport, no major factory and even the car company in Anambra, they are not even patronizing.

If we eventually breakup, how will we sustain ourselves atleast for the first few years?

brainpower:
I still don't understand how elections not holding in Anambra will help biafra. Yes, it will help Nnamdi Kanu but not in the interest of the Igbos.

The problem is that we don't learn from history and Kanu is taking advantage of the hunger, poverty and ignorance in the land to gain popularity.

The So called Biafra land that currently can't mention one thing that the country is depending on them to make revenue.
No seaport, no major airport, no major factory and even the car company in Anambra, they are not even patronizing.

If we eventually breakup, how will we sustain ourselves atleast for the first few years?

ofai:


It is quite saddening that young igbos like you (if you are one) still reasons like this.

Wait for government to give you a port, an airport and roads of credible repute.

NaoSlay:
Erosion site.

ofai:
APGA AND PROPAGANDA. Was it today that northerners had been cheating the east on numbers? It has been there since the 50s.

obailala:
How did northerners cheat the east?.... Just like in every other national issue, the so called illiterate northerners have a better understanding of the dynamics of Nigerian politics, they understand the importance of numbers and unity, hence they scheme together and manipulate things to increase their numbers.

But what do we get in the highly educated south east?... Firstly, half of the south eastern population is counted outside the zone and the numbers added to other zones.

Then to make matters worse, some group of cretins in massob come up with a campaign that people in the SE shouldn't allow themselves to be counted because it is a 'Nigerian' census. Result is that the south east's population is severely underestimated, and that consequently results in reduced allocations for the zone. And then we run around shouting 'marginalisation'. Right now Ipob is following the exact same path... And we keep on wailing about how the north is cheating...

ofai:


You don't bring a matter and then judge it all by yourself.

Census since the 50s has always favoured the North because the colonial masters wanted it that way in order to make the north relevant in the Nigerian project.

The so-called understanding of the north on politics is simple- the power of unity in sheer numbers, not because any political dexterity​ of any sort.

The south east has never been united like the north.

Uwazurikes Massob should not be blamed because the census has been structured in a way to favour the north from the onset. The excuse APGA is giving is mere propaganda.