[size=14pt]Northern Presidential Impunity [/size]
Written by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Monday, 21 June 2010 13:56

After the so-called revenge coup of 1966 some Northern hotheads had actually wanted to secede (araba) from Nigeria until it was made clear to them that power had reverted back to their region. Ever since, all makes of Northern wannabes have latched on to the born-to-rule mentality that makes the region quite parasitic in the Nigerian scheme of things. Power thus becomes an end in itself, aimed at consuming things produced from other zones of the country. Now in a tribal move to counter the alleged ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest for the presidency in 2011, some 150 top politicians from the North converged in Abuja to plot on how to enforce the contentious zoning of the presidency to the North in 2011 based on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zoning arrangement, which they claim cedes power to the region till 2015.

Former military President Ibrahim Babangida, who madly wants to return to power as civilian president in 2011, led the list of attendees. Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who equally lusts after the top job was also there. National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau, who also wants the highest job in the land was there to identify with the region at the meeting. Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Gen. David Jemibewon, Gen. Mohammed Magoro, Air Cmdr. Hamza Abdullahi and former PDP Chairman Audu Ogbeh also made their eminent presences felt.

According to some strategic sources, only one agenda was up for deliberation at the meeting, and it’s simply this: how the North will reclaim power and keep it till 2015.

The catch remains how the North will negotiate with other regions to ensure that the “gentleman's agreement” is respected.

It should be recalled here how the late Alhaji Wada Nas had warned his beloved Northern region that his people would forever regret double-crossing the Southeast in the so-called zoning arrangement back in 1999. Power has by divine order come on the lap of a man from the South-South who happens to come from the Eastern tripod that used to form the Nigerian nation. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan cannot be denied now without something giving eternally within the ambit of the cohesion of the entire country.

Promoters of the zoning ruse will have us believe that President Olusegun Obasanjo had done the South’s two terms of eight years based on the agreement, and that the North is expected to produce the president for eight years till 2015, notwithstanding the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on May 6, 2010 after three years on the saddle. This takes no notice of the tripod that used to be Nigeria and the donkey years that the North had ruled the country without moving anybody forward, least of all their own very people. Even Obasanjo who allegedly benefitted from the zoning arrangement has denied its existence!

It was therefore with their tails between their legs that the Northern titans met at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, from around 8 in the night till the wee hours. Of course power-seekers hardly ever sleep. For these people, there is no life at all whatsoever outside power. Five delegates from each of the 19 states of the North attended due to the urgent need to reclaim what belonged to the North: the Nigerian Presidency. The meeting did not end until about midnight, with former Senate President Prof. Iyorcha Ayu flanked by Babangida and Atiku addressing the press. Talk of Northern solidarity. If the Southerners should behave this way, it would then amount to: To thy own tents, all tribesmen of Nigeria!

It fell on poor Ayu, a former self-advertised “comrade radical” to tell Nigerians that the meeting was not targeted against any individual or zone but that it’s an effort at strengthening national cohesion and peace. According to him, the aim is to prevail on concerned individuals and groups to respect the agreed template on zoning.

It is indeed remarkable that when Ayu was asked if the agenda of the meeting is to pave the way for the emergence of a Northern candidate, he queried: “what is wrong with that?” His justification for it was that “after all, the person who was president between 1999 and 2007 was not a Northerner.”

The arrogance of the so-called North amounts to crass impunity. The thinking that the North will forever pull the wool over the eyes of the entire country as it pleases has had its day. The time is now to call the bluff of the Northern atavists. This crude tribalism is idiotic! It all amounts to arrant Northern nonsense!

http://saharareporters.com/articles/external-contrib/6323-northern-presidential-impunity.html

I wish that president Jonathan would indirectly sponsor a southern political think tank to checkmate this northern scheming.
I've said it that next years election is Jonathan's to lose. If he wants it, he gets it! All these nocturnal meetings won't change much.
He should start scheming too. Bring together all southerners (5 delegates from each state in the south). He should ensure that Yoruba can be trusted though.

^
True.
It is just IBB and Atiku acting in desperation, witness this;

2011: Northern minorities say no monolithic North
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 01:18 Tunji Olawuni

…say Nigerians should determine if Jonathan can contest
Politicians of Northern minorities’ extraction on Monday reacted to some Northern leaders who insisted on zoning of the presidency to the North, declaring that there is no monolithic North. They said only Nigerians should determine if President Goodluck Jonathan can contest next year’s election.

Former Senate President Ameh Ebute, who addressed the press on behalf of the politicians from the minority states under the aegis of National Movement for Equality and Change, said that the minority ethnic nationalities of the North contributed more to keeping the country together.

Northern leaders that included former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had, last week, after their meeting insisted that the presidency should be zoned back to the North and raised three committees to ensure the emergence of a Northern candidate.

The Northern minorities, however, reminded the Northern leaders that “the numerical strength and perpetual retaining of power in the North is not possible without a united North.

“The larger population of the North says no to primitive sectional domination and all divisive tendencies. Just as the Northern minority ethnic nationalities were in the past ignorantly manipulated into supporting parochial personal and sectional agenda of the few in the North, the South South also allied and partnered with the North ignorantly to promote the parochial agenda of the few”.

They maintained that President Jonathan did not seize power from the North but rather emerged through Divine Providence, saying “he is proving himself a listening president who is also committed to ensuring a free and fair election or the achievement of true democracy in Nigeria.

“Nigerians should be allowed to decide through the ballot box whether or not he should continue after 2011 to further democratise the country and provide good leadership and development”.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12023:2011-northern-minorities-say-no-monolithic-north-&catid=85:national&Itemid=340

I'm still struggling to understand why these thieves and pedophiles calling themselves northern politician think they own Nigeria. No doubt the ignorance and sectionalism in other parts of the country plays a great role. The power is now in GJ hands. Let's see if he truly has the guts to change things

I have no respect or any attached value to all these punks from North and South of Nigeria stepping out of the woods while talking trash about non-monolithic north and arrogating sense of born to rule. I say to these despicable morons that you can not eat your cake and have it.

A country without principles is a waste land.

Onlytruth:

I wish that president Jonathan would indirectly sponsor a southern political think tank to checkmate this northern scheming.
I've said it that next years election is Jonathan's to lose. If he wants it, he gets it! All these nocturnal meetings won't change much.
He should start scheming too. Bring together all southerners (5 delegates from each state in the south). He should ensure that Yoruba can be trusted though. 

. . .you can be rest assured that GJ is also scheming to take out that Desperado IBB, Just this morning I read in the news that an investigative committee has been set up to probe IBB. . I wont be surprise to hear that of Atiku. . .let us play dirt, 4ck the rules!

i am totally against jonathan playing desperado.the mandate is his by divine.he should not act like shakespearan ''macbeth'' by using force to take what is his.i say big sorry to northerners.jonathan is already making a positive difference in nigeria.appointing the best man as the special adviser on power without quota or zoning is one bold step.let us watch the power miracle unfold.

Northern Presidential Impunity
Written by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Monday, 21 June 2010 13:56
After the so-called revenge coup
of 1966 some Northern hotheads
had actually wanted to secede
(araba) from Nigeria until it was
made clear to them that power
had reverted back to their region.
Ever since, all makes of Northern
wannabes have latched on to the
born-to-rule mentality that makes
the region quite parasitic in the
Nigerian scheme of things. Power
thus becomes an end in itself,
aimed at consuming things
produced from other zones of the
country. Now in a tribal move to
counter the alleged ambition of
President Goodluck Jonathan to
contest for the presidency in 2011,
some 150 top politicians from the
North converged in Abuja to plot
on how to enforce the contentious
zoning of the presidency to the
North in 2011 based on the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
zoning arrangement, which they
claim cedes power to the region till
2015.
Former military President Ibrahim
Babangida, who madly wants to
return to power as civilian
president in 2011, led the list of
attendees. Former Vice-President
Atiku Abubakar who equally lusts
after the top job was also there.
National Security Adviser, General
Aliyu Gusau, who also wants the
highest job in the land was there to
identify with the region at the
meeting. Mallam Adamu Ciroma,
Gen. David Jemibewon, Gen.
Mohammed Magoro, Air Cmdr.
Hamza Abdullahi and former PDP
Chairman Audu Ogbeh also made
their eminent presences felt.
According to some strategic
sources, only one agenda was up
for deliberation at the meeting,
and it ’s simply this: how the North
will reclaim power and keep it till
2015.
The catch remains how the North
will negotiate with other regions to
ensure that the “gentleman's
agreement” is respected.
It should be recalled here
how the late Alhaji Wada Nas had
warned his beloved Northern
region that his people would
forever regret double-crossing the
Southeast in the so-called zoning
arrangement back in 1999. Power
has by divine order come on the
lap of a man from the South-South
who happens to come from the
Eastern tripod that used to form
the Nigerian nation. President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan cannot be
denied now without something
giving eternally within the ambit
of the cohesion of the entire
country.
Promoters of the zoning ruse will
have us believe that President
Olusegun Obasanjo had done the
South ’s two terms of eight years
based on the agreement, and that
the North is expected to produce
the president for eight years till
2015, notwithstanding the death of
President Umaru Musa Yar ’Adua
on May 6, 2010 after three years
on the saddle. This takes no notice
of the tripod that used to be
Nigeria and the donkey years that
the North had ruled the country
without moving anybody forward,
least of all their own very people.
Even Obasanjo who allegedly
benefitted from the zoning
arrangement has denied its
existence!
It was therefore with their tails
between their legs that the
Northern titans met at the Shehu
Musa Yar ’Adua Centre, Abuja, from
around 8 in the night till the wee
hours. Of course power-seekers
hardly ever sleep. For these
people, there is no life at all
whatsoever outside power. Five
delegates from each of the 19
states of the North attended due
to the urgent need to reclaim what
belonged to the North: the
Nigerian Presidency. The meeting
did not end until about midnight,
with former Senate President Prof.
Iyorcha Ayu flanked by Babangida
and Atiku addressing the press.
Talk of Northern solidarity. If the
Southerners should behave this
way, it would then amount to: To
thy own tents, all tribesmen of
Nigeria!
It fell on poor Ayu, a former self-
advertised “comrade radical” to
tell Nigerians that the meeting was
not targeted against any individual
or zone but that it ’s an effort at
strengthening national cohesion
and peace. According to him, the
aim is to prevail on concerned
individuals and groups to respect
the agreed template on zoning.
It is indeed remarkable that when
Ayu was asked if the agenda of
the meeting is to pave the way for
the emergence of a Northern
candidate, he queried: “what is
wrong with that?” His justification
for it was that “after all, the person
who was president between 1999
and 2007 was not a Northerner. ”
The arrogance of the so-called
North amounts to crass impunity.
The thinking that the North will
forever pull the wool over the
eyes of the entire country as it
pleases has had its day. The time is
now to call the bluff of the
Northern atavists. This crude
tribalism is idiotic! It all amounts to
arrant Northern Nonsense

Northern Presidential Impunity
Written by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Monday, 21 June 2010 13:56
After the so-called revenge coup
of 1966 some Northern hotheads
had actually wanted to secede
(araba) from Nigeria until it was
made clear to them that power
had reverted back to their region.
Ever since, all makes of Northern
wannabes have latched on to the
born-to-rule mentality that makes
the region quite parasitic in the
Nigerian scheme of things. Power
thus becomes an end in itself,
aimed at consuming things
produced from other zones of the
country. Now in a tribal move to
counter the alleged ambition of
President Goodluck Jonathan to
contest for the presidency in 2011,
some 150 top politicians from the
North converged in Abuja to plot
on how to enforce the contentious
zoning of the presidency to the
North in 2011 based on the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
zoning arrangement, which they
claim cedes power to the region till
2015.
Former military President Ibrahim
Babangida, who madly wants to
return to power as civilian
president in 2011, led the list of
attendees. Former Vice-President
Atiku Abubakar who equally lusts
after the top job was also there.
National Security Adviser, General
Aliyu Gusau, who also wants the
highest job in the land was there to
identify with the region at the
meeting. Mallam Adamu Ciroma,
Gen. David Jemibewon, Gen.
Mohammed Magoro, Air Cmdr.
Hamza Abdullahi and former PDP
Chairman Audu Ogbeh also made
their eminent presences felt.
According to some strategic
sources, only one agenda was up
for deliberation at the meeting,
and it ’s simply this: how the North
will reclaim power and keep it till
2015.
The catch remains how the North
will negotiate with other regions to
ensure that the “gentleman's
agreement” is respected.
It should be recalled here
how the late Alhaji Wada Nas had
warned his beloved Northern
region that his people would
forever regret double-crossing the
Southeast in the so-called zoning
arrangement back in 1999. Power
has by divine order come on the
lap of a man from the South-South
who happens to come from the
Eastern tripod that used to form
the Nigerian nation. President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan cannot be
denied now without something
giving eternally within the ambit
of the cohesion of the entire
country.
Promoters of the zoning ruse will
have us believe that President
Olusegun Obasanjo had done the
South ’s two terms of eight years
based on the agreement, and that
the North is expected to produce
the president for eight years till
2015, notwithstanding the death of
President Umaru Musa Yar ’Adua
on May 6, 2010 after three years
on the saddle. This takes no notice
of the tripod that used to be
Nigeria and the donkey years that
the North had ruled the country
without moving anybody forward,
least of all their own very people.
Even Obasanjo who allegedly
benefitted from the zoning
arrangement has denied its
existence!
It was therefore with their tails
between their legs that the
Northern titans met at the Shehu
Musa Yar ’Adua Centre, Abuja, from
around 8 in the night till the wee
hours. Of course power-seekers
hardly ever sleep. For these
people, there is no life at all
whatsoever outside power. Five
delegates from each of the 19
states of the North attended due
to the urgent need to reclaim what
belonged to the North: the
Nigerian Presidency. The meeting
did not end until about midnight,
with former Senate President Prof.
Iyorcha Ayu flanked by Babangida
and Atiku addressing the press.
Talk of Northern solidarity. If the
Southerners should behave this
way, it would then amount to: To
thy own tents, all tribesmen of
Nigeria!
It fell on poor Ayu, a former self-
advertised “comrade radical” to
tell Nigerians that the meeting was
not targeted against any individual
or zone but that it ’s an effort at
strengthening national cohesion
and peace. According to him, the
aim is to prevail on concerned
individuals and groups to respect
the agreed template on zoning.
It is indeed remarkable that when
Ayu was asked if the agenda of
the meeting is to pave the way for
the emergence of a Northern
candidate, he queried: “what is
wrong with that?” His justification
for it was that “after all, the person
who was president between 1999
and 2007 was not a Northerner. ”
The arrogance of the so-called
North amounts to crass impunity.
The thinking that the North will
forever pull the wool over the
eyes of the entire country as it
pleases has had its day. The time is
now to call the bluff of the
Northern atavists. This crude
tribalism is idiotic! It all amounts to
arrant Northern Nonsense

Beaf:

^
True.
It is just IBB and Atiku acting in desperation, witness this;

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12023:2011-northern-minorities-say-no-monolithic-north-&catid=85:national&Itemid=340

see examples of some idiots

IYORCHA AYU===Northern minority ethnic nationalities were in the past ignorantly manipulated into supporting parochial personal and sectional agenda of the few in the North

IBORI/UDUAGHAN===the South South also allied and partnered with the North ignorantly to promote the parochial agenda of the few”.


these northerners know what they are doing, the are strict bigots, they are always united and have always used idiots like iyorcha and uduaghan to acheve their end-born to rule mentality so that that they can place unqualified bigots like themselves in top positions provided they are muslems.

discerning minds cannot agree more to the statement that: for the northern hausas, Power thus becomes an end in itself, aimed at consuming things produced from other zones of the country

rhymz:

. . .you can be rest assured that GJ is also scheming to take out that Desperado IBB, Just this morning I read in the news that an investigative committee has been set up to probe IBB. . I wont be surprise to hear that of Atiku. . .let us play dirt, 4ck the rules!

He might not last to see/hear the outcome of the investigation.

presido1:

He might not last to see/hear the outcome of the investigation.

it is fools like you that propagate false rumors
what is babangida and all those northern almajiris, they are nutin but empty barels
GJ is in control, he will soon show danbanza and aliyu gusau the way out
all those bigots, they are only interested in islamizing nigeria as much as possible but many are blind to see that

koolboi:

it is fools like you that propagate false rumors

Ignored

what is babangida and all those northern almajiris, they are nutin but empty barels

We all know where empty barels are in millions, so don't tell us where to find them

GJ is in control, he will soon show danbanza and aliyu gusau the way out

In control of who? President that couldn't catch Ibori is in control. Control indeed.

all those bigots, they are only interested in islamizing nigeria as much as possible

Sorry dude your forefathers fought for it indirectly and its happening in your time. You can't do nothing other than to live with it.

but many are blind to see that

Oh i can see, you just wake up. Goodmorning and don't fall asleep again otherwise you will wake up in a mosque with thier version of holy book.

I find it interesting when people kick against the Zoning formula in the PDP, it is the same zoning formula that got Jonathan to his present position. I believe what we all need from Jonathan is the conduct of a free and fair election where we can reject the candidates that PDP tries to impose. I am of the opinion that if Jonathan wants to contest, then let him contest under a different party, if he is going to stay in PDP, then he should respect the Zoning formula.
I will not vote for any PDP candidate, neither will I vote for Jonathan, even if he leaves to another party, he is a thief and has no idea as to how to lead a country.

your evil father IBB is going to prison

presido1:

Ignored
We all know where empty barels are in millions, so don't tell us where to find them
In control of who? President that couldn't catch Ibori is in control. Control indeed.
Sorry dude your forefathers fought for it indirectly and its happening in your time. You can't do nothing other than to live with it.
Oh i can see, you just wake up. Goodmorning and don't fall asleep again otherwise you will wake up in a mosque with thier version of holy book.

koolboi:

your evil father IBB is going to prison

This is good news if ever it will happen cuz i have not seen anybody with that gut is this present govt.

One reason I would like jonathan to declare his intention to contest 2011 even before 1st Oct is so that we can test the strength of our union; no region is stronger than any presently; Obj succesfully divided the north; Let Jonathan Contest 2011 and declare his Intention quick; the heavens will not fall~ if the union has to break then let it, it is my believe that each region can survive independantly, All the sectional talk by this old men is taking us back 50years; If after 50 years of a union we cannot see each other as one then lets test each other strength~ if it leads to the breaking of the union then all well and good~